The tactical camouflage of combat aircraft of the end of the Cold War in eight tones: ocher, two browns, a sandy beige, two greens and the faded blue of the undersurfaces.
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The turn of the 1970s and 1980s brought a marked change to ground-attack and fighter-bomber machines. Simple gray-green finishes gave way to divided patterns of ocher, brown and green fields, which were to hide a machine over stony slopes, dried-out valleys and dusty plateaus. The pattern was not drawn from a single master, so two machines of the same unit could look noticeably different, and it is exactly this irregularity that makes building a model interesting.
The make-up aims straight at these combinations. A medium brown and a yellow-brown make the warm fields, an ocher and a sandy beige lighten them, a deep green and a lighter green tone give the cooler parts of the pattern and a pale blue-gray serves as a transition. The faded blue of the undersurfaces then closes the whole off from below.
Finding a period photograph of a particular machine and sketching the layout of the fields on paper first works well. The paints are laid on from the lightest areas, and a darker tone then easily covers an overrun. The boundaries are sharp on some machines and blurred on others, so both solutions may well appear on one model. It pays to even the result out slightly at the end with a thin translucent coat, so that the fields do not look stuck on.
The palette will serve ground-attack aircraft, fighter-bombers and helicopters of the same period.
On a divided pattern the markings are easily lost. Stars, numbers and lettering are therefore worth laying on only once all the fields are finished, and perhaps over a thin layer of a lighter tone, or the dark brown will literally swallow them.
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