Alan Raven and 507A (AP507A)

[GrahamB]

I'm must be missing something with the various posts on RN greys WW1 to WW2, as it seems as if AP507A and AP507B were the same shade/colour but different proportions of enamel. So what on earth is Alan Raven, and many others, including paint chip and model paint companies, talking about when referring to the dark colour 507A (presumably shorthand for AP507A) in the various RN colour schemes predominating in 1939-41? Is this dark colour a rebirth of the WW1 colour - stocks being used up? Or is the mid-toned grey (quoted as 507B) another colour entirely?

Can someone please explain?

Cheers
GrahamB

[dick]

Those of us who have been researching this and related questions re 507A and 507C are currently trying to draw our thinking to a mutually agreed conclusion that Sovereign Hobbies will publish so I do not want to preempt that. Suffice it to say that WW2 era 507A and 507B were the same dark grey colour (Home Fleet Grey) but 507B was discontinued early in the war for reasons of economy. A 50/50 mix of 507A & (the light grey) 507C was an authorised shade, may have been in widespread use, but seems to have had no name in WW2. This is the mid-toned/medium shade.

[Guest]

Thanks Dick - I guessed that there was something "wrong" with this AP507A/B/C classification and I look forward to the published research.
Cheers
GrahamB

What about putting your minds to this one? :)
An Arethusa class cruiser in Hvalford.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205140735

[tjstoneman]

No idea about the colours used, but the photo shows ARETHUSA herself. GALATEA was never fitted with RDF Type 273 (visible ahead of the bridge) and the other two had a second HA.DCT aft (not fitted to the ship in the photo). If the date is correct (no reason to doubt it), the other three were in the Mediterranean at the time.

[pgollin]

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Alan Raven occasionally posts as "WR" on the Steel Navy discussion board ;

http://members.boardhost.com/Warship/

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