Supertom Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Well I'll be! I was about to paint my F-14 when I looked at the paint sheet, and it said that it should be a three-tone of FS36320 (dark ghost grey) on the nose and forward fuselage, FS36375 on the lower fuselage (light ghost grey) and FS36237 (dark gull grey) on the rear/upper fuselage! When'd that happen?! I always thought it was two-tone like the F-18s! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bullet101 Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Generally AFAIK tomcats have always been 3-tone since the introduction of the TPS scheme, although TPS now seems to vary from squadron to squadron, so check your refs for the bird you're doing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bullet101 Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 (edited) VF-213, 41 and 14 are the three i can think of off the top of my head that have gone to single tone schemes. I have never seen a picture of a VF-2 bird that was not TPS, same goes for VF-143. As i said refs are all important so what bird are you doing? Edited February 15, 2005 by Bullet101 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Supertom Posted February 15, 2005 Author Share Posted February 15, 2005 VF-31, of course. Yeah, three tone. I need to have it finished by Saturday, so it'll be tricky since I was expecting a two-tone paint job. Good thing I've got some Tamiya XF-54 (very close match). Heck, I'll be weathering it anyway. Thanks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VFA-103guy Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 According to the maint. report I have from FITWING ATLANTIC, the F-14 is to be painted using the following colors: 35237 top side 36320 forward fuselage sides and outboard sponsons (the tails and outer portions where the engine fairings are) 36375 under surfaces Also, not all squadrons follow this, I think VF-213 being the exception. Brian Marbrey Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ishthe47guy Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Bullet, VF-2 has flown F-14s way back from when they had the gloss gull/white scheme in the 70's. Chris Ish Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bullet101 Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 Yeah i know, i was taking about since TPS was introduced Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Skull Leader Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Take fade and wear into consideration also. If you're building a bird late in the cruise (usually builder preference), it's more often going to "look" like it's down to 2 or even 1 of those colors. Especially line birds that don't get the color treatment. Some of those VF-103 linebirds got to looking pretty ragged by the time they rolled in to Oceana for the last time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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