SovereignHobbies wrote:
Specifically, let's critique it systematically and find out if it fails in any way.
….It has 5 camouflage colours; MS1, 507A, MS3, 507C, MS4A.
The overall impression is bluish without any very strong blues.
The lightest camouflage colour is not white, but MS4A.
Does it work? Do any aspects give particular cause for concern?
It is perhaps easiest to start with tone D and then see what knock-on effects that has for B, C & E. To my way of thinking D cannot have been 507C but has to have been something darker:
1. Consider the photo at Argentia with RIPLEY alongside PoW’s starboard side. RIPLEY is a North Atlantic escort and her hull has clearly been camouflaged something darker than a light tone Mediterranean grey/507C. Yet the amidships area of tone D below PoW'S catapult looks if anything slightly darker than even the lightest areas on Ripley's hull (other than the remains of the false bow wave and the white-painted bow).
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Prince of Wales and Ripley August 1941 - Copy.jpg
2. A photo (IWM A 4989) was taken at Iceland on the way back from Argentia in August 1941 with Tribal class TARTAR alongside PoW. Part of the Home Fleet’s 6th Destroyer Flotilla, she was in overall grey at that time and I hope it can be agreed that her grey was certainly not overall 507C/Foreign Stations grey. Compare the tone on the various angles of the TARTAR’s bridge with the D tone areas on the various angles of PoW's bridge.
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PoW and Tartar Iceland Aug 1941 A4989.jpg
3. If the D tone area (on the majority of the face of PoW’s bridge) had been 507C it would have been the same colour as the bridge on Mauritius in IWM photo A 6785 – which to my eye it clearly was not.
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PoW & Mauritius Singapore A 6785 - Copy.jpg
I suggest try MS4 as D....