Trumpeter Bismarck color chart questions

all the builds ive seen all show te false bow wave the same port and starbord ive lso bought this model and ive decided to use lifecolor paints not to sure about the boats

The "bow waves" were slightly different port and starboard, I don't remember which forum I saw photographs that demonstrated it.  I think the boats were painted the same grey as (most of) the superstructure, with the motor boars having a black underhull.

I would treat any reconstruction with caution and check them with good photographic resources.  But of course it doesn't help with colour.

Try http://www.kbismarck.com/ They may heve the color charts you need.

Steve

Or try this build by Blohm & Voss themselves, If anybody knows the small boat colors they would I should think.

http://www.bismarck-class.dk/shipmodels/german_models/bismarckblohmvoss1.html

The port bow wave can be seen here

http://www.bismarck-class.dk/bismarck/paint_schemes/paintbism1941.html

The starboard here

http://www.bismarck-class.dk/bismarck/paint_schemes/paintbism1941rheinubung.html

The port bow wave is flatter at the top.

The Baltic stripes were slightly wider on the port side too, IIRC.

The colour of the life rings are red on Joseph Kaiser's model, one of the most accurate models IIRC.

http://www.kbismarck.com/models/bismarck-josef-kaiser.html

Trumpeter are notorious for getting colour charts and paint schemes wrong.  They got Tsesarevich wrong, for example. but there are (or were?) paints available of the correct colour available.  I had a look at Trumpeter's paint scheme online and it looks like they instruct painting the superstructure and the hull the same colour.  This is wrong, the superstructre was a lighter grey.

Colour charts here:-

http://www.shipcamouflage.com/kreigsmarine.htm

Thank you everyone for the great information and links.  I'll check out those links.  I don't know how I missed that port view of the Bismarck showing the difference in the bow wave, but it seems a lot of other people have as well.