realistic skins : color pictures of IJN submarines and ships
 

This light help a bunch in making realistic skins ? :

I-65 submarine :

http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/8...b803i65ne9.jpg


I-156 submarine :


http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4046/9f200dc0jf7.jpg

I-7 submarine :

http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/8382/e4dbd15dof5.jpg

I-1 submarine :

http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/5139/339ab0a4js8.jpg


RO 28 :

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/9914/a13b1daafz0.jpg


I-152 submarine :

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/120/3cf0b099xs0.jpg


I-153 submarine :

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4071/42e7c1a5sf1.jpg


and finally : Jyunsen B !

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/467/861b7c1fmf5.jpg
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/861...pg/1/w1024.png
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/8...0b78i38va9.jpg

I-400 type submarine :

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/1...acci400ki4.jpg
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/4...pg/1/w1024.png

found at :

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgur...%3Den%26sa%3DN

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Ships : color pictures as well
 

Sen toku

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/5...400dawnox3.jpg
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/f...pg/1/w1024.png




Aircraft carrier Yoso :

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/3...ieryosojz4.jpg


http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/7...erhyryuro0.jpg
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/5...pg/1/w1024.png

You really should use this site, cause I can't post all the pretty pictures here ! :rotfl:

submarine tender Chogei
 

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/2530/3dabb469kx5.jpg


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Battleship Nagano
 

:

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/1...5naganohw8.jpg
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/a...pg/1/w1024.png

Battleship-carrier "Ise" under air attack at kurahashi-Is Kure
 

ever seen it in game ???

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/2...a28fisedp5.jpg


That's a sweet ship ! half carrier, half battleship ! I've never seen anything like it, gosh this website holds treasures !

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http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/2...69d5i45du5.jpg
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/3...pg/1/w1024.png



so what do you think of the color pictures of IJN subs ? if you use google translate you can almost read the pages in japanese :) then you see a sign "read more" under each subs' photo, click and get access to more picture like the sunrise Sen Toku.

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yet some other pictures :

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtop...f=65&p=1241819

also :

http://www.militaryimages.net/photop...ry.php/cat/511

Good pictures, I am very impressed!

Currently I am reading "The Japanese Submarine force and World War II" by Carl Boyd & Akihiko Yoshida, and it only got a couple b/w pictures. It's rare to see color photographs from WWII, compared to tons of b/w images.

very good book indeed, about the pictures seen here I believe they were colorized using really recent techniques, but they still look better than BW ones !

Any pictures of japanese submarines you have, you can post, there are so few...

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I'm afraid I have... none. :cry:

All I could do is searching the web, let's see what I can find.

BTW am watching your progress on IJN/SH4 stuff, thing it'd be a good challenge to play the other side for a change.

good, I'm playing now, it's been a while ;)

try the 2.8.2 version then, the jap campaign will be something !

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Japanese Type D ("Koryu") Midget Submarine

Outside and interior images - only some in color

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/s...ss/mdg-d-2.htm

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/s...ss/mdg-d-5.htm

Miscellaneous IJN ships most b/w as far as I have checked

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/s...n/jap-name.htm

And here's something special - colour palettes or plates or whatsitcalled;

http://www.cbrnp.com/RNP/Flower/REVIEWS/SandS_chips.htm

Could be useful for paints.

thanks a bunch !!!!:up:

bump for a XMas in color !

Those are cool pictures! I think I found my new wall paper.

which one is it ? I did the same, but with a Virginia Class sub ;)

then again I change it now and again,

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how did the colorize them??? is there a special program they used?? or did they just guess??

why this ?
 

[QUOTE]That's a sweet ship ! half carrier, half battleship ! I've never seen anything like it, gosh this website holds treasures !

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After three 4 carriers were lost in the battle of coral sea and the battle of midway some of the IJN bb were fitted with flight decks ,, this is why you see this

She, the Ise Battleship, is actually already ingame, although I've never seen her.

Not that it really matters to me given the side of the war I play ;)


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might make a good intro
 

might make a good intro movie if downloadable and transformable :

Imperial Japanese Navy marching song (color movie)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RaUdub_djU

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