johndon wrote:
sirpaul wrote:
Also the tops of the turrets are navy blue
Really??? I've not seen a single picture that suggests that the turret tops are navy blue...
This is a link to one of many pics I've used for reference
http://navysite.de/bb/bb62tour69.htmJohn
Horizontal surfaces are painted two different colors. One is best described as "deck grey", and that is simply a paint that is a dark grey, nothing special. Like all paints, it gets slippery when it gets wet. The second is a material/color called "non-skid". Non-skid is, in real life, a thick, epoxy material and is a noticeably darker grey than the deck grey, and it is applied with a paint roller specifically to give it a raised stucco-like texture wtih peaks and valleys. It is extremely unforgiving, and when it's newly applied it's like a bunch of razor blades that will cut you badly if you fall. Cosmetically for a model and on the real ships, non-skid is applied where you know people will walk.
It was up to the shipyards and the ship's chains of command where the non-skid went. As a result, where it was applied evolved as the ships were in service. Paint practice in the Navy is that gun mounts are to be painted haze grey and not painted at all if directed by the manufacturer/shipyard. This is most likely why
New Jersey had only haze grey turrets for a few years. Turrets later became recognized as structures of the ship since they were big enough to hold formations or ceremonies on (deck grey paint/non-skid being applied to them) as opposed to a mount like a Mk45 that is small.
Some examples of non-skid being applied in place of the deck grey are locations were by choice were the tops of the turrets while some were by necessity like the helo landing pad and decks without teak. So, to be "proper" about it, deck grey should be laid down first and then non-skid where people will walk. As a result deck grey will be where non-skid is not.
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So as long as you chose based on where you think where it would be best, you would be as consistent as the real ships if you were to chose your own locations.