For those of you who are feeling creative:

EdFred

EdFred

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I am considering painting my plane this year, and have narrowed it down to three different color schemes - although that isn't set in stone. Thing is, I am not so creative when it comes to layout, so if any of the creative types feel like designing a paint scheme that would be cool.

If I end up going with one you designed, I'll end up putting a small note somewhere relatively visible on the plane crediting you with the design.

The color schemes I've narrowed it down to (white being the base color obviously):

Tail # 727DS - and I am open to creative fonts as well.

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Other than #1, the hues can change slightly for the colors, or feel free to come up with something on your own - but there will be no allowance for Green and White or Scarlet and Gray or Blue and Gold schemes.

Plane is a PA24-250 with tip tanks.
 
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In honor of Hoppe's you could always base your paint job on this...

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Pete: I am not a UNC-Charlotte Fan, green and gold is out. Green is pretty much out period. Purple and bronze on white could work.

TJ: No worries!

Scott: Ummmmmmm......no.
 
This is a nice, clean scheme that I think respects the lines of the Comanche...

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Trapper John
 
That's not too bad. I do have tip tanks though, which can throw a loop into some designes. While black tips could look good, do I really want them expanding the fuel in them?
 
Purple on a Comanche? Eww...

I think #3 I like the best (plus being in Michigan the maize and blue plane would be appropriate), but perhaps toned down so they're a bit more subtle. Something like the subtlety of #1 with the colors of #2.

As to designs? You got me beat. You can hire someone to do aircraft paint designs for you... which costs a lot of money. The one paint scheme I really like is on my friend's Travel Air. Dark bottom half and then a swoosh around the back/tail, but I don't know how well that would work on your PA-24. I've considered just trying to put some slightly nicer colors on the Aztec with the same scheme (i.e. a touch-up). I think it would make the plane look newer - the current colors are pretty ugly.

One thing to consider while you're doing this - some new nav lights and wingtip strobes really make the plane a lot newer. Relatively small investment for what you're doing, and might be worthwhile.
 
Ted DuPuis said:
Purple on a Comanche? Eww...

I think #3 I like the best (plus being in Michigan the maize and blue plane would be appropriate), but perhaps toned down so they're a bit more subtle. Something like the subtlety of #1 with the colors of #2.

As to designs? You got me beat. You can hire someone to do aircraft paint designs for you... which costs a lot of money. The one paint scheme I really like is on my friend's Travel Air. Dark bottom half and then a swoosh around the back/tail, but I don't know how well that would work on your PA-24. I've considered just trying to put some slightly nicer colors on the Aztec with the same scheme (i.e. a touch-up). I think it would make the plane look newer - the current colors are pretty ugly.

One thing to consider while you're doing this - some new nav lights and wingtip strobes really make the plane a lot newer. Relatively small investment for what you're doing, and might be worthwhile.
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Yeah, $1100 each for the HID tip lights. Ouchies. The purple would just be for some highlights. White, mostly black accent, a little purple.
 
EdFred said:
That's not too bad. I do have tip tanks though, which can throw a loop into some designes. While black tips could look good, do I really want them expanding the fuel in them?
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You could paint the tip tanks white and put a stripe along the mid-line of the outside of the tank - maybe taper the width of the stripe in proportion to the width of the tank. But also, I think the stripe should incorporate the nav light...do you have a pic that shows your tank/nav lights?


Trapper John
 
smigaldi said:
Ed were are you going to get a paint job at?
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I don't know. Tom - the guy with the RV and 210 at the fly-in - took his to the autobody shop adjacent to Hastings. Looks good. If I got the A&P to do the weighing, I'd just have them do it. However, I don't think they can get me inside because of my wingspan.
 
EdFred said:
I don't know. Tom - the guy with the RV and 210 at the fly-in - took his to the autobody shop adjacent to Hastings. Looks good. If I got the A&P to do the weighing, I'd just have them do it. However, I don't think they can get me inside because of my wingspan.
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I have heard good things about the guys at Sandwich, IL. I keep meaning to go down and check their work as I would like to get my plane painted. The colors I have decided upon are a white undercoat with purple. Need to come up with a design and the money too.
 
steingar said:
If you really want to save money go with polished aluminum.
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Except I'd have to hire someone to polish it every 2 weeks. I bet the paint ends up being cheaper after 5 years.
 
EdFred said:
Except I'd have to hire someone to polish it every 2 weeks. I bet the paint ends up being cheaper after 5 years.
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No pain no gain. You said cheap, polish it yerself. Gotta explain everything to these Michiginas.
 
For aircraft, I'm a fan of something that really makes your bird both stand out while on the flightline and be highly visible while in the air.

So good strong contrast is a great start.

Too many aircraft are white, which makes them hard to pick out against the sky or in hazy conditions.

I like the idea behind this car's scheme. Perhaps doing something similar, along with appropriate accents.
 

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EdFred said:
I do have tip tanks
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Have some fun with this feature. Find a good airbrush artist that can make them look like rocket motors, AIM-9 Sidewinders, Star Wars laser pods....
 
I coudl just go red gold and green and name it Karma Chameleon.
 
My primary trainer was a C-150 painted HoJo orange and turquoise on white. Really um, esthetically-challenged. But it was highly visible, and it flew, cheap.

The latest paint job that gave me head-turning whiplash was a Mooney painted with that shiny stuff that turns different colors depending on the angle you view it from. Amazing! Gorgeous! And, it must be admitted, breathtakingly expensive.

No1. Understated. Subtle. If that's what you want....
No2. Purple and black and white? OK- it's different, would probably look sharp. Two things in its favor. The purple/black colors could be stripes along the sides of the tip tanks.
No3. I suppose it would be cool to be mistaken for a very retro Blue Angel. (I saw one of those Czech jets at an airshow painted in that color scheme- very visible from a long way off!)
So what is it to be? Subtle, perhaps sedate? Strikingly different without being garish? (Maybe your bright purple could be a narrower band between two wider black bands?) Or brilliant blue and yellow, in which case, you'd have to find room for a big block-lettered with blocky-seraph M somewhere. Even better, maybe the N number should be in a U-M font in that case.
 
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