Favourite military aircraft colour schemes

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Not sure where this should be, but it came to me looking at all the artwork on net of imaginary variants of military aircraft with real colours from other eras or air forces.
Back in the early 70s at school a good friend of mine loved the postwar USAF silver schemes with lots of black. I rather liked the RAF's then new red blue roundels and soon to be wrap around green/grey camo.
Needless to say I have a what-if TSR2 model in this scheme, but I now think the 60s gloss green and grey over white looks smarter.
So what's your favourite scheme on which aircraft.
For my schoolfriend, who sadly died some years ago, here is an F111 in retro silver
 

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My favorite color scheme is the old USAAC blue and yellow. While it started as a trainer scheme, for economic reasons it became the 'standard' for a few years. Here is an example on a Douglas O-46 which is one of my favorite aircraft of that era. The source of that color photo. http://aircraft-in-focus.com/douglas-o-46/

For grins, I'm adding a black and white pic from the Museum's collection.


Scan-131104-0015.jpg Douglas O-46.jpg
 
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Naval side, WW2 Pacific tri-color camo, Sea Blue on top, sky blue underneath, and a mid blue between them. (IIRC Atlantic aircraft used a similar pattern but was all grays fading to white underneath). A close second place is the 1960s-70s High Visibilty Gloss Gull Gray over White, with full color markings.

Air Force side, polished metal.
 
Red/Orange
 

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