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  1. Indeed that's where the inspiration is credited to have come from. The effectiveness of Mountbatten Pink was objectively tested though and proved no different to ordinary grey paint of the same Light Reflectance Value in its most effective conditions but somewhat more conspicuous at its worst. The camouflage experts trod quite carefully in drafting documents steering Ships towards more effective camouflage measures whilst avoiding the possibility of insulting Mountbatten by denouncing his pink paint as the total nonsense it was.
  2. Mountbatten Pink is a weird colour. It was made using pigment oil pastes already available through the stores and logistics system; specifically those used for Home Fleet Grey albeit with a reduced quantity of the ultramarine & black Pattern 370A blue-black paste and Venetian Red added instead. It's a bit too "odd" to have any shared characteristics with other armed forces colours served by the model paints marketed, whilst being too dull and drab to have much civilian appeal or application. All that said, I did discuss HMS Campbeltown with @dickrd some time ago and the origins of the first reference to Mountbatten Pink of the ship (or even the fleet!) are not that clear. It's not from a known primary source reference and the challenge with secondary source references i.e. books is establishing who exactly said something to the author. I don't think that has been established. The upshot is that whilst it's difficult to categorically rule out Mountbatten Pink (i.e. I'm not saying it's wrong) it's also difficult to rule out grey. Indeed with the modifications undertaken structurally to make the ship somewhat resemble a German destroyer at a distance, one may speculate that painting it pink might somewhat undermine the disguise.
  3. Hi EJ, I had not infact seen that particular clip before although it's somewhat ghostly seeing Orkney in colour on cinefilm as I recognize some of those locations and the place looks much the same today unlike Shetland where I was born which underwent a drastic "modernisation" at the end of the 1970s and 1980s with the establishment of the UK's oil industry which passed Orkney by. Fortunately the clip of Nelson doesn't change my views of what colours she was wearing. I think we can safely say this was still fairly early in the stated time window too thanks to particular details in the camouflage design which were painted out in 1943.
  4. Jadlam might want to double check they're not committing an offence with how they're posting Class III Flammable Liquids. A private individual may get a degree of leniency citing ignorance, but ignorance will be no defence in court for the Directors of a commercial business. https://www.gov.uk/shipping-dangerous-goods/rules-for-different-types-of-transport By air You can be given an unlimited fine, sentenced to 2 years in prison or both if your cargo fails an inspection or causes a safety incident. By road There’s a range of fixed penalty fines if your cargo fails a spot check. By sea You can be fined for breaking the regulations on transporting dangerous goods. You can be prosecuted and face a large fine and a prison sentence for serious breaches, for example transporting animal by-products in an unsafe way.
  5. On the face of it, there is logic in the reasoning given in the article. Drones have completely changed tactical reconnaissance in Ukraine.
  6. I think a better option to explore (as well as being a lot cheaper and lighter) would be to just mount it in an acrylic case. If you're not too ambitious with the sea state then cutting a U-Boat shape out of an acrylic sheet to fit around the boat supporting it vertically, you can then do all the acrylic medium stuff on top of it and hide any longitudinal joint quite effectively as well as fill in any imperfections where it meets the hull will all work quite well. To avoid complete transparency, you can tint the acrylic sides of what's effectively a fish tank with translucent bluish green. The beauty of this is that you can build it up slowly and try your boat in to see what visual effect you get. Just like an actual fish tank with water in it, you'll find that a solid resin casting isn't actually all that good for viewing the model inside - it's fine absolutely square on to the side of the piece but look at an angle and refraction does all sorts of weird things so you can't really admire your model as much as perhaps envisaged.
  7. Heat will be a huge issue (and let's not talk ourselves into minimalising it mentally - if it doesn't burst into flames it'll burn the resin and discolour it internally, and the 1/48 plastic U-boat will almost certainly melt), and from personal experience if you cast it in layers to manage the heat those layers will be visible in the finished item. You won't see them looking down from above but they'll be quite apparent from the sides unfortunately. On the plus side, applying acrylic medium and sculping waves on the surface after pouring and curing is fine.
  8. Funnily enough, my full-size sail making instructor also recommended Historic Ship Models from his own extensive personal collection as a really good piece of work showing how things work full-size too. There's just as much jargon and nuance in rigging as there is in hull construction and it can be difficult to find all the information you're looking for in a single book - e.g. a topping lift and lazy jacks can appear to serve the same purpose but not really, the former is to support a boom when a 4-sided sail is being raised or lowered and doesn't support the gaff itself, whilst the latter is really to control the sail itself and the gaff at the top from flapping around during the raising or lowering.
  9. I've got a lot of catching up to do after a difficult Q4 and January so far so I'm not sure to be honest. It's not a big seller, and that's perhaps why it's not well served by model paints. It's not hugely useful with fairly limited application outside of aircraft cockpits and in those cases many either aren't particularly fussy or dislike how the real colour looks in context and choose something far lighter they prefer the appearance of, both of which are reasons I can understand.
  10. Hi Jamie, how's the machine issues going? I see NARN22 is still showing out of stock. 

    1. Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies

      Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies

      Hi Andy, NARN22 went back on sale today. Thank you for your patience.

    2. andyelbac

      andyelbac

      Looking forward to delivery. Put my order in yesterday!

  11. Shame about the old Transall, but glad the crew are all unhurt.
  12. It's true about the Zvezda kit's windscreen, and I think the Zvezda kit is derived from the old KP kit. It's not that hard to change the windscreen though. I sanded the top of the framing off, polished it up, masked the panes to the correct shape then built up new framing with primer.
  13. That looks good to me to be honest. The starboard side is a bit bit of a mess but for the port side I feel this is quite credible. I do think the darkest colour is MS1.
  14. Would you mind recolouring the above using the following sRGB coordinates? MS3 - r121 g133 b131 MS4 - r146 g151 b146 I think we'd get a better feel for this that way.
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