Paint colors used by Japan during WWII are elusive and always seem to be up for debate.

ICM has added a set of Imperial Japanese Navy colors to their range of acrylic paint sets.

This set is packaged in a small rectangular box with images of the colors printed on the front. The back of the box features a profile of a Japanese ship with color call outs. This set includes five 12ml bottles of color and 1 17ml bottle of clear gloss. The bottles have twist-off caps and the opening is big enough to allow a Popsicle stick to be used to mix the paint.

The colors in this set are as follows:

I would like to thank Casemate for my advance copy of this book, and to the IPMS Reviewer Corps to be able to provide this review.

Foreword / Introduction

The book covers battleship development with emphasis on US battleships and their operations in World War (WW) II. Only one chapter deals specifically to the WWII period 1939-45 listed in the title, but the stage is set for US battleships in WWII. Each successive US battleship class contributes to the awesome battleship armada the US put to war 1939-45. The book also follows US battleships following WWII (the cold war). Each successive class battleship is described in terms of: gun armament, armor, protection, displacement, propulsion and significant operational history.

Chapter 1: Pre-dreadnought Era

These were considered ‘pre-dreadnought’ since they generally had a mix of larger gun sizes.

For example:

This book provides a comprehensive encyclopedia of the US Navy Destroyers commissioned after WWI (from 1919 ) until just before WWII (to 1937). It includes primary reference data and relevant photographs of individual ships for each class of destroyers during this period. While photo captions provide brief stories and glimpses into the drama accompanying each ships’ maritime history, the paragraph text is rather perfunctory. These efficient descriptive paragraphs leave room for the rich photographic record included for each ship.

Intro

This last part has only 2 key elements really, the flight deck and the island. However, there are a lot of individual steps that make this as long as the other 2 parts of the ship already completed (hull and hangar bay). The fine details really come together around the flight deck. Take note of the order in which you want to handle the assembly. For instance, doing some of the PE on the flight deck would be best done before attaching the island so you can flip the carrier over for ease of assembly. With that, let’s head for our home port...

ICM isa hobby company based out of Ukraine and has provided IPMS-USA a six (6) bottle acrylic paint set for review, WWII German U-boats Acrylic Paint Set.

In the Box

The paint set contains six (6) 12ml bottles with nontoxic water based acrylic paints. The following colors are provided:

• Sky Grey (1033)
• Dark Sea Grey (1034)
• Dark Grey (1037)
• Brass (1018)
• Oily Steel (1026)
• Clear Red (1011)

Straight out of the bottle, the paint’s viscosity is thick and purposely prepared for brush painting. The instructions do recommend thinning 40-60% with water or thinner for airbrushing. All surfaces are recommended to have primer applied prior to painting. Volume wise, the paint takes up about 70% of the bottle and has “room” to add thinner if so desired.

Note, the bottles are not the usual dropper style (think Vallejo) but a twist off cap and a large opening to allow brushes to enter the bottle.