Next project folks. Got the kit from Croppers at a vey attractive price which enabled me to invest in some etched brass, wooden decks and metal barrels all at a reasonable cost for a ship of this size.
Now a bit of history which complicates matters.
In Feb 1944, the ship went into Liverpool for a major refit. The weapons and radar fit were upgraded and the aircraft were put ashore, the hangars were converted into accommodation for the crew and the ships boats relocated from the boat deck on the after island to the space that was occupied by the catapults for launching the aircraft. The refit was completed in mid July, she then spent about two months working up.
The camouflage scheme you see in the bottom two bits of the second pic is the Admiralty Intermediate Disruptive(AID) scheme, applied late 1942, the top bit is the scheme applied to all Battleships that formed the British Pacific Fleet which was in existence from Jan 1945.
My problem is that I don't know when the BPF scheme was applied, if it was during the refit then it would be historically incorrect to use the AID pattern with the ships boats as depicted in the kit. If later, then I can use the AID scheme and I'm a happy bunny.
I can't, as yet, find any evidence that answers my question.
Haddock. (confused.com)