Comments on: Camoflage and Cognitive Dissonance.

Camoflage and Cognitive Dissonance.

not_that_epiphanius — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:38:17 -0800

A bunch of fighter aircraft, real and imagined, with alternate paintschemes.

By: rebent

rebent — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:51:34 -0800

these are flat out awesome. As long as we're talking aircraft paintjobs, though, have you ever seen my Bristol F2B? (action shot) (you get ten bonus points if you recognize the picture)

By: porpoise

porpoise — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:57:55 -0800

dazzle camouflage?

By: rebent

rebent — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:29:07 -0800

ah, I found it. It's Earthquake, 1979 by by Shigeru Komatsuzaki

By: jiawen

jiawen — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:43:21 -0800

Reminds me of Ted Nomura's Tigers of Terra comic series, which was largely an excuse to do ultra-detailed technical drawings of fighter planes, old and new, in various countries' paint schemes.

By: Artw

Artw — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:58:43 -0800

Heh. Blue Angel Su 27 - that'd be quite a show.

By: ovvl

ovvl — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:11:50 -0800

Part 43: Eurofighter Typhoon of the Canadian Air Force. Has the excellent generic text "Canada" in the instantly recognizable bland bureaucratic Canadian font.

By: blaneyphoto

blaneyphoto — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:18:48 -0800

Heh. Blue Angel Su 27 - that'd be quite a show. posted by Artw Maybe, but I'll never forget those Blue Angel A4s doing test runs past the battery in Charleston, SC. So, so close to the river. Crazy stuff.

By: Purposeful Grimace

Purposeful Grimace — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:29:06 -0800

Wow, that's truly a labor of love. I know I'm not supposed to enjoy war toys but those would be a treat to own. I'm not sure my partner or my workmates would be able to put up with me running around making machine gun noises during highly contested dogfights though. I also learned three valuable things from this post: 1. The Germans of WWI had the BEST palette and design schemes ever. I'm particularly fond of those hexagon patterns. 2. We need to cease all F-16 sales to the Vatican City posthaste. 3. I need to enlist in the Turkish Air Force immediately, just to qualify for this paint scheme.

By: the noob

the noob — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:55:01 -0800

Sorry US But the Russians shit on you in jet fighter aesthetics. The Germans of WWI had the BEST palette and design schemes ever. I'm particularly fond of those hexagon patterns. No, the US did when they started painting thunderbolts and mustangs silver and not giving a shit about camouflage

By: elgilito

elgilito — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 03:11:15 -0800

They missed the Israeli Messerschmitt 109. That was not a fantasy though.

By: Pyrogenesis

Pyrogenesis — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 04:56:59 -0800

Do all CIA aircraft have Playboy bunnies on them?

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 06:20:56 -0800

No, the US did when they started painting thunderbolts and mustangs silver and not giving a shit about camouflage That wasn't paint. It was the bare aluminum metal. Especially as the allies gained air superiority, it was determined that camouflaging aircraft didn't really help anything, especially with bombers. When flying, the contrails would point straight to the planes anyway. And, the weight savings by leaving the planes unpainted meant they flew just a bit faster. As for these illustrations...Fantastic stuff. Great bit of whimsy.

By: Ironmouth

Ironmouth — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 07:32:07 -0800

Heh. Blue Angel Su 27 - that'd be quite a show. posted by Artw Maybe, but I'll never forget those Blue Angel A4s doing test runs past the battery in Charleston, SC. So, so close to the river. Crazy stuff. My uncle's dad lived in Pensacola where the Blue Angels home NAS is. He had commanded a B-52, an airbase and retired a full-bird Air Force Colonel. Somehow the Blue Angels found out he lived there and found out where his house was. Every morning training run then began with a low run over his house. That's interservice rivalry for you.

By: yqxnflld

yqxnflld — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 08:18:26 -0800

RCAF 2011 CF-18 demo jet paint scheme. Complete gallery.

By: ambivalentic

ambivalentic — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:36:22 -0800

By "alternative" I was expecting F-16s with Hello Kitty paint jobs. Oh well.

By: Artw

Artw — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:38:34 -0800

All will fall before the mighty Sanrio air force!

By: MartinWisse

MartinWisse — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:24:11 -0800

The Hello Kitty destroyer of worlds cruise missile.

By: Thistledown

Thistledown — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:09:13 -0800

Times have changed. Used to be: If it was weird, it was French If it was ugly, it was British If it was weird AND ugly, it was Russian.

By: ovvl

ovvl — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:08:37 -0800

RCAF 2011 CF-18 demo jet paint scheme. Any single aircraft with the dreaded "Government of Canada" font painted on its fuselage is worth an entire squadron for the sheer terror it evokes.