"Books for Ship Colours" Topic
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| Klabautermann | 21 Dec 2009 11:54 p.m. PST |
Hello, I am searching for books about ship colours (not the camouflage book) for British, German, US an Japan. Are there good books out there? The best would be if there are lots of pictures inside. |
| Sundance | 22 Dec 2009 8:05 a.m. PST |
Not sure what you mean by ship colors but not camo. Do you mean the base colors they were painted, say before the war and before they were able to repaint in camo during the war? If so, Jane's mentions ship colors for each nation. Another neat little book is the ship painting guide put out by Clash of Arms. There was supposed to be a sequel but it hasn't arrived yet, so I'm assuming they aren't doing one after all. |
| AGamer | 22 Dec 2009 1:32 p.m. PST |
Not a book, but the US Navy is covered in depth. By clicking the type of warship, you come to a table of the paint scheme for each warship by year. Clickig the paint scheme will take you to the pattern and colors. link |
 McKinstry   | 22 Dec 2009 2:28 p.m. PST |
link The book Sundance referred to (link above) does cover the pre-war and early war schemes which were generally varying shades of gray. Note that for WW2, other than most of the IJN who stay in gray and the non-Allied French, everyone goes camouflage and they go early and with a wide variety of schemes. WW1 is mostly solid grays but WW2 is all about camouflage. After 1941, the rule is camouflage for all major combatant ships except the IJN although by late 1945, the US measure 21 and Brit Intermediate and fairly simple gray with a blue hull up to the shear or the main deck. |
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