| Hello All, I’ve got a question for the Paint Scheme Gurus here, guys like John Snyder, Randy Short, Tracy White and anyone here who might be able to help me. I’m going to have a model of the USAF 95-foot (94’ 11")ASRC built. It’s the old LINDBERG kit (about 15 years ago, my brother got it for me on “the evil site” from a guy in Portugal). I’m going to have Stan, my builder, depict it as the boat appeared in the early 1960s - when the 2 95-footers were turned over to the USN as “Beach Jumper” boats … Mainly because I don’t want a model in white, yellow and Day-Glo Orange. HA HA. OK, I got a pair of 1:76 scale quad-50 Maxon mounts for it from Millicast in Scotland which will replace the kit’s HORRIBLE 20mm guns and which are correct for the boat … But, what I need to know is; in the early 1960s, what did the USN paint their wooden craft in? What gray? And what were the decks - a darker gray than the hull? And, the bottom of the boat, would they have used Copperoyd or some other color? Will you please help me? Thank you, Tim |
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I’m not one of your paint guru’s that you requested by name, but weren’t pretty much all USN surface craft Haze Gray in that era? Post Korea and pre Vietnam?
That’s what I’m trying to find out. John Snyder said this in an email yesterday. So, that’s how I’m going to have Stan go. "Colors would have been the modern Haze Gray and Deck Gray. No idea about the antifouling.
Best regards,
John Snyder
Tracy White said this: “but the Navy had been ordering Haze Gray (neutral version, aka #27 Gray) and Deck Gray for most of the regular ships by that time. That’s my best guess.”
In that era landing craft (LCVPs, LCMs, LCPLs, etc) had the vertical surfaces painted haze gray, the horizontal surfaces painted dark deck gray, and the bottoms painted black. I don’t rmember if the black was a special bottom paint. This was at least the case in the Atlantic Fleet.
Thanks Amphib! I emailed the USN Beach Jumpers Association today.