I may have to build this, just so I can paint it...

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  1. irnuke

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    c20-05.jpg c20-07.jpg

    I may have to build it just for the cool paint job....
     
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    Do the pics show up, or do you get broken links in above post?
     
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    Just little icons showing the the pics are broken.
    I think I wouldn't want to build it, just so I wouldn't have to paint it. ;)
     
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    Fixed.
     
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    Needs shark teeth :rolleyes:
     
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    I can't even tell what it looks like - I got dizzy and my eyes crossed and started bleeding as soon as I looked at it..... although I suppose that is the point....
     
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    If I do build this, it will be my 1st Allied boat. I've been running nothing but German since I got into the hobby almost 20 years ago (See signature)
     
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    ..And this will be my 2nd Allied (US) boat:
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    Holy lattice fence, Batman!
     
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    That's camouflage??? Seems almost like trying to be inconspicuous in a movie theater while wearing one of those flashing "Kiss Me I'm Irish" hats!?
     
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    Razzle-Dazzle paint (later just "Dazzle"). It's not so much that it tricks the eye as the brain just refuses to accept what the eyeballs are reporting!
     
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    My brain does have a hard time accepting that someone would paint up a beautiful hazegrey ship like that, despite what my eyes report.
     
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    try sitting on that haze-grey for months at a time and interior color pea green and terracotta every where....:bang: ....sorry flash back fine now:)
     
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    dazzle camo made it harder for the speed and direction to be guessed. but radar made it about useless at the end of the war.
     
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    Ah, but these paint jobs were from WW1. Mk. I Eyeballs only.
     
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    I think it does kind of make the ship look taller.
     
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    yea but they hurt the eyes of people when they came into port and where just ugly in a time when your BB was still a massive status symbol.
     
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