"The deck color of Soviet naval vessels" Topic

I was wondering why the decks of modern Soviet naval vessels are a "orange-brown color? Are they painted that color or are they coated with a special material?

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Red lead anti-corrosion paint; similar to what's used at and below the waterline on pretty much all ships.

(It seems to weather a bit differently, but that may be as much to do with where it is, as any chemical difference. Freshly applied it's very red indeed, but weathers down to more of a brown on decks than you see when used as anti-fouling paint. I'd guess that's chiefly the sun's doing though.)

Red lead has pretty much been outlawed now as it is highly toxic. You should have seen the OSHA panic when we thought we'd found a craft with red lead paint applied inside (as it happened it wasn't, but life was "interesting" for a while!). Modern anti fouling paints use various types of biocide and ablative layers. The red paint applied to Russian ships is supposed to be non-slip, but doesn't seem to work all that well, at least not in my experience.

For paint – I use Jo Sonya's Norweign Orange acrylic, with a thin black ink wash.

What do others use?

I use a spray rust-colored primer, and then paint all the vertical surfaces and other details on top of that. Probably not the right precise color, but at 1/2400, it works for me.