Re: Pictures of a few painted GZG Japanese ships.

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
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.
>
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:
>
>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.
>
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.

Tom