The RAF colours are still available as they are current British Standard BS381C colours. Per A.705 issued 28/8/47, the decks are 632 Dark Admiralty Grey and the superstructure, deck fittings are 631 Light Grey. Phoenix Paints in the UK used to be able to supply these colours in Humbrol sized tinlets and larger cans too. Xtracolor did them too, Also any paint shop should be able to mix those colours.
Very colourful GD47, but wrong era.๐ As far as I know that yellow was only used, very briefly, on the whale-back rescue launches (HSL) very early in WW2. It was dropped pretty damn quick, and replaced with grey, when they started pilot rescue operations in the channel and realised that bright yellow made them easy targets for Luftwaffe Stukas and JU88s.๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ The Fireboat /Crash Tender came along about ten years later and was much smaller than the HSL, 46' as opposed to 63'. Cheers, Doug ๐
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Young at heart ๐ Slightly older in other places.๐ Cheers Doug
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Paint scheme that I used taken from official RAF documents as close as possible with modern day paints Paint finishes Deck - โBS631 RAF Light Greyโ but first spayed with a textured paint I used Halfords grey Hull- anti fouling - Simonize red oxide paint (on eBay at a very good price.) Cabin roof - two coats of white primer were also flatted down and left for a day to harden before the first of tree coats of Halfords โAppliance Whiteโ gloss
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BLACK hull to wateliine GRAY to rubbing strip GRAY for strip deck and superstructure CANARY YELLOW for control cabinred and white chequered strip across deck on bow section there are splnter bags round cabin all bags are sewn in a croswise corner to corner leaving windows uncovered mine is a fire tender rescue it looks a bit like the. Whaleback rescue boat hope this helps Mick w
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Hi! I have just finished the rire tender These are the coulors on my boat hull is red oxide towater line then black to the Rubing strip that strip next the deck is grey super structure is grey cabin ll like canary yellow roof is grey 000 stufLochgilpheadfed0 bags quilted like a cross, there is a strip across the foredeck red and white chequered the bags surround the cabin leave the widows uncovered that is t๐๐hat navy grey has slight blue tint to it. Holpe its the same on or sim
I am at last finishing my 46Ft Crash tender and i would like to confirm the colour scheme of my boat. In the pictures it looks black sides on hull and white on the superstructure and the deck i think is grey. I have been told by one of my club members the hull is a dark blue is he correct? Looking forward to your replies thank you.๐
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