F-22 alternative color scheme

[Hobbes]

It's 2013 and the first F-22s, over time and over budget as usual, are finally being delivered to active squadrons. In a repeat of the maneuvers that gave us black F-117s, people high up in the chain of command have ordered the F-22s to be painted black rather than the low-visibility gray scheme used on the prototypes, so people will associate them with the highly successful F-117 program. The aircraft don't prove too popular with pilots, as their flight control computers crash regularly (as a cost cutting measure they're running Windows 2000), and because the F-22's weapons load is rather less than intended. With only two AMRAAM on board, pilots find themselves outnumbered and outgunned by Flankers (carrying 12 AAM each) during the 2014 invasion of Iran.


(Revell 1:144 kit)

[nev]

Nice idea, and I love the Windows 2000 thing  


Is it me, or are those fins huge btw?

[Hobbes]

Well, from this angle the perspective makes them look even bigger. I'll try to post some more/better pictures this weekend.

The 'idea' is a bit of revisionist history, BTW. I painted the thing black because that's what I had lying around at the time. I bought several 1:144 kits plus a number of spray cans to practice spraying (before ruining a bigger, more expensive kit). Of course, I got carried away, and now I have 15 1:144 kits, I'm spending more and more time on them, and I bought an airbrush...  

[Ollie]

Cool Hobbes!

Is this a YF-22 kit?  The fins were reduced in size for the F-22...

 

[Hobbes]

Yep, it was the YF kit.  

[Ollie]

Hence the hugeness of the fins!

 

[elmayerle]

Shouldn't that be "Windows ME"?  I've found Windows 2000 Pro to be quite stable.

[Supertom]

I concur with Evan.  Win2000 was one of the most stable Windows operating systems I've ever used.  WinME, however....

[NARSES2]

Didn't realise she was 1/144, great effort - you and Nick are the micro-surgeons of WIF.

[Hobbes]

I concur with Evan.  Win2000 was one of the most stable Windows operating systems I've ever used.  WinME, however....

For a desktop, Windows 2000 is fine (mostly). For a system that has lives depending on it, I'd want an OS that never, ever crashes. Windows is monolithic, with way too many features that you don't need in a combat system, but that can't be removed. And, you need a real-time OS, where you can guarantee a response time. In Windows, you can't do that.  

[Hobbes]

Didn't realise she was 1/144, great effort - you and Nick are the micro-surgeons of WIF.

Thanks. This one wasn't too bad, some of the other 1:144 planes have me going   because they contain details that are smaller than the resolution of my hands...

[elmayerle]

I concur with Evan.  Win2000 was one of the most stable Windows operating systems I've ever used.  WinME, however....

For a desktop, Windows 2000 is fine (mostly). For a system that has lives depending on it, I'd want an OS that never, ever crashes. Windows is monolithic, with way too many features that you don't need in a combat system, but that can't be removed. And, you need a real-time OS, where you can guarantee a response time. In Windows, you can't do that.

*Chuckle* Believe me, both the F/A-22 and the F-35 will have this.  That's one thing slowing down the F/A-22, getting the software right.  They've pretty much got it done, but still have some corners to smooth.  The F-35 is going to build on that and tech that's already been demonstrated and evaluated in the J/IST testbeds and the X-35.

[Nick]

Didn't realise she was 1/144, great effort - you and Nick are the micro-surgeons of WIF.

The F-22 in 1/144 is as big as a 1/72 Spitfire or Me109, I'm sure each of us has built something of that size!

Nice looking Raptor (or whatever the name is this month), now I've got to think of a different colour scheme for my F-22, that's when I find the canopy cos it's disappeared.....

Nick B)  

[Captain Canada]

Looking good, Hobbes !

And those fins are monstrous........

But I think the attack on Iran will come alot sooner......lets say, in Oct., if bush's numbers don't take off !

That'll be his 'big surprise', attacking another soverign nation for political gain.

Oops........getting political again !

It won't be an 'Invasion', tho.....too many recruits caught up in Afghanistan and Iraq already. Just a few bombs here and there, maybe Isreal will do the dirty work for them.

 

[lancer]

I concur with Evan.  Win2000 was one of the most stable Windows operating systems I've ever used.  WinME, however....

For a desktop, Windows 2000 is fine (mostly). For a system that has lives depending on it, I'd want an OS that never, ever crashes. Windows is monolithic, with way too many features that you don't need in a combat system, but that can't be removed. And, you need a real-time OS, where you can guarantee a response time. In Windows, you can't do that.

Oh you mean something like OS/400 then. This one has a 99.5% PROVEN reliability against crashes.....