Centenary Typhoon

[Devilfish]

With the centenary of 85 Sqn coming up in August, I thought it would be fitting to do a "what if 85 were still operational, special scheme"?
Not normally my thing, as I hate ceremonial paint jobs, but 85 hold a special place in my heart.  So, the obvious choice for a mount for them, were they still flying, would be the Tiffie.
Next job, design and paint a special scheme.  I have, like many Typhoon schemes, kept it mostly to the tail.
First job was to assemble the fuselage and give the fin a coat of white, as a base, followed by red.


I then ummed and ahhed for ages as to how to best do the chequerboard design.  I decided on a 2 stage approach.  First, mask off for one set of squares....



And paint black....unmask...



next job is to remask and paint the infill squares....

[TheChronicOne]

Sweeeeeeeeeet.... that's some choice masking work! I'll have to remember that pattern!

[NARSES2]

Impressive masking job 

[Captain Canada]

That's looking good already !

[Devilfish]

On with the show.....

I remasked and painted the remaining squares, to end up with this....



Now the observant amongst you may have noticed this....



Which is actually a bit of masking I did prior to the red and black, which when removed, reveals....



85's signature hexagon.....

[Martin H]

85sqn! Hell yes

I may just have to borrow/steal your idea...............

[Old Wombat]

Nice! Tricky, but nice!

[NARSES2]

Nice! Tricky, but nice!

Agreed

[Knightflyer]

I like that. Well done that man!

I've always been perpetually planning to do a silver early mark of Supermarine Swift with a similar tail in black and yellow (63 squadron?) so it's nice to see how this has worked for some-one....I was planning to cheat and see if the black and yellow markings from the 1/48th scale Academy Hunter F.6 could be used

[darthspud2]

Very nice and great pics showing how to achieve this pattern. I will nick this idea for future use.

[Steel Penguin]

now that is, clever and elegant    as as other have said, very nickable.  thank you.

[TheChronicOne]

     

[KiwiZac]

Bra-vo!!! Very impressive work and a real eyecatcher!

[Devilfish]

Glad I could help!