Did this ever happened?

[amariani 4,951]

Or is it just photo shop?

[+EricJ 4,319]

I mean I'm not saying I know (I don't), but it's a VF-31 bird, so you can narrow it down that way.

[+Nyghtfall 2,191]

I guess timeframe would be between 1994 and 1996. VF-31 was part of CVW-14 (tailcode NK) on USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) as second squadron (modex 2xx, 207 in your case) in that timeframe. Though I haven't found a single picture of this...not even yours with regular search and reverse-search. *shrug*

[amariani 4,951]

I thought it was strange to see an F-14 "dressed" like an F-15.

[+EricJ 4,319]

Sorry none of my own reference photos has that picture either, so it was probably a Photoshop job. I know they did experimental schemes, but even after a Google search nothing came up either.

[+ravenclaw_007 7,658]

it could be that this is one of the experimental camos on the F-14 like the ones below

 

[+daddyairplanes 10,608]

the Navy did plenty of one offs with experimental or aggressor schemes. yes i said aggressor even though its a VF-31 line bird, sometimes they'd paint one up for a known exercise

plus frankly these days i'd trust the authenticity of a grainy photo over something crystal clear (and generated in DCS)...

[Mr_Tayto 146]

I'm sure I had a book in the 90's which had colour plates of Tomcats "dressed" up in this way. I recognise the three bottom schemes in @RavenClaw's post.

[+EricJ 4,319]

Yeah those were the Heather Ferris schemes, pretty well known ones.

[Wrench 9,977]

I hate to be the Grammar Police, but shit man TRY at least!!  This title should be:

Has this ever happened

or

Is this Tomcat camo real???

*&^%$#@!

[+ravenclaw_007 7,658]

the VF-1 had several F-14 aircraft painted in this camo , picture from the 111 showing the aircraft during the painting

 

and some F-14 aggressor camos

 

 

[+EricJ 4,319]

10 hours ago, Wrench said:

I hate to be the Grammar Police, but shit man TRY at least!!  This title should be:

Has this ever happened

or

Is this Tomcat camo real???

*&^%$#@!

I mean yeah, but when you're used to foreigners you just gotta roll with it.

[Wrench 9,977]

The OP's from Texas!! (at least the IP is)

Now, if it was done with a southern Texas drawl ... that'd be ok. I have family in Dallas

[+daddyairplanes 10,608]

28 minutes ago, Wrench said:

The OP's from Texas!! (at least the IP is)

hey hey, not all of us are graduates now

 

[+EricJ 4,319]

51 minutes ago, Wrench said:

The OP's from Texas!! (at least the IP is)

Now, if it was done with a southern Texas drawl ... that'd be ok. I have family in Dallas

Dude I've seen people post all of the time, and I never could trace their IP,  so good to know, but maybe it's a symptom of Texas schooling. I'm just saying though..

[Wrench 9,977]

That's ok. I went to LA city schools ... I ain't go no math skills. but my grammar is good!

 

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I like that Ferris scheme. That would be good one for somebody to do (unless I've missed it in the D/L section)

[+Viggen 672]

Mod Eagle looks so wrong on an F-14!

 

As for the Ferris schemes, ANFT.net has the detail, http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-detail-colours.htm
 

Quote

"Additionally, in the late 1970's a few F-14s (VX-4: 159827/"41", 159829/"43", 159830/"44", 159831/"45"; VF-1: 158979/"NK100"; VF-2: 158985/"NK200"; VF-124: 159827/"NJ410"; PMTC: ??????/"201"; VF-101: 161135/"AD102" slightly different Ferris colours in 1981) were temporarily painted in the so-called Keith Ferris camouflage scheme"

 

I think that VF-101 jet with the white nosed Ferris pattern might be my favorite variation of the scheme now.

[+EricJ 4,319]

I think I did the bottom scheme for the TW or one of the F-14s. It's not wholly correct I admit, but it came out pretty decent. Yeah I did after checking my stuff.

Anyway I just don't like the TW birds for skinning to be honest with you. I mean if I was going to do a Tomcat skin, I'd do the TMF birds, where the mapping makes more sense than whatever TW came up with.

Edited 7 hours ago by EricJ