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HMS President gets a new dazzle paint scheme

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Posted by tankerbuilder on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 8:06 AM

Vass Is Loss ?

Vass zis Done to Blint mein eyes in ze periscope ? Vell it vorked ! Ach du Leiber ! !

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Posted by Bish on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 8:32 AM

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

Oy! Imagine the decaling on that in a kit.

That would be a breeze. What about masking it.

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Posted by Bish on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 8:30 AM

I had not noticed that Tim. And the green bands get thicker as it goes back.

I think even today its hard for some to grasp the concept of this. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in the Admiralty when this idea was proposed.

I see what you mean on that figure. I wonder if a dazzle scheme would work on a Luft 46 or paper panzer build.

GM, ye, after I re red it, I realised it was not an actual scheme. But then some of those schemes were so far out, one like this would nit have surprised me. I can just imagine a U-Boat commander looking at that through his scope.

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Posted by Tim Kidwell on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 8:10 AM

Bish
Now that's a neat scheme, hadn't seen that one before. Thanks for posting that Tim.

You're welcome.

I love dazzle camo. It seems like the philosophy was, "We'll make the ship so terribly offensive to look at that it'll be invisible!" And I can here someone else at the planning table pipe in with: "Brilliant!" Some of the ideas for breaking up the silhouette were so creative I can understand why they'd be fodder for artistic inspiration. In fact, dazzle camo inspired how I finished the armor on the 54mm Sgt. Connor figure I reviewed for FSM a few years back.

The pic you posted is interesting. Notice how the orange phases out, then the red as orange makes a comeback? Cool stuff.

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Tuesday, July 15, 2014 8:58 PM

Oy! Imagine the decaling on that in a kit.

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Posted by GMorrison on Tuesday, July 15, 2014 3:35 PM

HMS President is an artwork as well, not the real thing. Ok so long as they promise to restore it later.

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Posted by Bish on Tuesday, July 15, 2014 8:54 AM

Now that's a neat scheme, hadn't seen that one before. Thanks for posting that Tim.

 This one was on the news a few weeks back. This is in Liverpool and is part of the WW1 centenary. I think its more an artwork inspire by the Dazzle schemes rather than a replication of a real one.

 http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/gallery-world-war-dazzle-ship-7246865

 

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HMS President gets a new dazzle paint scheme
Posted by Tim Kidwell on Tuesday, July 15, 2014 8:11 AM

The HMS President, one of the few remaining World War I warships gets a new "dazzle" paint scheme by German artist Tobias Rehberger to mark the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the war. Here's the link to the story.

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