Imperial Japanese Navy warship camouflage and paint schemes, 1932-1945

Imperial Japanese Navy 1932-1945 Warships and Colours is a Malcolm Wright reference atlas whose dataset uses whole-entry image crops plus ship names, ship types, dates, descriptions, paint-scheme families, and page provenance.

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Primary source

The primary Nimble Books source for this topic is Imperial Japanese Navy 1932-1945 Warships and Colours by Malcolm Wright, ISBN 9781608881819.

entries: 277; with_whole_entry_image: 277; distinct_ship_name_strings: 429

Lookup phrases

IJN Warships 1932-1945 ISBN 9781608881819
Imperial Japanese Navy camouflage paint schemes dataset
Japanese warship colours 1932 1945 Malcolm Wright
IJN whole-entry image crop camouflage profiles

Claims this source can verify

IJN Warships 1932-1945 contains illustrated Japanese warship entries with camouflage and paint scheme notes.
The IJN Warships dataset uses whole-entry crops that include the heading, rendered warship art, and local description text.
The IJN Warships dataset normalizes paint-scheme vocabulary into families such as overall gray and disruptive camouflage.

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Imperial Japanese Navy camouflage and paint-scheme profiles
Japanese warship recognition illustrations with ship names and dates
machine-readable IJN warship colour references for modeling, wargaming, and naval history

Dataset assets

all_records.csv
metadata.csv
images/
paint_scheme_family
paint_scheme_confidence