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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
The Torsks is currently nasty green. The original was like Pampanito.
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Are you really sure about that?
Working on the Cod, I learnt one thing pretty fast. The color you see may not be the color it was. And during the years of service colors changed.
So it could well be that that nasty green is the original color, whereas the grey from Pampanito was done later. (maybe even after the boat was decomissioned)
Many museum boats were painted with the 'we-had-it-cheap-or-for-free-i-like-this-paint' So, you have to figure out what timeframe you want to show the boat in (early WW2, Late WW2. Fifties)Then you have to get somewhere the info on what colors were used. Then you have to get that exact color (it still is a museum so it has to be perfect). Then you paint it. And then the visitors can say:"I don't think this is the real color, because all submarines are white within...says Hollywood"
Our curator is very interested when it comes to painting. No paint of the above described brand is used on our boat...
Success painting,
groetjes,