British carrier deck color

[gamevender]

I'm working on a post war HMS Eagle and am wondering what color the non-flight deck surface color was? Was it the same light grey as the vertical surfaces or was it the predominant color of the flight deck, be it green or grey?

 

 

[bootneck]

From memory, the Eagle's side and island decks were grey. 

 

This model plan, dated 1962, appears to confirm this as being light blue grey; however, due to wear and tear I would think the walking areas would be a darker grey.  I have seen however, a photo of HMS Ark Royal (post modernisation) with green decks on the island's top deck.

 

Mike

[Ingo Degenhardt]

Using this thread to ask another question:

 

I wish to put my Westland Wyvern on a small deck section of HMS EAGLE in 1958, but am in doubt about the deck colour - does anyone know a good match for "Dark Grey-Green" (see above).

Or did the carrier have grey flight deck sections as well? And if so, what shade would be appropriate for those?

Ingo

[Chewbacca]

Difficult to tell from this photo quite when it was taken - I suspect late 60s/early 70s, but it clearly shows a very dark grey launch/recovery area with a lighter, but still dark grey manoeuvring area:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3c/32/34/3c32349ed343934edcda3d3f3bf79a1c.jpg

This one, which is earlier, supports that colour scheme:

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/157766793169845075/visual-search/?x=15&y=14&w=470&h=466

However, this photo, which is captioned 1958, definitely shows a darkish grey launch/recovery area with a grey/green manoeuvring area:

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-hms-eagle-1958-preparing-for-flying-95683087.html

This one which will be similar era seems to show the same:

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-hms-eagle-seahawk-preparing-for-takeoff-93013800.html