MooneyMitch Posted February 16, 2012 Report Posted February 16, 2012 Wow, I say! The photos do not do this paint scheme justice. Yes, the photos are great but seeing this scheme/colors on this Mooney are really striking! The two red tones, couple with the gold stripes along with the basic black and white are just outstanding! Very, very cool indeed. Thanks for sharing Fred. Quote
Piloto Posted February 16, 2012 Report Posted February 16, 2012 I kind like more the old style. But the new one looks good. No need to worry about a dirty belly. José Quote
MooneyMitch Posted February 16, 2012 Author Report Posted February 16, 2012 Well, yes I believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder for sure. It's strictly my opinion of course. The quality of the job appears just excellent. Quote
orangemtl Posted February 16, 2012 Report Posted February 16, 2012 What a beautiful aircraft. Looks like a new Ovation! Well done. Quote
pjsny78 Posted February 16, 2012 Report Posted February 16, 2012 I may have something to add on this tomorrow but for right now. Nice paint job. Quote
231Pilot Posted February 17, 2012 Report Posted February 17, 2012 Nice! You have to be really happy. Looking forward to pjsny 78's pictures soon.....mine in a few weeks, the white is on, shooting color today. Quote
M016576 Posted February 17, 2012 Report Posted February 17, 2012 Can't go wrong with black and red: nice! Quote
John Pleisse Posted February 17, 2012 Report Posted February 17, 2012 Hey Fred.... that is top notch. Great colors, great scheme. May I ask, how do the paint guys get around the TKS? Just tape and leave the old paint underneath? Nice 252. Real snazzy. Mo pix!!! Quote
flyboy0681 Posted February 17, 2012 Report Posted February 17, 2012 Pretty spectacular Fred. And I also like Lew Powell's drawings. The only thing I would change on his design is to streamline the registration instead of using the block letters and numbers as they are currently drawn out. Quote
Parker_Woodruff Posted February 17, 2012 Report Posted February 17, 2012 Looks great (and useful with the TKS panels!) Nice color selection, Lew. Looking forward to seeing you and your M20K someday. Quote
231Pilot Posted February 17, 2012 Report Posted February 17, 2012 Quote: flyboy0681 Pretty spectacular Fred. And I also like Lew Powell's drawings. The only thing I would change on his design is to streamline the registration instead of using the block letters and numbers as they are currently drawn out. Quote
KSMooniac Posted February 17, 2012 Report Posted February 17, 2012 Lew, glad to hear you liked working with Brian. He has a really great eye for Mooney designs, and is very reasonably priced relative to all of the effort that goes into the process IMO. I'm sure your plane will look great. Fred's 252 looks great too! Quote
jbs007 Posted February 17, 2012 Report Posted February 17, 2012 Nice new paint! I'm glad you posted before and after pics... Honestly I lov eyour before paint scheme and it might factor into a new paint job for me. One idea I have is is to just make the bottom half a darker gray... Quote
MooneyMitch Posted February 17, 2012 Author Report Posted February 17, 2012 Just a bit of imformation regarding the paint scheme on this aircraft. This is not meant to detract from professional folks that design and layout paint schemes for us. The folks at ArtCraft worked one on one, hands-on with Jolie during her design/layout/implementation requests. You are always welcomed into their paint shop area. If you have a good photo of a scheme you like, as did FredMZ252, Tony [scheme layout/painter] will replicate it accurately. He is an artist at this! Once again, we have no financial affiliation of any kind with ArtCraft. We just think the final product is outstanding and very price competitive so we like to share that with any Mooney folks that are considering having their plane painted. Quote
Bennett Posted February 17, 2012 Report Posted February 17, 2012 Very nicely done. I'm glad your experience with ArtCraft was positive with the exception of "pick up time". I, too, have had a great paint job done there, with Tony being the master painter and designer. They put up with all my "suggestions", and spent an entire Sunday with me adjusting tape lines. Being resonably local (San Carlos, and with the help from a very patient Mooney pilot and friend) I was able to make several trips to Santa Maria to watch the progress, which was helpful (to me), but I, too, had several "completion dates", before the real one. Ultimately, it was well worth the wait, and since then, I have brought the airplane back to ArtCraft to indulge me in airbrushing several stripe areas. Tony was painting a corporate jet with airbrushing, and I was so fascinated by the results, I asked him to do some airbrushing on my stripes. Very understated, and probably not noticeable unless it was brought to your attention, but it pleases me enormously. The really good part is that ArtCraft has painted quite a few Mooneys at this point, and they are good at putting them back together exactly as they were when the aircraft rolled into their shop. I had no squawks when I picked up the airplane, and my subsequent visits were for touch up (dirt strips in Mexico can be hard on the paint), and the airbrushing. At my most recent annual at LASAR, they noted missing decals for" Hoist Point", and "Tire Pressure". I will ask ArtCraft to make these, and mail them to me. Next time I am at the hangar I will take a couple of photos of the airbrushing and post them to my gallery photos. All the current photos were taken before the airbrushing. Quote
