I hope everyone saw the second render on page two before making comment on texture, because the first render was rather off, I accidentally used a very inacurate render engine.
as well, remember this is -not- the dunkirk, it is not a bretonian ship of the dunkirk era. Look at the percheron, which seems to be a newer generation of bretonian ship, notice how it uses brighter red.
At this moment the bretonian brown is very sad. It makes me think of an empire getting very rusty. True, Paladin is using this brownish texture, but in the infocard it is mentionned to be a very rare older generation of bretonian fighter.
Ship of the line is supposed to bring some renewal in all this.