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3D Reference Book “IJN Tone"
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Posted: Sunday, December 25, 2011 - 09:40 AM UTC
Kagero Publishing is well known for the series of reference works it has marketed containing beautiful 3D drawings of some of the most well known warships built. This book gives great insight into how full and cluttered every inch of space on board these sleek vessels, (top speed 35 knots!), really was.

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Posted: Sunday, January 22, 2012 - 11:25 AM UTC
Hello

Can I ask a question? I'm a closet ship modeller but I have this book and kit in my stash, along with several other 1/350 battleships and books. I also own the Kagero 3D Scharnhorst & both Type VIIC Uboat books similar to the IJN Tone.

I noticed in another publication that the capstands were painted white and red, and white and green denoting starboard and port. In all of the Kagero 3D books I have and have flipped through they show them as only white and red vertical stripes regardless of the ship.

So... What is correct? Should both capstands be white and red?... or red/white and green/white as I observed in other publications. Was this a universal thing between different navies?

I don't know enough about these sort of things... this was an observation I made comparing pictures between two different publications.

Any help on the subject would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!!

Carmen
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Posted: Monday, January 23, 2012 - 02:22 AM UTC
Good afternoon Carmen,
I couldn't tell you if this is a Navy thing or not. I sailed for Wijsmuller and Smit-Lloyd on deep sea salvage tugs and anchor handling tugs and we didn't have huge crews that had to be kept busy painting anything that didn't move
The capstans on board the vessels I sailed on were generally painted black with a white segment or stripe on the top. Why did we do this? It made it easier to see if the capstan was still rotating or not. I would guess that the capstans you refer to had stripes painted on them for the same reason. There are plenty of Navy guys on this forum who will undoubtedly now add their 2 cents and tell us if I am right or wrong.
cheers,
Julian
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