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1/48 Rolls Royce Pattern 1920 AC Slievenamon recolour
After seeing Romans nice design I suggested a recolour of the Slievenamon, some of the history buffs among us will love reading the full details of this Rolls Royce Armoured car. It was one of the four vehicles that made up the convoy to Cork by Michael Collins in August 1922 when it was ambushed the vickers gun jammed during the engagment. I hope to have it finished in a few days got a lot of details such as photos of the type of lettering the number that was painted on the hood of the turret If anyohe is interested in doing a diorma of the ambush I have a map and the types vehicles they been a Crossley tender a 1921 douglas 2 3/4 hp and a Leyland Eight yellow and the Rolls Royce pattern 1920. The black and white picture was taken in the 1920's I was looking for as many pics of the Rolls Royces to get an idea what was written on them and all I have found is that on the slopes of the turret was painted the numbers some had the name painted above the vickers gun trying to find out for sure did the Slievenamon have it written there it does now have it in Irish Sliabh na mban.
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further update
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looks great!
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I ordered that important item for this hobby ink this morning I see on the tracking thing it is down for delivery in the morning so I may just start building it sometime tommorow I wonder will the web cam on the laptop take good photos of a card model?
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photos of the model, i think the printing setting should be photo enhance came out a lot lighter blue in one from the other
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i like it!
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I think the dark blue/gray from your earlier attachment looks better. The detail shows up more and it would better lend itself to weathering.
Nice job all the same. Cheers JTF |
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I think your right Jt. I should just have kept going on that colour it will show the numbering and name better as well with that grey.
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Unless the Rolls Royce Armoured cars were repainted at the time, they'd have been in "Admiralty Grey" which is much as your "recolour sample 2" has it.
The majority of RR Armoured cars served originally with the Royal Naval Armoured Car Squadrons, if my recall is correct. As such, many, if not the vast majority, were when delivered originally painted "Battleship Grey" or "Admiralty Grey" to give the proper name as used at the time. Hope the information helps, as I'm enjoying the RR build. Respectful Regards, Uyraell. Last edited by Uyraell; 06-20-2011 at 07:50 AM. Reason: Typographic error. |
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