Building a 1/200 U.S.S. Arizona before Dec. 7th 1941

This December 7th?  Hope you do a build thread as I'd like to watch that.  I don't have any references as I don't do ships but am looking forward to this challenge!

keavdog

This December 7th?  Hope you do a build thread as I'd like to watch that.  I don't have any references as I don't do ships but am looking forward to this challenge!

 

That photo was probably taken in July of 1939, with ARIZONA departing the San Francisco Bay area. The bridge in the photo is the San Francisco - Oakland Bay bridge, with San Francisco in the background. July '39 was the last time ARIZONA was there.

ARIZONA acquired the Mk33 directors, as well as the bird bath, 5"/25 gun shields, and the 1.1" gun tubs during the 1940 / 41 yard period in Bremerton.

I hope this helps; good luck on the build.

Contact Jeff Herne at Scale Colors paint (Info@ScaleColors.net)  At the recent IPMS Nats, Jeff gave a presentation on the Fleet colors during the summer/fall of 41. Interesting findings.  

HooYah Deep Sea

That photo was probably taken in July of 1939, with ARIZONA departing the San Francisco Bay area. The bridge in the photo is the San Francisco - Oakland Bay bridge, with San Francisco in the background. July '39 was the last time ARIZONA was there.

ARIZONA acquired the Mk33 directors, as well as the bird bath, 5"/25 gun shields, and the 1.1" gun tubs during the 1940 / 41 yard period in Bremerton.

I hope this helps; good luck on the build.

 

EdGrune

Contact Jeff Herne at Scale Colors paint (Info@ScaleColors.net)  At the recent IPMS Nats, Jeff gave a presentation on the Fleet colors during the summer/fall of 41. Interesting findings.  

I appreciate the contact information.  Hopefully he can provide some insight.  I'm used to there being some mock up images of different paint schemes for a vessel throughout their service career, but all I ever see on Arizona is December 1941 colors.

Paul Stillwell's book is a good general reference with many photos.

Bill

hi! 

       I have had the experience of doing two of these monsters! The First was in the Medium Blue grey our ships carried BEFORE 1941! Yes. there has been much speculation on her colors that day! Admiral King was noted to drag his feet on these things. Because I guess he figured if the paint ain't peeling, I'll get it done before next sortie!

 I painted the other in a nice dark medium grey with a light overspray of faded Sea Blue. More for color effect than accuracy. She was in transition, as a lot of our ships were in 40-41. I just decided to do what I seemed right. Well, My customers were satified anyway, so that's what counts!

GMorrison

Paul Stillwell's book is a good general reference with many photos.

Bill

Concur.  Stillwell's book is excellent.

Another worth considering is David Doyle's book (click here).

The large boxy directors she received by 1941 were actually Mk.19 directors (click here).  On other ships, Mk.19 directors were replaced with Mk.37 directors as those became available and yard periods permitted.

Lots of good advice here.  I contacted Jeff at Scale Colors and received some great paint information.  

One thing I'd have to consider going earlier in 1941 is the fact the Curtiss SOC Seagull was on the Arizona until mid-year.