USAF Aggressor Squadron paint set vol. 2

The blue and divided scheme of the enemy squadron

The second part of the selection for the squadrons playing the adversary goes a different way from the first. Instead of brown and green fields it bets on blue: the most conspicuous form has a saturated blue spine and lighter sides, another combines white with gray and the newest one breaks the surface up into divided areas with sharp edges. All three belong to units whose task is to imitate a foreign machine as faithfully as possible in exercises.

Six tones in the package

• Aggressor Blue — the most saturated blue of all three forms
• Air Superiority Blue — the lighter blue tone of the striking scheme
• White Grey — the white component of the snow and of the divided pattern
• Grey — the supplementary gray of the blue and the snow form
• Aggressor Grey — the leading edges and the radomes
• Mod Eagle Grey — the radome of the twin-engine machines

The wearers and the order of building

The blue and the snow form were carried by the single-engine F-16 of two training squadrons, and the divided pattern and some of the blue machines by the twin-engine F-15 of the third of them. The divided patterns have hard edges, so it is advisable to work with tape and to plan the order from the lightest surface to the darkest.

Lacquer paints dry quickly and form a firm layer onto which tape can be stuck sooner than with water-thinnable acrylics. Even so it pays to degrease the tape on a cloth before sticking it down, so that it does not tear off the edge of a field that is still fresh when pulled away.