Working on one now, and I wanna know what the color of the underside of the airbrake and the recess for it should be? I got a 3 hour Blue Angel show off the Military channel, and it never shows the airbrakes! The instructions call for red, but I can’t believe that’s right. I’m thinking white like the wheelwells, or maybe yellow, but not red!
I built a Blue Angel Scooter that came out pretty good I guess. I’m an intermediate builder and I joined up to find people like myself and to learn new stuff. Tryinta take it to the next level…just got an airbrush…man I can’t get the hang of that thing.
Can someone tell me how to post pix in this forum? Any of you guys wanna swap photos, just look me up. Got hurt in Sept and was laid up for 5 mos…took to building again after a lotta years off, and I got 17 kits done so far. I’m in the Blue Angel/Thunderbird mode right now. Soon as this Hornet is done, it’s T-Bird time!
Red may be correct. If you have looked at a Blue Angel with the gear down, the insides of the gear doors is blue not white like on line birds. I think the idea is not to break up the clean blue /gold look. I have looked at all of my material and none shows the speedbrake open.
I just dug thru my Blue Angels 50 Anniversary book and there isn’t a single picture with an F-18 with it’s flaps open. Sorry, couldn’t be more help.
I couldn’t believe red either ,but I’ve found a photo with the refueling probe extended and it’s red. I know a person who might be able to help. I’ll get back with you on this. Also,I don’t know if they’ve changed the decals( I’m assuming your doing the Revell),but be prepared to either paint the yellow marking or get a second set of decals to double up, because in my opinion,they don’t cover the Blue Angel blue well enough.[2c]
Eddie
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If I remember correctly, there was an earlier post with the same question. A former Blues mech mentioned that the inside of the speed brake was red, the gear doors were blue.
I wouldn’t be supprised if the inside was red, but judging my the responses so far, it would seem that the Blues very rarely (if ever) deploy the speed brakes… maybe you should just leave them closed. [%-)]
oh, I just found a picture I took of an A-4 Blue Angle at the Museum of Flight in Seattle a few weeks ago. It might not be the same for the F-18, but at least we know that red was used on the inside of the A-4’s flaps.
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