The Painstaking Process Behind Those Wild WWI Naval Paint Jobs

[SkyKing]

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dazzle-paint-wwi-us-navy

[JohnRatzenberger]

Two books of interest, more British than US:

Taylor's Dazzle: Disguise and Disruption in War and Art, ISBN: 9781591146360

Evans' Dazzle-Painted Ships of World War I, ISBN: 9781902953731

[ewahl]

Did you notice that the men working on the models dressed properly to go to work? White shirts, ties, and jackets even in a paint shop. :smiley14: Fast forward a century and reflect on how workers (or people in general) dress today. :o

 

Ed