"LCG,MTB,MGB DECK COLOURS" Topic

Just delved into 1/600 Coastal for the first time and wondering what colour were the decks on LCG fire support craft? I've seen some pics of MGB/MTB with green/grey decks and wondered if the landing craft were a similar colour, or were they just the same grey all over? Thinking Med/Adriatic area of ops if it makes any difference.

Some MGB/MTB had dark blue decks. I don't have my references here but IIRC, I think the US LCGs had grey decks, though they may have had dark blue also. British LCGs, not sure about.

In Alan Raven's 'Warsship Perspectives Camoflage Volume Four: Royal Navy Supplemental' on page 30 he says that decks were to be painted dark grey or left unpainted on some types of landing craft and on others they were to be painted grey and NOT left unpainted. So I guess to be safe use a dark grey.

Thanks a lot fellas.Dk grey it is then.

Dark grey is always a safe bet for allied warships of almost any kind. Even those with wood decks usually had them over painted with grey.
If you find it boring you can always do some variations.For example some had blue in the Mediterranean. In the Atlantic there were ships with black grey, or even black green. Some of this had to do with pigments put into the non slip material used on decks. Others painted that material standard.
Also, talking pigments. ALL combatants ran short of paint pigments at one time or the other. In those situations they were forced to use something as near to what they wanted and in others to chose an alternative colour. Even US shipyards with their industrial backing often found it hard to finish ships in the colour intended. Hence battleship grey replacing over all dark blue with some construction, along with far too many variations to list.
The safest thing to say with WW2 colours is that you are probably incorrect to do every ship, aircraft or tank in exactly the right scheme and much more accurate to vary them. It was not only a case of shortages dictating these things. Cheaper pigments faded at a different rate or failed to hold their colour well.
If you look closely during many of the old films, you will see, despite them being black and white, that there can be quite a considerable contrast between ships and tanks etc within the same unit. It was inevitable and unavoidable.
Western Approaches camouflage for example with some ships wearing pale blue on white while others have pale green and yet others with both. Then variations on the shades within those.
You can feel pretty comfortable using your own variations because if someone comes up and looks at your models, then offers the suggestion they should be all exactly the same….he's dreaming. A quick look at photographs and old film will show him wrong. So relax and use variations around the official line…which was dark grey. Note….in many cases they dont specify anything other than dark grey. The interpretation of that was up to the individual. I remember one veteran telling me that when it came to mixing shades, the only rule of thumb was TLAR. (That looks about right)