Royal Navy
Set 1
Price:
$20.00
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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,” in Plastic
Ship Modeler, 1997/1 (Plastic
Ship Modeler is published by Daniel H. Jones, P.O. Box 2183, Arvada CO
80001-2183), and to Alan Raven’s upcoming series of books on Royal Navy
Camouflage to be published by WR Press and available from Snyder &
Short Enterprises.
This set contains 22 chips on two sheets and covers the following colors:
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