Aircraft Colors

This site has great stuff on most aircraft. It is easy to use and will have what you need. Just right click on the first letter of the particular aircraftA for A-10, F for F6F and right click on that aircraft. Right click on "colors/markings" once the specific aircraft page is opened.

http://www.cybermodeler.com/resource1.shtml

Thanks a bunch!

Dennis

Keep in mind that WW2 paints were notorious for chalking and bleaching rapidly once exposed to outdoor environment.  Few planes were kept in hangers (carrier planes an exception), and the colors faded and lightened very soon after planes delivered.  So you need to be less careful about those than the A-10.  Modern military planes are usually painted in an epoxy-like paint that is quite stable and it holds its color well.

Don Stauffer

Keep in mind that WW2 paints were notorious for chalking and bleaching rapidly once exposed to outdoor environment.  Few planes were kept in hangers (carrier planes an exception), and the colors faded and lightened very soon after planes delivered.  So you need to be less careful about those than the A-10.  Modern military planes are usually painted in an epoxy-like paint that is quite stable and it holds its color well.

Very true, especially of the early bluegrey and mid-war tricolor, but the late war glossy sea blue held up fairly well. Mostly from the examples I've seen, they tended to go from glossy to flat rather than go all faded: