is it me or ?????

[kaz]

Is it me becouse i thought that japans ships well a few at the least where painted green ??? like dark green with a red under hull ????:confused:

[zaarin7]

Most were painted a very dark grey.

[kaz]

still thinkin about repaintin my minis

[Joisey]

The Japanese Army painted their planes a dark green. Have you seen any pictures of ships painted a dark green? All the photos and pictures I've seen show shades of steel grey.

[kaz]

nop its that Xbox 360 game they have done a lot of bock ground history on it ya most ov the ships are gray gut some and i mean some ie a destroyer and 2 typs ov crusers are painted green

[swarbs]

This is a completely random recollection, but I thought I heard of some being painted green before they went down the slot, just destroyers though. Sorry about being unable to produce a resource, its just a latent memory.

[Barry Kendall]

According to a book I have on the Nihon Kaigun, warship color depended on which yard the class was assigned to. At least one of the CA classes was in a medium gray instead of dark gray because that was the standard at the particular yard.

Some Japanese warships were camouflaged in multi-tone schemes--there is a photo of an old three-stack CL in the Aleutian Campaign with a false bow wave and some disruptive darker color on hull extending up into superstructure.

I have no information on dark green; however, a green-gray color very similar to German Field Gray was used on some ships in or near home waters. This color was nothing new in that region; the Russian Far East Squadron in the Russo-Japanese War was painted in this scheme (Varyag was painted this way when she engaged the Japanese squadron that mauled her).

Apparently the color was chosen because of the most frequent lighting combinations of cloud, fog, light and sea in and around the Asian and Japanese coasts. It's my understanding that Shinano was painted in this color at the time of her sinking.

By the way, here's a useful tidbit: according to a Yamato survivor, writing in "Requiem for Battleship Yamato," on her final sortie Yamato was painted "silver" with "black decks." If you see this reference, be aware: "silver" was the Japanese Navy name for a haze gray color. The "black decks" were Yamato's wood-covered decks stained with a coal-oil stain to reduce contrast against the sea.

This is somewhat obscure information so it's not surprising that the model is presented in dark gray with tan decks. This would be correct up through winter of '44-45. However, Yamato as modeled features her final AA armament with additional triple 25mm mounts lining the hull all along the superstructure. In '44, she did not have the middle three of the five mountings arrayed along the beam amidships.

Musashi never had as much AA armament as depicted on the model; she was sunk before the final upgrade. In fact, there is some question whether Musashi received the additional enclosed 25mm mounts on the main deck at all. But she was painted dark gray (with tan decks).

[kaz]

hum if i get a sper yamato il try that paint job and im getin a camra soon so i can post the paint jobs on a thred hear 4 you all

[TheCygnysGuardian]

Anyone play Pearl Harbor:Zero Hour?
All the Japanese ships have the green/red colouring.
Hmm...

[kaz]

HARAY iv found a pic of a Tone class in green camo took some findin but you gota love google