ESDG/Sky variations

[Weaver]

When I initially painted my FAA Panther with a very high (Seafire style) demarcation line, it looked silly from above: somehow the stripes made it look "fat" (fatter...) , and the EDSG was pretty useless cammo with so much Sky on view from above. I had to repaint it because of paint problems anyway, and in the process I took it down a bit, still high but not as high, and it looked better. So my theory is that the high demarcation line was fine when it was adopted in the piston era, when the planes had relatively thin fuselages, but when the more rotund Attacker and Seahawk came along, it had them showing too much Sky from above, so the demarcation had to come down a bit. They then found that the lower demarcation line was coming awkwardly close to the mid-mounted wings (the piston jobs had low wings, of course), and that gave an incentive to move it down a bit further to the wing level (which must have made it easier to mask and paint as well).

No evidence for any of this: just my thoughts from looking at a lot of pics and painting a model.

[PR19_Kit]

I'm in the middle of masking up the Sky areas of the Skysearcher now (what a BITCH of a job it is too!  ) and the original Skywarrior has an almost rectangular fuselage so my demarcation line is about 1/4 - 1/3 of the way down from the top. But the engines are circular and if I had the demarcation on their centre line it'd be below the fuselage line so they're at 1/3 diameter from the top too.

Cutting the curved line up to the LE of the fin is a right pain as it goes right across the big aft ECM bulges. No matter, it's going to look GREAT when it's done....