DéjÃ* vu. Translation: already seen (literally).

Vince, she's looking good! I think you can still do the swept up paint job on the vertical and it will add some flow to the banding of colours. I think the trick is to make the tail colours triangular in shape so the colour division lines are not parallel to the angle of the vertical LE - note how Kevin's is done. I did this on the little Tipo and it wasn't that hard (I actually did it with MK but I think it would be easier with paint). You'd just need to work the transition between the fuse and fin curve and re-mask so that the blue descends a little further breaking the angle of the vertical LE - i.e., not like on Dave Brown's scheme in your pics. Once you nail down that line and shoot the paint, the other colours will follow - you just mask a 1/4" width staying on the edge of the blue. Or maybe you want a 1/8" white division - might be better.

Once shot, measure the height of the blue along the vertical TE and descend down with the yellow to that same height so your "triangles" are all the same width at the TE. Or you can make them progressively smaller by say a third each - blue, yellow and red. If you draw it on paper it will give you a better sense of how it will look. The magic I think is in the curve across the fuse/fin threshold. To give that a nice round shape, use a circle of appropriate diameter to pass a pencil mark. You then just mask following that lead offset just a bit so the pencil is painted over keeping a constant distance from your line with the masking.

It might be easier to draw the three colour separations with a pencil first so then you can mask from the lines down progressively covering upward of your white stripe separator as well of course.

I guess I just find Phoenix's look fast with their swept wings and stabs so I'm thinking a swept paint scheme goes nicely on them. I had to mask constant radius compound curves in the Tipo picture below as the scheme was a recreation of a 30 year old model. I thought it would be tough to do but I actually pretty much eye balled it with a little help from flexible circles I made. It wasn't that hard. The hardest part I found is getting left/right symmetry with curves but fortunately, many of our pattern birds have side mounted engines and a recess for the engine on the RHS so the requirement for exact symmetry up front is lessened a bit - the opening breaks that up which helps. I didn't procure the good 1/4" 3M vinyl masking tape until I was pretty much finished. Unfortunately, I had issues with a $$itty clear coat so I had to do it pretty much over again covering the pin stripes - yea, that was a boat load of fun but that's where the 3M was indispensable.

In any case, whatever you decide, I'm sure she'll be sweet!

Paint on!

David.