wilsan

Those are some interesting pictures dickrd, especially the last one.

There aren't indeed, but I loaded that picture into paint.net, and then used the "colour-picker" tool to extract the RGB values from whatever colour one has chosen.

@dickrd: The colour RGB-values I use are coming from here (page 15) (the document from Sovereign Hobbies). That game sadly oversaturates colours and gives a yellow-ish tone to them, but it's good enough to get a general idea.

Wow, that's some great information, and a twist I didn't expect. In the game World of Warships there is also the HMS London, so I messed with the colour-values a bit. G10+B30+B55 G10+B30+G45 When turning those renders in B&W, and then applying some "vintage distortion" to it, both look very plausible, with the B55-kind having a tad more contrast to it than the G45 one. But those contrast-values can also be from the quality of the film.

I'm working on a 1/700 London kit, and I'd like to have it depicted in its early 1943-stage. While the pattern itself is easy to reproduce, finding the correct colours for it is proving to be like finding a piece of hay in a stack of needles, with a lot of sources and "sources" contradicting eachother. Some say it's G10+B30+G45, others say G10+B15+B30+B55 or white+B10+B30+G45, others say it's shades of green with grey (I doubt that though). I know London had a peculiar and unique camouflage called "SPECIAL IDENTITY AND INCLINATION TYPE" with plenty of colours, but that seems to predate this one. I've snooped around a bit to find more info, and James Duff from Sovereign Hobbies already kindly replied to my email that it's very likely G10+B30+G45. But anyone with a definitive source? The pattern I'm talking about: (there is especially confusion about the hull, since on the side-shots, it appears the bow is darker than the stern, which would suggest a 4-tone camouflage like HMS Suffolk had around that period. But it could very well be a chromatic artefact from poor-quality film). (HMS Suffolk, May 1943)