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Originally Posted by iambecomelife
I'm glad you're interested in doing the Brits too, 941. A request, first of all - PLEASE do something about the really common escorts, like the armed trawler, hunt class, and V&W.
AQs for camo schemes, the fragmented blue scheme that you see on so many warships probably shouldn't appear at the outset of the war. Initially, many RN escorts were painted a solid dark grey or an extremely light grey overall. I have one picture of a V&W in 1940 that is so dark that it looks almost black, as well as pictures of tribals in the light-overall scheme prewar. Later on, around 1940-41, the British realized that this camo was ineffective for North Atlantic vessels and switched to a mix of geometrically-patterned whites, blues, light greys, and greens.
I'm not certain about rust but I know that smaller vessels like escorts often had more rust than larger warships. The need for a fast turnaround time with all those convoys arriving and departing left little time for painting. However, even the worst-maintained warships should have less rust than a badly-maintained merchant.
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I second these comments. The first priority should be to get the 1939-1941 RN ships right, plain grey ships all round. As stated, the armed trawler, V&W and Hunt classes, and the Flower corvette should be the first ships done. The C-class destroyer already done is superb - I spend ages watching it whenever I meet one - just follow that approach for the other ships.
This can be made into an RN Escorts Early War patch. Then an RN Escorts Late War patch could be done at a later date.
As stated, escorts were at sea more often than larger ships, so should have more rust. As a general rule, the bigger the ship, the less rust it should have. Battleships spend most of their time in port so should have little rust, and they have a big crew to paint them. Cruisers and carriers the same, but less so. While escorts are at sea most of the time, and have only limited dockyard support and a small crew, so painting is not a high priority for them when in port.