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and if it doesn't cross your eyes, you are the designated lookout!

Now that's just plain evil. Someone has a very twisted sense of humor.

I love it ....[:D]

The Gloire looks cool in the camo job.

[:D]This camo job should be outlawed by the Geneva convention

Gah, freaking gives me a headache. Damn Frenchies....

Camo? What is it camoed to be? A junk yard?

Very handy if infiltrating a herd of zebras at the waterhole ...[:D]

Michael

Which bow is real? [:D]

This was applied during a refit in one of the east coast USN yards. Think it is actually American.

Bingo. Merchant ship "Mahomet".

Yikes, if ya' stare at it long enough it will make your eyes cross. Actually, if memory serves me right, it may have been the only capital ship that received this hiddeous camo scheme. A single US PT-Boat (117?) had a similar scheme, but only experimentally.

So you want hidieous? I can give you hidieious....
USS Nebraska in a Dazzle during WW1


USS Buchanan (DD-484) in MS 12 Modified Camouflage


LST 1110 in 1945 wearing MS 32 paint scheme


BB-60 USS Alabama early 1942 wearing MS 12 modified paint scheme


Just a couple of the similarly wrong measures applied by the US to thier ships during the war. I found a interesting website about US Navy Camouflage that seems to cover most of the more common paint schemes applied though out the US fleet.

the USN was suffering from a rash of grafitti vandalism during the period. [:D]

Eep!

My 2 cents worth, ugly though the paint schemes are, it works. Looking at this ships, particularly the ones with the less traditional style camo, it is hard to tell which end is up. Might give gunnery spotters a much more difficult time.

the whole idea behind these was to make it more difficult to determine the target's angle of approach, a necessary variable in the fire-control solution.

Sniperkitten knows fire control.

From what I have read during the war mechant seamen wanted camo because they believed it made thier ships more difficult to hit. Maybe it was true, it is certainly true that if you look at color pics of convoys there are a lot of cammo colored ships.

The WWI jobs often included colors like bright blue and pink. During that war they hard artists design the cammo but we don't have color photos of the ships so it is hard to imagine what it really looked like.

By WWII there were cammoflage professional designing the patterns and they got quite a bit less interesting.

I am working on Tamiya's 1/350 scale Missouri and the painting directions are...umm... lacking a few details. Can you post that camo link please?

The Gloire camo is niffty! If you look at it you see the outline of a destroyer or smaller ship. This is to decieve the sub commander to size, screwing up the range to target, and speed, screwing up time to target. Or the French Captain P.O.'d the USN yard commander and he got even![:D]

Try here about USN camo measures during world war 2 :
http://www.shipcamouflage.com/warship_camouflage.htm