I have a Tower Uproar (kit) that I covered with black Ultracote on the underside of the wings and red Ultracote with yellow scallops on the top side. Even rolling like a deamon in bright sunlight it is very easy to tell top from bottom. On an overcast day, I cant tell top from bottom and have to count the rolls to tell up from down.
ORIGINAL: dick Hanson
I flew a new ARF the other day, in very grey overcast , with light fog .
There were several other models there - which had high contrast color schemes.
They were easy to follow.
The ARF we flew, had a striking scheme, which had one dark wing panel and the other panel ended in white.
In the air it was apparant that the white panel simply could not be seen.
The model looked like one panel was sawed off!
I have never had this type of color setup and was really surprised at how it affected attitude recognition.
In perfect flying weather -this problem would not amount to much but if you fly in less than perfect skies, you may want to keep the color contrast such that the wing panels look the same when in the air -at more than 100ft distance..