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  1. Newsgroups: rec.models.scale
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!att-out!cbfsb!cbnewsg.cb.att.com!drw
  3. From: drw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (david.r.wells)
  4. Subject: Re: WWII: Royal Navy camouflage
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov5.193036.24466@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
  6. Sender: news@cbfsb.cb.att.com
  7. Organization: AT&T
  8. References: <DA1V.92Oct28192051@alfalfa.frc.ri.cmu.edu>
  9. Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:30:36 GMT
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  12. In article <DA1V.92Oct28192051@alfalfa.frc.ri.cmu.edu> da1v@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Dimitrios Apostolopoulos) writes:
  13. >
  14. >Has  anybody in this net group modelled Royal Navy warships
  15. >from WWII? I am looking for someone with very good knowledge
  16. >on the Admiralty Distruptive and the Western Approaches Scheme 
  17. >camouflage patterns that were used by the Royal Navy during
  18. >the period 1941-1945.
  19. >
  20. Check Raven & Roberts "British Battleships of WWII", available from Naval
  21. Institute Press. It has some color plates of British disruptive schemes.
  22. Unfortunately, I'm not sure they got the colors right. Parkes seems to
  23. disagree about the colors of the Rodney.
  24.  
  25.                 David Wells
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