New aircraft, new colors?

Terry Sofian All Messages By This Member #92 I'm putting together at least one and possibly two, new squadrons (and I may finally be able to put some US Army Mustangs into play!) One squadron is of high wing monoplane Cayley pusher planes with a twin tail and a centrally mounted internal combustion engine. They are two-seaters and optimized for air to air combat, being faster than the bugs and having a heavy armament of forward firing automatic weapons.? The other model I'm working on will be an intermediate sized aerolyth?flyer. It should have a three-man?crew, two forward and one in a tail turret. It will have a pair of swiveling?ducted fan propellors and twin tails. The basic fuselage will be a 1/72 scale Hawker Sea Hawk.? Wing roots will be from the Sea Hawk, with the jet intakes being used as air intakes for the internal engine and the jet exhaust being extended as an exhaust/smoke pipe.? The outer wings (which are mostly used to hold extra aerolyth?panels, carrying ordnance and providing control and control surfaces) might be from an A-10 in 1/100 scale.. I'll cut the wingtips off but might leave the wheel nacelles on as hardpoints or something else. The question?is; who is operating these craft? I might do the airplanes in US Navy late prewar colors. I'm not sure about the bigger craft.? Since these are fighting The Hive in my setting it means that there is little reason for craft to be painted in colors to mute them in air to air combat. The flying bugs have excellent hearing as well as fairly decent eyesight into the infrared. On the ground some camouflage is helpful in visible light, some most ground landers have some sort of cryptic colors.? Not sure about the colors for the bigger craft. I'm not even sure which nationality they are from. I haven't done anything for the Triple Empire (Spain, Portugal, and Brasil). Maybe that should be that country? Something like the Spanish aircraft from the Spanish Civil War? Terry Sofian tsofian@...
Dan G All Messages By This Member #96 Greetings Terry and All, GO NAVY! (colors) --- Hey, what did you expect from an Old Salt??? LOL I've always been a fan of the "Flying Circus" type color schemes where camouflage is not an issue. With your heat sensing Bugs I reckon camouflage would be about as useful on them as it is on a heat seeking missile. (and, IMO, the same would go for spacecraft in near any universe. As exemplified by B-5's Star Furies.) = Might as well go whole hog. = Garish tiger stripes, bird-of-prey wing feather patterns, clown or lionfish patterns, snake patterns, hot-rod flames, etc??? In the HQ&C universe this could even replace the Nose Art of ours.?The only drawback might be with squadron recognition in mixed squadron and/or mixed national forces combat where pilots have to rely on the old Mark-I Eyeball to keep together with their mates. But easily gotten around (and might even prove beneficial) if each squadron boasted its own color scheme.? Looking forward to seeing what you come up with! Keep It FUN! Dan G?

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