Trumpeter USS Yorktown CV-10

Can't help you with the color scheme, but here's a color chart I just got from someone else on these boards:

http://fbriere.free.fr/250/paint.htm

Hope it helps and Good Luck to you.

Unless you're doing one of the "splinter" schemes the color you want is 5-N Navy blue. Black was only used for the boot toping and in some of the Measure 32/33 schemes. Check on line at Steelnavy to link to Schneider and Shorts USN camoflauge site. Find Yorktown for the time you wish to portray her and they'll tell you exactly what colors to use. White Ensign makes exact color matches as well, you can easily order directly off their web site.

Hello dr207,
I have now been visiting steelnavy, and I can not find CV-10 Yorktown 1944 anywhere???
I have found a measure number which is 33/10a but I can not find the colors?? Can you maybe help me with that?
Regards John.

Bertel,

According to www.shipcamouflage.com , The Yorktown wore measure 12 paint camo scheme beginning in 1942 when she entered the war until she was torpedoed in June, 42. This measure consisted of Sea Blue from the waterline to the hanger bay level...and Ocean gray from that point higher...The vertical surfaces were specified Deck Blue...

White ensign models distributes Colour coat paints which are said to be the best matches...

Other manufactures make these colors as well..


Check out this site It should be very helpful and has information on the Yorktown...

Tank

Bertel,

Yorktown CV 10 should not be confused with Yorktown CV 5 that was sunk at Midway. Since you are building CV 10, the color scheme will depend on when during the life of the ship, you model will portray it.

If you show the ship equipped as it was in 43-early 44, the ship should be overall Navy Blue 5 N with the horizontal surfaces as Deck Blue. The ship would have the hangerbay catapult extensions still showing at the forward hanger openings and would NOT have the 40 mm gun mounts installed on the stbd side below the island.

After a refit in the spring of '44, CV 10 carried the 33/10A scheme.

This would also depend on the way you want to display the radar antennas, etc., as their positions changed as did the paint schemes.

There are photos available on the US Navy History site that will help.

Hope I helped.

Mike

2 color schemes used 5-L and 5-O, 3 color schemes used 5-P, 5-H, and 5-N.

Yorktown had 5-N Navy Blue, not Black, in her camo pattern.

Jeff

Unrelated to the paint scheme, but can anyone tell me if the trumpeter kit includes the additional 40mm mounts on the starboard side, the twin mountings on the stern, and additional mounts on the portside that she is clearly shown to be carrying in the round-the-clock photos of her on post overhaul trials in Puget Sound in September 1944 in the Pictorial Histories Warships's Data 5 USS Yorktown CV 10?

Re; the colour scheme for the dazzle pattern carried by Yorktown , it was Measure 33 Design 10a, the colours were Navy Blue(5-N) , Haze Gray(5-N) and Pale Gray(5-P) on the vertical surfaces with the flight deck stained with Deck Blue Stain(20-B) , this scheme is confirmed as correct in the photo's of the ship, The Pictorial Histories publication has made a small boo boo in printing an illustration of the pattern for Design 3A by mistake, claiming it to be the pattern for Design 10A.