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Offline john e. holliday

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Color schemes/finishes
« on: March 21, 2011, 10:00:55 AM »
Reading the post about the new SV-11 and the comments about borrowing paint schemes.   Myself I don't borrow, I just steal as much as I can get away with.   To borrow means you have to return it sooner or later.   To copy a paint scheme like on the GeeBee Racing Planes and get it right takes too much time.   Yes in the early days of scale racing I  tried to copy or get correct the paint scheme.   Even the Palmer Thunderbirds were hard to duplicate for me.   So as most have seen of my planes, I just slap some paint on and go fly.   

Now does anybody have details on the International Stunt Winner?  Hate to bother Bobby Hunt as he is a very busy man.   If you follow the twin electric build you will see some of his work in the back ground, the wing cores.  I think he is a workaholic and I hope he never burns out.   He came from great stock as I have talked to his Dad when he was still with us.   Well he is still with us in spirit.   H^^
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Re: Color schemes/finishes
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2011, 01:22:22 PM »
I visited Bob's shop last year.  Speaking of stealing things, I wrote down as many ideas as I could, but still missed most of them.  He's a thinkin' dude.  Ask him about the "fixtureless fuselage fixture".
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Re: Color schemes/finishes
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2011, 02:13:21 PM »
Hey doc. Remember th 59 nats ? That guy from AZ whos wife had painted his T'bird and smoothie like real indian paint jobs,  American Indian . Man those were works of art!! did ya try to copy those? LL~ Wow what paint jobs. lots of colors absolutely beautiful. The guy said she knocked both out in about a week. they were white then,  she painted the T'bird like a"Thunderbird" and the smoothie like a "kachina doll" . Probably could find pics in the aug or sept 59 mags, if one is curious.  jim
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Re: Color schemes/finishes
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2011, 05:11:30 PM »
Actually, I believe that "Indian" artwork was done by Janet Eden, who lived somewhere in Northern Illinois.  Attached is a photo I took of a T-Bird painted with her handiwork, seen at a contest in Riverdale, IL sometime in 1962.  (Gialdini was there that day with an Olympic, and of course he won.)
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Re: Color schemes/finishes
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2011, 05:22:01 PM »
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Here is a different one and it is Scale! 
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Re: Color schemes/finishes
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2011, 07:08:07 PM »
Now your talkin'! <=
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Re: Color schemes/finishes
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2011, 07:41:20 PM »
Love it!  OK, now who's gonna' do it?   #^
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Re: Color schemes/finishes
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2011, 07:55:12 PM »
Good lord - its vulgar..

Green & pink........  Sounds like a spider bite gone wrong.
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Re: Color schemes/finishes
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2011, 08:38:22 PM »
Quote from: PJ Rowland on March 21, 2011, 07:55:12 PM
Good lord - its vulgar..

Green & pink........  Sounds like a spider bite gone wrong.

BINGO! But if the finish is perfect, it should get 20 points...for appearance?  :o Steve
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