red shadow starfighter, colour scheme advice wanted!

[Ross SC]

ok, im currently working on customising a f-104 starfighter & im not 100% on the colour scheme!
im thinking dark red body with black & red shadow logo, matt black wings, nose cone & tail fin, with black & white shadow logo.
but then im not sure if it should be the other way round!
any advice would be appreciated! using a 25th anniversary figure for the custom pilot & with a little bit of coaxing he fits perfectly! not gonna show the figure yet, will have to wait until i finish the plane!
this isnt the version i have, i have the u.s. silver one, but have decided i dont want to keep it silver:

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[Ross SC]

this thing is HUGE by the way, not sure where im going to keep the bloody thing!

[paul463]

I would go with all over red with black on the leading edge of the wings perhaps? What scale is that model? It looks really good.

[Ross SC]

1:18, 21st century toys.
they are pretty good, i also have a hummer & a chopper to work on!

[Muton]

You beat me to it!
I've been keeping an eye out for one of those. I'd planned Red body and wings with a black tail and nosecone.

[Thundershot]

Are you going to go for a Red Baron W.W.1 colour vibe..? Or more sci-fi..with lots of extra weapons & odd shaped wings with big rocket engines,like something from a Gerry Anderson production..?

[Ross SC]

ok, these are really crappy looking (2min on photoshop!) but these were what i was thinking of:

[Ross SC]

maybe extra weapons, not sure yet!
think im gonna call the pilot "red falcon" & the plane "supersonic shadow fighter"

[The Baron]

Oh, I'd say all red. Red body, wings and tail, with black nosecone, intakes, exhaust, undercariage, missiles, cockpit and wing missiles.

Of course, Red Shadows very rarely used black, it was dark grey, not that I've been able to find a decent match yet.

I can't see the red and white logo being as striking, to be honest.

[The Kraken Wakes]

I had one of those a few months ago with the same plans but sold it as it suffered the same curse as most things in making my rattlers and other air things look tiny and out of scale... It is a great model though, Id just love it if it wasnt to scale so much... Ive been thinking about getting an me262 and seeing how that would look, im thinking it might fit the shadows quite well...