Paintjob

Most composite planes are white - this is usually to reflect as much heat as possible from the sun as too much heat can damage the underlying structure. Whilst white is the best colour to do this it also makes for a boring looking aircraft.

One of the kit designers has his painted yellow and dark blue - which looks very nice. The yellow does almost as good a job as white at reflecting heat.

I have decided on a similar paintjob for my kit and will hopefully be able to use orange and black. (The black is used in places where the sun will not be directly on it and on non-structural parts like the engine cowling). For the orange I hope to use a candy type paint with a lot of metallic flakes in it to reflect as much light as possible.

Some of my inspiration.

Bloodhound SSC - Land speed record car and McLaren M6

And below is version 1 of how it could look.