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This I chose to put in the Never-Built Designs, although I could have coalesced it with my previous Real Life Design Thread.

During Queen Victoria's long reign as Queen-Empress over the Empire Where the Sun Never Sets, her Britannic Majesty's Mighty Navy sported a very attractive livery of off-white (eggshell) bright enameled superstructure, yellow-buff funnels, equally brightly painted and a coal-black hull. The effect was, if not practical, at least very impressive and breath taking.

I found a half-hull model of the DofE in the VRI paintwork (VRI= Victoria Regina Imperatrix) and decided to repaint the Duke to see how she would look if having been commissioned while Europe's Grand Old Lady still was alive, and below is the result:



With the quintessential white hull stripes, so characteristic of Victorian Men-o'-Wars:

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Ari, I understand why you have to find out. The result is just beautiful

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That's lovely!

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Looks very nice, makes me want to paint a dreadnought in it !

She's a BEAUTY mate

Very well done

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Nice!

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Very nice work.
The old Victorian-era paintwork was suitably splendid. Its a shame everything now that floats or flies is the same shades of drab greys.

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Saves money on paint
Any way not to be side tracked, a very beautiful paint job, excellently done.

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

not to spoil the compliments here, but in front of the aft superstructure a part of the railing is pure black, while a lot of parts of the black lining are not black but very dark grey
otherwise, it looks very nice!

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Fantastic drawing.