On the matter of the camouflage.
It was believed for a time that the camouflage was Mountbatten Pink and light grey.
I was not really happy with this, and sought further data over a period of time from ex officers and 'old hands'. All stated that the ship was NEVER in Mountbatten Pink, only the two shades of grey from the 1941 refit onwards.
At the time of the Bismarck action and without looking at my notes, I would think that the ship would be overall medium grey; quite a dull appearence in terms of a model.
Steve Sobieralski wrote:
NMM didn't give me any choices of drawing scale when they sent me the list to order from. The rig plans are in 1/192, everything else is 1/96, but they are all the same price-14.40 pounds per sheet (plus 11.75 pounds research fee and 25 pounds shipping). I ordered seven sheets: rig, WT rig, superstructure, profile, upper deck, main deck and sections. I didn't strictly need the last two for the model, but got them anyway. Being flush decked, Dorsetshire does not have a forecastle deck, but if a ship did (Exeter, for instance) it was my impression that you would also need an upper deck plan for a complete set of weather deck plans.
wr- I will finish the Dorsetshire model either in pre-war China station colors (white and primrose) or as she was during the Bismarck action, so I guess I won't need to worry about the 20 mm (I had thought she might have had them in May '41). One question if I may (apologies to the Exeter and York folks for diverting their thread), on page 16 of Man O'War 1 the photo caption states that her colors in 1941 "appear to to Mountbatten Pink and 507C" and on page 22 of Camouflage Volume One the colors are given as "507b and 507c". Did later research eliminate the use of Mountbatten Pink or is that still a possibility in your mind?