Hi all I’m just starting my modeling addiction and I was wondering if anybody had foresaken perfect replication and given their aircraft “Out there” color schemes. I don’t mean bright neon or sparkle paint (although that would be cool). I mean a paint job that is realistic but not in the real world.
Example: I am putting together Hasegawa’s F-20 model and I decided to paint it the colors of the MiG 28s (F-5s) on top Gun. It could be the MiG 28B back to take vengence on Maverick!
Anyway I also have the X-29 model which I want to arm and make into a fighter but I have no good Ideas for the color scheme. Any help would be cool and I would like to see or read about some out of the ordinary kits.
There’s one I’m going to do someday. It’s an F/A-18 aggressor in a scheme with a standard pattern (blue-on-blue scheme) but non-standard colors (purples).
I’m a Tiger Meet freak and I’ve always wanted to do an F-104 in a Zebra scheme.
Come to think of it, I have done a model with a freaky Zebra-Tiger scheme already. It’s a 48th Nichimo Ki-43 Oscar that I put in Royal Thai AF markings, but applied a bit of my creative license to the standard scheme. (ie; I screwed up and it was all good in the end!)
There’s a post somewhere in the Aircraft Forum called Ki-43 Oscar (Built-Up), I believe. I posted a photo of this model there, if anyone’s interested in digging a bit to take a look.
My favorite “crazy” color scheme was applied to 63rd FS P-47M’s – two-toned blue “camouflage” on upper surfaces ! In addition, there was the red cowl front ( 56th FG ID ), natural metal squadron code letters, and rudder and serial in a different shade of blue from the “camouflage” colors.
Second place goes to the 61st FS, with their P-47M’s having black topsides, red cowl front, squadron ID letters. serial number, and rudder.
OOPS ! You were talking about schemes from the imagination. Well, I once did a Monogram P-47 bubbletop that was all natural metal, with dark green/azure blue “camouflage” on the tops of the wings, horizontal tail surfaces, and just the very top of the fuselage ( actually the normal anti-glare area ). This was set off with the front of the cowl being red, and my own initials as the code letters ( RAF wing commanders and a couple of USAAF group commanders did this ).
I saw in a Koku-fan magazine years and years ago a Japanese Zero done up in Luftwaffe markings and desert camo scheme. Looked pretty neat. I think I remember in the same issue a Me-109E done up in Japanese markings.
I once did Hasegawa’s 1/72 F-8E Crusader up in a 4 tone (three green and a grey) wrap around splinter pattern sort of a variation on the 1980’s USAF European “Lizard” schemes and scrounged up some spare modern Luftwaffe markings for it.
It got busted up in a move before I could get a decent picture of it.
I also tried (underline heavily “TRIED”) to do Monogram’s 1/72 EF-111 up in a Thunderbirds team paint job. A non success there.
Another “what if” that I have thought about doing is an F4U Corsair in Army Air Force markings. I think I remember reading somewhere that for a brief period of time the Army was considering adopting the Corsair. I think the Corsair would look pretty cool either in OD/Gray or natural metal, with some of the more colorful AAF unit schemes. I did see a photo of a silver F4U-1A or -1D that had been built up from wrecks by some Marine mechanics. I cannot remember if it was natural aluminum, or painted silver. It also had a dark anti-glare panel in front of the windshield.
Wow I need to see some of these.
I also thought doing WWII planes of opposite markings would be cool (ie. Me109 painted like a P51D)
The old X-29 might get the Iron Eagle f-16 paint job, camo on top with a blue belly. How come we needed all these planes to invade Iraq. Two F-16s would have done the job, so long as you have the Hades bomb.
Great Oscar blackwolfscd
Great article Naplak (going to the site now)
I had wanted to do my first diorama on the GWII air battles but Iraq’s air force were much too smart this time around.
Now I think I might do an Iranian Tomcat. Anybody now of some good pics?
Heh… Did plenty of those… Spitfires in gloss chocolate brown/flat leaf green in a splinterish-psychedelic swirl kinda pattern with a fingerprint mottle…
I believe I was 11 at the time and just discovered painting my models.
I was 5 when I discovered they couldn’t (properly) fly. Oh the memories of matchbox models! Melted the tail of an A10 with glue once. By accident of course…
On the matter of X-29 schemes, I remember I was at a show back in the 80s, not long after the Hasegawa X-29 hit the Market and someone had done one up in a three gray job that fell somewhere in between a splinter scheme and one of those experimental Ferris schemes the Navy was testing out for a while. Looked like the plane was born to wear that scheme and if I recall correctly. it also had a false canopy painted on the underside.
pick ‘Group Builds’ off the menu bar under the ARC banner (on top). then select ‘group build 5’ “Inaccurate Paint Scheme”
the P-51 and 109 are quite interesting.
I checked out that site - thanks for posting the link ! That P-51 looked like a photgraphic negative. I thought Capt. van Overvest’s P-40N was pretty interesting too. The Dutch did fly P-40N’s, but they did not look like that !
that is a great site and exactly what I was talking about.
The P51 is super cool and the stories behind the su-19 and american 109s are an excelent example of what could have been. Ain’t history great.
I built a B-29 once in the old experimental black and white dazzle pattern from around 2943. It raised a few eyebrows. I turned around and built the old Monogram M-3 Lee tank in the same pattern. It was different! - Ed
