ORIGINAL: Campgems
Yep, once it goes siloette, the colors go bye bye.
I like big wide bars across the bottom, White and marron, white and purple, or white and Teal. Something that really contrast each other. On the four star, I covered every other rib bay white, then capped the open ones with the contrast color. On top, I've used a white base color and some contrasting colors with the pattern runing basicly wing tip to wing tip. The last two I've covered have had a big red area near the nose and white behind with a lot of color on the vertical.
I need all the help I can get kepping track of where the plane is. I watched one of our guys total out his new Koshoto(SP?) Kelly Sunday. The all white is very dificult to see with the sun anywhere near the back of the plane. What a shame, it was a great looking plane. I was taking photos that day and I only got three shots of the plane. It is fast and trying to keep it framed with some zoom was a nightmare. I got two shots in the air, the last about 30 seconds before in nosed in. The last was the results on the bench.
Here is a couple shots of my Super Aeromaster that I have yet to fly, and my Ruperts Dad which hasn't flown after it rebuild. Next week if the weather cooperates. The Ruperts has the same underside on the wings as the Super Aeromaster. My last 4*60 had the same pattern on the bottom, only yellow and marron. The wing tops were solid yellow with no pattern, and the difference was enough to almost keep me out of trouble.
Don
I really like the way the bottom of the wings look on the bipe. I'm going to pick up some black covering this afternoon and add the stipes to the bottom of the wing and stab.