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[longshanks]

Hi Guys,
 
I need your thoughts!!!
 
Anyone got any ideas as to what colour torpedoes are?
 
Every where I look I see something different....
 
I'm specifically looking for Italian WW11 but I guess they are fairly generic
 
Looking forward to you thoughts
Regards
longshanks
 

[Netleyned]

Mostly black methinks.
Harder to see.

Ned

[eddiesolo]

Colours vary from: Black, dark green, light blue (med colour, sunlight penetrates deeper so a dark object is easily seen while the light blue makes it difficult), brass head (explosive part) and silver body, grey, grey with a mottled motif, there was even a white/red practice torpedo for aircraft drops, the torpedo was lighter and floated and was none functioning, it was designed so that the pilots could access the accuracy in a certain area from differing heights. Depends on what you're making and what theatre it operated in.


Si:)

[eddiesolo]

Just re-read your post about the Italian WWII torpedoes. I would be tempted to go for a standard colour scheme: Black nose about a third of the way down and the rest a grey or grey/light blue with brass/bronze prop.


Just a bit of trivia: The Japanese was so impressed with the Italian 'Fiume' torpedo it had a slimmer head so could go around 2 knots faster that they copied the design.


Si:)

[dodes]

I was watching a black and white film on the TV showing a U Boat loading a Torpedo, although there was no colour you could clearly see it had a high glaze /varnish finish of a light colour. The British Mk8's had a turquoise metallic varnish finish, the practice ones had a florescent orange and the live ones had a yellow or black painted warheads. The Mk 20's had a light grey finish.

[longshanks]

Thanks for your thoughts !

[dodes]

Just to add to the trivia, the Japanese 23 inch torps in the last war were a British design, which the Admiralty would not take up because of the cost of converting all our ships to the larger size, but the Japs did between the wars. Which meant when the Exeter and the others engaged them they thought that they were hitting mines, not that the Jap destroyers were having a turkey shoot with the greater range 23 inch torpedoes. Also the Belgrano was taken out by Mk 8 mod 4 torpedoes, because the Mk24/Tiger fish was too unreliable.

[Pondweed]

Colours vary from: Black, dark green, light blue (med colour, sunlight penetrates deeper so a dark object is easily seen while the light blue makes it difficult), brass head (explosive part) and silver body, grey, grey with a mottled motif, there was even a white/red practice torpedo for aircraft drops, the torpedo was lighter and floated and was none functioning, it was designed so that the pilots could access the accuracy in a certain area from differing heights. Depends on what you're making and what theatre it operated in.


Si:)

Surely bronze head?