You're all very kind (should've gone to specsavers)
Starboard side painted, I'm reasonably happy my pattern matches the photo, if not, I ain't going to change it now.
The apertures cut into the deck should let me glue from inside the hull, less chance of making a mess with glue.
As for the colours. During my research, I came across the phrase "probable colours could be black, AP507A and AP507C.
looking at the picture in the Osprey book, I've opted for AP507A, B5 and AP507C.
AP507A is RN standard dark grey.
AP507C is RN standard light grey.
B5 is a grey blue (or blue grey)
This gives three distinct tones as opposed to colours.
The reasoning behind this is:- look at the photo of the port side, there are obviously more ships behind Calcutta, I don't
know what they are but if you count tripod masts, pole masts and funnels, there could be " more than two". Behind the bow
of Calcutta is the bow of another ship, it looks to be the same colour as the dark patch right on the bow of Calcutta. As I've
never seen any record of RN ships painted black, I have to assume that it's the darkest colour, AP507A, which agrees with
the Osprey picture. (the Osprey picture is No 5)
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Haddock.
