Colour of W1 High Sea Fleet Battleships & B/Cruisers.

[Rickman]

I am working on the colour for my ICM 1:350 Konig and also a Sedylitz but cannot seem to find the correct colour for these ships. Some modellers paint their kits with what looks like a blue/grey hull, others a medium gray and others the same grey overall. What are the right colours please. Can anyone help.

[John Snyder]

Battleships, Armoured and Small Cruisers (North Sea and Baltic Sea):
Superstructures, Light Grey, RAL 7035�use Colourcoats RN 03;
Hull, Agate Grey, RAL 7038�use Colourcoats KM 13 (exact match);
Boot-topping, Slate Grey, RAL 7015�use Colourcoats KM 06;
Underwater Hull, Brownish-Red, RAL 3011� use Colourcoats US 14.
Ship's Boats:
Exterior, Pure White, RAL 9010�use Colourcoats C 03;
Interior, Bright Wood�use Colourcoats US 15;
Captain's Gig, Dark Blue to Black�use Colourcoats KM 07 for Dark Blue, or C 02 for Black;
Motor Boats, Light Grey, RAL 7035� use Colourcoats RN 03;
Steam Boats, Mahogany�use Colourcoats US 15;
Deck/Linoleum, Red-Brown, RAL 8012�use Colourcoats ACSM 11;
Deck/Wood, Birch or Maple Veneer�use Colourcoats IJN 09 or C 01.

[Rickman]

Thanks, John.

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[Olaf Held]

Oh no! RN, USN and IJN paints on IGN/KM ships ...

As much as a like the Colourcoats, this is certainly not WEM's USP ...

Happy painting ~ Olaf!

[John Snyder]

As we state on the website, those RN & IJN colours happen to be exact matches for their RAL equivalents; we don't sell enough of them to warrant relabelling them as High Seas Fleet colours. There are other RAL colours for which we don't have equivalents, and for which there is not enough demand to warrant us producing them. Heck, we can always drop these if folks have a problem....

[Olaf Held]

As we state on the website, those RN & IJN colours happen to be exact matches for their RAL equivalents; we don't sell enough of them to warrant relabelling them as High Seas Fleet colours. There are other RAL colours for which we don't have equivalents, and for which there is not enough demand to warrant us producing them. Heck, we can always drop these if folks have a problem....

No, not a problem. For me, it is just a bit irritating that the light grey RAL 7038, erroneously named a "Baltic" colour for the KM should represent the darker hull grey of an IGN ship. I think, Peter was getting at something similar with his post. There is always the question of the source of such information and we just would like to kniow if we missed something.

I didn't know about RN & IJN matches to RAL colours and I didn't find this on your website (apart from the list you posted above), sorry for that.

Happy painting ~ Olaf

[Rickman]

[quote="ingura"]Hi Rickman,

you may want to look at this thread here - and repaint your model to match the original (at least a bit).

viewtopic.php?f=47&t=28612&start=100


Cheers,
Peter.[/quote]
Peter,
Thanks very much for your information it has been most helpfull.
Rickman