The Ship Model Forum

Dear all.
I'm a newbie to ship modelling, the last time I built a ship kit, was over 45 years ago, and then not painted ..just slarred with glue...as you did as a 12 year old !

However, I've decided to have a go in a more meaningful way. So, grasping the bull by the horns, and launching off into the deep end, I 've just bought a Combrig 1/700 resin kit of RENOWN. Jackie Fisher's RENOWN, not the BC.

However , no painting instructions. Deep end indeed!

So, I'd like to paint her in her Victorian livery , the livery she would have been in, in her early years. Not her livery as per her Royal tour , but the (I believe) standard scheme as was then.

What I really need then is details of this colour scheme, and indeed , what colours would be needed for decks, ships boats and fittings etc. I'm really starting from the ground up here.

So if anyone can explain the primary colours I need, or indeed point me to comprehensive online instructions/references for a similar vessel I'd be very grateful

Cheers, Nigel

The Centurian Class was built for foreign stations and were lighter, weaker but faster than other RN BBs of the day. Jacky's Renown was heavier than its peers, though.

A 1902 photo at Malta shows the usual Victorian scheme of red anti-fouling, white boot-top stripe, black hull, Buff (tan) upperworks. WEM has the paints. As i use acrylics, I use Tamiya with Polly-S Depot Buff

But the review of the kit at Steel Navy shows an all-white hull!

Go figure.

Thanks for that.

The all white scheme was how she (RENOWN) was liveried for the Royal tour to India in 1905/6 (I think) . She was escorted by TERRIBLE or POWERFUL one of the 2. The Royal party was the future KGV and Queen Mary.

From what mono photo's I can see of vessels from the pre 1902 period, it seems the hull (I'm doing a waterline kit) was black. Upper works mainly white, with funnels, masts, and other fittings (Ventilation cowls) in a yellowy (my term) buff.

Definitely in some photos, some upperworks , or part of them are not white, and look like they maybe yellowy buff , when using the funnles, etc as reference.

Also, decks. I'm assuming the planking was unpainted and was thus a teak, oak perhaps, colour. In other words a wood shade paint woyuld be suitable. However, what of exposed metal deck areas, I wonder what colour they were painted in this Victorian livery?

There must have been Admiralty orders regarding paint liveries, and thus should be the answers...Finding such is the problem!

Cheers, Nigel

Go to the battleship or modeler gallery. Look up Frank Spahr's Royal Sovereign. There are your colors.

Best of luck with the project!

I can but second what the others said re the colours; WEM has all the necessary enamels, and there are also very helpful acrylics around.

BTW - I found AIZU ultra-fine masking tape very helpful for the fine trim lines.

Send me a PM if you would like any more info from me.

Best regards

Frank

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