Julian Sallows takes a look at Kagero''s USS Arizona in 3D!

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Excelent !!! Thanks Julian .

I think i like to hold at the theory that it was only partially painted in the blue...most of the hull,the lower main gun turrets and the raised platforms of the upper main gun turrets as well as most but not all of the lower superstructure and casement gun area. Me I'm gonna go with the dark grey scheme say Oct 1941 time frame

Book looks marvelous though adn useful for detailing some of the smller guns and the like.

For what it's worth, there's very little chance she was painted in Navy Blue at all - it was just too new of a color.

There are three main theories at this point.
1) Still in stock Measure 1 - 5-D Dark Gray up to the top of the stacks and 5-L Light Gray above that.
2) Some sort of Modified Measure 1 with the 5-D replaced with 5-S Sea Blue.
3) A hybrid "system" that blended the older Measure 2 graded style with some newer colors. This called for 5-D on the hull and the superstructure painted in 5-O or 5-S *as needed* (meaning that one turret or one deck level might be repainted and the rest of the superstructure could have still been Dark Gray).

Steve's approach is the safest for accuracy adherents as we know she was in Measure 1 up until late October at least.

Hi Tracy,
That should have been Sea Blue in the review and not Navy Blue, you are correct. I used Navy Blue on my build when I started and never corrected that error. It does illustrate my remark that any mention of colour scheme for the Arizona puts one in a potential mine field
Cheers,
Julian