The ship suffered from an accidental boiler explosions at Sasebo during October 13, 1982. The ship was laid down on Februwas launched during Septemand was commissioned during March 27, 1981.

You can see this type of deck camouflage first-hand with the Eaglemoss IJN Zuiho (EMGC29) and the IJN Chitose (EMGC74) aircraft carriers.The Kurama was the second of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's Shirane-class destroyers. Nevertheless, it was still sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944. The carrier Zuiho did not have a superstructure so it had a clean ‘canvas’ deck to represent a skewed ship with strong turret and gun shadow shapes. They also tried swirl and strong geometric patterns to break up the flatness of their decks. Japanese carriers, such as the Zuiho, Unryu and Chitose, typically the primary targets for Allied bombers and strike aircraft, adopted alternative top deck paint schemes in an effort to mistake them for another type of vessel (merchant ship superstructure, stacks and hatches) when observed from the air. They painted their decks, first with Dark Gray 5-D, then stained their decks with Deck Blue 20-B and Deck Blue Stain 21. WWII US carriers wore Measure 1, Measure 11, and Measure 21 schemes, and were designed as periscope disruptive schemes. Later on, it was not only used to a greater degree to deceive surface ship gunners and submarine captains but also from scout and strike aircraft. While doing research on a few Eaglemoss warships, I thought it particularly interesting to share some insights we came across as to how the Imperial Japanese Navy attempted to camouflage its aircraft carriers against aerial attack.ĭazzle camouflage was developed late in the nineteenth century to protect surface ships against submarine attack. The Imperial Japanese Navy took great pains to camouflage some of their capital ships to protect them against aerial attack.

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