Favourite Colour Schemes

[Madoc]

Folks,

Favorite color scheme?

Bare metal.  To me, nothing more clearly states "this is a flying machine" than seeing it in all its naked metal glory.  I think paint mars that beauty.

Failing that, I'd go with USN gloss sea blue.  Then USAF Air Superiority Blue from the 70's / 80's.

And then, for nostalgia if nothing else, USAAC olive green over neutral gray.

Madoc

[Excalibur]

WW2 British Desert schemes, Arctic Schemes, The Swedish Viggen Splinter scheme.  

[cthulhu77]

I really like the Swedish splinter and anything in desert tan.

straight up !

[dragon]

SE Asia type....essentially Tan, Green and Dark Green.

Me too!  Especially the Venezuelan variant: Dark Tan, Medium Green, Dark Green and Camouflage Grey undersides. B)

[Daryl J.]

Monochromes such as PRU blue, GSB, RLM-02, NMF.
Pre-WW2 aircraft I'll sometimes paint overall Chrome Yellow

WW-2 Finn
Anything desert to echo what's already been said.
Simple spurious schemes.


But overall, nothing looks better than the 5th FIS Spittin' Kittens F-106!  



Daryl J.

[Iranian F-14A]

European 1/Lizard

Both Indonesian camos,the Blue and Millenium versions

Japanese Blue Camo

Iranian camos-Desert,New Blue Grey and of course the blue ASW

Israeli F-4 camo,however,I do perfer the older,darker version to todays lighter one

Saudi Tonka and Hawk desert camo

Egyptian Nile Valley

Gull Grey over white

Anti Flash White

SEA type

Oh,and I can't forget Canada's SAR Yellow,the anti-camo

[DropBear]

ARDU Fanta Can and the Kuwaiti Hornet wrap around are great schemes.

 

[lenny100]

it has to be the royal navy dark gray over white
or the overall bule used by their helos in the 1970s

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Love these....











Ian

[upnorth]

Ian, the fresh Euro 1 on that last Phantom picture is pure beauty!  It worked so well with the Phantom's brutish lines.

[ysi_maniac]

Hi, Ian,
Confess: what you love is PHANTOM!

Me too    

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Yep I do love the old Rhino, but I couldn't find my pic of an A-7D in wraparound SEA camo....







Ahh, there they are ! - Love wraparound schemes especially SEA.

Ian

[SPINNERS]

Spits and Mozzies in PRU Blue and the later grey/green camo with PRU undersides.

White V-Bombers!!

All RAF tactical schemes from the 60's and 70's (pre-wraparound) and especially with 'B' type roundels.

[GTX]

I just realised that whilst most people might have seen a profile of the old RAAF ARDU "Fanta" Scheme, they might not have seen it on a real aircraft (well, that's my excuse for posting these cool pics ):




Regards,

Greg

[Mossie]

Snow schemes.  Take a standard camo scheme, add some white to it, never fails to look good.
Lightning stripes, RAF Transport Command, RCAF.
Tigermeet.
Agressor, or basically anything unusual on an aircraft that normally sports a bog standard scheme.
Norwegian SAR.