The Impossible Camo: F/A-18 in Digital Scheme

By Alfonso Cesar

The subject is the awesome camo scheme that appeared in some of the famous VMFA-314 Black Knights circa 2003...not sure if they're still using it but anyway I couldn´t resist the challenge. For that matter I used the Academy 1/32 model along with the Aires cockpit and the Exterior set from Eduard along with patience, lots of patience, so here it is. Hope you like it!

This is a sample of the drawings I did to recreate the scheme. I did one for each view for each color (4 of them) and then paste them together as required, opposite to what you all might think I started from the darkest one simply because the lightest colors are also the ones with the most intricate pattern.

Up & down images...warning!!! some of the schemes in the upper fuselage were difficult to determine with the images available in internet so I had to figure them out...so don't get offended by my Peccata Minuta, OK?

The making of the model dates back some 5 years ago when I first got the idea. After doing all the investigation and producing the drawings I did a first try with a Fujimi 1/72 prior to going for the Behemoth. After that I had to take some vacations, modelistically speaking, as everything I saw was "pixelated"...

Here's a picture of Big Brother-Little Brother:


© Alfonso Cesar 2012

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This article was published on Saturday, January 05 2013; Last modified on Thursday, May 23 2013