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Thread: Ships paint schemes

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    Default Ships paint schemes

    I must raise my hat for the guys of CA - they did some good job with the ships structural models - but the thing they forgot to add is paint schemes: paint on the ships is actually almost non-existant, with paint only being on some decorative areas and the hulls being plain. Historically, ships of the 18th century were painted in various ways.

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    Suprisingly enough, no one has repplied so far.

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    the paint job on the HMS Victory makes it look far superior to all the other ships

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    Ships tended to be largely unpainted through most of the 18th Century. Usually only the bow and stern decorations and upperworks were painted in colour, the ship's sides were merely treated with tar for preservation which gave it a brownish colour. All-over paint is a Napoleonic-war thing, and after that the Nelson chequer kind of stuck.

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    I did not mean to imply that the ships received whole-hull paint, so to speak - which they very rarely did in 17th century. They should, however, have more painted parts than they do and different ones to that matter.

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