Speaking of off-beat color schemes on common airplanes, I got a kick out of the story of the guy who brought a J3 Cub to a scale contest painted in a pale canary yellow, but otherwise standard with the black lightening bolt, etc. Others were quick to growl at him, pointing out that Cubs were definitely NOT pale yellow, but a much heavier, darker shade. The contestant pulled out his documentation PROVING that the owner of this particular N-Number DELIBERATELY had his Cub painted PALE yellow, and thus HIS model was indeed the correct shade!

BTW, "Cub Yellow" is pretty much a modeler's term. Piper Aircraft referred to that shade as "Lock Haven Yellow". But, then, modelers have "blind nuts" and the rest of the world calls them "tee nuts"; modelers use "ignition" engines, meaning "spark", as if glow engines and diesels did not also have any type of "ignition". If I thought about it long enough I might think of other examples but, in the words of the immortal bard, "A nose by any other name would smell the same" ....

Tom