Max-- That's a very nice lookin' 'Dog. I like the camo scheme, the one thing I hated about most of the scale paint jobs is how blah they are, dirty ol' O.D., or the AF gray. I'm not sure how I want to do mine yet. I want it to be historically accurate, and competing dictates doing a specific bird, but on a couple of other scale builds I did, I incorporated features of several different planes, sort of made the model representative of the type, rather than a specific plane. I don't think I'm all that interested in scale competition, but a couple of my flying buddies want me to at least try fun scale, or even try the beginner level, whatever it's called, at Mint Julep one year. It sure won't be done by the next one, though.

I have pictures of a couple of L-19's in a sort of tiger stripe camo, they look pretty cool. Camo patterns were not very common, and were unofficial. USAF tried a camo pattern for a very short while, but abandoned it because the fast-movers couldn't see the FAC down in the treetops. They painted a bright orange stripe from wingtip to wingtip on top of the wing,and one on the top of the fuse behind the cabin. It didn't help, and the camo was eventually abandoned altogether. I still like it though, and ought to make it easier to see (the model, that is)