"Japanese Warship Paint in 1894" Topic
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| A C London | 24 Sep 2014 8:26 a.m. PST |
Hope this is the right place to ask about Chinese – Japanese war of 1894/5? The next board seems to begin in 1898. Does anyone know how Japanese Warships were painted in the war against China?
Japanese prints from the time generally show them in white. I half-remember reading that white was a peacetime scheme and that they were drabber in war, but can't find the reference and wonder if I imagined it.
Help with this would be very much appreciated.
Alan
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| vaughan | 24 Sep 2014 9:52 a.m. PST |
I believe they were a fairly pale grey in wartime. |
| KTravlos | 24 Sep 2014 9:54 a.m. PST |
I would say light gray and have seen it in secondary sources, but I do not remember to quote them now. Miyazaki in his special on the Chinese ironclad battleships has the Japanese ship in light grey. |
| vaughan | 24 Sep 2014 10:06 a.m. PST |
Wartimes journal website gives some details of how to paint their models, including pre-dreadnoughts. |
| Ryan T | 24 Sep 2014 7:27 p.m. PST |
The cover of the newly published Sino-Japanese Naval War 1894-1895 by Piotr Olender shows a Japanese ship with a white hull and buff superstructure. link This fits with Linton Wells, "Painting Systems of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1904-1945", Warship International, No. 1, 1982, pp. 20-36 which states that the wartime grey paint scheme was adopted in 1903 in anticipation of war with Russia. |
| sillypoint | 24 Sep 2014 8:47 p.m. PST |
Not the easiest site to navigate, but it's ……for us wargamers ;)
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| Texas Jack | 28 Sep 2014 5:30 a.m. PST |
To underscore what vaughan said above, War Times Journal gives wartime colors for the Japanese as neutral gray. Here is the link to the whole painting guide: link |
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