US Navy Interwar Camouflage Experiments, 1935/36

[Mossie]

There's an article on Hyperscale showing some fantastic mid-30's USN experimental camouflage.  No pics survive, but some watercolour diagrams have.

http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/showandtell4db_1.htm

Thanks to my mate Phil (some of the UK guys would have met him at Huddersfield recentley) for bringing this to my attention.  Happy accident, I first thought he was talking about the Barclay camouflage, which he didn't know about so we both learnt something new!























Simon

[Mossie]

And here's some models built by Steven Eisenman
http://www.hyperscale.com/2014/features/usnavyexperimentsse_1.htm

[McColm]

Impressive.

[Dizzyfugu]

Interesting! 

[PR19_Kit]

What WERE those guys smoking back then? 

[Dizzyfugu]

IMHO, it's not THAT bad or weird. Some ideas look plausible, and they follow cammo fashion of the era, e .g. dazzle schemes or geometric figures. The colors can be debated, but AFAIK some bright tones and contrast were also common sense. Just look at German Lozenge schemes... those USN designs are not "worse". 

[kitbasher]

What WERE those guys smoking back then? 

Something perhaps not as strong as McLelland Barclay:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClelland_Barclay
http://www.google.com/patents/US2190691?dq=2190691
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,28935.msg438083.html#msg438083
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/ac-usn22/t-types/tbd-cam.htm
http://www.accurate-miniatures.com/research/barclay.shtml

[Dizzyfugu]

Yep - and, most ironically, the Barclay stuff turned out to be very ineffective... 

[NARSES2]

Impressive.

Very. Cheers Mossie I've seen the McB stuff but not those