Patriot Missile Picture

[Estimado]

Hello All,
Does anyone have a decent picture that would show the paint scheme for an operational Patriot Missile? I understand that the tube is usually painted with a sand or army olive color. I've seen some stock photos on-line but they are not good quality and aren't helpful.

Rich

 

[Boosterdude]

Hey Rich,

It's tough to find a good picture of an operational Patriot. I found a couple of pics last year and they were actually painted flat black. A lot of the pics on the net seem to be more test color schemes.

 

[CTimm]

Some have a red-oxide color similar to Rustoleum primer.

 

[cobra1336]

I used Rustoleum Fusion paint called "sun dried tomato". Sounds weird but its a shade between red and the brownish primer color. No photos here at work.

 

[Stymye]

The upper section and fins are a phenolic material, sometimes painted ,often not
This phenolic ranges from a greenish/yellow(like estes tried to mimic on their patriot) to a more rusty red color exposed on alot of the earlier rounds.

 

[Scode68]

I had the same question and found this. Suposed to be at Ft. Bliss.



On the White Sands site they look like this.

 

[stickershock23]

There were several different paint patterns for the patriot, so feel free to go wild LOL

 

[Scode68]

This one is supposed to be of one at the Air and Space Museum. Boy do I have to get back there.

This one is different.

 

[sodmeister]

The second one seems to be a PAC -3.....

Hello Madcow...

And yes ,I would love to go back to DC and visit the A & Space museum.Just can`t do it all in a day.

Paul

 

[Stymye]

a couple more

 

[RCBrust]

I have a lot of pics of the one at NASM Udvar-Hazy. If anyone's interested, I can post some.

Randy

 

[Stymye]

yes rcbrust please do post them

 

[RCBrust]

Here are a few. I didn't post any of the nose because there's a good one in the post above.

Randy

 

[powderburner]

If anyone's interested, I can post some.

IF anyone's interested? Do you even have to ask?

Please please please go ahead and post 'em

(thanks for sharing the ones above)

 

[RCBrust]

Make sure you view the pics I posted above at full resolution. They're all 1024 pixels tall.

If anyone wants to see a closeup of anything in particular, let me know. As you can see, it was standing vertical. Therefore, I have much better closeup shots of the bottom then I do the top. Gotta take the 300mm lens next time, or a stepladder!

Randy

 

[Evo666]

Scode68, that second picture you posted os the pac-3 and the others are pac-2. Boy where the pac3 missile a huge headache when trying to get that system work with pac2 missiles back in 2003. I have pictures of the launcher and such as we rarely see the missile out of the canister.

 

[Estimado]

Here is how my PML 1/4 Patriot turned out.

 

[GregGleason]

Here are a few. I didn't post any of the nose because there's a good one in the post above.

Randy

Those are great pics, which educated me. I did not realize two things about the Patriot:

1. The fins have a diamond cross section (hello HoJo)
2. There is a slight boat tail

Greg

 

[sandman]

Those are great pics, which educated me. I did not realize two things about the Patriot:

1. The fins have a diamond cross section (hello HoJo)
2. There is a slight boat tail

Greg

The Boat tail was included with the old Estes Pro Series patriot. #2066

https://www.spacemodeling.org/JimZ/est2066.htm