Color of USAF F-100D

[Tolga ULGUR]

Hello everyone

The color of this F-100D does not look natural metal. Is it ADC grey??

Have F-100s been painted this color other than the National Guard?

Thanks in advance

 

[James Rademaker]

Could be grey or depending on the direction of the sun it may be a very dull NM. 
Jim

[Oldbaldguy]

Looks like silver/aluminum paint to me - no distinct panels or grain visible except back around the burner where it was not painted for obvious reasons.

[Sabrejet]

Does look like ADC Grey, but a number of types were painted silver in the early '60s (ANG F-86Hs, some F-86D/L etc) so this makes more sense.

[Tolga ULGUR]

4 hours ago, James Rademaker said:

Could be grey or depending on the direction of the sun it may be a very dull NM. 
Jim

 

3 hours ago, Oldbaldguy said:

Looks like silver/aluminum paint to me - no distinct panels or grain visible except back around the burner where it was not painted for obvious reasons.

 

16 minutes ago, Sabrejet said:

Does look like ADC Grey, but a number of types were painted silver in the early '60s (ANG F-86Hs, some F-86D/L etc) so this makes more sense.

Thanks for your replies

yes, some of them were painted silver lacquer as far as I know. I've read that there are few F-100s painted in ADC gray in the New Mexico Air National Guard. The F-100 in the picture has a distinctly bluish color, but I think logically it shouldn't be. Maybe the colors of the picture are distorted.

[Oldbaldguy]

The Huns in the photo aren’t carrying ANG markings, so I doubt these airplanes are gray.

[allthumbs]

Absolutely, positively and without a doubt: silver lacquer paint finish…except for bare metal sections on aft fuselage

 

Rich

[thierry laurent]

Actually the tail hue is misleading. If you look at the areas getting the sunlight (spine and upper fuselage) you see a light reflection similar to the one of the tail BMF. So, I'm agreeing there is zero doubt the plane had the silver lacquer finish.

[Tolga ULGUR]

Thanks for your replies, It is not my intention to prolong the topic, but I also wanted to post the pictures below. In one of these two pictures from Bert Kinzey's Detail in scale F-100 book, it is stated that the F-100 (53681) is painted in ADC gray. Does anyone have the opposite opinion on this? Is this F-100 one of the few ADC gray Huns? If so, I'd like to include it in the build schedule.

Thanks

[Oldbaldguy]

Yep, that one is gloss gray.  No question.  AF Systems Command does/did test and evaluation work, not operational stuff, so their hardware gets slightly different treatment which may or may not account for the paint job.  The airplane may have been borrowed from an operational squadron and just showed up at Eglin painted that way.  

[One-Oh-Four]

On 11/14/2022 at 4:11 PM, Tolga ULGUR said:

Thanks for your replies, It is not my intention to prolong the topic, but I also wanted to post the pictures below. In one of these two pictures from Bert Kinzey's Detail in scale F-100 book, it is stated that the F-100 (53681) is painted in ADC gray. Does anyone have the opposite opinion on this? Is this F-100 one of the few ADC gray Huns? If so, I'd like to include it in the build schedule.

Thanks

 

63318 is finished in aluminium lacquer, 53681 looks to be aluminium lacquer too, in this photo?:

 

 

 

 

[thierry laurent]

I don't think so. To me this one was grey.

[Ben Brown]

681 is definitely gray. The two jets in the first post are from the 614th TFS, 401st TFW. The Colors and Markings book says they were painted silver in 1960.  

 

A couple of other interesting things in the photo. Both jets have been fitted with a barrier hook, but neither has been modified with the speed brake with the wider cutout to clear a centerline store. Both of these mods were done to the F-100 fleet around 1960-62.

 

Ben

[Ben Brown]

Another photo of an F-100D from the 614th. Definitely silver. LINK since I can't get the photo to hotlink.

 

Ben

[Juggernut]

Here's what ADC grey looks like on a nice sunny day (although it's not an F-100)...if it's of any help.

 

Edited November 18, 2022 by Juggernut