+EricJ Posted January 9 Posted January 9 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. Quote
Nyghtfall Posted January 9 Posted January 9 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* Quote
amariani Posted January 9 Author Posted January 9 I thought it was strange to see an F-14 "dressed" like an F-15. Quote
+EricJ Posted January 9 Posted January 9 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. 1 Quote
+ravenclaw_007 Posted January 9 Posted January 9 it could be that this is one of the experimental camos on the F-14 like the ones below 4 Quote
+daddyairplanes Posted January 9 Posted January 9 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)... 1 Quote
Mr_Tayto Posted January 9 Posted January 9 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. Quote
+EricJ Posted January 10 Posted January 10 Yeah those were the Heather Ferris schemes, pretty well known ones. Quote
+Wrench Posted January 10 Posted January 10 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??? *&^%$#@! 1 3 Quote
+ravenclaw_007 Posted January 10 Posted January 10 the VF-1 had several F-14 aircraft painted in this camo , picture from the 111 showing the aircraft during the painting and some F-14 aggressor camos 5 Quote
+EricJ Posted January 10 Posted January 10 10 hours ago, Wrench said: I hate to be the Grammar Police, but shit man TRY at least!! This title should be: Has this ever happened or Is this Tomcat camo real??? *&^%$#@! I mean yeah, but when you're used to foreigners you just gotta roll with it. 1 1 Quote
+Wrench Posted January 10 Posted January 10 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 Quote
+daddyairplanes Posted January 10 Posted January 10 28 minutes ago, Wrench said: The OP's from Texas!! (at least the IP is) hey hey, not all of us are graduates now 4 Quote
+EricJ Posted January 10 Posted January 10 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.. 4 Quote
+Wrench Posted January 11 Posted January 11 That's ok. I went to LA city schools ... I ain't go no math skills. but my grammar is good! === I like that Ferris scheme. That would be good one for somebody to do (unless I've missed it in the D/L section) 1 Quote
Viggen Posted January 11 Posted January 11 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. 1 Quote
+EricJ Posted January 11 Posted January 11 (edited) 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 January 11 by EricJ 1 Quote
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