ugliest scheme

nsclcctl

Member since
May 2003
From: USA

ugliest scheme

Posted by nsclcctl on Monday, December 22, 2003 8:07 AM

I am going to say this and it may not be popular. I absolutely hate the tricolor scheme of the Pacific during WWII. It may be becasue I hate applying it. I don't enjoy all the masking and I really don't like the intermediate blue. I guess I haven't learned to work with it yet.

I like sea blue and 100% sea blue or maybe sea blue obver white.

Does anyone agree with me? Come out of the closet.

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djmodels1999

Member since
December 2002
From: United Kingdom / Belgium

Posted by djmodels1999 on Monday, December 22, 2003 8:15 AM

Although I've never attempted it, I do like the Tricolor Pacific Scheme... Swanny's PB4Y is gorgeous in that scheme!

Don't mind the all blue scheme either. However, I find the 'basic' RAF scheme quite boring... Possibly because I built and painted so many RAF aircraft in my youth..!

Worse is the basic Olive Drab/Neutral Grey scheme of the USAAF as well as the Green/Light Blue of the Soviet Air Force...

However, it's the US Navy Low Viz schemes that top it all for me... Yuk!

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Swanny

Member since
February 2003
From: Sandusky Ohio, USA

Posted by Swanny on Monday, December 22, 2003 8:37 AM

And that PB4Y-1 is all free hand - no masks!

Swanny's Models

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djmodels1999

Member since
December 2002
From: United Kingdom / Belgium

Posted by djmodels1999 on Monday, December 22, 2003 8:42 AM

Even better!

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 22, 2003 9:32 AM

funny, I always liked the tri-color. I deliberately use early war markings so that I'm not stuck with the boring overall sea blue. Like swanny, I also do it freehand (I hate to mask) and I've never had trouble. I always thought that it was one of the easier multi-color schemes to do. I dread that marines F-16N scheme that I've been avoiding. What seems to make the scheme difficult to apply for you?

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 22, 2003 10:25 AM

I for one hate different schemes of WW1 aircraft. Guess thats why I never really got into that period of aircraft.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 22, 2003 2:03 PM

The tri-color Pacific scheme is a favorite of mine. I have a Wildcat, Hellcat, Corsair, Avenger, & Helldiver in those colors.
The schemes that I find "ugliest" (read:boring) are the current grays with low-vis markings. Very bland to my eyes, and not much of a challenge to paint. It may be easy to paint them, but I don't learn anything in the process, and thus have less fun. I want to have fun when I build, not just successful results.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 22, 2003 2:50 PM

Li'l Gramper, the 491st Bombardment Group's assembly ship

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 22, 2003 4:15 PM

I actually think that a convincingly weathered modern low-vis scheme is very difficult to replicate. I've seen only a couple well done examples. If you just painted it all gray It would never look right.

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upnorth

Member since
December 2002
From: Canada / Czech Republic

Posted by upnorth on Monday, December 22, 2003 4:29 PM

I've never been much for the aggressor scheme the Japanese put on their F-15s these days. It looks like they just grabbed a couple of cans of whatever was handy and went slap dash over the low vis grey.

I've also never been fond of plain aluminum oversprayed aircraft, that's as much of a yawn as the current overall Gunship Grey schemes.

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 23, 2003 10:09 AM

I think that some of the ugliest were those experimental schemes used in the late 30s and early 40s. The ugliest, however, was the small black and white splinter schemes used on some of the early Mustangs (A-36?). Dead [xx(]

Very similiar to the "dazzle" scheme used on ships during WWI.

That scheme would really be a masking nightmare. Banged Head [banghead]

I would classify anyone who could model that successfully as a Master Painter. Bow [bow]

Pete

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shrikes

Member since
November 2003
From: Manila, Philippines

Posted by shrikes on Tuesday, December 23, 2003 10:59 AM

I would have to agree with the USAAF olive drab/light gray scheme... but there's a perk: if you do a lot of USAAF aircraft, you only need to buy those two colors and you're set!! Tongue [:P]

I must've gone through 3 bottles or each color already...

Blackadder: This plan's as cunning as a fox that used to be Professor of cunning at Oxford University but has now moved on and is working with the U.N at the high commission of cunning planning

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 23, 2003 1:33 PM

The more "ugly" or "bizarre" the scheme is-the better. Modern greys are pretty dull- but I guess a chartreuse F-16 would be impractical!

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72cuda

Member since
July 2003
From: USA

Posted by 72cuda on Saturday, December 27, 2003 7:22 PM

Hey Guy's & Gal's:
I think the most boring Paint Scheme is the New Schemes for all Military Planes in the U.S's inventory; Grey's not Euro 1, not SEA, or Bare Metal but Grey

84 of 795 1/72 Aircraft Competed for Lackland's Airman Heritage Museum

Was a Hawg Jet Fixer, now I'm a FRED Fixer

'Cuda

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Woody

Member since
December 2002
From: Third rock from the sun.

Posted by Woody on Saturday, December 27, 2003 9:25 PM

I always liked the tri-color, but that modern low-viz grey-YUCK! Anyone remember the pink spitfires? LOL Smile [:)]

" I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 1:28 PM

The pink spitfires are high on my list too, but I vote for the "Red Bull" scheme on G-CVIX. I know the aircraft wouldn't be flying without the sponsorship but she's the only airworthy sea vixen left and it's a shame. If I new how I would put a picture up, but I don't, so I won't.

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Lucien Harpress

Member since
June 2003
From: A Computer in Adrian, (SE) Michigan.

Posted by Lucien Harpress on Thursday, January 1, 2004 2:55 PM

Multi-color natural metal. Pretty to look at; pain in the butt to accomplish well! Possibly not the ugliest "paint" sceme, but one of the most aggravating. (I should know: I just spent over 6 months planning and painting a B-36, and even then I don't think I got it right.)

That which does not kill you makes you stranger...

-The Joker

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Panther 44

Member since
May 2003
From: The Buckeye State

Posted by Panther 44 on Thursday, January 1, 2004 4:16 PM

What about the JAWS (joint attack weapons system) scheme used on the A-10 Thunderbolt? The one with gray or tan base with brown, green blotches or spots all over.
Regards,
Joe

Just remember, ignorance is no excuse for the law. - Moe

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phule

Member since
October 2003
From: The Space Coast

Posted by phule on Friday, January 2, 2004 7:56 AM

you guys are forgetting the pastel laden F117s! before the military said "real men don't fly pastel aircraft, they fly black aircraft"

the best low vis camo is pastel colors

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