That flame paint job is very labor intensive and is currently one of a kind. That's the plane they used for all the magazine reviews and suchlike. It's a lot smaller in person :-)
Here is a very standard Pitts paint scheme, if you ignore the sponsorship stuff on the side. Here is another fairly common scheme. Most purchasers of brand new S-2Cs will get a close variant of one of these with choice of colors, unless they want to do an expensive custom job.
I've thought a bit about what paint job I'd like, but haven't settled on a concrete mental picture. Aerobatic planes should have bold colors, for resale value and for any potential airshow work. For competition, they should have long lines painted from nose to tail, to make the linear parts of the maneuvers show up more visibly to the judges. My personal preference is not much light blue (looks like sky - a safety issue), not much white (looks like every other airplane out there), at least some green OR purple because I love those colors, not too dark overall because it turns into an EZ Bake Oven in the sun waiting my turn for takeoff.
When I was at the factory I saw a lovely darkdark forest green S-2C with yellow trim awaiting transportation to Alaska for sale. Despite how dark the paint scheme was overall, I was awfully tempted... (Shoulda bought it. It would have had better resale value right now than my stock does!)
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Here is a very standard Pitts paint scheme, if you ignore the sponsorship stuff on the side. Here is another fairly common scheme. Most purchasers of brand new S-2Cs will get a close variant of one of these with choice of colors, unless they want to do an expensive custom job.
I've thought a bit about what paint job I'd like, but haven't settled on a concrete mental picture. Aerobatic planes should have bold colors, for resale value and for any potential airshow work. For competition, they should have long lines painted from nose to tail, to make the linear parts of the maneuvers show up more visibly to the judges. My personal preference is not much light blue (looks like sky - a safety issue), not much white (looks like every other airplane out there), at least some green OR purple because I love those colors, not too dark overall because it turns into an EZ Bake Oven in the sun waiting my turn for takeoff.
When I was at the factory I saw a lovely darkdark forest green S-2C with yellow trim awaiting transportation to Alaska for sale. Despite how dark the paint scheme was overall, I was awfully tempted... (Shoulda bought it. It would have had better resale value right now than my stock does!)
How about this one? :-)