math08 wrote:
Hi, I am working the the Revel kit of the Shangri La with the angled flight deck. The instructions say the the flight deck was two colors. It looks like the modern flight deck grey on the angled portion and a blue grey on the take off portion of the flight deck.
I have seen some B&W pictures which seem to suggest two colors, but I am not sure if its just the angle of the picture.
I doesnt seem to make sense to have two colors on the flight deck, however, maybe as the first angled flight deck, they wanted to give the pilots a clear demarcation between the sections of the deck.
I have already done a WWII version to give to my dad years ago, he served on the Shangri La at the end of the war as a photographers mate. I had a giant picture of the post war Shangri La going through the Panama Canal on my bedroom wall growing up. A photographer on the ship sent it to my dad in the 60's, which is why I am doing this particular model at this time.
Any thought on the flight deck color scheme would be appreciated.
Mike Mathisen
Just my $0.02 here; I recently did an Atlantis (a.k.a.- Renewal) U.S.S.
Lexington as she appeared in 1956 and I did the flight deck in Norfolk 250N Flight Deck Stain and Deck Grey for the landing area (used Vallejo Model Color paints).
Lexington had her wood deck covered up by the early-1970's and had the non-skid as mentioned above.
If you're on Facebook, there's an
Essex-class modeling site there (
https://www.facebook.com/groups/693683584321925) that can help (they have me). A guy named Michael Smith is a wealth of info on the
Essex-class and my go-to person when I've a question.