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Title: Green antifoul colour
Post by: sjoormen on November 22, 2009, 05:21:59 pm

Hello guys.

I am building my Evenos and I need an advice. I would like to start paint her but I have no clue about green colour below waterline. I understand that it was based on copper, so another question (if that is true) was colour green when it was painted on or it became green over time in water. BTW I am building French naval tugboat pre WW2. What about another navies?
Any help would be deeply appreciable.

Title: Re: Green antifoul colour
Post by: nemesis on November 23, 2009, 02:54:02 pm

Hi, it was green when painted on, the Guernsey life boat had green anti fouling (52-02) at one time in her life, hope it helps
                                 Nemesis

Title: Re: Green antifoul colour
Post by: Bryan Young on November 23, 2009, 03:21:25 pm

Generally speaking, on a ship as opposed to a boat, if you can see green (or any other colour) the chances are that you are looking at the "boot topping". This covers the area between the light and loaded draughts. Again, generally speaking.....all the ships I ever sailed in had a redish-brownish anti-fouling paint below the boot-topping stripe. BY.

Title: Re: Green antifoul colour
Post by: sjoormen on November 25, 2009, 05:01:20 pm

Thanks for answers. Green it is.  :} Now I must figure out right shade. So far I found on the web only receipt for  SZENT ISTVAN of Austro hungarian navy
from turn of century

http://smmlonline.com/articles/austrohungarariancamo/ahcamo.html

Green anti-fouling paint: 3-4 parts Revell 48 + 1 part White.

So that would be:32148 Sea Green+ White? (http://scale-models.nl/cc-revell.html)

Colouring is not my favorite ,but I'll try and see how it goes
                                             

Title: Re: Green antifoul colour
Post by: westcoaster on November 25, 2009, 07:22:48 pm

You could try Revell 32365 - patina green. I used it as antifouling on my trawler. See it on my avatar. I'm having trouble posting pictures just now so can't attach a better image

Title: Re: Green antifoul colour
Post by: john strapp on November 26, 2009, 10:05:55 pm

The grey funnel line underbody were painted in what was called CHOCADMAR which was a brownish red, before they tried "super fast" blue.

Title: Re: Green antifoul colour
Post by: sjoormen on November 27, 2009, 03:45:32 pm

Thanks for help :-)). Tomorrow I am buying few shades of green and we will see, how it goes.