Blatant? I was looking for unabashed. [img]../../punymce/plugins/emoticons/img/trans.gif[/img]
My LT-40 started with an all-white base like yours. Here's my thoughts.
Leading edge - gotta toss something over the LE - bright yellow, true red (but NOT Mike B's. shimmering glitter). What really shows up when you're dropping below the hog back are the yellow wrap-arounds on the shoulders. They look like big ol' landing lights. Not sure how an all-white LEwould show up on final approach. Might work. The bottom really disappears until you roll a tip and get some light on the yellow. The top - the black and yellow rear arcs on the wing are pretty worthless. The side has the best flying visibility of the three views.
On your graphic -
I really like the wing top images! I'd get a bit bolder on the purple hockey stick - wider at the fuse side "base" and take it over the aileron otherwise it gets lost anywhere but the bench. While Ilike the yellow accent stripes - thinkin' that they'll be way more effort than the bang in the air. I've kinda given up doing stuff of the stab / elev - a lot of work with little benefit - they make for good bench appeal. White background seems to eat up nice graphics - especially when there is a gap between the pieces. The black and yellow stripes on my wing top didn't do "nuthin'" in the air. I added them after flying it maybe 10 flights. 1st the yellow was added - whopeee chit. Then I added the black - couldn't see it either - waste of time and Ultracote.
The wing bottom needs those stripes to be pretty bold - maybe 2 1/2 - 3 inches each with 2 1/2 - 3 inches between.
The sides - those little old stripes will disappear. Do you have window decals? Imade some black Ultracote windows (standard is gray) and they really stand out. Take a look at the last pic - a bold splash up the side.
Now that I look back at the original covering (white base, midnight blue bottom stripes, red-n-blue side stripes and wing tops)I like it better than the white/red/yellow by a long shot. So why did Ichange it? Duh - no clue!
Yea - Ido know. I converted it into a tail dragger and eliminated the rubber band wing approach. Required taking an awful lot of covering off. I tried used an RCKen approach of one-piece wing/aileron covering - no hinge gap. Ididn't have a good handle on the technique and had more wrinkles than someone over the age of 100. Needed to shrink the covering before every visit to the field.
Final note - the nice sweeping curves are tough to cut - geometric stuff - easy to cut.