Royal Navy ships' bottoms and boot-topping 1936-1950

[dick]

For those interested I have updated my paper and Sovereign Hobbies are kindly hosting it:

https://www.sovereignhobbies.co.uk/page ... ng-colours

[Timmy C]

Great piece, Dick, much appreciated. If I may suggest, can you add a note on how we know in which colours each manufacturer produced their coatings? The article covers well the sources for the RN/demand side, but doesn't mention sources for the industry/supply side. Thanks!

[dick]

Thank you for the feedback Timmy. The answer to your question is that the various authorised manufacturers' paints and their colours are listed in the Rate Books (listed in my 'Sources'):

Rate Book - Copy.jpg

Changes between the periodic reprints were promulgated in Admiralty Fleet Orders.

I'll see if I can amend my paper to capture this. (Afternote: now done as V.2a)

(And of course many D.495s recorded the both the manufacturer and the colour used giving us further confirmation.)

[Timmy C]

That's excellent, providing not only the two ends of the process, but clearly demonstrating the in-between of how the user understood the supplier's options!

[81542]

Gentlemen,

Information has recently come to light courtesy of correspondents on the britmodeller.com website (who I thank) that Richard Dennis's book on
this subject will be published by Troubadour Publishing, 28 June. The price is given as £19.99 Sterling and it is a soft-back.
The ISBN is reported by Troubadour as 9781806344253. Orders can be made in advance. The price of packing and posting will, of course, depend on where you reside on the planet.

[Admhawk]

£35 shipping to Canada!!!!!

Inconceivable.

[dick]

I'm afraid that international postage rates do seem to be high generally. Within the UK it is just £3.90. I just tried looking up what Canada Post would charge to send the book from Canada to the UK and the cheapest option I could find was 55.29 Canadian dollars. Throw in the cost of packaging and it works out much the same as UK to Canada.

For those interested here is a link: https://troubador.co.uk/bookshop/histor ... ld-war-era