[WWI] Stoopid Ship Questions

[Michael Arlt]

am 19.08.2007 0:17 Uhr schrieb J.R. Boye unter hopeandmercy at sbcglobal.net:

    I've been working on the Revell Emden, and a few questions have arisen.
This is my first military ship model since I was a kid, but I am finding
this project a nice change of pace and am looking forward to doing more subs
and ships.
  I've done some online and book research and gathered together a number of
photos of Emden (There were a lot of photos of the wreck taken from many
different angles, so that you could do a great diorama of that event-maybe
someone has already)
    Anyway, are the German naval colors assigned an approximate F.S. number
anywhere? There is a color chart on the Tanner site, but it is from WW II,
and I can't trust that it isn't faded or that my printer is doing it
justice.
  The Revell instructions say the boats were always white with wood
interiors, but they don't look white in one of the wartime photos. Were they
painted grey in 1914? Overall?
   They also say to paint the anchors "steel", but wouldn't those have been
painted as well?
    Do brass propellers (ok, screws) stay brass in seawater, or do they
corrode?
     And finally, where can I get 3-rail PE railing in 1/350th?

                       Thanks for the help!

                                                                      J.R.
Boye


hi j.r.,

for kaiserliche marine colors have a look at:
http://www.mz-modellbau.net/core/service/farbanstriche.html

here are some very nice pics of an 1/50 emden in tropenanstrich scheme:
http://german-navy.tripod.com/sms_model-photos_cl.htm

as far as i remember emden was painted wartime grey overall in 1914 with
boats in the same color. tropenanstrich had white boats with wooden
interior.
paint the propellors gold or brass and add some green, white and black
washes to achieve a corroded dull look.

gold medal models has an emden p.e. set:
http://www.goldmm.com/ships/gms3emdr.htm

hope this helps.

cheers, michael





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