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Hi ! Does anyone saw a top view drawing with some wooden planks for the US Navy WW2 warships somewhere over the forum ? And the part sheets ?

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There are a few people who do the top-downs, David Latuch and Syzmo are the only WW2 USN top down drawers to spring to mind. Otherwise the simple 3x15pix is a good guidline

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I do only modern ships top view, but when I do some classic it often results in this:

I'm pretty sure the USN painted their decks during the war as a camouflage measure.

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Source Materiel is always welcome.

Here's a template I came up with some time ago.



Here's the BIG sheet.
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Latouche ... planks.png

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So I was walking the decks of USS Wisconson the other day as well as a few decks made out of teak and you know wood decking really is more grey than tan in color after a couple years.

I know I spent two years on the Newport News (CA-148) and you're quite correct, teak does turn gray.

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After about 150 years, Burmese Teak turns a very unique grey-white

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so long teak doesn't get oiled often enough.. it goes gray.

Henrik, The USN holystoned the decks with pumice blocks to sand and remove the salt build-up the was little time for oiling the deck.

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