Yeah, say what you want, but Russian planes have amazing paintjobs. The SU-57 looks particularly stunning (the fact that they can’t use it helps, of course).
The camouflage isn’t very flashy – though it is practical – but if you’re looking for flashy, are you aware of the annual NATO Tigers event? I think France started it. A number of countries send an aircraft or two, and at some point, they started putting flashy paintjobs on them for the duration of the event, often with a tiger or at least big cat theme. Someone – Germany, I think – had at least one year where they had someone in a tiger fursuit, and a tiger-painted support car, to go with multiple tiger-painted aircraft.
EDIT: Neither the chick from the German airforce in the tiger bodysuit nor the dude in the tiger suit in that gallery is what I remember seeing pictures of, so I expect that there have been a number of occasions.
EDIT2: Some higher-resolution shots than they have on that gallery from various years and various countries:
Yeah, say what you want, but Russian planes have amazing paintjobs. The SU-57 looks particularly stunning (the fact that they can’t use it helps, of course).
NATO “Practical Grey” is also pretty boring
The camouflage isn’t very flashy – though it is practical – but if you’re looking for flashy, are you aware of the annual NATO Tigers event? I think France started it. A number of countries send an aircraft or two, and at some point, they started putting flashy paintjobs on them for the duration of the event, often with a tiger or at least big cat theme. Someone – Germany, I think – had at least one year where they had someone in a tiger fursuit, and a tiger-painted support car, to go with multiple tiger-painted aircraft.
https://www.natotigers.org/tiger-gallery
EDIT: Neither the chick from the German airforce in the tiger bodysuit nor the dude in the tiger suit in that gallery is what I remember seeing pictures of, so I expect that there have been a number of occasions.
EDIT2: Some higher-resolution shots than they have on that gallery from various years and various countries:
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/476c0247-4aa3-4df5-9150-8d2352568bd1.jpeg
I think that this one is actually a leopard or cheetah:
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/c26c109a-87b7-41be-91b7-4620f8680178.jpeg
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/668cd0c0-8217-45d3-8854-993a7a97af1c.jpeg
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/ac666c7a-8200-421f-9bda-23249ee17ecd.jpeg
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/1ae6a1e4-15f4-454c-b016-0c74d05ccc36.jpeg
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/349eaf30-a234-456b-887d-f790fb788970.jpeg
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/4b769e38-167a-4c1d-93b9-dc762ceab523.jpeg
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/91e39339-fd41-4141-8adf-bccb028df846.jpeg
EDIT3: Yeah, it was France:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Tiger_Association
I hadn’t heard of this, but it is absolutely amazing. Thank you for telling me about it!
No problem. I just uploaded a few more images; if you hit Google Images or similar and search for “NATO Tigers”, you’ll get a lot more.