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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.






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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.

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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!
 
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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.
 
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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.
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