MY BROTHER AND I USED TO MODEL AS KIDS, AND NOW WE ARE GETTING BACK IN2 IT…WE USED TO KNOW EVERY COLOR JUST BY LOOKING AT IT, BUT TIME HAS PASSED, AND WE ARE STUMPED… HE IS DOING AN AH-1 COBRA, AND HE WANTS TO PAINT IT THE “BLUE” SCHEME THAT THE MARINES USE…ONLY PROBLEM IS, WE CANT SEEM TO FIND THE COLOR SCHEME ANYWHERES…CAN SOMEONE HELP…WE’D APPRECIATE IT… THANKS…
Welcome to FSM THAPRINCE.
Please make a post similar to this in the helicopter forum. I am sure there will be lots of answers for you there.
Welcome aboard!
(moved to the helicopter forum…)
I used Testors Light Ghost Gray(4762), Dark Ghost Gray(4761) and Dark Gull Gray (4755).
Light Ghost was the overall color. I used the other grays for weathering and undershadowing.
THAPRINCE,
RonUSMC’s Cobra is a good color scheme. A “freshly” painted AH-1W will be overall Light Ghost Gray with Dark Ghost Gray over the nose above the TSU (FLIR and Targeting Laser in the nose) and the top half of the helo from the rotor mast down to about half of the engine housing.
For extreme weathering, I’ve seen Cobras come back from multiple sorties in a short time period with 90% of the tail boom all black from the jet exhaust.
Semper Fi!
Carl
Nice Cobra Ron
thanks guys, i appreciate it…this outta help him out…im more of a figures type guy…lol