Yeah, no question on Roe's models. I'm holding out hope for the K-Class, Emden, S-H and some German destroyers, and I'll retire the W@S models for my whole German navy!
To expand on the earlier question, I have some UK light cruisers I am painting and am curious about the decks. Specifically the DIDO, BELLONA & "E" class. Would they have had any wood decking? Is there any "go to" reference on this topic?
Way late to the party on this, but: (according to "British Warship Camo vol 3") in 1940 - 1944, Dido's wood decks were unpainted, steel decks 507b (med. gray). Euryalus had a camouflaged deck in 1941. Bellona's decks were G10 (dark gray) throughout the war. Hope this helps..
Gneisenau: This scheme is how she looked in Operation Cerberus in February 1942. According to Eric Leon's "German Naval Camouflage", this strange paint scheme is the result of successive layers of paint and other measures applied over many months while at anchor at Brest. I'm pretty happy with how she turned out.
With sister Scharnhorst. Sharnhorst wore this pattern in May 1943, except I took some creative liberty with red turret tops rather than yellow..
The excellent models are from Roe's Shapeways store.
The "on deck FUD". Who can name 'em all? 1st up will be HMS Prince of Wales in the very top of the pic, hopefully duplicated in the same style as the W@S version in the very bottom of the pic..
Hi all, it's been a surprisingly long time since I've painted anything, but it's like riding a bike! About a year ago, I painted camo on Shapeways FUD model HMS Kent and roughed in Graf Spee. I did the finishing work on those two over the weekend and painted a long-awaited mini from Roe's store: Scharnhorst. The crummy cell phone photography did no justice to colors (especially Graf Spee looks "dirty" in the photos but bright gray in reality). Enjoy! By the way, on Spee, I struggled with how to make the large flat gray spaces on the turret tops interesting. Any ideas?