Revell c17a

[Guest]

Hi all need some help getting bored of my christine build. My missus bought me the Revell 1/144 c17a antd keeps dropping hints about don't I like it or is it too difficult things like that, thing is I quite like it but not in the boring colours of the 2 options available. I have Googled it and found some nice colour schemes only to find that they are not actually a c17a do any of you know of a colour scheme that does not involve Grey or white or a combination of.

[rickoshea52]

There is a Qatar Airlines version.

[Guest]

The Quatar version is one of the ones in the kit but it is boring. I may invent my own livery KP Airlines

[PaulTRose]

problem these days is that most military aircraft are boring grey one thing that puts me off them

I may invent my own livery KP Airlines

welcome to the Dark Side of whiffing

[flyjoe180]

Well it is a military Cargo aircraft after all, but a few colour options include Qatar Airways (operated on behalf of the Qatar VIP Amiri Flight in Qatar Airways scheme), and the various Boeing factory schemes.

[Guest]

Sometimes that's the challenge - taking a monocolour subject & making it interesting. It's the same thing in AFV modelling where most stuff is green!

Why not imagine the US have expanded their base in Antarctica & so need larger resupply aircraft. Then you can paint it red, coz that's the colour used down there for spotting purposes.

[flyjoe180]

C-17s already fly to Antarctica and they are not red or orange.

[Guest]

Thanks guys i realize it is a military cargo plane but as I am sure you have worked out by now I don't like as is and like different (military sales show room, Stephensons rocket, he117 as a spaceship) but after being on forums I realize a lot of modelers put in a lot of research before they start a model, so they can make it more believable. well that's what I want to do with this but I have decided it will not be grey or white, if necessary I will just have to invent my own, something along dubster's suggestion. flyjoe you say they already fly there and are not red or orange but are the ones that fly there flown by the US, if so are there any other countries which fly there in orange or red (sorry all I know nothing about planes) when I got back into plastic around Christmas everyone seemed to be buying me planes or giving me planes. Don't get me wrong I'm not complaining, it's just not one of my favorite subjects. Now cars boats motorcycles trains that's a different story.

[Guest]

Found this, it's tagged as a C17 and it's certainly colourful

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[Guest]

It certainly is, what is it Cyprus or Turkish I don't know and are those radioactive logos on it, I wonder what it's carrying.

[yak face]

Its a Xian Y20 , a chinese development prototype . The 'radioactive' markings on the airframe are datum points used in the testing process and the colour is the bare primer. Theres no reason why you couldnt do your C17 in a similar scheme, although i really like the idea of a 'KP' airlines job!! cheers tony

[Guest]

Yep I think I have the scheme roughly based on KLM airlines only it will be KP Airlines what do you think.

[Gern]

Found this one here if it helps: http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=5ff1667c-dd9a-4910-8230-7e303c5b09cb

Gern

[Guest]

Hi all thanks for all your input have decided to go with my own airline KP AIRLINES as it incorporates my initials and my missus it will be based on the KLM livery only where it's white it will be blue. I will be using Humbrol enamels French blue 14 for the KLM blue and Sea blue 47 for where it's white and the pin stripes or go faster stripes? Don't know what else to call them Bright red 19 what do you think.

[flyjoe180]

flyjoe you say they already fly there and are not red or orange but are the ones that fly there flown by the US, if so are there any other countries which fly there in orange or red

No other nations fly to Antarctica using the C-17 so far as I know; the RAAF have not sent a C-17 to the ice yet.

KP Airlines sounds good to me too, something different.