Model Forum / General / Models / December 2009

Yes she was. Presumably the same as all other Grand Fleet battleships of
the time. You might get the exact colors from any number of
warship-related sites, such as www.modelwarships.com, whose forums
include a Colors & Camoflage sub-forum.

However, there is no way one can easily depict the Airfix kit in her
Jutland fit: the kit is in her after 1939 refit with completely new
superstructure, AA outfit, and probably very much enlarge torpedo bulges.

Overall Dark Grey, but building an Airfix "Warspite" to an "As Built"
"Queen Elizabeth" is a major undertaking, and would probably involve a
few compromises.  There was an article on how to do this in "Airfix
Magazine" back in the late 1960s, and I started the project - it's
still around somewhere, unfinished...   Even in the era of "looks
right" rather than "rivet counting", I discovered the article was full
of errors, especially when I streached my youthful budget to a print
of the QE taken from an original glass-plate negative!  I fixed some,
such as putting the extra 6" casemate guns in the right place, but by
the time I got to main deck level and some basic superstructure real
life interrupted the project, never to be resumed.

Regards,

Moramarth