A new book from Seaforth Publishing. I'm very interested in this. Amazon USA lists it available from June but "temporarily" out of stock with no date when it will be available.
Has anyone seen it?
Neither Amazon nor Seaforth/Penn & Sword have any reviews on it
Italian Naval Camouflage of World War II
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Italian Naval Camouflage
If you want a good book on Italian Warship camouflage look for "La Mimetizzazione Della Navi Italiane 1940-1945" by Bagnasco and Brescia. (2006). ( It helps if you can read Italian.) It's got about 77 pages of patterns for individual ships. I don't imagine that this new book would be any more comprehensive, as it appears that the B & B book covered every ship they had any data on - including variants of patterns a ship had. I don't imagine that it'll be easy to find, after a dozen years or more since it was published.
I got this book wen it first came out (more or less) and used it to paint my Italian fleet (using WEM enamel paints). Some of those patterns were REALLY difficult to paint (Bolzano's pattern still gives me nightmares, and I use #20 O brushes to do my work). The ships look really good, though.
I got this book wen it first came out (more or less) and used it to paint my Italian fleet (using WEM enamel paints). Some of those patterns were REALLY difficult to paint (Bolzano's pattern still gives me nightmares, and I use #20 O brushes to do my work). The ships look really good, though.
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Would love to see pictures! Did you do the red and white air recognition stripes as well?
Regards,
Tom Stockton
Would love to see pictures! Did you do the red and white air recognition stripes as well?
Regards,
Tom Stockton
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Italian Naval camouflage
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That I did! The B & B book doesn't show more than one or two pictures of barber poles, as I remember, but GHQ was helpful in scribing lines to follow. If I remember right, I read something that said that the Italians painted either 5 or 7 diagonal red lines on their ships. That's what I did on ships that I didn't have any other data for. I seem to remember that one of the BBs also had stripes on the stern.
Unfortunately, I don't have a working camera to take pictures with, (leaky battery can do bad things if you don't use the camera for a long time), & I don't have a smart phone. (I make do with a flip phone - that I never use, either, - but don't tell anyone or I may get drummed out of the e-human race.)
I've always been interested in painting camouflage patterns on warships, & the WEM line of paints was a blessing, since they accurately matched the actual WWII colors. I also have the Snyder & Short paint chip sets to help. I've got lots of U.S. ships finished, an augmented German fleet completed, and lots of U.K. ships done. The French didn't have much, & I chickened out of trying to do Bearn's zebra pattern. Even have the Japanese flight deck patterns, although I haven't put the striping, hull nos. etc, on any of my carriers - Japanese or otherwise. I thought of trying the CV deck decals that one of our friends was selling, but I've got over 100 carriers completed. It would cost too much to buy decals for all of them, not to mention that I had most of the decks basically painted before the decals were available.
I've completed painting nearly 1700 WWI & WWII warships (no WWI camo though, they're just too weird), which I thought was overdoing it, until I joined the local unit ot SMSC (Society of Model Ship Collectors, or something like that). A few of those have collections of around 5000 in 1200 scale.
Take Care!
That I did! The B & B book doesn't show more than one or two pictures of barber poles, as I remember, but GHQ was helpful in scribing lines to follow. If I remember right, I read something that said that the Italians painted either 5 or 7 diagonal red lines on their ships. That's what I did on ships that I didn't have any other data for. I seem to remember that one of the BBs also had stripes on the stern.
Unfortunately, I don't have a working camera to take pictures with, (leaky battery can do bad things if you don't use the camera for a long time), & I don't have a smart phone. (I make do with a flip phone - that I never use, either, - but don't tell anyone or I may get drummed out of the e-human race.)
I've always been interested in painting camouflage patterns on warships, & the WEM line of paints was a blessing, since they accurately matched the actual WWII colors. I also have the Snyder & Short paint chip sets to help. I've got lots of U.S. ships finished, an augmented German fleet completed, and lots of U.K. ships done. The French didn't have much, & I chickened out of trying to do Bearn's zebra pattern. Even have the Japanese flight deck patterns, although I haven't put the striping, hull nos. etc, on any of my carriers - Japanese or otherwise. I thought of trying the CV deck decals that one of our friends was selling, but I've got over 100 carriers completed. It would cost too much to buy decals for all of them, not to mention that I had most of the decks basically painted before the decals were available.
I've completed painting nearly 1700 WWI & WWII warships (no WWI camo though, they're just too weird), which I thought was overdoing it, until I joined the local unit ot SMSC (Society of Model Ship Collectors, or something like that). A few of those have collections of around 5000 in 1200 scale.
Take Care!