![]() ![]() The Fletcher-class destroyers and Japanese Fubuki-classes get similar treatments. For the US decks I chose 70.873 US Field Drab, as it was a nice wood colour that’s distinctly different from the Japanese decks.Īgain there’s a few details to pick out, including lifeboats and life rafts. ![]() The American ships are sprayed with a grey rattle can I had at home (lighter than the IJN colour) and then drybrushed with Pale Greyblue 70.907, Sky Grey 70.989 and a light drybrush with white. I paint the lifeboats white with a brown interior or upper structure, and that’s it!įirst colours going onto each navy, and the different grey tones are clearly seen I then pick out some shrouds on the guns, where the barrels meet the turret, in a different grey colour. To paint the deck I carefully work the paint around the deck fittings and superstructures, leaving the grey everywhere else. In retrospect, this is a bit more red than I wanted and Flat Brown would probably have been a good choice as well. This is also a great way to help differentiate your two navies, so give some thought to both historical colour choices but also how you want your models to look.įor the Japanese I chose Vallejo Mohagany Brown 70.846 as my deck colour. Over the years I have seen pictures, colour images and models of Japanese ships with a fairly red/brown deck colour. I already knew that I wanted the Japanese ships to look darker than the American ones, so they get an overspray of Tamiya’s “IJN Grey” spray paint and then a lighter grey drybrush followed by a very light white dry brush. ![]() My quick research indicated that while the US cruisers did have camo applied at times, during the war period they seemed to be one standard colour and the Japanese ships were also fairly uniform.Īccordingly all ships are started with Tamiya grey spray paint to start. I’m basically going to apply several dry brushed colours, pick out the details as needed and then use Army Painter’s Dark Tone wash to apply shadows around everything.īoth navies were known to use camouflage, with the Americans using broad areas of blues and greys on some ships, including blue decks even, while the Japanese very famously painted some of their carriers in a multicolour green camouflage scheme, as well as other ships. Following on from Howard’s First Thoughts on Warlord Game’s new Victory at Sea, we have Howard walking us through how he painted up the stores Demo Ships.įrom the experience I got painting my GHQ ships for the first edition of Victory at Sea, I felt I could use a fairly quick and easy method to get these models ready for the table top. ![]()
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