Classic Fundamentals...Dave Guerin building Blue Angel!
The Wega/Sunshine Blue Angel is getting closer based on the work of Dave Guerin.

The Challenge- What were the colors...really?

Interpretation- My goal is to recreate a handful of classic world championship airplanes using pretty much the same stuff as the original and particularly the color scheme. We are "stylizing" the photo below which seems pretty close to the model Mr. Yoshioka flew in Italy. We decided on a metallic blue, red, yellow, white, a cream for wing and stab with a 3/32" black stripe around all of the colors.

Progress- The fuselage has all of the color applied (PPG automotive base coat products) waiting for the graphics order and catalized urethane clear.

Graphics- Most of my pals give me a ton of crap about my use of graphics...yep, I like them! I have used and encourage all of you to use a very creative, reliable and inexpensive source for your graphics...www.badbradgraphics.com I send Bad Brad a scan, or sketch, photograph of what I need, dimensions of space to fill...and he does the rest.

Example #1- The Blue Angel needs a "777" in White with black border, the words "Blue Angel" in yellow cursive and "R. Dose" in silver. He created and cut the vinyl and shipped directly to Dave. Dave received the package, decided it needed to be smaller and Bad Brad made the changes and should arrive any minute.

Example #2- The MK Champion needed the word "Champion" and "MK-72" in a funky font, black with a white AND tiny black border...to a specific size and angle. I sent Bad Brad the top of the kit box, he did his magic and sent me the stuff.

Rusty Dose
Team Futaba