loftycomfort Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 try masking this: http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Navy/...uper/1786924/L/ Terry Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lucas C. Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 try masking this:http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Navy/...uper/1786924/L/ Terry I got a headache just looking at it. Hmmm... maybe they should make that the new Navy cammo pattern to give the enemy vertigo in dogfights... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moose135 Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 I see they have stopped random drug testing in the Navy - someone had to be on crack when they designed that! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MikeC Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 (edited) Paging the team at Eduard ... :D Edited October 1, 2010 by MikeC Quote Link to post Share on other sites
G_Marcat_Italy Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 For the people interested to replicate a Digital Camo there is a help from Japan: The HIQPARTS Dot Matrix Tape!!!! LINK TO HLJ LINK to HIQPARTS Quote Link to post Share on other sites
galileo1 Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 WOW, this camo is awesome!! :D I look forward to someone here replicating this in scale... Rob Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom726 Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 "Unusual" is the first word that comes to mind!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RiderFan Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 Digital Camo has been around a while. This is an artists rendering of what was proposed for the CF-18's http://www.hyperstealth.com/ADP/AIR_CF-18_...f-40-70-132.jpg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spongebob Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 Eegads. There's a bad trend building here....lots of gaudy CAG birds recently. Spongebob Quote Link to post Share on other sites
goins6 Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Yeah, pretty unique, adventurous, artistic, I threw up in my mouth, colorful, and challenging to recreate!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobberwobber Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Ahh USAF have finally unlocked the secrets of the matrix. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RedHeadKevin Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Ahh USAF have finally unlocked the secrets of the matrix. Yeah, they know to stay away from it and let the Navy get caught in it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
172flogger Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 try masking this:http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Navy/...uper/1786924/L/ Terry No problem with a digital MIG-29AS and 1/72 Kopro or 1/48 Cartograf-Academy decals http://www.airplane-pictures.net/image49960.html Lukas Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Matt Shropshire Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 There is good digi-camo and bad digi-camo, that is painful digi-camo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GreyGhost Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Just because you can doesn't mean you should ... Gregg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
goins6 Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 I think she might look a little better after a nice dirty, spot painted deployment..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
f4h1phantom Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 (edited) I like this one better: Don't foresee the technology will be available to any decal manufacturer to release a sheet any sooner than 20 years from now though! Jorge. Edited October 3, 2010 by f4h1phantom Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mingwin Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 first viper pic don't look realistic... even if authentic... secon pic is far more convincing... and confusing! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mingwin Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 same topic subject Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jay Chladek Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Oh no, the Matrix is failing. Our world as we know it is really a 3D construct and it is falling apart. I know this because the airplanes are starting to DE-RES!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spejic Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 I like it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wh1skea Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Talk about "Vintage WW2 color scheme FAIL" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
utley Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 The navy FA18F demo team use digi cammies on some of their ships, but not that abstract. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mark M. Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 f4h1phantom, those look horribly photoshopped... awful, really. Yes, this goes all the way back to WW2. They tried these and many more schemes (look at the breakup patterns on german warships, for example!) as well as single colors (PRU blue, PRU pink, coral pink, etc) and even tried many lights around the frame of a B-24 to break up the shape and keep people from telling what a plane was. It's a throwback to an older age. With the new focus on stealth technology, this digital camo is really obsolete, IMO. It's something for long range visual disruption, and generally speaking probably about as effective as standard camo. It's much better for blending into closer colors rather than blending into skies, hence why modern US ground forces have uniforms with it (blending into trees, ground clutter, etc). IMO not really suited to aircraft. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spejic Posted October 5, 2010 Share Posted October 5, 2010 Yes, this goes all the way back to WW2. It's older than that. But I don't think your "this" is what you think it is. Digital camouflage (which is new) is the complete opposite of dazzle camouflage (which is a century old). Even though the F-18 in question is done in rectangular shapes, it is much closer to the dazzle style rather than digital style. Digital camouflage takes advantage of the dithering effect to create the impression of blending of colors at distance. It is designed to hide the object painted with that effect. Dazzle camouflage is designed to hide the outline and details of an object that is going to be seen anyway. Extreme contrasts of paint make shadows of intakes, pylons, flap actuators, cockpits, and so on difficult to see but does not try to hide the plane. Actually, Navy aggressor aircraft have a history of doing things similar to this, although instead of destroying the shape they try to create new ones, such as painting A-4's so they have outlines of MiG-19's or F/A-18's so they have the outlines and details of a Su-27. Painting false cockpits under aircraft is another example of camouflage that is designed to be seen, but screws with your perceptions when you see them. With the new focus on stealth technology, this digital camo is really obsolete, IMO. It's something for long range visual disruption, and generally speaking probably about as effective as standard camo. Paint is a stealth technology. Radar isn't the only way to detect an aircraft. They won't be painting F-22's in orange just because you can't see them on radar. Instead they got the hardest to see colors yet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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