Sam88 First welcome to the forums, but to help you out with you paint issues, ARD-9 was totally haze gray, it did have a boot stripe that was black, its interior was painted white or pale grey as well, depending on the time frame you are building, these are your safest colors to use.
Personally I prefer to use LIFECOLOR Acrylic model paint, when I am painting WW 2 era vessels, These are the colors and codes that might be of use to you with your project.
LIFECOLOR: UA-625 USN HAZE GREY 5-H, UA-627 USN PALE GREY 5-P, UA-630 NEUTRAL HAZE GREY
LIFECOLOR has these in sets, US NAVY WW II SET 1 & SET 2 These paints have a satin finish to them and coverage is really good with either brush or airbrush. Hope this helps and look forward to your build.
_________________ Jim Varnell ABH2 USN/RET. 89-00 Eastern NC Modelworks
Up coming projects: 1/700 scale rebuild of diorama project 960 square feet. (Table 1 underway)Feb.2017 1/350 USS ALASKA CB-1(started Aug. 2017) 70% completed
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