Many thanks Dan!
You can always be counted on for a quick and well informed answer!
That answers my question indeed, and much more clearly than I had expected.
The hul colors and pattern don't pose any real problem indeed. The pic you posted, together with its' higher resolution B&W version, and the well-known color shot of her after capsizing show everything pretty clearly.
The flight deck is much harder indeed.
I had noted the earlier discussion on this above.
Since I ' m painting Amagi as she appears in that movie, with a heavily weathered flight deck, I think my best bet is to do what they thought me in art school: just paint what I see!
Unfortunately, the movie is not sharp at all and doesn't show details good, and sharper photographs of the flight deck are B&W. So it's not easy to make sense of what I see, so I can translate it to paint.
So now I'm going through the process of studying the movie, the photographs, comparing them to Katsuragis' pattern, etc.
It seems that some features are the result of the extensive camouflaging when she was moored at the island, rather than initial painting of the deck. I'll try to illustrate this later.
But for now, one more question :
I noticed that several of the best-finished models of IJN carriers in late war camo show many details in grey: guns, directors, sometimes even some sections of decking.
Besides making for a more interesting model, there is good logic behind this, that possibly not everything was repainted when the green camo was applied, especially the more complex and delicate equipment. There was a discussion on the steel decks regarding this recently.
But with Amagi, I would think she was commissioned in the green camo, and therefore everything was in green. Maybe some equipment was delivered in grey and left that way after being installed, but certainly the steel decks must have been green?
I certainly don't see anything grey showing in the color footage of her...
So my question: would you agree with this, or do you think Amagi might have had some grey equipment or decks?
Many thanks,
Marijn