An update to the Clevelands, with thanks to Bezo for his rendition of the underwater hull. From now on I will not be releasing Shipbucket Standard grey drawings unless requested. If I am going to show the ship as it appeared during a certain year, I think it's a bit strange for it not to be colored properly.
Grey versions without camo will, of course, be supplied at anyone's request.
CL-55 in 1942, wearing my crude approximation of Ms12 modified. Unfortunately there were no "official" documents on how to make this camo so ships' crews applied it themselves. The only way to render the camo accurately is to look at old blurry photos, which alas makes this task very difficult. It also doesn't help that the colors for Ms12 seem to vary so much between ships. This literally became a case of "pick the color from a photo with the eye dropper and go from there". One of the only times I strayed from my USN camouflage colors paint chips...