Paint Scheme

[TimHicks]

I'm still a long ways from painting. But I'd like to start playing around with paint schemes.
Does anyone have a 3-view, black-and-white sketch of a B model Taylorcraft that I can use to copy and color in various paint schemes?

[Ryan]

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Have htis immidietly available here at work. I know Rob Lees has posted some in other threads and I have those saved at home. There is a plane without a color scheme on on this sheet to start playing with.

[Steve Green]

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Chet Peak's book had the 3-view that I used to lay out my paint scheme for my BC12-D.

[M Towsley]

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See if this helps.

[jim cooper]

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My 46 BC12D is painted in the deluxe factory paint scheme. It is original and its good looking. Gets alot of comment wherever I land. Easy to find a photo of this. However. if I had done the job I would NOT have put the large numbers anywhere on the airplane. I prefer a small, 2 inch number down by the elevator. It flew low alot! JC

[TimHicks]

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Thanks, everybody. Great responses. I can really use the drawings.
Jim, you mentioned not putting large numbers. Are you talking about 12" numbers on the side of the fuselage? Or 30" numbers on the wing?
I don't plan on putting 12" numbers on the fuse. But I'm on the fence about the big numbers on the wing.

[Hank Jarrett]

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Hey Jim, where (and HOW) you flying that you don't want people to see your numbers! ;-)
I really think the BIG wing and rudder numbers make our planes look like what they are, old planes lovingly restored maintained and operated. I especially like it when we can put the old NC on the wings. I WANT people on the ground to know who I am.
Hank

If you want the numbers on correctly, let me know. I have the old instructions around here somewhere I used on my plane. There is a pattern for the shape of the letters and numbers to make them look original. The big wing numbers look really nice on our planes.

[Steve Green]

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Hey Jim, where (and HOW) you flying that you don't want people to see your numbers! ;-)
I really think the BIG wing and rudder numbers make our planes look like what they are, old planes lovingly restored maintained and operated. I especially like it when we can put the old NC on the wings. I WANT people on the ground to know who I am.
Hank


If you want the numbers on correctly, let me know. I have the old instructions around here somewhere I used on my plane. There is a pattern for the shape of the letters and numbers to make them look original. The big wing numbers look really nice on our planes.

Hank,

Could you post the instructions. I would really like to see that (assuming it still applies to the '46 models). We are right at the point of needing to consider if we are going to use the wing numbers or not and I keep wavering back and forth. Appreciate your comments above.

[jim cooper]

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If your sitting in the cockpit, to the left the big NC43338 is on the left bottom wing and on the right upper. They are large and easily seen. Not good when saying hello to a combine or getting a gear check from a pals home. I must say I'm older now and don't do this now but have fond memories of low flight. BUT.... I did as I was taught.....one pass, as fast as it would go, then leave immed. I do agree that these old numbers look original. The only other id number is vertical, on the rudder. This I do not like. JC

[Ryan]

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Steve, I have a copy of a drawing dated March of 1946. The measurments called out for the wing number are 24 in in height, 16 in in width, and 4 in stroke. They also specify where to start on the wing, but I have to look that one up. Will post that in a bit. These are the measurement that we used for ours, and they seem to be consistant with photos of BC12Ds. Looking at old photos some pre wars may have had bigger.

[Hank Jarrett]

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I have a drawing that shows a rectangle with all the lines in it to construct all of the numbers and letters, I just CAN'T FIND THE #%&#@)(%&! THING!!
I used a snap line tot putthe top and bottom lines for the numbers on the wing then laid out tape rectangles for each number. They are all pretty easy except for the spacing for the "1". If you place it left in the box, the space looks too big on the right, if placed right the space is too big left and in the middle it just look strange. It really looks like it should have a smaller space for the number "1" but my old instructions didn't address that. Luckily I don't need to worry about the 45 (NC-43196) yet and the 41 (NC-36296) didn't have a "1". On the 45 I plan to just slide the numbers together so the space on each side of the "1" is the same as between the other numbers.
The other thing is some early planes had the tail numbers vertical and others had them horizontal. Make sure you use the right ones for your plane. I think the regs say you can use the wing and tail numbers if they are the same as used originally. A really anal inspector could give you a hard time.
Hank

Lucky for me, we don't have any of the anal ones here in South East Virginia. ;-)

[Ryan]

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Where to start the NC numbers on the wing. Again, this is dated '46 and may or may not be appropriate for prewars.

[NC43501]

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It might be a little late to help, but I have a line drawing based on one of the pictures posted earlier. Basically a "clean slate" to draw different paint schemes on. I'm posting it in two different sizes, depending on your need for detail. It's a side view only, however. I plan on finishing the three-view, but you know how things go...

*EDIT* I've uploaded a blank 2-view, as well as one I colored in for my Tcart.

[jim cooper]

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My stearman, painted US Navy only had N number half under the elevator about two inches high. It went to many airports and lots of people looked at it. Never a problem. I sent pictures to u. Did u get them? JC

[Ryan]

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Hank I as I was watching my screen saver was going by, I noticed this picture that I shamelessly right clicked from dedrekon's sight. It show s a "1" and seems they simply slid the 1 in and just kept the 4inch spacing and not the 16 inch "box". I then noticed that the Taylorcraft A owned by the Taylor family also has a 1 in the number and is done in similar fashion. Hope this helps.