go thru this link http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/39a.htm as you’ll see the decks are not blue as that is a ww2 thing because of aircraft that was not prevalent at sea during ww1.
Dang it Dave! I’m sure you’re right… Makes sense that blue decks weren’t a thing until airpower was. Looks like I’m destined to have a sedate battleship gray & teak model. Well at least there’ll be some color below the waterline.
EDIT:
Ok - but… Check the below picture out - the superstructure decking around the tower bridge suporting the two 5 inch deck guns. It certainly looks darker and like it could be blue.
that might be something like linoleum on that deck giving the darker color.
ANd, USN was keen on a mid-brown linoleum on Signal bridge decks.
Great information, thank you again guys.
no problem.
go thru this link about painting ww1 era US navy ships. https://www.subchaser.org/painting-and-cementing-vessels-usn
Not really the right time era, but this 1930 color image of USS Idaho & USS Texas was just too nice not to share:
except it has been colorized so not true colors.
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Great picture CaptainMac. Brings up yet another question: Anyone know what & when the colors on the cage masts were? The older shots from the teens look like they could be standard gray #5 but seem likely to be darker. In the latter pictures they look black or dark shade on blue.
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I finally got a halfway decent, casemated upper deck replacement to print for my 1917 Revell USS Arizona project. I’ve had a bear of a time with this. The printer and/or my designs had issues causing my prints of the deck part to unexpectedly fail in odd ways. The bad prints weren’t total failures though, and allowed me to determine if my measurements needed adjusting (and they did). Nine print attempts and a bottle of resin latter, I have my first mockup pic to share.
The hull halves have been cut away to accept the casemated section then glued together. The casemated guns are glued into the new deck part and the main guns are secured to the deck parts but that’s it, nothing else is glued down yet.
Don’t even think of asking me about the seam on the stern deck part…
I do have a new question to put to the forum:
In the picture below I rendered the canvas parts tan, is that accurate?
Or did the US navy typically paint (or dye?) the canvas to match the rest of the ship?
Any thoughts?
would be about the same color as the vertical sides of the ship.
what happened to the main deck that caused the seam?
just in case you don’t have this.
BB-39 USS Arizona Technical Drawings (1915)
Take a look at the bow deck, see where the Revell deck ends and the printed deck starts?
Yup, I bone sawed the wrong deck peice… It’s been that kind of a project.
i see you could not tell the difference between the upper deck where the bow is & the main deck where the stern is. was the main deck cut done on a Monday or a Friday? is the new upper deck smooth or printed to shows planking which would be out of scale? what are you going to do about the 2 holes on the main deck that was for the aircraft crane & deck catapult?
An excellent question demonstrating a keen understanding of Murphy’s Laws - It was a Monday (today), with a mild hangover…
The deck is smoth-ish. I printed a smooth deck a bit on it’s side, at about a 20 degree angle this inadvertently leaves faint layer lines running bow to stern (and they kind of look like planking). Did I do this on purpose? Yep. Does it better match the Revell part because I did? Sure. Is it perfect? Heck no!
what are you going to do about the 2 holes on the main deck & what are you going to do about the gun casements at the bow & stern?
The holes were a simple fix, mostly just filled them, about 8 in all. The bow and stern casements I’m leaving as is, plenty of photos of the early Arizona out there and most of them show those casements closed up, some with a gun barrel poking out some with no barrel showing.
I knew going into this, that the level of effort I was willing to put into a $25.00 Revell kit wasn’t going to win any prizes, but this project has been (kind of) fun and definitely educational as to the difficulties of 3d printing replacement parts for kit moding.
I did get to glue the deck on including the printed casemated hull section and that was plenty tricky. spent the next three hours filling gaps as best I could. As usual, once finished, I now know how it could be done much better were I to do it again…
JoeSMG;
She’s been put away for a while. I didn’t plan this But, Health has a way of interfering. I will say this though. I settled on a medium light Blue Grey. The Turret tops are the colors they were purported to be, with the Bloomers and all canvas as being dark Sea Blue.
Admiral Kidd had not given the order to paint ship! So She will always be surrounded by an air of mystery there. The Model on display at the Memorial is#5 U.S.Navy Haze grey which a darker and slightly more blue looking than the grey in the Canal!
As to the Wood Decks. They will be there. A plank at a time. I had a friend of mine skive two ships worth of Silver Oak(A Texas tree) to the proper thickness and width. There’s, between the “Missouri” in 1945 fit and her ( The Arizona) over Forty-Five hundred planks four feet long that will need to be installed.That’s alright though. When the “Parky” flares I can set them aside and just let it pass. I hope I get them done before I cross over though, hell, I have been around Eight Decades and one Year. Where has all the time gone?