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Old 05-28-2018, 06:40 PM
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I finished the lower part of the hull, and proceded to apply a first layer of paint, to sand the imperfections, and apply the second layer of red.
This new way of assemble the hull (for me) gave me better results, so it's the one that I'm going to use from now on.
Maybe I'll apply a third layer of red.
Now comes the upper half of the hull, and here start the difference between the Lusitania and the Mauretania
Lusitania's upper hull was black, but at the time of it's sea trials, it had a white stripe from the deck level up, by the bow.
Mauretania, was all black too... except TWO times in WWI when it was painted in dazzle camuflage. The first one wasn't good documented (see wikipedia), but the secont one is well know.
And here comes the problem: the oficial colors were blue, black and gray
https://retronaut.com/content/1918-t...hip-mauretania
But every one paints the ship a different way.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4950026/
Seen the b/w pictures, I can't imagine black paint at the rear of the hull, but maybe on the bow. The funnels may be clear blue or dark blue.
At the end, I have decided to paint the ship sky blue, dark blue and a ghost gray, with a very rusted finish, just like this paint
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw...27sas-fig2.jpg
By the way, I discovered that if you print the instructions in letter size, the top and lateral views are almost almost at 1/700 scale. You can see it in the pictures with the Titanic.
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