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Royal Navy Set 1
The Royal Navy entered World War II with its ships wearing one of four peacetime paint schemes, depending upon the command to which they were
attached. By early 1940 the Home Fleet began to repaint in colors and schemes designed to conceal the ships against a land background, and other
striking and unofficial schemes followed. The initial official camouflage was the First Admiralty Disruptive Type, which appeared in early 1941.
This first set of Royal Navy World War II ship paint chips covers the colors in use from the prewar period through the end of 1941, and
therefore provides those colors used in the various unofficial schemes and patterns as well as in the First Admiralty Disruptive Type. These chips
have been carefully matched to Admiralty-issued paint chips or actual samples from ships’ paint lockers when available, or to the 1929 Munsell
Book of Color as specified by noted author Alan Raven.
Modelers are referred to Alan Raven’s "The Development of Naval Camouflage 1914-1945 Part III:
British Camouflage in World War II," originally published in Plastic Ship Modeler, 1997/1 and now hosted here on
ShipCamouflage.com.
This set contains 22 chips on two sheets and covers the following colors:
507A (1920)
507B (1940)
507C (1920)
B-5 (1941)
B-6 (1941)
PB-10 (1940) |
Western Approaches Blue (1941)
Western Approaches Green (1941)
Pink (1941)
Mountbatten Pink, Light (1940)
Mountbatten Pink, Dark (1940)
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MS-1 (1941)
MS-2 (1941)
MS-3 (1941)
MS-4 (1941)
MS-4a (1941)
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Dark Brown (1940)
Light Green (1940)
Berwick Blue (1941)
Dark Blue (1941)
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Coverings
Semtex (Early War)
Corticene |
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