Author / Post acemcduck Lifetime Site Supporter Joined: June/30/2006 United States Posts: 20 IP Logged Posted: October/30/2020 at 8:44pm  Quote   N335J circa 1967.  In November of last year I was looking for a subject in a zebra scheme.  I stumbled across this Reno Mustang and decided that would work and I happened to have a Dynaflite .40 Mustang kit in the stack.  The zebra scheme was important because it happens to be the ribbon color for Neuroendocrine Cancer which my son, at that time, had been battling for almost a year and a half.  I had always read that these kits were a quick build which was also good because I'm a painfully slow builder in the best of times, and these were not good times.  As it's beginning to take it's final form I'm hoping to finish by this Nov 10th and think another zebra will have to be next.  One that is more blatantly honoring to those that fight this horrible disease.  I've narrowed it down to a 1/4 Dr1 or an RV-4 arf, neither of course scale in any way. My son would have been 28 today. Dave __________________ Dave Foley Flying BUSA Citabria, Phoenix Stinson Building: 1/4 Dr1, Byron Mustang   Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search    Skyediamonds Site Supporter Joined: April/03/2018 United States Posts: 2712 IP Logged Posted: October/30/2020 at 9:01pm  Quote   Dave, As a cancer survivor myself (lymphoma), I truly am sorry for your loss. Please accept my sincerest condolences. That’s a beautiful model & you’re doing it justice to finish it in zebra color scheme. May it fly forever in your son’s honor. Gary   Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search    ARUP Lifetime Site Supporter Joined: December/10/2009 United States Posts: 1600 IP Logged Posted: October/30/2020 at 9:10pm  Quote   Don't forget the zebra scheme on a Sikorsky S-38 which was used for exlporation duties. It is an awesome color scheme!   Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search    Skyediamonds Site Supporter Joined: April/03/2018 United States Posts: 2712 IP Logged Posted: October/30/2020 at 10:56pm  Quote   I believe such a zebra scheme was also employed during WWI on some of the early biplanes. I believe it was an attempt to use the zig zag alternating colors to deceive the enemy’s eyesight.   Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search    Sparky Lifetime Site Supporter Head Curmudgeon Joined: February/10/2004 United States Posts: 7350 IP Logged Posted: October/31/2020 at 8:34am  Quote   Then there is the Tiger meet airplanes from Europe. There are dozens of jets with extremely complex paint schemes. I think yours is more easily replicated. Nice Job on the tribute scheme. Sparky __________________ Brown County, Indiana TopRC FW-190, Zenoah GT-80 Bates F6F Hellcat, Saito FG60-R3 Gamma RIP   Back to Top  Printer Friendly Version  Profile  Search

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