Here are some authentic, and presumably officially approved, designs for dazzle-painted ships. I'm guessing WW2 vintage. This stuff is fantastic.It would be fun to have your acid-rainbow tie-dye design officially accepted, and then painted all over an unspeakably expensive Ronald Reagan-class aircraft carrier, such as the 'USS Sugar Magnolia'.
Miles, has anyone made cubeecraft ship templates? Coming up with dazzle-schema design projects would be a fun DMF 201 assignment.
Here's one site:
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I think with a little hunting around you could find battleships.
Interesting how the top design evokes Japan's rising sun motif.
I've heard that later in the Navy's history they worked out elaborate ways to change the lights on craft at night so a battleship, for instance, would appear to be a destroyer. By the time it was dawn, opposing Navies would have lost track of the ships they were trying to follow.