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Old 08-13-2011, 06:31 PM
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I like that.

I've thought about trying to just carry the red back down the fuselage and onto the tail like yours.
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Old 08-13-2011, 06:44 PM
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I'm no graphic designer, but I like the idea of a checkerboard rudder with solid red vert stabilizer and elevator / horizontal. I'd carry it forward somehow to keep the red tail from making the plane look shorter...

Then again, my plane is still not painted. Maybe this fall...
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Old 08-13-2011, 08:37 PM
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Many years ago, a friend told me to design the paint scheme so it flows, with the main objective to make it longer and have greater span. In looking at the RV's at Oshkosh it amazes me how many have schemes where the paint is just chopped off. Often looks like the wings from one plane on the fuselage from another and yet a tail group from somewhere else. (Stein's plane doesn't count. They did that intentionally)

This can be accomplished with a simple design or something more complex. AS someone noted, long lines on the fuselage help. It is only a matter of time and money. I recently had my 7 repainted and stuck to this goal.

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Old 08-14-2011, 12:37 AM
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A colored rudder AND stab makes a massive surface. To make the rudder/stab combination optical a bit smaller, we designed this checkerboard rudder.

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