Yellow for hospital ships funnel during WW1?

[aurélien wolff]

Hello, since I'm going to turn one of my 1/1200 scale titanic in a what if hospital ship and myabe do another mauretania as a hospital ship, I've been wondering what yellow should I use, some rendering of britannic show it with a more ocher like yellow while other have it brighter.

I think both revell 89 and SM 310 colors could work (?) and the britannic rigging plan has the funnels being painted "yellow".
Thanks for your answers, there seems to be some room to interpret the yellow.

 

[Bryian]

It would be more realistic to use yellow ochre rather than bright yellow.

 

[aurélien wolff]

Recreating titanic and her sisters also show different interpretation of the yellow, so revell 89 would be closer.

 

[Uwek]

or maybe you have to mix some of the paints

Colours are looking totally different on different scales - pure yellow is definitely too yellow

 

[Iterum]

By Arnold Kludas, the yellow of pure WW1-passengerships were closer to chamous/light creme yellow - this is forbGerman ships in particular. So there are some contemporary colourpaintings(also parades - by looking into the background for funnels' colours) and aquarells that may be helpful to you as what we in German call a "Captain's picture" of his own ship. Also Harland &Wolff may be a helpfull source.

HTH.

 

[WilhelmII]

I believe the color you are looking at is called “White Star Buff”. The same color was used on Titanic and Olympic. Cunard line used a dark red color on their funnels.

 

[AndyA]

Also remember "scale effect." Because our brains see models as though they are full size vessels at a distance, paint colors should be slightly lighter and less intense than the real thing for a more realistic appearance. In the real world distant things look duller. Fair winds!

 

[aurélien wolff]

Hello, I got the hobby boss model and the interstruction say a mix is needed for the funnel:

I plan to start the build soon since I finished a bunch of stuff this year.