Like this, that’s what! Look and you’ll see a lighter colour coming forward from Victory’s stern. To the dismay of model-makers everywhere (one of whom called for the conservators who worked out the right colour to be made to walk the plank!) – this is how she really looked at the Battle of Trafalgar, when Admiral Lord Nelson beat a combined French and Spanish fleet to establish ‘Rule, Britannia!’ on the waves for a 100 years. And finally did for that prototype Fascist Napoleon and his bid for world domination, too. Outstanding! Sadly though, as the irate – and humorous – comment about walking the plank pointed out, that means hundreds of models of Victory having to be repainted. But conservation experts Michael and Ian Crick-Smith really have got their research right – next blog will tell you how they did it…