Riddled by costly damages from uboat torpedos and torpedo bombers and fuel shortage the Vittorio Veneto seized all operations and was permenantly berthed at the docks. When the Italians surrendered the battleship to the allies in September 1943 she was annexed with the British warships in Egypt. After the war she was ferryed to Britain as a war prize and thereafter hulked in 1948 where her parts were sold as scraps.
This model is not a true representation of the Vittorio Veneto in September 1943, but she would have been seen with splinter camouflage as shown on the photos. The fundamental error on my part, but done deliberately was choosing scarlet red for the antifoul paint over the traditional green colour we see on the Italian battleships.
This subject was my biggest test with the airbrush that went miserably wrong on the aerial markings and the camouflage on the upper hull. A lot of the paint work had to be corrected with a paint brush to iron out the many areas left with nasty bleeds. Definitely the first and the last time painting boats with the airbrush. Weathering using Pigma Micron pen and oils. Highlights added to the edges using the dry brushing method. Rigging with Prym elastic thread and insulators made using superglue.
