I couldn't agree more LB...........too much hype about the correctness of this ship...build for your own enjoyment not to please others.
neil.
eh wha!? I've said nowt ..yet.
Though you will find some colour pictures (Kchromes) of the Georgic/Britannic taken in the late fifties which illustrates the correct colour and shade pretty much as I remember them, on a certain site that has lots and lots of ship pictures.
Also don't make the same mistake as Fine Scale Models, who employed some Russian modelmakers to make a model of her and which was shown at the ME some years ago. They told me that they had found the correct BS number and mixed their colours in accordance to that. I pointed out to them that while the colour they had used was probably correct for the full sized ship you have to remember that for a model you have to tone it down several shades otherwise the colour the colour will overpower the model; in otherwords you need to "scale" the colour down on the model to keep it in proportion to the actual full sized vessel.
As an aside, the owner of Fine Scale Models said to me that if I could fine anything wrong with the model I could have it so, being one that does not pass up thing like that, I immedatly pointed out that the ensign was incorrect and that she wore the Blue ensign and not the red. The look of horror on his face was something that I never forgotten and caused quite an inquest. He said .. "but you only have the white and red ensign....... don't you? I then did a runthrough of all the other ensign in use. I also pointed out that the shape of the stern at the upper deck level was wrong as well, as it should have been an almost continuous curve and not looking as though a meat clever had been taken to it and copped a piece off! "But" the Russian spluttered, "we have used the drawings from Harland & Wolff and this how it is shown"; "maybe you have, but, if you look at all the photographs and drawings from other sources it was (is) as I have described you have obviously miss interpreted the drawing was my reply". This was in addition to the funnel colour. Eventually we agreed to disagree however, I'm still waiting for the model to arrive.................
LB