Royal Netherlands AF Paint Set Vol.1

The Dutch helicopter fleet in eight tones

The set follows one country and one kind of equipment, but across its whole postwar history. The yellowish olive RAL 6014 covered the light Alouette III machines from the beginning of the eighties and the liaison Bo-105 from the seventies to the middle of the nineties. It was then that the turn to a divided camouflage came.

The alliance trio and the modern grays

A green, a brown and a black make up the pattern that from the middle of the nineties was worn by the multirole AS532U2 Cougar and Bo-105CB machines, while the heavy Chinook of the D version flew entirely in green. The AH-64D Apache gunships received the American helicopter drab FS 34031, that is the same shade as the machines overseas. The newer guise of the transport helicopters is gray: the dark tone FS 36118 is carried by the upgraded Cougars and the Chinooks of the F version.

The last two shades stand a little apart. The light gull gray FS 36440 belongs to the naval NH90 and to the patrol P-3 Orion in their final guise, and the cobalt blue RAL 5013 to the Alouette III machines of the flight that provided flights for the royal family, which was disbanded in 2015. The set therefore makes it possible to put a ceremonial and a combat machine side by side and to keep a documented color difference between them.

• Eight shades of Dutch helicopter equipment
• The olive guise of the Alouette III and Bo-105 machines
• The alliance green, brown and black from the middle of the nineties
• The helicopter drab of the AH-64D Apache gunships
• The cobalt blue of the flight for the royal family