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Posted by Bil R on November 5, 2025, 8:38:01, in reply to "Modern ships with camouflage patterns: HMS Tyne"
Hello Lars,
I personally like the looks of camouflaged warships and enjoy the conversations about 'getting it right' among modelers. I've also felt that color camouflage became somewhat obsolete in the age of radar and long distance imaging as ship presence and identification could be done before visual contact was made. Aside from the coastal forces you've mentioned above, the Chilean Armada continued to camouflage its large cruisers well into the 1970s. I think that's pretty fascinating.
All the best,
Bil
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Modern warships with camouflage patterns are not common.
I built some of them, here e.g. HMS Tyne (River class OPV, Batch 1):
HMS Tyne (1/700, EVModel)
HMS Tyne , USS Freedom , Al Hani (Libya) and Almirante Lynch (Chile):
There are/were also some other ships with camouflage pattern post WW2, e.g. HMCS Regina (FFH-334) and HMCS Moncton (MM 708), the British River class OPV Batch 2, USS Forth Worth , US patrol crafts of the Cyclon class, at least one Asheville class gunboat in Vietnam, many Chilean ships in 1978, some more Libyan ships in the 1980s, many Swedish and Finnish ships...
Do you remember any additional ones?
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