Possible camo scheme for the Bismarck

[Madhatter]

That's certainly keeping in with the German colour theme   
I'd need to see it on the ship though.
Seems like that Fir camo was popular though

[VincentC]

Wasn't there a Dutch Navy ship in the East Indies in WW2 that managed to evade the Imperial Japanese Navy successfully for weeks by disguising itself as an Island? Imagine doing that to the Bismarck.

[scooter]

Wasn't there a Dutch Navy ship in the East Indies in WW2 that managed to evade the Imperial Japanese Navy successfully for weeks by disguising itself as an Island? Imagine doing that to the Bismarck.

HMNLS/HMAS Abraham Crijnssen

[perttime]

Wasn't there a Dutch Navy ship in the East Indies in WW2 that managed to evade the Imperial Japanese Navy successfully for weeks by disguising itself as an Island? Imagine doing that to the Bismarck.

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There was something wrong with the link. Maybe this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS_Abraham_Crijnssen_(1936)

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[Dizzyfugu]

IIRC, there have been moored German ships (old stuff from WWI or interwar era, though) that have been cammo'ed in a similar fashion. I have a book about German ship cammo somewhere, gotta have a look.

Otherwise, German cammo options were not very varied, as on RN ships. Most were just grey, and additional cammo effects were limited to greyl, and there were some "3D perspective" patterns with white and black diagonal stripes that were rather intended to blur the profiles of multiple ships when moored next to each other, so that aerial recconnaissance had a hard tinme to figure out how many ships were actually parked.

I also have at least one German 1:700 ship on the agenda (low priority, though), and I plan to apply a rather untypical scheme I found for a minesweeper, a very disruptive scheme with a kind of "stripes" in white/very light grey, light grey, dark grey, and a very bluish dark grey. No description, so I am not certain if it#s authentic - but I assume that it would be quite effective along the Norwegian coast, esp. in winter/up north.

[VincentC]

Wasn't there a Dutch Navy ship in the East Indies in WW2 that managed to evade the Imperial Japanese Navy successfully for weeks by disguising itself as an Island? Imagine doing that to the Bismarck.

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There was something wrong with the link. Maybe this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS_Abraham_Crijnssen_(1936)

Wikimedia image:

Yep that's what I was thinking of.

[Joe C-P]

How about, instead of red, a color like Mountbatten Pink?  Perhaps the Germans decide RN ships in that color are less visible and decide to experiment for themselves.