Malachi Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 (edited) http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2015-08-19/a-pink-paint-job-for-hms-victory/ "It´s not the colour we were expecting when we started out on this" yeah, right... Edited August 20, 2015 by Malachi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Thats not surprising. From the Sabatini. "Captain Blood entered the room in his manly blue sky colored velvet coat" Pastel colors were chic at that time. Just watch this movie to understand the fashion of 18th Century Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siegfried Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 And all people laughted of me when I said I will paint my ships pink.... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry d'Esterre Darby Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 I'm curious if they took into account fading and weathering from the sun when they determined that color? The color likely would have been on the ship for a while, and would have been attacked by the elements. If they didn't somehow account for that weathering, the original color as applied may have been completely different. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malachi Posted August 20, 2015 Author Share Posted August 20, 2015 Paints also protected the wood from wind/water and were applied at regular intervals, even on expanded voyages. So the faded look wouldn´t last long. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Connor Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 No, they don't seem to have taken into account fading... Or that before Trafalgar the paint scheme was red, and that over time there would have been a slight mixture of the colors. I mean, by all accounts the color Victory wore at Trafalgar was lighter than the near orange she's been painted, but if any color other than yellow it's mentioned then it's a slightly green tint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry d'Esterre Darby Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Paints also protected the wood from wind/water and were applied at regular intervals, even on expanded voyages. So the faded look wouldn´t last long. That's a pretty good point there sir, however, by the time the paint was painted over, it would be faded and weathered no? A layer of paint they're pulling out of the various layers to determine the color would, by it's very nature, be a faded, worn out color of the original - the reason it was painted over in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoarmurath Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 That's a pretty good point there sir, however, by the time the paint was painted over, it would be faded and weathered no? A layer of paint they're pulling out of the various layers to determine the color would, by it's very nature, be a faded, worn out color of the original - the reason it was painted over in the first place. When you paint a ship, the first thing you do is remove the old paint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Connor Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 When you paint a ship, the first thing you do is remove the old paint. Apparently not, or there wouldn't be all the layers of paint on Victory that they've analysed to come up with the new color. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Rackham Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 As the man in the video says you de-salt it wash all the grit off then remove any areas of bad paint down to the wood, key the whole surface by sanding then build up the layers of paint till you get the desired colour, removal of paint back to wood is only in the bad area's much the same way you do with a steel hull today, you only take off the rusty bits down to metal, treat with a rust proofer then undercoat and topcoat it so yes there would be multiple layers of paint, also when they were looking at the layers of paint given that they would as we do give it multiple coats the inner layers of paint would probably be well protected and hence give them the true colour 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeRuyter Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 I'm just going to leave this here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11908365/Restored-HMS-Victory-raises-eyebrows-with-new-pink-shade.html Maybe it faded on long blockade duty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Cloudsley-Shovell Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 A short film about the Painting https://www.facebook.com/168937285403/videos/10153085163925404/?fref=nf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Holman Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Much prefer the current colour scheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Sharpe Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 Afternoon all, I can confirm that as of last week it is still the same, and it actually looks a little darker than that on the picture on the first post...It did not look pink, but possibly a tinge of brown in the yellow.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reki Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 HMS Hello Kitty... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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