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Ms. 21 and 22 called for Deck Blue when calling for Haze Gray and Navy Blue. When they shifted from the purple-blue based paint to the 1945 neutral gray based paints (due to pigment shortages) they would have called for Haze Gray, Navy Gray, and Deck Gray. Its all time period specific and which ships carried the blue and which carried the gray schemes at the end of the war is a very blurry area. Unless you can get documentation from a yard or find a color photo (go look for the lost Ark, it'll be easier) its guess work.

Does anyone know what is the usual blue/grey/deck blue colour used by companies like Pontos, Wood Hunter, or Artwox for 1/700 USN/RN ships?

I have a wood deck for the 1/700 Trumpeter [i]Richelieu[/i], but I would like to paint the ship according to the time period I mentioned [url=http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=33541&start=240#p630789]in this other post (1945)[/url].

The Ship camouflage website says that USN wood decks for [url=http://www.shipcamouflage.com/measure_22_1945.htm]MS 22[/url] and [url=http://www.shipcamouflage.com/measure_21.htm]MS 21[/url] were dark grey, while they were [url=http://www.shipcamouflage.com/measure_32.htm]Deck blue[/url] for MS 32 measures.

I want to use a colour that would be either the same or close enough to the colour used in the mass-produced blue wood decks. It's not just for the [i]Richelieu[/i] project I mentioned above but for painting decks which weren't painted blue beforehand (e.g. the 1/700 wooden deck of the Trumpeter [i]Maryland[/i] kit)

Humbrol 144 doesn't really match the Artwox deck colour for Wood Hunter's [i]North Carolina[/i] blue deck.

While Tamiya's Navy blue AS8 spray is too dark.