WAFI Posted October 29, 2021 Report Share Posted October 29, 2021 Does anyone have a couple clean profiles of a M20J? Side view & Top down. I'm looking to sketch up a few paint schemes and haven't found a nice one on the internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Posted October 29, 2021 Report Share Posted October 29, 2021 Should be a 3-view in your POH, near the front. This is my C: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAFI Posted October 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2021 10 minutes ago, Hank said: Should be a 3-view in your POH, near the front. This is my C: Ya, I'm familiar with that one. I'm looking more for a CAD drawing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtVandelay Posted October 29, 2021 Report Share Posted October 29, 2021 Ya, I'm familiar with that one. I'm looking more for a CAD drawing. They don’t need to be that accurate. I sketched my scheme on above and supplemented with pictures that I used as models and detail description of key attributes like stripes width, referencing key position points. I then inspected the layout after it was taped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toto Posted October 29, 2021 Report Share Posted October 29, 2021 Doesn’t Scheme Designers have an online tool where you can choose the airframe and then play with different design ideas? (Kind of talking out my *** here, but I recall a bunch of different threads discussing similar.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZuluZulu Posted October 30, 2021 Report Share Posted October 30, 2021 4 hours ago, toto said: Doesn’t Scheme Designers have an online tool where you can choose the airframe and then play with different design ideas? (Kind of talking out my *** here, but I recall a bunch of different threads discussing similar.) No, which isn’t surprising since that would make people less likely to pay Scheme Designers. (Unless there’s some hidden tool for customers…) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toto Posted October 30, 2021 Report Share Posted October 30, 2021 50 minutes ago, ZuluZulu said: No, which isn’t surprising since that would make people less likely to pay Scheme Designers. (Unless there’s some hidden tool for customers…) Interesting. I thought the whole idea was that you try out different ideas and then you buy some kind of “ready for painting” artwork when you find something you like. But I clearly have no idea what I’m talking about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZuluZulu Posted October 30, 2021 Report Share Posted October 30, 2021 28 minutes ago, toto said: Interesting. I thought the whole idea was that you try out different ideas and then you buy some kind of “ready for painting” artwork when you find something you like. But I clearly have no idea what I’m talking about As the name suggests, Scheme Designers ARE the designers. You’re supposed to pay them to try out ideas, i.e., go through the design process. They do a lot more than just printing out your design so it looks nice for the paint shop. With that said, they do have a gallery of past designs on their site; perhaps that’s what you’re thinking of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAFI Posted October 30, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2021 15 hours ago, toto said: Doesn’t Scheme Designers have an online tool where you can choose the airframe and then play with different design ideas? (Kind of talking out my *** here, but I recall a bunch of different threads discussing similar.) Scheme is around $1200 to get started with their design team. I'm pretty sure they don't let you play with the program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAFI Posted October 30, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2021 I know what design I want, I just want to play around with different colors combinations. Ideally would like something I can print out and color in with markers or sketch I can play around with in photoshop. Not that I know how to work photoshop... LOL! I want to create something like this on my own-- 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carusoam Posted November 4, 2021 Report Share Posted November 4, 2021 Photoshop is the perfect tool for that… Even if it is free…. it may have a learning curve that may take a lot of effort… Snoop around the photoshop site… see if they have any low cost trials…. Adobe is the owner of photoshop…. There may be some really simple tools available on the App Store for swapping out colors on a given drawing…. Something I used to do a decade ago while removing imperfections from pics…. Best regards, -a- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toto Posted November 4, 2021 Report Share Posted November 4, 2021 6 hours ago, carusoam said: Photoshop is the perfect tool for that… Even if it is free…. it may have a learning curve that may take a lot of effort… Snoop around the photoshop site… see if they have any low cost trials…. Adobe is the owner of photoshop…. There may be some really simple tools available on the App Store for swapping out colors on a given drawing…. Something I used to do a decade ago while removing imperfections from pics…. Best regards, -a- If you’re looking for advanced image editing capabilities for free, there’s always GIMP.. https://gimp.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LANCECASPER Posted November 4, 2021 Report Share Posted November 4, 2021 On 10/29/2021 at 5:29 PM, toto said: Doesn’t Scheme Designers have an online tool where you can choose the airframe and then play with different design ideas? (Kind of talking out my *** here, but I recall a bunch of different threads discussing similar.) A few years ago Mooney used to have a scheme design on their website so you could see how different schemes and colors looked. I remember playing around with that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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