article JM. Villalba JM. Villalba Workshop is the namesake company of the famous Spanish modeler JM Villalba. An internationally recognized, acclaimed, respected and influential modeler, Mr. Juan Manuel Villalba. Known for his books and articles,…
article Workbench & Hobby Room WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION / BASIC PACKAGE for your start Basic list of Necessary materials and tools for the initial but also necessary organization and equipment of your workshop as a first…
article Photo-Reconnaissance Camouflage In the period 1942-1945, the USAAF was approached by a Boston paint manufacturer known as Samuel Cabot with a proposal for a new white Haze paint that allegedly rendered aircraft close to…
article Tactical Paint Camouflage.US Navy 1980 Concerns over the detectability of the LGG/IW scheme resulted in the development of so-called Tactical Paint Schemes from 1976, a process that took various years with final evaluations taking…
article Aegean Ghost Camouflage Inspired by the camouflage of the USN F-16N Aggressors, Ghost Gray or “Aegean Ghost” developed in the late 1980s, is the variant worn by all Greek F-16 Vipers, F-4E AUP Phantom…
article Heater-Ferris U.S. NAVY Camouflage In 1983-84 another experimental camouflage based on the Ferris scheme was developed by Lt. Cmdr. Chuck ‘Heater’ Heatley of the Naval Fighter Weapons School. The new scheme (popularly called Heater-Ferris)…
article Tactical Paint Schemes Camouflage 1976 In 1976, Tactical Paint Schemes were adopted, an ambitious new camouflage technique proposed by Keith Ferris, a noted aviation artist. This so-called Ferris Scheme featured high-contrast fragment patterns as…
article US Navy Vietnam War Camouflage 1971-1980 The introduction of MIL-C-18263F(AS) on 29 June 1971 made some modest changes to the prevailing scheme, namely that the entire surface of the aircraft was given a gloss sheen.…
article US Navy Vietnam War Camouflage 1955-1971 From the mid-1950s, the US Navy adopted a much lighter two-tone gray camo for its carrier aircraft that would be one of the longest lasting schemes ever used…
article USAAF painted with RAF camouflage patterns Upon the entry of the US into World War II, many USAAF aircraft were painted in approximations of RAF camouflage schemes. These included equivalents to the Temperate Land…
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