Jeev Posted February 17, 2012 Report Posted February 17, 2012 Quote: Mitch Just a bit of imformation regarding the paint scheme on this aircraft. This is not meant to detract from professional folks that design and layout paint schemes for us. The folks at ArtCraft worked one on one, hands-on with Jolie during her design/layout/implementation requests. You are always welcomed into their paint shop area. If you have a good photo of a scheme you like, as did FredMZ252, Tony [scheme layout/painter] will replicate it accurately. He is an artist at this! Once again, we have no financial affiliation of any kind with ArtCraft. We just think the final product is outstanding and very price competitive so we like to share that with any Mooney folks that are considering having their plane painted. Quote
fantom Posted February 19, 2012 Report Posted February 19, 2012 Two very nice designs Fred and Lew! For me, the design process was more fun than the actual painting. Take some time, go over every detail, change any aspect of the design, modify whatever you want as many times as you like...all without relying on a paint shop to spend time with you on design work. After all that isn't what they're payed to do, and it a way, it could be a bit of a conflict for the paint shop. When you use a REASONABLE and experieced indepentent designer you just have so many more options, and what is several hundred dollars when you be spending many thousands on the paint job. As others have said, Brian at Wings Aviation Design is wonderful to work with and does outstanding work as a designer. You get a 20 page detailed design book you can give to any paint shop you select. I spoke to maybe 15 shops over a two year period and visited most of them in the Southeast. I choose Hawk in Tampa, FL and am as happy with them as some are you are with that LALA land shop out west ;-) Find a shop with a good rep, one that knows Mooneys, and if at all possible, one nearby. There are a lot of good ones out there. Good luck! Quote
flyboy0681 Posted February 19, 2012 Report Posted February 19, 2012 Since I don't have a single artistic bone in my body, I'd be more inclined to use an existing scheme and that would most probably be Fantom's, assuming he wouldn't take me to court for plagiarism. Quote
MooneyMitch Posted February 19, 2012 Author Report Posted February 19, 2012 Whoops! Again, certainly not to disparage or negate the value of a wonderful scheme designer for our airplanes, I do want to attempt to clairfy a statement I made in a previous post. The folks at ArtCraft worked one on one, hands-on with Jolie during her design/layout/implementation requests. Believe me, she and I actually spent months on her scheme, talking to others, looking at photos, and even plagiarized from other Mooney owners [ok, ok,you know who you are!!] in getting to her final design. We grabbed a Mooney silhouette off the internet, made many, many copies and began drawing the design. Eventully coming to the final design/color combination that she just loved. What I meant, is that these folks welcomed us into the shop as they laid out her plan on the plane, making sure it was exactly as she depicted on her drawings. I like that a lot! I think this is kind of smart really. If she didn't like the final product, she certainly could not blame the layout person. It worked perfectly for her! So in conclusion my friends [ha], there appears to be value in each method, depending on the person of course. It is just a blast transforming our Mooney's into something very personal. Opening up that hangar door and beholding your beautiful plane [ I sing "You Are So Beautiful" to mine each time], or walking back to the ramp and seeing your Mooney with your special paint job is thrilling! Almost as thrilling as flying it Quote
pjsny78 Posted February 19, 2012 Report Posted February 19, 2012 I made my process a very simple one. I do not have the patience or the artistic ability to come up with a paint scheme. There is a reason I do not attempt home improvement projects on my own. J Anyways I just went to the Mooney website and I told the paint shop I want the one on the main page. Without the stripes on the tail instead put a Mooney logo on it. That was it. Took me less than 5 minutes and I have a 95% plagiarized, updated scheme. I’m just hoping and praying now the end result will come out perfect. Quote
flyboy0681 Posted February 19, 2012 Report Posted February 19, 2012 I find it interesting, and exciting, that the custom paint schemes that we see nowadays is a fairly new phenomenon. Back in the 70's through 90's when one got their plane painted, chances are that it would be a copy of the current scheme used by the manufacturer. Look at the colors of Cherokees repainted in the 90's or Cessna's in the early 2000's. Even the colors of my '83 J are a knockoff of the MSE scheme found from the early 90's. Quote
mooneygirl Posted February 19, 2012 Report Posted February 19, 2012 We have some Mooney coloring sheets for the children's activities we do with the Ambassadors. I just got my pencil out and started sketching. Of course we also had photos of other Mooneys we liked. It is interesting that you see more and more of the individual owner's personality going into the paint job. Really fun I think! As Mitch mentioned, it took about 2-4 hours with the artist putting the tape on, standing back, making adjustments etc. I have to say it was really a very fun process. Quote
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