“No bird ever flew nonstop from New York to Tokyo, or raced 15 miles high at triple the speed of sound.                                                                                                   
  Birds do something else.   They do not conquer the air; they romance it..”

Peter Garrison

Jur's RV7 Aircraft Factory
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01/06/26 - Color selection and paintscheme

Written on . Posted in 7.1 Planning paintscheme.

I have been spending a couple of evenings coloring the vans template for the paintscheme.

The decision of using red, gray and white has been made a long time ago after seeing a couple of very nice RV's in these colors and my buddy Michael's sonex.

After a couple of variations, I came up with this design.
The idea was to have a nice and simple paintscheme which looks attractive and yet is not too complicated to paint. This paintscheme looks like a nice compromise to both worlds.

I used GIMP tool to edit the empty Vans jpg image and color it with my scheme.

 These are the RAL colors I selected from the sample book:

RAL3020 Verkehrsrot (traffic red)

 RAL 7037 Staubgrau for the grey accents

 RAL 9016 Verkerhsweiss (traffic white) for the white tint

 

I also ordered the same color as my engine color to paint the baffles around the engine. 
I checked with PMM wingservice which paint they use and it's RAL1035  Perlbeige.