Best/Favorite Paint Schemes

[Logan Hartke]

Here's something I was thinking about recently. You're the new defense minister for a medium size nation (think France or similar). You get to pick what the predominate biome is in this fictitious country, though (temperate, desert, jungle, tundra, etc.).



Part of the mandate of your office, however, is to institute what your branches look like. I'm only going to give you four branches to work with:

• AIR FORCE -  Including but not limited to:
  fighters
  ground attack/strike aircraft
  AEW&C
  tankers
  airlift assets
  trainers
  CSAR helicopters
  UCAVs
  
  
• ARMY -  Including but not limited to:
  attack helicopters
  heavy lift helicopters
  observation and light attack aircraft
  light transport aircraft
  tactical transport helicopters
  scout helicopters
  liaison helicopters
  special forces helicopters
  
  
• NAVY -  Including but not limited to:
  ASW helicopters
  carrier-based aircraft
  maritime patrol aircraft
  maritime strike aircraft
  minesweeping helicopters
  marine corps aviation
  
  


• CIVIL GUARD -  Including but not limited to:
  coast guard patrol aircraft
  coast guard SAR helicopters
  homeland security AEW&C
  gendarmerie helicopters
  border patrol aircraft
  forestry service firebombers

The services don't get to distinguish between combat and non-combat aircraft. They don't get different schemes for rotary vs. fixed-wing assets. Even the size of the aircraft doesn't warrant it for a different paint scheme. There can be slight variety (scale of the pattern, for example), but you only get to pick one paint scheme for each service.

So, what 4 paint schemes would you choose to represent your entire military & paramilitary aviation inventory?

BONUS: Is there a paint scheme that you'd choose for the army to paint all its vehicles?

Cheers,

Logan

[NARSES2]

Well you mention France in your introduction and personally I think that for the Airforce and Army of a temperate climate nation the French pre/early WWII scheme of Brun Fonce, Gris Bleu Fonce, Khaki Francais and Gris Bleu Clair would work. (So roughly dark brown, medium grey, greenish khaki and light grey)

Navy - a medium grey overall, maybe medium grey hull, lighter grey superstructure.

Civil Guard - Overall gloss white with a nice bright red stripe.

Note that I haven't chosen the WWII French colours simply because you mentioned France. I just think they'd be fairly effective

[scooter]

Considering I've already done this, to some extent, with Tsingtao.
Lozenge and Austro-Hungarian "relish" with subdued markings; Küstenwache- white with blue tips, band, and tail.

[Logan Hartke]

This is a thread that needs pictures.

Well you mention France in your introduction and personally I think that for the Airforce and Army of a temperate climate nation the French pre/early WWII scheme of Brun Fonce, Gris Bleu Fonce, Khaki Francais and Gris Bleu Clair would work. (So roughly dark brown, medium grey, greenish khaki and light grey)

Navy - a medium grey overall, maybe medium grey hull, lighter grey superstructure.

Civil Guard - Overall gloss white with a nice bright red stripe.

Note that I haven't chosen the WWII French colours simply because you mentioned France. I just think they'd be fairly effective

So you're saying something like this, NARSES2?

Army & Air Force:


Navy:


Civil Guard:


Cheers,

Logan

[Logan Hartke]

Considering I've already done this, to some extent, with Tsingtao.
Lozenge and Austro-Hungarian "relish" with subdued markings; Küstenwache- white with blue tips, band, and tail.

So...?

Army/Air Force:


Navy:


Civil Guard:


Cheers,

Logan

[scooter]

Considering I've already done this, to some extent, with Tsingtao.
Lozenge and Austro-Hungarian "relish" with subdued markings; Küstenwache- white with blue tips, band, and tail.

So...?

Army/Air Force:


Navy:


Civil Guard:


Cheers,

Logan

Exactly

[NARSES2]

So you're saying something like this, NARSES2?

Army & Air Force:


Navy:


Civil Guard:


Cheers,

Logan

I am indeed Logan, thank you  The beauty of the French Air Force scheme was that it was applied without strict guidelines so there was quite a variation in pattern and colour usage between individual aircraft. So you could vary the pattern to some extent depending on how the aircraft was expected to be used. If that's allowed of course ?

[rickshaw]

Downunder:

Air Force - for units operating in the Top End - a semi-arid scheme, predominately Ochre red, tan and black.  For units operating in the southern climes, a scheme predominately grey and green with black.  Both wrap around.

Army - predominately green with variations of ochre yellow and black.

Navy - light grey with splotches of darker grey, wrap around.

[Logan Hartke]

Hey, Rickshaw! Any pictures illustrating examples of those?

Cheers,

Logan

[zenrat]

I will call my imaginary country Trumptonistan.

Navy - Sea Grey


Air Force - Sky Grey


Army - Field Grey


Civil Guard - Urban Grey


National Guard - Wall Grey

[rickshaw]

Hey, Rickshaw! Any pictures illustrating examples of those?

Cheers,

Logan

Top End scheme - Mirage 4000 RAAF:



Caribou



Temperate scheme -



Army Scheme - Leopard AS1



Naval Aircraft Cam:

[Spey_Phantom]

my favorite paintscheme, that is due to dissapear with the retirement of the type in march next year,
is the sand/green camo with orange nose/tails as used on Belgium's Westland Seakings

[Air21]

What about for Maritime Patrol?

P-3's alone come in a number of schemes, wrap around dark blue, two tone gray with white tops, overall gray both matte and gloss

P-8's come in super slick glossy gray all over

Nimrods had that weird green

Atlantiques come in blue and gray

Shackeltons came in blue and gray schemes...

Now fast forward to 2018, Maritime Patrol planes are being used for overland surveillance, what scheme do you use on what has essentially become a low to medium altitude persistent surveillance platform?

[PR19_Kit]

Nimrods had that weird green

Green?

Not that I can recall. They started off in medium grey with white uppers, then went to hemp, a light sandy colour, and some had light grey undersides as well, and finished up all medium-light grey.

[dadlamassu]

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