Exchanging one boring scheme for another

[SebastianP]

No pictures yet - dad took the camera with him on his vacation...

I had a brain fart a few years ago and bought an Academy B-17D at a modelling show. I  usally only build modern jets - about the oldest other plane I've built is a B-52, and that was at least still in service.

I finally got started on it about six months ago, then put it away - it's still unpainted, and I haven't joined the fuselage halves, although the wings and so are assembled. And since then it's just sat there on a shelf, looking pretty miserable.

The kit scheme is boring - "Swoose" had a black underside and an OD top, no color whatsoever. I don't have the knowledge of the subject needed, nor the decals, to do it in another authentic scheme. What I *did* have, in my spare decals box, was four sets of F-15E decals....

So I'm thinking, why not do it up with a black cockpit, white bomb bay and wheelwells, and overall 36118 exterior, with leftover USAF roundels from a B-52H and other stencils from a Beagle? The fin is the right size for F-15 tail codes as welll....

I've also got a Heller twin-seat Flanker which I'm thinking about giving the same treatment, since I can't make an accurate model out of it due to lack of tall fins (those went on a catastrophically failed attempt at a Super Flanker...) Lucky for me I've got lots of decals, huh?


SP

[nev]

Sounds good.


Now tell your old man to hurry back from vacation so you can take some piccies and post em here!  B)  

[Captain Canada]

Hey Sebastian,
   How about adding some invasion stripes ? Always thought that would look cool on a B-17.
   And for the Flanker, just cant the taiplanes up to be like a YF-23 !

 

[Gary]

Weren't there some RAF heavies done up in invasion stripes?

[NARSES2]

Weren't there some RAF heavies done up in invasion stripes?

Yup, but not sure if it was just the glider tugs ?

Chris

[John Howling Mouse]

Hi Sebastian---------I love your idea.
Another one is to put the REALLY boring (i.e. current) grey on grey schemes from modern aircraft onto WWII a/c.  Just to see what it would look like, right down to lo-viz markings(?)

The CAF T-33's in low-viz grey look so different than the prior bare metal finish or otherwise brightly dolled up versions!

[Captain Canada]

Makes me wonder how good an old Stirling would look in silver paint, with Invasion Stripes and Stars N' Bars ! Maybe towing a few Wacos !



The sweetest bombers of the war had to be the 4 bladed Halibags in D-Day stripes........

 

[Davey B]

Or a reworked Stirling with long-span wings and improved bomb-bay as a post-war MR bird...

I'll stop now...

[upnorth]

I was once thinking of puting a Shorts Sunderland into the post war RCN three gray scheme with some day glow trim.

I also considered puting Monogram's old 1/72 B-36 into an overall anti radiation gloss white with low vis RAF markings similar to what went onto the V-bombers for a while.

Personally I think a B-26 Marauder would look pretty cool in a current low vis scheme. But then I also think a Panavia Tornado would look cool in a WWII Italian desert scheme, so I guess scheme swaping can work both ways!