T itanic's colors as listed on this site have been determined over time based on archival descriptions, period advertisements, and historians' recommendations. This page displays on-line color samples for all of Titanic's colors, along with model paint recommendations. Encyclopedia Titanica Paint Colours Home Titanic Paint Colours 4 items Stories and Articles.
Bob Read's Color Guide for the Olympic Class Ships serves as a comprehensive resource for modelers, offering detailed insights into the exterior colour schemes of the Titanic, Olympic, and Britannic. Due to limited historical colour photographs, the guide relies on evidence from documentation, standards like BS381C, and expert analysis. Introduction This exterior color guide is being produced primarily for the modeler.
Although color photography existed during the time of the Olympic class ships, there is only one verified color photo which includes Olympic. It is a long-distance photo of limited value. Where there is some evidence for particular colors, links to articles discussing how we have arrived at particular colors.
Below are the paint mixes used on Art Braunschweiger's model. These are the scale equivalents of the colors I determined to have been used on Titanic based on the consensus of my own and other TRMA members' research. When mixing paints, I used one eyedropper filled up to the same amount for each drop indicated below.
All colors on the actual ship were in gloss paint, but were finished flat. THE COLORS During the build of this Agora Models 1:200 scale RMS Titanic partwork, I will use different paints, markers, and washes to add some additional color to the model and correct some inaccuracies versus the real ship. Whilst we are focussed on accurate model paints to depict colours used by the world's various armed forces, we do get a lot of questions about paints for the famous ill.
Contains 8 x 18 ml/0.6 fl oz Model Air for painting the scale model of the Titanic, offering the most suitable and correct shades based on the latest research and historical sources. The Titanic Ship Modeler's Resource Plans by Bob Read, D.M.D. Link to Titanic Plans page Link to Olympic Plans (1911 Maiden Voyage) Link to H.M.H.S.
Britannic Plans Link to H.M.T. Olympic Plans Link to Titanic 30 ft. Lifeboat Plan Link to Titanic 25 ft.
emergency cutter plan Link to Titanic Engelhardt collapsible boat plan Link to Research articles Link to Color Guide. Is there a source of information regarding paint colours used throughout the Titanic, or at least a guide to general colours in use around 1912 One colour I'm specifically interested in is the colour of paint used on the inside surfaces of air vent openings on deck.