Paint Scheme Research

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 🙂