1/72 F-5E VA-45 "desert snake" scheme

[Brian Kerr]

Hi everyone,

I want to paint my navy F-5E in desert snake camo. The aircraft in question is Red 31 of VA-45. My question is what are the FS numbers for the green, brown and tan. Also does anyone have a over head photo of the wings showing the paint scheme.

Thank you.

Brian

[mirage@enthusiast]

Hi!

Try this one... may help you

http://www.cybermodeler.com/aircraft/f-5e/f-5e_scheme04.shtml

Cheers Polo

[Rex]

I have some old IPMS pamphlets from the early '80s,,,,,,,the Snake drawing and color call outs match up perfectly with that online color guide for "Snake" pattern

[Brian Kerr]

Thank you for the help. As I paint with humbrol paint would you have idea as to what to use for the green and brown as the cyber model site showed no match for these two colours

[mirage@enthusiast]

Hi!

Try this page:

http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff_eng_colorcharts_fs.htm

or this site (it was renewed some days ago)

http://www.paint4models.com/

Cheers Polo

[Jay Chladek]

Thank you for the help. As I paint with humbrol paint would you have idea as to what to use for the green and brown as the cyber model site showed no match for these two colours

Are you able to get Tamiya shades where you live? Given the Cybermodeler listing has those colors as well, they might get you by for this build.

Only other paint color listings I have that are of a different brand are for the OLD Airfix paints (before Humbrol) listing the snake and lizard schemes (I always thought "snake" was just the tan and brown scheme while "lizard" was the one that incorporated the green shade into the same basic pattern).

[Rex]

I don't know, now, Jay

the pamphlet labels Snake as the three color and Lizard as the two color

there is no guarantee that they have it right, though,,,,,I am just repeating what it says

wasn't there a Detail & Scale book on these aircraft?,,,,,I don't have it, but, it might be of help?

[Brian Kerr]

I don't know, now, Jay

the pamphlet labels Snake as the three color and Lizard as the two color

there is no guarantee that they have it right, though,,,,,I am just repeating what it says

wasn't there a Detail & Scale book on these aircraft?,,,,,I don't have it, but, it might be of help?

The A/C I want to do is an ex AF bird transferred to the navy Sqdn VA-45 I believe in this scheme. I found the photo in the book about Key West.

Regards Brian

[mirage@enthusiast]

Hi!

Here is another snake scheme:

http://www.jpsmodell.de/dc/draw/f5snake.jpg

for the paint try this site:

http://www.paint4models.com/

you just select the paint from many different producer and type the FS number it it is give the paint production number....it has a very wide range from humbrol to tamiya trough the valleyo, model master etc.... i think all nowadays available paint model is in the conversation chart....

Polo

Edited July 15, 2012 by mirage@enthusiast

[Andre]

wasn't there a Detail & Scale book on these aircraft?

Yup.

- Colors & Markings of the U.S. Navy Adversary Aircraft - Bert Kinzey and Ray Leader, ISBN 0830685308

- F-5 E & F Tiger II in detail & scale: USAF & USN aggressor aircraft - Bert Kinzey, ISBN 0816850151

Cheers,

Andre

[Camus272]

From C&M 11:

Snake = 34258 Green / 30118 Brown / 33531 Yellow

Lizard (Old) = 33531 Yellow/ 30118 Brown

Lizard (New) = 30117/33613 mix / 33613/30117 mix

The Key West Superbase book states that 31 was delivered in the Snake scheme, and it looks like those are indeed the colors.

Brian

[Aggressor01]

Hi everyone,

I want to paint my navy F-5E in desert snake camo. The aircraft in question is Red 31 of VA-45. My question is what are the FS numbers for the green, brown and tan. Also does anyone have a over head photo of the wings showing the paint scheme.

Thank you.

Brian

FS#s for American F-5 aggressors