Alright, let's cover design and layout.

Now right off the bat, I will tell you, I am not the best design guy in the world, but I am very good at borrowing (stealing) other peoples work! If you look at my work in the previous pictures, I am not exactly a fan of the "if one color is good, twenty is better", design school. I have nothing against what has pretty much become the norm of pattern plane paint schemes of lots of colors. Personally I have a hard time working with three or four colors, versus fifteen. In my case because I am doing a lot of graphic detail, I try to keep the paint scheme pretty simple....I like to think of them as "elegant"!

I am always on the lookout for a design or concept I might be able to integrate into my work. As a for instance the Sensation bipe was giving me a hard time. I had done several sketches of schemes, but couldn't come up with the one that was "just right". In frustration I Googled, "Reno air race planes". Every year, Reno Nevada in the U.S. host a world class air race event that host planes with some of the most elegant (there's that word again) paint schemes. It wasn't twenty seconds into my search that I hit on the perfect scheme for the Sensation. The racer "Rare Bear" had the perfect lines I was looking for that I knew would fit perfect on the Sensation. I tweaked the design a bit and bang!