"USN Carriers deck Color" Topic
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| Above Beyond Games | 09 Apr 2008 12:31 p.m. PST |
What is the color of the flight drck of the Independence carrier class during WWII? Thanks Jeff |
| Tachikoma | 09 Apr 2008 1:09 p.m. PST |
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| Corsair | 09 Apr 2008 1:58 p.m. PST |
Norfolk 250N or Flight deck Stain 21, depending on which ship and at what time. Both were a blue/gray color. Lance/Corsair |
 McKinstry   | 09 Apr 2008 1:58 p.m. PST |
Yup. Testors makes a flight deck blue in their acrylic Poly S (or used to be) and their naval line. The Independence class were all deployed after the US had gone to blue stain for flight decks. GHQ sells a good deck blue as well. |
| Corsair | 09 Apr 2008 1:59 p.m. PST |
Deck Blue 20B was used on horizontal deck surfaces EXCEPT for the flight deck. |
| Tachikoma | 09 Apr 2008 2:23 p.m. PST |
"Deck Blue 20B was used on horizontal deck surfaces EXCEPT for the flight deck." Which was covered with Deck Blue 21 stain as noted above. |
 Mserafin | 09 Apr 2008 2:23 p.m. PST |
"Deck Blue 20B was used on horizontal deck surfaces EXCEPT for the flight deck." Right, because the navy thought that painting the wood flight decks would reduce the friction co-efficient of the deck, making it harder to stop landing aircraft. So they developed a stain for the deck that was as close to Deck Blue as they could get. |
| Above Beyond Games | 09 Apr 2008 3:04 p.m. PST |
So is the deck blue almost black? I have a 1/300 scale carrir that I am scratch building for a game and I was wondering what I could mix to get the deck color. Thanks
Jeff |
| Corsair | 10 Apr 2008 4:40 a.m. PST |
Poly Scale and Testors MM acrylics do the deck blue 20B. Testor's is a shade lighter than the Poly Scale and IMHO looks better for a ship exposed to the sun and salt at sea. Testors also does the flight deck stain 21, which is very close to their deck blue 20B
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