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A bit of a non-update, but an important one for future reference seekers.
I (again) haven't been able to spend much time at the table with family vacations and such, but as I posted at the beginning of the month, I sprayed the Aggressor Gray (FS 36251). (Colour is not spelled incorrectly, I'm a Canuck!) Tonight, or over the next several days, I plan on spraying the Ocean Gray (FS36176).
The problem with the updated "Mod-Eagle" is that their paint is incredibly varied with how it shows up in photographs. As I haven't been lucky enough to stand beside an actual F-15 for almost 20 years, I have to rely heavily on Airliners.net for exterior research pictures. Therein lies the rub.
I am building F-15C 84-031, which has recently (since 2008) been assigned to Portland, and when researching the colours (!) i nearly drove myself mad. Then it finally dawned on me; this paint appears variable depending on the light source and angle as shown below.
I am using this picture to assist masking the Ocean Gray on the top fuselage, it looks very light
From the starboard side, she still looks fairly light.
Aww, I give up. The Ocean Gray is almost blue! (FYI, Gray is not spelled incorrectly either, it's Yankee Paint!)
So here's what I did. I went onto http://www.cybermodeler.com/aircraft/f-15/f-15_profile02.shtml and started to pull my hair out. For your information, that's not a luxury I really have at my disposal anymore. I finally decided on the following colours for the plane.
Vallejo 71.050 for the Aggressor Gray with 15% fade.
Vallejo 70.905 for the Ocean Gray with 15% scale fade.
I'm going to see how she looks once I've wrapped up the Ocean Gray, but I'm pretty satisfied with the first colour so far.
I welcome any suggestions or information on any better paint matches on this aircraft that I've already spent far too long building.
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That bottom one looks just too blue. Granted I haven't seen a F15 up close in OMG... ldguy but my memory says it was more gre(a)y. I recall it being more subtle between the colors.