Here's a few pics of my first "proof of concept" for my japanese fleet. The
thinking behind this color scheme is that "back in the day" red and gold
pretty much dominated Japanese heraldic (of course, with exceptions), so I
decided to go with red and metallic gold details on my Japanese fleet. For
special or command ships, I may deviate from the red-gold color scheme
for variety. The areas I picked out in white are "sensor" domes.
Where I can find room on the models, I'm going to apply 1/300th scale
WWII "Rising Sun" flags. I figure if Japan is going to change it's
constitution
enough to un-renounce war as an instrument of foreign policy and thus
require
a space-fleet, then it's also going to feel comfortable about going back
to the Rising Sun for it's national flag.
Anyway, here are the seven images:
http://geocities.com/flakmagnet72/pics/full-thrust/
Any of the images starting with "dcp" for the filename...
I haven't settled on any design doctrine or anything like that yet, so I don't
have "Japanese" SSD's to share. I have an old book about navies leading up to,
during and following WWII, so I may base my Japanese fleet off of the NAC
designs with adjustments to make it compare roughly to the way the Japanese
WWII wet navy compared to the US's WWII wet navy. Just an idea that I haven't
researched enough to really decide if it was a good one yet.
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 03:41:03PM -0500, FlakMagnet72 wrote:
> Where I can find room on the models, I'm going to apply 1/300th scale
I agree with you, but that's one symbol that I at least would be quite
unhappy to use as it stands. Instead, I'm using rising-sun-on-black for
my IJSF ships - seems appropriate for the Teikoku Hoshi no Kaigun, and
it's just different enough that I don't find it offensive.
> Anyway, here are the seven images:
I like the red and gold and white, but I'm really not sure about the
metallic blue/cyan that seems to be the base colour. I suspect it may be
getting distorted by the camera; something a little darker than that looks
would (to me) work much better...
--- FlakMagnet72 <flakmagnet@tabletop-battlezone.com>
wrote:
> Here's a few pics of my first "proof of concept" for
Nice work!
Bye for now,
> FlakMagnet72 wrote:
> Here's a few pics of my first "proof of concept" for my japanese fleet.
The
> thinking behind this color scheme is that "back in the day" red and
For
> special or command ships, I may deviate from the red-gold color scheme
Tim, Just as an FYI the "Rising Sun" Flag is the Japanese Naval Ensign kind of
like the 50 star flag for the US NAVY or the Red, white, or Blue
field with Union Jack in upper right hand corner is the official Naval Ensign
of the Royal Navy (IIRC the colors are for different command levels within the
battlegroup) So you should be ok in using the flags. IIRC the Japanese still
fly this from their warships from time to time. I've seen pic of their modern
ships with the flag flying on it.
> Anyway, here are the seven images:
Cool, now I have a few more to add to my hodgepodge Israeli fleet. Any
word on new Cal-Tex stuff yet? BTW won't be making it Friday or
Saturday. My van needs attention (no heat!) so I'll be busy with that little
project. Thanks for the invite though.
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