How do you come up with a great paint scheme for your homebuilt?

By Susan Brunner

You’ve spent thousands of hours meticulously working on your homebuilt. Perhaps sanding your composite aircraft has lasted hundreds of hours just to get it ready for that perfect finish. Or maybe your aluminum airplane is now ready for its new coat of paint. Throughout the build process, you have likely tossed around different design ideas and undoubtedly admired myriad aircraft. Now it’s crunch time: What will your paint scheme be?

When you think of it, the design that you choose for your airplane reflects many things—your personality, style and creativity, to name a few. And no matter how many hours you have spent working on your project, the first thing people will comment on is how the plane looks, its aesthetics. Where do you go to find just the right design for your plane, and how do you get the design from your brain to your plane? …

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