I am looking for F-4C/D Decals and Paint Scheme suggestions for 1/48th scale Phantoms. Anybody know where I might find them or how to find good references for those?? I don’t have a lot of resources around here and I have some really nice photos of a 178th “Happy Hooligans” Phantom that I love and would like to recreate in 1/48 scale for a display.
The ADC paint scheme is Grey. I’ve used MM Camoflage Grey with good results. I think that MM had (has?) a colour called ADC Grey at one time in their lineup, it’s a couple of shades darker than camoflage grey.
Ive always been partial to michigan air guard six pack Baremetal has decals with nose art.
You can find them at http://www.bare-metal.com
ADC gray ia FS 16473. Aircraft painted in ADC gray use full size national insignias and markings.
I have some older decals in 1/48 scale for ADC gray Phantoms. I’ll have to dig them out and see what unit they are for.
Thanks Guys, your the best. I found exactly what I was looking for. I try and post some pics of my progess. This has been only my second post and they have been very helpful
for a novice like me. Thanks too everyone who contributes to my post or anybody posts.
Keep up the good work
ADC Gray is also called Aircraft Gray, but it’s the same FS No., and it’s used all over the place, or used to be. As for the colorful ADC aircraft, as MK pointed out, Experts Choice (nee Bare Metal Foil) gave us, and still do give us, all those former ADC unit markings with their colorful aircraft. The Air Defense Command long ago went out of business after Soviet bombers were no longer considered a threat, and the mission of watching the borders was taken up by the Air Guard (under the command of TAC) all around the perimeter states of the U.S. I’m from Houston, and can’t count the number of those decal sheets I bought from Experts Choice to build 111th FIS F-101s and F-4s for pilot friends out there. Oregon and New York ANG units were very colorful, Montana’s are restrained and tasteful, Michigan’s and Minnesota’s you have seen seen. Since these units are now in low viz F-15s and 16s, I’m really nostalgic for the old ADC colorful birds. My first flight in a “real” jet was an Air Defense F-4C with a gaudy Texas Flag on the base of its fin, and the name “Texans” painted on the drop tanks in blue “lasso” style.
A footnote: As a cost-cutting measure, these units, which stand alert with two birds hot and cocked 24/7, and have since before I was born, were on the razor’s edge of having their mission go the way of the dodo (well, think about it, huh? It made sense.), until 9/11, when, among others, the 111th’s alert birds were launched to escort Air Force One, though I don’t know that they ever got there before he landed at Barksdale (Ironic which unit was launched to escort him since it was the one he used to, uh…fly for.)
One last thing: If you can find a copy of Rene Francillon’s out-of-print “The Air Guard” (I think oringally published by Aerofax), it will be out of date, but it contains great photos and drawings of these planes and their sometimes outlandish schemes, and every unit and every type it flew. And if you run across two copies of this book, let me know, because I’d give a lot to have one again.
Tom