I then took my wing star insignia drawings along with the serial number and other nomenclature to a local vinyl sign shop. I decided to try mixing my own colors which turned out to be fairly easy using Dave Platt’s Black Arts DVD series. It is comprehensive and includes lots of diagrams and real paint color chips. Aircraft Color Guide, – 1941) book to make sure everything was correct. For color & markings documentation, I used the “Official Monogram U.S. You can see my entire building thread at the Radio Control Scale Builder forum (), which includes multiple photos of all the scratch-built details. They include everything needed to build a full-scale aircraft let alone a model. For this 1/3-scale RC Thomas Morse S4B, I used Replicraft 1/5-scale plans for reference.
