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Couldn't agree more. Tough enough when it was no longer the home of NFWS...then the Navy left completely. Not that I have any issue with the Marines; believe me, they have my undying admiration, gratitude, and awe...it's just too strange to have the name there is all.

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My first thought when I saw the pictures was "Dang, no red striped tails" but after seeing neu's profile with the Tomcat, it is starting to grow on me. I personally like the red tail tips as it helps make the jet look a little more distinctive as there are IMHO already TOO many black and yellow tailed Superbugs out there (and one black and red with VFA-14, but to my knowledge, nobody has used all three colors). The CAW-8 patch on the inside tails looks NICE! The black spine also looks nice, even in with the absense of the "pencil" black radome. I agree it would look like a YF-17 with a black radome, but that is one reason I LIKED the black radome. Now if the regs would allow dark ghost gray tail lines for the Felix, like 31s low vis Tomcats, then I can live without the red striped tails for now on the CAG jet. I suppose it could also be said that if Felix is a black cat, then black should be a featured color on a VFA-31 jet.

Give it a cruise or two and I'm sure this paintjob will change as the Superbugs come back to Oceana for their paintshop visits. I am more of a fan of the F models with their two seater cockpits, but I do have a Revell Superbug E model in my stash and I will still do it up in THESE colors if a decal sheet gets issued. It still has more personality then most of the other Superhornet paintjobs out there IMHO.

Nice work to everyone on ARC who submitted painting recommendations to the squadron BTW. Not everything got used (nor can it) but we saw some nice creativity.

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Well, true...VF-11 is living proof of the beauty of black tails with red tips....

Ah, but you're mistaken. VF-11 had Insignia Blue tails with red tips. Granted, they were still beautiful tails, though! :)

I don't think it's the red tips that are the problem. I think it's the red mixed with the yellow on the Felix disc. They kind of clash. Maybe if the red were a brighter red. It seems a little dark.

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Yellow would look better, but red is correct for the 100 modex. Mind you there does not seem to be any logic in the current CVW make up. And very few squadrons follow the old 50's style colour codes regarding the modex.

100 red

200 yellow

300 blue

400 orange

500 green etc.

Some CVW's have the F as the 100 squadron, in CVW-8 s case its VFA-31 with the E. Therefore leaving VFA-213 as the 200 .

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Ah, but you're mistaken. VF-11 had Insignia Blue tails with red tips. Granted, they were still beautiful tails, though! :(

I don't think it's the red tips that are the problem. I think it's the red mixed with the yellow on the Felix disc. They kind of clash. Maybe if the red were a brighter red. It seems a little dark.

Okay, you got me! They just looked black to a non-11 specialist. :banana:

How about a white Felix disc, like they had in the old days? Better mix with the red?

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Yellow would look better, but red is correct for the 100 modex. Mind you there does not seem to be any logic in the current CVW make up. And very few squadrons follow the old 50's style colour codes regarding the modex.

100 red

200 yellow

300 blue

400 orange

500 green etc.

Some CVW's have the F as the 100 squadron, in CVW-8 s case its VFA-31 with the E. Therefore leaving VFA-213 as the 200 .

The first I really noticed that pattern, I also noticed right off the bat that VF-143 Pukin' Dogs never seemed to conform with that either, with their 1xx modex....

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I think SOPs of the time mandated the white color and not yellow on the aircraft. You're correct, the white circle is more historically accurate but me thinks the yellow adds more contrast. We have not seen the fuel tanks so maybe the white fields will show up there.

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Thanks. I have a cat named Felix and while searching for the Felix logo found the Felix the Cat Fan Club and that clip art. Thought it was funny enough to use as my avatar. If I were the CO of VF(A)-31, the 101 bird would have red tails, black fin caps and the white circle with Felix inisde. The swosh would also be reversed with Red surrounded by black.

felix.gif

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Thanks. I have a cat named Felix and while searching for the Felix logo found the Felix the Cat Fan Club and that clip art. Thought it was funny enough to use as my avatar. If I were the CO of VF(A)-31, the 101 bird would have red tails, black fin caps and the white circle with Felix inisde. The swosh would also be reversed with Red surrounded by black.

felix.gif

Now THAT would look sharp!

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