Royal Navy ships camouflage ww2 in the web

[ottoirving]

Hello.
I am new with scale ships but i bought a few modeles of the royal navy frigates, but searching in the web i didn`t find camouflages for the ships. Do you know a good ship camouflages page?. Greetings

[Tracy White]

I'd like to provide such a list on ShipCamouflage.com such as we have for US ships, but I don't know enough about RN ships to even start.

[awetherhorn]

There is no comprehensive site on the web that I know of.
The best published material is the Alan Raven 4 volume set covering the entire war.
There is also a reprint of admiralty instructions, including many diagrams, available from White Ensign models.
Used book sites might also feature an older, and smaller, booklet on royal navy camouflage by Peter Hodges.

[Christian Bruer]

Hi,

as replied before the Alan Roberts books are really good! You did not found something special about RN camouflage but a lot of interesting photos here on this site: http://www.navyphotos.co.uk/index19.htm

[Jim-Gunner]

You may also wish to contact John at White Ensign Models.
He may be able to assist, as they make the absolute best line of ship colors available anywhere on the planet.

[Tom@Crewe]

There is a lot of info out there just needs to come together somewhere, and dont forget when you say Royal Navy Camoflage it was applied to other Navies too Canada, Australia, India, Free French, Free Polish etc. Or am I mistaken

[ottoirving]

An example of the kind of british camouflage i talk about: It is a 1/240 REVELL CLASSIC DESTROYER H.M.S CAMPBELTOWN finished by Willie from Vigo, Spain


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[Laurence Batchelor]

Further references on RN camouflage include:

- Naval Camouflage 1914-1945: A Complete Visual Reference by David Williams (Hardback 2001)
- Royal Navy Warship Camouflage by Peter Hodges (Paperback 1973)

[Gordon Scott]

There is an index of the Raven camoflage books here...

http://smmlonline.com/articles/rncamoindex.html


Gordon

[Ian M]

I would like to join the others in saying if you need paint for your ship, the palce to look is White Ensign. The range of colour coats paints are blended to original colour chips from the manufactures.
The different Navies are divided up with there own section, so finding the required colour is simple. US navy and Royal navy WWII in one section, German Krigsmarin, Japan. etc.
Also Modern Navies has there own section. The paint is also renowned for the fact that the colour is 100% the same regardless if you spray or brush it on, so no nasty touch up marks.

finding the right colour for the right ship is some thing else. I recomend that you choose your ship, Fins a note block and start searching the web for every thing you can find about THAT ship. A generic colour for all US or British or German shiips just is not going to happen.
As a good example, HMS Hood appeared in a different shade of grey nearly every time she was painted:
1920 - 36 was in AP507A Dark grey
'36 - 39 saw her in AP507C Admiralty Light grey
'39 to mid '40 saw her again in AP507A Dark grey
there after until she met her fate AP507B. Medium grey.
So the period you wish to depict your model in is also a factor.

For those that dont know, Whiteensigns' paint can be found here found here.
http://www.whiteensignmodels.com/acatal ... rs_19.html

[Louis]

cONCERNING SHIP CAMOUFLAGE WW2 THERE IS A BOOK ON THE SUBJECT WRITTEN BY PETER HODGES NMAED ROYAL NAVY WARSHIP CAMOUFLAGE 1939-45. HOPE THIS HELPS

[John Snyder]

Just don't take the Hodges book at face value--it's quite dated, has errors, and can be misleading.