Ivan wrote:
Good afternoon. Thank you for responding. But I still do not understand how correct this scheme is for the second half of the 43rd year ... if you use the colors 507A., B5, B30,, 507C. I have already started to paint the model for a month already but I can’t decide on the colors due to constant advice and changes
Hi Ivan,
Notwithstanding some (relatively minor) adjustment of the camouflage panel placement, the key thing for now is that the illustration you posted is similar to those published in Alan Raven's Warship Perspectives and Roger Chesneau's Shipcraft KGV books. The former is presented in B&W but names the paints and looks like this:
Chesneau's is presented in colour, but the paints appear misnamed. The actual drawing looks like this:
...but the paints quoted would look like this, but I believe MS2 is either a mistake or a misprint.
If you begin by comparing IWM's TR 325 it's clear that the predominant paint on the starboard side of B turret barbette, port side of B turret and the lower starboard side of the superstructure is MS4, not 507C
IWM A 12336 shows that the starboard side of the hull midships isn't lighter than the superstructure or B turret, so that's MS4 as well, not 507C as per the other published illustrations.
In general, the major error in most drawings including the one you posted is the large areas of 507C (or G45) on the hull. Those areas were MS4 in 1942 and substituted for B30 sometime after the G&B series were introduced in spring 1943. The general placement of the colours on the hulls appears reasonably common, with detail differences, to each of the sisters wearing what is broadly speaking the same design.