It is also experimentation and builds some ship's pride in being unique, and that is good.
LCS-1 is in dire need of a paint job in any event.
Anyway - if you can't have a war horse, which LCS isn't yet; if you can't have a work horse, which LCS will never be; then you probably have a show pony. If you are going to have a show pony - make it look as good as you can. Play the hand you have.
We chatted it a bit yesterday - so here you go. LCS-1's new paint scheme Earl Scheib will give her before her "deployment" to Singapore.
Salamander approves.
Look at some of her peers' paint jobs ... and though we'll see once it gets put on - but how about the HOUBEI:
.... and the VISBY:
OK. I think we have them beat in aesthetics, but as for those funny things making smoke .... let's not talk about that right now.
Well we won't ... but if you would like to snark along like we did yesterday, I highly recommend Spencer's article from the other day.
