Retracted masts on a Virginia class sub?

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Masts are very important from a visual sense too, they provide detail and scale to the rest of the sleek clean sails and hulls very often. I usually make mine removable and can do mast 'flower arrnging' if I want to practice periscope depth keeping, I will have just an attack scope up and the rest down or not inserted.

David, can you if you remember the paint colors or formulas for the grey blue and black? Primarily the blue please? Its (of course perfect!) I read the camo then in that period was a grey shade same tone, for Atlantic fleet boats, and a grey blue for the Pacific fleet boats. Correct?

Above waterline: no blue. Just black and shades of gray.

SubLant and SubPac had/has submarine painting manuals (wish I had stolen a copy out of the TRUTTA's and WEBSTER's Engineering log rooms). At any one moment in time, the two fleets had varying schemes. In my time we Deck Ape's simply called them, the SubLant scheme and the SubPac scheme. To the best of my knowledge, the only 'blue' was during the war years, and it was feathered in aft along the sides of the superstructure.

[Albacore 569]

Thank you David. But you don't know the blue shade formula color in the picture on the model?

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Thank you David. But you don't know the blue shade formula color in the picture on the model?

In reality it's gray. The shift to blue is an artifact of the camera/computer/SD card/hosting site/Martian's.

[Albacore 569]

In reality it's gray. The shift to blue is an artifact of the camera/computer/SD card/hosting site/Martian's.

ok thank you

[Timothy L]

My post with tug pics was blocked, then released, and now is blocked again. Just wondering if admins were aware of this? Thank you.
Tim