 smorariu wrote: |
I found an article in the recent "How To Paint & Weather Scale Models" on page 60. There was a complete color paint chart for aircraft. Is there anything like this for naval vessels?
Thanks,
Sergio |
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In one succinct listing, no.
What there are are several different sites, Cybermodeler, and IPMS Stockholm, to name a few, which list one person's opinion as to the closest paint match to a certain country's paint at a certain time frame. The listing is no way complete.
What is probably the best source for naval paint colors is what was done by John Snyder and Randy Short of shipcamouflage.com. John is a paint conservator and historian by training and he and Randy delved into the archives of the US and several other countries and determined the paint color properties of period paints. John and Randy documented their findings and produced several sets of standard paint chips. They produced sets for the US Navt, Royal Navy, and Imperial Japanese Navy. John went on to produce the Colourcoat line of paints by White Ensign Models (WEM). When you see something posted about color and it is signed by John @ WEM, you can take that information to the bank.
http://shipcamouflage.com/development_of_naval_camouflage.htm
The above is a reference to an excellent series of articles written by Alan Raven on the development of naval camouflage. It centers on the US and Royal Navies.
http://www.thenrg.org/displayshopnote.html?id=7
The above is an article by Eric Ronnberg at the Nautical Research Guild on paints used on American merchant ships in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Ignore the Aemrican and Merchant Ship words inthe title. It has some excellent information on all paints used during the period. It also provides some good basic information on color nomenclature.
Basically, there is no simple one-stop, this is the answer site.