My God, it's full of WIN!!!As they come up, we'll post them on Wednesday.
To review, to celebrate 100 Years of Naval Aviation, the Navy is painting some of its aircraft in retro-paint schemes. Today, the T-45C.
First off the block - the S-3B. More to follow.
I'm thinking we should paint the whole fleet of T-45s that way.
ReplyDeleteWhy not? its not like they need combat camouflage, anyway...
ReplyDeleteBeen considering figuring out how to "paint" airframes for FSX...I have a T-45, freeware, and I'm thinking the Abacus FSPaint will allow me to try to replicate this one and post it around the boards for general use. Not sure if I can get into the paid for S-3B one...but would be a nice little learning session.
ReplyDeleteIt could scream: We may be 100 years old, but we're raining pain on your a$$ from above!
ReplyDeleteGo see "Red", Willis' new flick...lots of references to "Grandpa" with subsequent "kids" getting put in their place by the old guys.
How's your T-45 freeware around the boat? I've never been able to tweek the default F-18 to fly worth a damn in the pattern.
ReplyDeleteShouldn't the fuselage be silver?
ReplyDeleteThat said , cool! Why not paint them all that way like xbradtc said?
Frankly - looks stupid to me, and hard to justify during a war. Declared or not. Then again, I'm a shoe. Maybe I'm missing something. but I think not.
ReplyDeleteHaven't had that many hours at FSX...and when I installed in Beast VI about 6 months ago...did a bunch of flying in the Grand Canyon...recorded 21 minutes in the weeds before dying in a cliff face...and thought I had 3 times before that, only to be still flying. OV-10 is the favorite for that trip. Tried an FA-18 once...pulled up, then began with F4Us, F8Fs, P51s, Spitfires before settling on the OV-10 as a great "ride"
ReplyDeleteLately been too busy go get on it, but I will have to say I have some many hours in BFBC2 and now MOH.
I'll be pleased when they do the red-and-white striped tails...
ReplyDeleteFuselage silver? Not necessarily...
ReplyDeleteIt is actually silver, the picture doesn't do it justice.
ReplyDeleteYour're right -- I stand corrected :)
ReplyDelete"OCTOBER 1938
15--A new specification prescribing color for naval aircraft was issued. Trainers were to be finished in orange-yellow overall with aluminum colored floats or landing gear. The color of service aircraft remained essentially as prescribed in 1925, aluminum overall with orange-yellow on wing and tail surfaces that were visible from above."
w/r, SJS
Lighten up a bit. Planes need to be painted regularly anyway, this is a training plane and it's not going to war, and if this were a combat aircraft it would be as effective an instrument of killing if it were painted hot pink as haze gray.
ReplyDeleteFrom where I sit and type, I can see the 1/72 scale T-45 I bought at the Last Square in Madison. It seems to me that that little critter might look good in the Yellow Peril paint scheme. Time to get out the airbrush!
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