Fleetline 1/1200 FMO36 HMS Roberts in Admiralty camouflage 1942-44

HMS Roberts is a 1/1200 scale metal model assembled from a Fleetline kit and painted by the previous owner, see photograph. Admiralty instructions for the pattern say that the decks should be painted dark grey but the modeller has chosen to carry the pattern across the deck. Given that the pattern is correctly applied over the top of the bulges, an all grey deck would be outlined by pattern when seen from the air, so the modeller's choice to pattern the deck may well have been correct at some time.