Barclay Camouflage Scheme

[Andrew Gorman]

There's a nice Brewster Buffalo in some wild experimental camo at Hyperscale:
http://www.hyperscale.com/features/f2a1barclayjv_1.htm
The wonder that is google patents conjures up the original patent:
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT219...lelland+Barclay
And there are more pictures on the web.  Sharp looking Futurist color schemes!  For some reason I keep seeing a Piaggio P.108 dressed up like this...
Andrew

[BlackOps]

Boy, am I glad I didn't have to paint that one! Very cool stuff.

[Sisko]

Looks like a 1970's bed spread

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Yes I saw that one too. Superb execution, wonder how many more of those we'll see littering the competition tables this year - Also, you gotta wonder if some of the decal manufacturers are looking at that and thinking..... 'Hmmmmm... Sales opportunity !', like they did with the P-51A black/white dazzle pattern.

Ian

[Radish]

I remember your P-51 in that black/white scheme, Ian.
Built around 1983/4?? Nice.

The US came up with some marvellous schemes in the '30s and '40s

Imagine an F-16 in some of those orange/yellow/white/purple colours that appeared on P-36s in the War Games.
No...perhaps not. They just wouldn't look right.  

[Keith Diamond]

learn something new everyday.  I never heard of this type of camo scheme, but it does look interesting.

[Joe C-P]

I have a mag with some b+w images of some of the wilder US Army camo schemes of the between-the-war era. One early B-17 was painted in a desert color scheme that looked very modern.

The look of the Buffalo is actually quite Art Deco, which was The Very Thing at the time.

JoeP

[Andrew Gorman]

Here is a picture of the P-51 dazzle scheme:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/Big...zzle-dazzle.jpg
Andrew

[Excalibur]

Looks like a 1970's bed spread

I agree you can almost hear "Purple Haze" being blasted out thru its sound system..err which of course it would have...

[Mossie]

Theres a short biography of McClelland Barclay here along with some of this designs on a Buffalo (different to the HS article), BT-1, Vindicator & Devastator:

http://www.history.navy.mil/ac/artist/b/ba...arclay%201.html

SAMI ran an article on the Devastator around a year & a half ago, several of the profiles were of Barclays designs.