Vladi wrote:Hi all,
does anyone have any recommendation for a color mix for the bei-matsu pine used on IJN carrier decks - preferably based on Tamiya or GSI acrylics? I spent a whole day trying to find a match but I am not happy with any of the results...
Thanks a lot!
to tell you the truth pine wood is a real yellowish brown type of wood. the brown in it is a light brown but this would be as first plained and fastened to the deck. after weather conditions the wood would start to turn a dark brown and then eventualy a gray color but they would never let it get gray.
when i was in the navy I went on board the Battleship Iowa for a tour in Norfolk VA from a friend i made there stationed aboard. They have what you call a hollyblock. Its a big piece of looked like granite rock that they scrape the wood with to return the yellow color to it.
I have no doubt the Japanese had as well.
I know in the navy there is strict disciple to take care of the ships. Rust is chipped even at sea and the ship repainted. Its a personal pride not to let your ship look like a "Scow".
Now if there is allot of flight ops then it is hard to scape the flight deck wood. So it is up to you on when you wanna model the deck.
Dear Dennis,
thanks for your remarks, you are indeed right about the scraping procedures. I returned to building kits after some years but I have been using weathering techniques on aircraft and ships during my youth times. One can see the status of the deck on many photos (like those from the Pearl Harbour attack), what is very difficult to judge is the colors. And I have never seen aged beimatsu pine wood - though the floor in the room where I build models is "ordinary" pine
Vladi
Dear colleagues, have anybody of you seen photos of removable railings around the IJN carrier elevators � I mean a sort of railings similar to those were in use on the USN Essex class? I had no chance up to now to see them on the IJN carriers.
I am trying to read now the new Kojinsha IJN Aircraft carriers volume using OCR and automatic translation utilities. There is the Junyo 1942 deck drawing there (p.106) which is depicting, or rather describing, something like a �removable� or �taken-away� railings around elevators (#20 picture item).
redoctober27 wrote:Dose anyone know the difference between fujimis Hosho 1942 and there new Hosho 1944 kit?
July 1944:
four 140 mm guns are removed and the HOSHO's flight deck is lengthened as long as possible in an effort to improve her utility by accomodating newer plane needs.
Fujimi will release IJN Unryu 1944 version and a IJN Unryu Final Version, wich is the version with optional parts for the rest of IJN Unryu class air craft carriers(IJN Amagi, IJN Katsuragi, IJN Kasagi, IJN Aso and IJN Ikoma).
All this at June together with Aoshima's version of IJN Unryu 1944.
I am definitely getting the 1942 Ryuho! 
