DH4 Paint Scheme?

[Operator5]

All you people posting pictures of your painted planes finally broke down my resolve. So, I have had this die cast DH4 sitting around for a year or two, finally primed it and started painting, but other than a tan basecoat, I have no idea what colors to do.

Now, I should be working on so many other projects right now so the sooner I get this out of my system, the better.  

Anyone have any ideas for some colors to break up the tan? Pictures always appreciated.

[Plynkes]

US Air Mail? Seems somehow more Rattrap than painting her up as a military version:

http://fairchild24.com/dh4.htm

I'm imagining frenzied hooded cultists chasing the US Mail in Dick Dastardly style crazy planes. The mail must get through! (Top Secret plans accidentally put in the post by absent-minded professor, I think.)

[archangel1]

I just picked up Roden's 1/48 D.H.4 a couple of weeks ago, partly because I really like the plane and partly because the paint scheme in the box art really grabbed me.  Sorry I can't link to a picture alone but here's the spec sheet for the aircraft with a colour shot of the artwork.

http://www.rodenplant.com/HTML/422.htm

[Plynkes]

Sadly the Brits were the most boring nation when it came to plane colours. The standard look would be something like this, a rather boring brownish-green:



Edit: That's a much better scheme, archangel1. Go with that, Rich.

[Plynkes]

Another non-wartime US scheme, if you want to keep it American:

[PeteMurray]

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