USS Constitution November 11 and 12, 2012

Four hours were spent deburring, painting and adhering the cannon and carriage components of the guns.  During assembly I became increasing dissatisfied with the color of the carriages.  I had originally painted most of the carriages with Model Master Acryl Rot RLM 23.  They started to appear pink to me.  I had pink guns... pink guns... pink.  I was trying to match colors suggested on my limited internet research.  This research suggested that the carriages were typically green, yellow ocher or dusty red.  I had pink.  I tried a second color on one of the remaining unpainted carriages.  Model Master Enamel Paint British Crimson gave the carriage a stale brown color.  Satisfactory but slightly boring, but much better than pink.  The depth of color of the carriage was greatly increased when I painted over one of the previously painted 'pink' carriages.  I really liked the effect of these colors (British crimson painted over a dried layer of Rot RLM 23) when combined.  I left the one carriage with the single layer of British crimson and painted one other unpainted carriage yellow ocher.  The chaser gun located on the spar deck also had a single layer of British crimson.  Cannon were often traded on the high seas and I thought these mismatched carriages could represent a recent transaction of sorts.

Most of the carriages were painted with Rot RLM 23 giving an unsatifactory 'pink' color.  These were later over-painted with British crimson. 

All but three of the guns were painted with a base layer of Rot RLM 23 and over-layer of British Crimson.  Two carriages were painted with a single layer of British crimson and a third with a single layer of yellow ocher.