ORIGINAL: John Baligrodzki
You cut out each color and placed the darkest color stencil on the wing and painted them first. Then onto the next lightest color and so on. It was tedious but worked out quite well.
This is probably what I would end up doing if I ever get around to that LVG VI!
The problem in terms of making a commercially viable product is that there are both 4-color and 5-color patterns with different colors for top vs. bottom. Once you add in the different scale you have a really miniscule market for any particular product (for example 4-color, top-colors, at 1/6 scale).
Add to this that there is a lot of debate regarding just what the original colors were like. The GTM fabric looks a little pale to my eyes.