Hull colour.

[serpe]

I am finishing second planking for my Corel HMB Endeavour. A question has come up for me about the colour of the hull below the wales. Jotika and Victory ships show the painting of the live work to be white. However in Marquardt's book on the subject he states that the ships hull was payed with 'brown stuff' a mixture of tar pitch and sulphur. Cooks recommendation for white lead paint was applied to later ships. Does anyone know what colour or how I could replicate this colour could be done? 

[Chapman]

I don't know of a mixing formula for Brown Stuff. However, I followed the color scheme of an oil painting by John Cleveley, which shows the HMS Granado with this underwater color .

 

Edited yesterday at 09:13 AM by Chapman

[serpe]

After some further research it is noted that after paying the hull, a thin sacrificial layer of planking might be installed over the brown stuff. If tis would be hidden should I just leave the hull walnut?

[mtaylor]

Serpe, I think that's a choice you'll have make.  From what I've read, the hull color could be white, black, or brown if wasn't coppered.  It all depended on when and where the coating was re-applied.