I am almost back 100% I am finally feeling normal again and my oxygen levels are almost back to what they were pre-COVID/pneumonia. While I was perusing Facebook, I saw someone post some additional photos of some paint schemes that I liked. These aren’t RV-10s, but they are awesome looking! More things to mull over while I’m building.
While looking through social media, I found another awesome paint scheme from Plane Schemer. This plane also has the exact cowling I am looking for with my build. This had a few extra points that I wanted to document that I want to do in my plane maybe with different logos or my own twist to it. This are Plane Schemer’s photos and I’m not taking these to be the exact paint scheme I want, but it is my inspiration for what I want in my plane.
I always love to have an image to drive towards. I’m kind of a short sighted guy, and having an immediate vision of what I’m going towards is awesome and motivating! So I started, of course, with a Google Images search of just “rv-10.”
So many good options came up from just that single search. I originally felt that having a white plane with a colored accent would be the way to go. I found this image that was on Van’s own website material for the RV-10.
The metallic blue from this plane was so beautiful. I’ve seen a few trucks like this that we also very beautiful especially in person in bright sunlight.
I continued looking instead of just settling on that very common paint scheme scenario (white with an accent) and then I ran across this plane which was sold on Tomahawk Aero Services LLC website.
This was a little bit of middle of the road to me. Almost half and half in a way and with the color visible to the pilot while flying. But the white was still very nice looking. My wife knows that I am a sucker for white, especially if it’s done well like a metallic or a pearl. I still felt like it wasn’t exactly what I wanted. So I continued my search.
That’s when I hit the motherload of awesome paint schemes! It was on the website named Planeschemer.com. This company has made some excellent paint schemes! I saw three specifically that were on an RV-10 and this dark cherry really caught my eye. It is such a deep rich color, and there’s still lighter accent colors that go well along with it. I also loved the silver that was used in the scheme. I felt this was very close to what I would want for my plane so that’s what I had settled on, well at least for now 🙂
