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What are your favorite B-25 paint schemes?

Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:44 am

What are your favorite B-25 paint schemes?

Any B-25 markings may be included - regardless if wartime, civilian, or post restoration warbird, etc!

Re: What are your favorite B-25 paint schemes?

Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:14 am

1. Overall Nonspecular Sea Blue as used on USMC PRJ-1Ds and -1Js.

2. NMF.

3. Some of the 345BG stuff was pretty cool!

Re: What are your favorite B-25 paint schemes?

Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:32 am

For sure the Planes of the 345Th Bomb Group!
Can't decide if I like the 498th BS or 499th BS better......
Jim C.
UC-61K USAAF # 43-14964 / RAF# HB-690

Re: What are your favorite B-25 paint schemes?

Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:52 am

"Carol Jean" - desert sand over light grey (from the early to mid '80's)...
"Pacific Princess" - in the tri color scheme...

Re: What are your favorite B-25 paint schemes?

Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:59 am

B-25J 43-27895, "Haulin' A$$" of the 446th BS, 321st BG flying out of Solenzara, Corsica- shot down by flak on 10 Dec 44, 1 EVD, 3 POW, 2 KIA.

My relative Fred Ritger's ship. :)

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Re: What are your favorite B-25 paint schemes?

Fri Oct 10, 2014 3:11 pm

Well purely on the basis of attraction, my favourites would have to be the NMF/Red striped USAF Instrument School scheme:

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Or the multi-coloured Edwards Flight Test Centre scheme:

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Both definately eye-catching.

Re: What are your favorite B-25 paint schemes?

Fri Oct 10, 2014 4:02 pm

I always liked John Stokes "Laiden Maiden". It wasn't an accurate paint job by any stretch, but it was the same name that it had flown in Catch-22 as.

Re: What are your favorite B-25 paint schemes?

Fri Oct 10, 2014 4:31 pm

Surely someone here likes whitewall tires....

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Re: What are your favorite B-25 paint schemes?

Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:22 pm

Raiders OD over gray.....with shark mouth and invasion stripes!

Re: What are your favorite B-25 paint schemes?

Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:56 pm

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Re: What are your favorite B-25 paint schemes?

Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:57 pm

I'd like to see one in 50's USAF colors.
BTW: I've always thought TB-25s were that last in service...up until 1959 as multi-engine trainers.
But I was rereading a book which said the last USAF B-25 was a CB-25 retired in 1960.
Anyone have photos of that?

Re: What are your favorite B-25 paint schemes?

Sat Oct 11, 2014 8:57 am

JohnB wrote:I'd like to see one in 50's USAF colors.

I'm fond of that scheme as well. NMF with black nacelles. I have my Dad's USAF flight school "yearbook" from '52 or '53 that has a bunch of pics of those. Some great cartoons, too.

Re: What are your favorite B-25 paint schemes?

Sat Oct 11, 2014 8:51 pm

...my favorite civvie B-25 paint scheme...
...Paul Mantz's world-traveling N1203...(SNA 1957-61)

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Re: What are your favorite B-25 paint schemes?

Sat Oct 11, 2014 10:36 pm

"Shangrila Lil".

Anyone got any pictures of her?

Re: What are your favorite B-25 paint schemes?

Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:44 am

What became of the Mantz B-25...?
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