New USMC Harrier Scheme

[MIKE JG]

Any of you talented painters want to take this one on? Seems to be a new scheme that is floating around on a couple of the Cherry Point Harriers.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3645/379 ... 8138_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2513/379 ... 4e5c_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3551/379 ... d7f7_b.jpg

Here are the birds with this new scheme so far:

VMA-231 / CG-20 / BuNo 163879 / AV-8B NA

VMA-223 / WP-08 / BuNo 165488 / AV-8B +

VMAT-203 noted in OP

VMA-214 / WE-27 / BuNo 164134 / AV-8B NA

[Garysb]

Would you class those as High Viz Low Viz markings ?


Gary

[Joecoastie]

Would you class those as High Viz Low Viz markings ?


Gary

Yes.

[MIKE JG]

Low vis for night attack.

[Flyin Illini]

Quite a few out of yuma are sporting it now too. I know a couple VMA-311 have them.

[MIKE JG]

Aaron, do you have any pics of the Yuma ones? I've only found one online so far for a Yuma based bird.

[Flyin Illini]

http://www.fencecheck.com/forums/index. ... 6.540.html

Very bottom

[MIKE JG]

Doh! I'd forgotten that one was a Yuma bird, thanks Aaron.

[Graham King]

Mike, here is one with I think what are the correct colours: http://www.king.eclipse.co.uk/Packages/ ... AV8B_T.zip Let me think on it a couple of days to see if I think the colours are correct. It is for the AV-8plus model.

There is still some work to do with moving and adding decals and I have not gone over the whole aircraft to see if there are any other changes.

I decided this photo probably showed the colours best.

[MIKE JG]

Yea that's probably the best lit shot of them all so far. The USMC is now painting CAG/Boss' Bird colors on the tails of their Harriers as well, some pretty cool schemes out there now. We'll have plenty of new material to update the Yuma package with.

[Victory103]

Graham,
As always great job on the paint. I have been following the series of new scheme pics on Fencecheck and starting to see more as each squadron sends one off to paint. A Harrier driver on another forum mentioned they send one at a time.

[MIKE JG]

Looks great!

[Victory103]

Just doing some repaint research and noticed this scheme looks alot like the one applied to USN MH-53E Sea Dragons, hmm...

[MIKE JG]

It also looks like the scheme being used on the Air Force's MV-22 Ospreys.

[flyerkg]

Would you class those as High Viz Low Viz markings ?


Gary

Yep,

The question is "How bright can you make a dark plane?"

Keith

[MIKE JG]

Another one spotted recently:

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm20 ... C_1156.jpg

[Flyin Illini]

Ive heard rumors that all jets may switch to this.

[bitburgeaglekeeper]

Ive seen several of the new schemes at Williams Gateway out side of Phoenix VMA 311(Tomcats), and VMA 211 (Wake Avengers) from Yuma, as well as a Vampire from China Lake.