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Nigel Booth's Seasprite Textures?

dvslats

dvslats

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Hi All,

Does anyone recall a texture set in US Navy blue for this helo? I thought there was one at SOH, but then again I just may be a bit loopey on this. :playful:
The file name is sh2gnzv1.zip over at Flightsim.

Thanks in Advance, Dave

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That's not "Navy blue" (Dark Sea Blue) - it's Dark Gull Gray (aka "seaplane gray" aka "engine gray.")

The Navy stopped using Dark Sea Blue on aircraft in 1954-55. The S-2 first flew in 1959.

I don't recall ever seeing a dark sea blue skin for that model. If someone painted it blue they made a mistake.
 
Mick said:
That's not "Navy blue" (Dark Sea Blue) - it's Dark Gull Gray (aka "seaplane gray" aka "engine gray.")

The Navy stopped using Dark Sea Blue on aircraft in 1954-55. The S-2 first flew in 1959.

I don't recall ever seeing a dark sea blue skin for that model. If someone painted it blue they made a mistake.
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Hi Mick, Thanks for the reply. So to make sure I'm understanding this, the UH-2G would never have worn the blue/grey colors.
The UH-2B would have? This is a picture from the internet claiming it's a 2B.

Thanks, Dave
 

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Would like to have Booth's Sprite in blue also! The alternative is Virtavia's SH-2.I may just have to break down and get it eventually.
Here is a photo of a 2F taken in Florida, April 1990(Sprites retired from the US Navy in 1993).
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Yep, no dark sea blue Navy aircraft after 1954, at least not any new ones. Some old ones may have survived in that livery for a while, but the Seasprite first flew in 1959, five years after that livery was decommissioned. Sadly, in my opinion - it's my favorite post-WW2 Navy scheme.

The Seasprites in those pictures are not Dark Sea Blue, they're dark gray. One or two of the pics seem to have a blue-ish cast, but that's due to the lighting and or the film. Back when people took pictures on film, old film would often render a blue cast to some colors in the developed images. My old airshow photos have plenty of pictures of gray aircraft that look a bit blue-ish, but I know they weren't really blue because I was there taking the pictures.

Overall dark gray is also a pretty spiffy scheme, but I'd like 'em better if they were Dark Sea Blue.
 
Mick said:
Overall dark gray is also a pretty spiffy scheme, but I'd like 'em better if they were Dark Sea Blue.
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Couldn't agree more Mick. Never was much of a fan for any of the grey schemes.
Especially in flight-sim world. Booooring...

Thanks mate,
Dave
 
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