Cheers guys, much appreciated
, I shall, of course be painting over it later!
Let me explain...I purchased the model from a fellow member during the summer. I have been trying to get my hands on one of the Display Teams corvettes for about two years. Every time one comes up, I miss it. luckily ( for me! ) one of our members had a flyaway with his brand new racing quad, lost forever on it's second flight. SWMBI ordered him to thin out to pay for the loss, and in stepped me!
The model was his first build, and is better than my first build was back in nineteen hundred and frozen to death. However, eight years of hard running and it was starting to show the strain. Paint was flaking off everywhere! As I wanted to run the model first, rebuild later, I decided to disguise the flaking with much ' Atlantic' rust. This needed to look like bare steel work with rust on, and took a bit of effort to get it right.
However, it is only temporary. when converted to HMS Snowflake, the camouflage will have to change. Depending on the amount of 20mm pop guns I fit will dictate the camo scheme. Late 1943, Western Approaches B55 and White with wiggles, or mid 1944 onward, Standard Scheme C, B55 and white (ish). In the form of a long almost horizontal dividing line, fore and aft, main deck downwards dark, upwards light.
I consider every paint job practice for the next paint job. Therefore nothing is lost, it is just improved upon next time....hopefully