HMS Victory Gunport colors

[Jonathan_219]

Building the Caldercraft Victory and while the instructions say to paint the inside lips of the gunports the same  color as the adjacent hull the pictures of current Victory have those lips painted the red/orange ochre same as the interior of the gunport. I'm going for a "best I can do" recreation  of Trafalgar Victory and wonder what the current thinking is on those gunport lids. Both Caldercraft and the HMS Victory foundation seem to have done a lot of research so I'm not sure why they disagree, of course it could have been both of those  ways at some time in it's history so I'd like to get as close as possible to Trafalgar. Appreciate any thoughts anyone has on the matter.

Edited yesterday at 04:48 AM by Jonathan_219

[Kenchington]

The current refit of the ship is supposed to be returning her to as near her Trafalgar appearance as possible. That effort is backed up by a whole lot of research, which has turned up various surprises, reversing previous assumptions. In general, I'd take however she is being presented as being as close to the state Nelson knew her, in his last days, as modern knowledge can get -- and as an advance over any kit instructions prepared a few years back. However, if you want to check a particular detail, you could go looking for any published explanation of why the ship is being shown that way. If there is nothing published, contact the restoration team and ask!

 

Trevor

[Jonathan_219]

Thanks Trevor, I've been leaning to following the current retrofit  but some confirmation of this thinking is nice. I really wish I could visit her but that's just not in the cards right now so I have to settle with pictures and videos. Thanks again.