Trying to have 1/72 fun with the 1940 McClellan- Barclay wacky camouflage schemes.

[spanner570]

Thanks Andy.
All good fun!

[Jim R]

That certainly makes for an eyecatching model. Neatly done. Masking that for airbrush painting would be very difficult and time consuming.

[spanner570]

Cheers Jim, thanks for the nice compliment.
I'm sure it could be masked, but it's so much quicker to simply follow a pencil line....Perhaps, maybe.

[Guest]

When they were actually tested in the air, the different blocks of colours tended to blur into one greyish shape.

I’m not all that surprised about that. The shapes seem pretty narrow, which won’t help to keep them visually distinct. This is also usually the major failing of the kinds of “camouflage” patterns you see irregular forces, rebels, etc. apply to their vehicles: lots of little dabs of paint that will just blend together with the background into one colour from a distance.

[spanner570]

I was going to keep the underside kind'a simple, similar to the Buffalo, but I thought, Nah! So I gave my imagination free rein.

The overall exercise is proving to be a difficult one , but in a perverse sort of way I'm enjoying it. Even if "The shapes seem pretty narrow, which won't help to keep them visually distinct."


Here is the lower surface of the fighter. Totally off the wall!

Ha! Let's see if the smart a****d ground defences can look up and figure out just what this is and its course, height and speed!




Cheers.
Ron

[Allen Dewire]

Well Ron, If your good lady uses her excellent chucking up skills and you are fast enough with the camera, we could find out how well the camo works!!!...

Prost
Allen

[spanner570]

Nice one Allen.
Unfortunately, (as I type) she is rubbing butter on the cat's boils and I don't want greasy stains on me moggle!

Cheers.
Ron

[Steve-the-Duck]

Ha! Let's see if the smart a****d ground defences can look up and figure out just what this is and its course, height and speed!


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Cheers.
Ron

In a word, 'Nope'

[yak face]

That looks superb matey , enough to hypnotise any observer! Loving the colours and patterns too ,
Regards Clarice Cliff

[spanner570]

Thanks Tony.

I'm chuffed you approve of this bit of 'Nonsense'. It's good, but a bit tough to do.

Love from the Potteries.
Arthur C. A. Shorter

[spanner570]

Just read my last post. "It's good" is not how I meant to write it! How snotty can you get! I meant it was good to do.....

Anyway, here is the finished aircraft.
I eventually went off on one and did my own thing, only loosely based on McC and B's concept.

It was a fun task, but hard to paint.

Freehand brush painted wiv them 'orid little pots of paint.....













I'll post a few more images over in Aircraft Completed asap.
Thanks for the support along the way.

Ron

[Jim R]

A great result Ron and a very interesting idea. The photos show it off perfectly.
It is "good". :smiling:

[Ian M]

This is what happens when you give Ron a cheap kit and some oop: paints. He builds it well and then paints it beyond belief! Nice one sir.

I read some place, probably in the Beano that Camouflage on aircraft was primarily to hide them on the ground. Lets face it an aircraft, in flight is a dark blob against a light sky.
Once that was figured out our 'Merican buddies gave up the paint and saved a good bit of weight (and cost/time which was put toward the extra maintenance costs.
Back on the topic.
A most excellent and entertaining thread Ron.

[Andy T]

That would certainly confuse the enemy,
Is it a bird?
Is it a plane?
No, it's super-Ron with his amazing brush work!

[Waspie]

That is some colour scheme!! Nice work. :thumb2: