| > would I be better off monocoting the top half of the wing one color and
> the bottom half another?
Simply... Yes. Or better still... it has been mentioned elsewhere in
the conference that yellow is one of the best 'visable-at-a-distance'
colours. So I tried using yellow when I recently covered a couple of
wings. They are completly covered with yellow and then on top I put an
orange japanese sunset. This helps a lot towards getting the
orientation correct and it looks great. Another problem overcome, since
one is only using one base colour, is the joining of covering at the
leading edge - which can be tricky matching it up at the best of times.
Regards,
Eric();
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| Being fully qualified as one of the worst pilots to ever pick up
a transmitter...let me comment. I am further qualified by having
"floaters", kind of spider webby things that make my vision look
like seeing through a screen door. This severly cuts my ability
to discern the models attitude at a distance, which I frequently
let my plane get to by daydreaming instead of flying.
Yes, the best thing is to use contrasting colors on the top and
bottom of wings. Yellow is indeed the best, and I like red too.
Stay away from white -- it virtually dissappears at moderate
distance.
My current project, the Tutor, will have blue (Coverite) wings
and top of fuse, with yellow lower fuse and tail surfaces. I
also trim my planes to death, so that after a few flights the
darn things look like a billboard.
Last week I put some of that shiny stuff that shows different
colors as you flash it in the sun -- much loved by the auto folks
-- on the Quik Stik. It was great. I loved it as it flashed in
the sun when the model got too far away and went into a death
spiral. It looked so nice as the plane twisted its way down I
could hardly stop admiring it!
You don't need much. I have a 2-inch strip on each wing top and
another strip across the top of the fin.
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