Model Forum / General / Models / May 2006

I screwed up the painting on my first one, and a replacement is
backordered and way overdue.  Don't have the plans upstairs here by
computer, but for the civilian cub interior and exterior were yellow,
instrument panel black, floor wood color.  Seat upholstery could be one
of several, including blackish grey or dark red.  There is a black
section of cockpit sides up near firewall, but that is not shown on
minicraft plans.

Hi Ed,

I had the same problem. I used matt black for the tires, metalic black
for the canopy frame and guessed at the rest. I did e-mail Hoppycraft,
but they weren't much help. Their response was: "we found in
researching the colors an the Cessna that there were so many color
combinations that it was impossible to put a color chart on it - The
instructions that you have for this plane should have been printed
without
the color reference -"

I think the best thing to do is find some photographs on the internet
then get down to your local airport and take your own photographs where
the internet photographs aren't helpful, which is generally inside the
cockpit.

Simon