I’m continuing a theme I started last week. These are models from my collection of Japanese heavy cruisers from World War 3. Heavy cruisers carried 8″ (208mm) guns for their main armament. Some of the models represent wartime improvements in anti-aircraft guns, and Mogami was altered to have a flight deck aft for carrying several … More Japanese heavy cruiser models
These pictures are from my 1:1250 scale model collection. They represent different classes of Japanese destroyers that served during the Second World War. Each model caption has the name of the ship and the original manufacturers model number. I repainted all of them. The decks are painted brown to match the chocolate brown linoleum then … More Japanese Destroyer Models
You can find a reference to all my Japanese ship camouflage posts at: https//wetherhorn.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/japanese-ship-camouflage-cross-reference/ After putting up pages on my original blog with pictures of Japanese WW II camouflage I realized that a better description of the background to Japanese ship camouflage was probably needed. So, here is the first part. There are other posts … More Japanese WW II Camouflage – navy
I You can find a reference to all my Japanese ship camouflage posts at: https//wetherhorn.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/japanese-ship-camouflage-cross-reference/ posted a few days ago about Japanese Naval Camouflage, or lack thereof. In the case of the Japanese Merchant Marine, however, there is a lot of evidence of camouflage patterns. The Japanese high command seems to have not planned realistically … More Japanese Merchant Ship Camouflage
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