 rockythegoat wrote: |
| Currently building the Bogue-Class, USS Card, the 1/700 Tamiya kit. I have the Escort Carriers in Action book, and the color drawings are okay up to a point. Internet search do far hasn't revealed much. The kit directions are not real specific on colors for: Measure 22 - What is Light Gray and what is Medium Blue? Or a reasonable closeness. Color of the flight deck? Light gray like the rest of the ship? Any help is very much appreciated! |
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Measure 22 is 5H Haze Gray over 5N Navy Blue. Thse are USN WWII colors and they have no direct equivalents in the modern Fed-Std-595 system. In WWII the Navy's colors were based on a blue/purple system - so the Haze Gray is more of a light lavender-blue gray rather than the neutral gray of modern USN Haze Gray.
The most accurate color available is from White Ensign's Colourcoat line of paints. Both 5H and 5N are available out of the bottle (or tin). WEM also makes a flight deck stain (IIRC Norfolk 250, which is an intermediate blue gray). These paints are enamels. They are my personal favorites.
In acrylics, the more accurate is the Testors Acryl II Marine line of paints. Their 5H and 5N are matched to the Snyder & Short paint chips, which were the precuror to the WEM paints. John Snyder of White Ensign is the Snyder of Snyder & Short. However, these paints are out of productiona nd may be hard to find. Perhaps order directly from Testors.
Your other acrylic choice -- if close enough is good enough -- is the PollyScale line of paints. PollyScale makes a 5H and 5N. The 5H is too lavender to my eye, but the 5N is good.
Barring any of these, purchase a set of the Snyder & Short chipsets and mix your own.