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I am really dissapointed over the lack of U.s carrier types in game, I know they all looked pretty simmilar, but could we at least have diffrent names for them??

Actually, there's a big difference in what the Langley, Lexington, Yorktown, and Essex carriers looked like. Also, the American carriers seem to have "Navy Blue" decks. I took notice of this while watching a documentary, that showed color footage from a dorsal gun on a Dauntless, or TBF Avenger, as it left the flight deck. It was pretty cool footage, as you could see the rudder being kicked hard to starboard by the pilot to counter the torque of the engine. The teak deck wasn't brown or natural wood coloered. And sometimes all the hull camo was, was a repeat of the same color used on the deck, to paint the hull sides.

I remember a big debate on this when CFS2 first came out and folks were trying to figure out what was historically accurate, and what wasn't.

I think the only carrier (Atleast of the Essex-class) that did not have a camo painting (Not sure what color the deck was though) was USS Lexington (CV-12), Flagship of Task Force 58/38 (This is why her nickname was "The Blue Ghost")

Also, I've seen photos and videos from early-war American Carriers and the wooden deck was painted grey IIRC

we could use some more carriers i was just watching a youtube video and saw one that looked like the oklahoma sitting on top of a flight deck.

Also, I used to have Webster's WWII Encyclopedia, all 26 Volumes, and most of the U.S.Navy smaller ships were painted Forest Green, as a base color, and any camo was applied over that. According to the books there. Not too much in the name of gray in the color pics in those books, unless it was a b&w photo. There was a real nice pic of a Fletcher Class DD in color in one of the books, and she was solid green. Not O.D., but Forest green. So there's a buch of painting a person could do to enhance the game, and model builders too.

Also a lot of the color pics of LST's, showed them in the dark green paint too. I have noticed from some color photos and films of the era, that the film used would sometimes make dark green and o.d. green appear as Navy blue. So one has to pay close attention to those little details.

Lots of interesting stuff though, all in all.

Raptor,

Pay close attention to color films and pics of the carriers, and planes, as different camo was used in the Atlantic, and the Pacific. Also look at the planes, as they will sport different camo colors for each theater. And there was also color footage taken on the Great Lakes where carrier pilots were trained in SNJ's for basic, and advanced carrier ops. So you will tend to see differring color schemes depending on where and what was being filmed. Even in the earlier parts of WWII as America was gearing up after December 7th.

The planes themselves were painted blue IIRC, It could be that the flight decks were repainted later in the war though

Camouflage measures are well known. There is no need to guess or infer colors.

http://www.shipcamouflage.com/usn_cv.htm

And the Lex did in fact carry the Measure 21 "Navy Blue" scheme through most of the war (most of the other carriers switched over to Measures 32 and 33):
MS 1 was common on carriers at the start of the war, and did not require carrier decks to be painted.

And here is an article specifically on blue flight decks:
http://www.shipcamouflage.com/specia...ightDecks.html

Thanks! Great info! Just wish I still had those encyclopedias to scan and post pics from. There was so much good stuff in there.