Some progress has been made, here is the report.
Deck fittings had been painted by hand and after a very tedious deck masking procedure
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the camoulflage colour of WEM 507C (very slightly lightened with Revell white) was sprayed on the vertical sufaces. All the previously prepared other parts such as the individual bridge leves, funnel, gun turres, boats, etc. have also been painted this way.
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The WEM camouflage colours used:
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Next, after some additional masking I applied the darker camouflage colour, WEM 507B (minimally desaturated with Revell flesh colour), the shade of which is now believed to be an equal mix of 507A and C, and the colour so far designated 507B is equivalent to 507A. Numerous corrections have proved to be necessary to obtain an acceptable degree of aligment of the camouflage panels on the individual structures of the ship, e.g. hull, barbette, gun turret. In defining the exact panel layout I relied on the WaveLine instructions which, confirmed by original photographs, seem fairly accurate, while the coloured illustration shown in the Profile Morskie monograph has numerous minor inaccuracies, yet it is copied in a number of other publications, Trumpeter’s own instructions being one of them. There was another tough call: I decided not to carry the boot topping to the upper end of the bulge although it was this high in 1941, because it would have been impossible to produce a horizontal line, the bulge of the model being non-straight and too large – a flaw that I recognised late in the build and would have been almost impossible to remedy anyway.
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Now, with the painting process practically finished I am looking forward to what comes next: applying washes, enhancing contrasts and weathering.