Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Retro Wednesday

As Brad said last Saturday,
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.

14 comments:

xbradtc said...

I'm thinking we should paint the whole fleet of T-45s that way.

ewok40k said...

Why not? its not like they need combat camouflage, anyway...

xformed said...

Been 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.

xformed said...

It could scream:  We may be 100 years old, but we're raining pain on your a$$ from above!

Go see "Red", Willis' new flick...lots of references to "Grandpa" with subsequent "kids" getting put in their place by the old guys.

xbradtc said...

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.

WCOG said...

Shouldn't the fuselage be silver?

That said , cool! Why not paint them all that way like xbradtc said?

Old Salt 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.

xformed said...

Haven'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"

Lately been too busy go get on it, but I will have to say I have some many hours in BFBC2 and now MOH.

Wonderduck said...

I'll be pleased when they do the red-and-white striped tails...

Steeljaw said...

Fuselage silver?  Not necessarily...

SNAnonymous said...

It is actually silver, the picture doesn't do it justice.

Steeljaw said...

Your're right -- I stand corrected :)
"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

GIMP said...

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. 

SCOTTtheBADGER said...

From 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!