Predominant fleet colour?

[dr wogz]

As I was putting some paint on a rocket, I thought: "This is likely the first rocket that is strictly all yellow"

So,. as I put t away, I looked over my fleet (~75 built) and noticed my dominant fleet colour is blue. (A set of BBZ obviously add to the colour shift!) Followed by three shades of purple. Grey & while round out the rest.

So, very few red & green.. one orange (Patriot) and one cream / "Antique white" (Seawolf) And, despite about 2 dozen cans of paint, they too are mostly blues & purples & whites..


SO, what colour does your fleet lean towards?

 

[Nytrunner]

There's a definite smattering.

Blues, reds, blacks, whites, various other accenting colors. Each rocket gets a paint job as inspiration strikes, so the variation is wide

 

[Scott_650]

Everything seems to end up with at least a little bit of orange or red - sometimes just one fin or the nose cone - otherwise I suppose white is the dominant color, comes from growing up with the US space program I guess

 

[Donnager]

Predominant colors for me (in roughly descending order)
Black
Red
White
Blue
Green
Yellow

And the blue can be a little varied, some metallic, some solid. To change things up, I used some metallic orange on my Radial flyer.

 

[neil_w]

Hmm, let's see:


Black and white seem to be the most common base colors.
Red and blue are next, and they are used heavily as secondary colors.
After that, there's some yellow, orange, silver, and cranberry.

I could definitely use some more color diversity in my collection. There is a conspicuous absence of green and purple, some other colors could use some more exposure. On the other hand, I always like to use up cans of paint before buying new colors, although accent colors often come from decals as well.

 

[heada]

primer grey
primer white
some mix of red/black/white

Very few other colors but some blue, yellow, silver, orange

 

[Mugs914]

Mostly beige-ish cardboard and light wood tones with a smattering of poly white....



Man, I gotta catch up on my painting...

 

[jqavins]

By far my most common color is white. I get the white primer/base coat on and then don't follow up, so I end up with white rockets. I like to say that I don't fly many rockets naked, but I fly a lot in their underwear.

After that, red. I try to mix things up, but I keep using more red than other colors.

 

[Wally Ferrer]

I have all kinds of colors, yellows, reds, blues and greens, purples, silver and gold metallics, lots of white and black as well. I used to slap any colors I had on a kit, lately I've been going for actual kit colors as designed. Most of my Apollo fleet is naked or white- I guess I have time to finish those before the 55th Anniversary of the moon landing, but at the rate I'm going I'll never make it.

 

[mtnmanak]

My LPRs and MPRs are all over the place - most are painted to whatever the kit color was, so a lot of white and black in there. Since they mostly fly within visual range, I am more creative with that fleet of rockets.

For HPRs, I tend to paint them whatever colors will stand out compared to the green sod farm fields and brown dirt winter fields here on the east coast. That means a lot of fluorescent orange, yellow, red and green. I do have a couple dark/black HPRs and learned some hard lessons searching for them in the dirt of the Higgs Farm east of the ditch... or worse, in the ditch. I once had a black rocket there land with the payload bay submerged in the water in the ditch, so I could not hear the beeping. Took me two hours to find it and I must have passed within 10 feet of it at least 20 times. Spent the whole time cursing myself that I hadn't painted the thing day-glo orange.

 

[Funkworks]

I don't think I have 20 rockets but white is prominent because of my bigger ones: ARCAS, Saturn V, Decaffeinator, and few BB2s in a unique white display version.

 

[Cape Byron]

White or white and orange. Sometimes orange and white.

 

[Buzzard]

Scarlet and Gray. Go Buckeyes!!!

 

[cerving]

Red, because a lot of my rockets are colored fiberglass, and it seems that red is the predominant color for that.

 

[boatgeek]

I've got a fair amount of blue, but also some black, orange, and red. I don't really have more space in my cabinet for more colors of spray paint until I use up what I have.

 

[teepot]

White is the predominate color. It's always white and something else though. After that it's the colors of the rainbow. I'm always looking for a new color. I painted one glitter, one with stone look paint. I call it Stoney Rock It. I'm painting one now with Rusto Colored Chrome, Red. Takes a lot of coats to build the color. I just finished one in Maze and Blue, Go Blue. [U of M]

 

[jqavins]

After that it's the colors of the rainbow.

Speaking of all the colors, here's the plan (approximately) for when I (eventually) finish my EZ-I65 for my L2 flight. I figure it'll be easy to find.

 

[dr wogz]

Speaking of all the colors, here's the plan (approximately) for when I (eventually) finish my EZ-I65 for my L2 flight. I figure it'll be easy to find.
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Dazzling!

(you need to vary the stripes a bit more, and toss in a circle or two..)

 

[jqavins]

No circles; all barber poll (except the switch band). If it makes your eyes hurt then I've done it right.

 

[Hobie1dog]

 

[Hobie1dog]

White, only because the 24 rockets I bought 2nd hand are all done in White

 

[neil_w]

I'm amazed that I'm the only one so far who's posted a pic.

 

[mbeels]

I don't seem to have a predominant color, mine are all over the spectrum. Pink, brown, white, blue, black, purple, silver, red, orange, yellow, even fur.

White might be the most common...

 

[neil_w]

Very good diversity, although like me you are deficient in green...

 

[mtnmanak]

A few photos - most of the rockets are in some kind of storage

 

[Hobie1dog]

That's what I'm talkin about.

 

[Philip Tiberius D.]

I try to stay away from Blue or White unless I have accent colors… easily lost in the sky. Black & Green “disappear” on the ground so I try to have Yellow, Red or Orange parachute.

 

[mbeels]

Very good diversity, although like me you are deficient in green...

True indeed! I have a teal, and an almost yellow lime-green, but no real green at all.

 

[Donnager]

Blue and white, and copper and white. Not exactly my primary colors, but I don't take many pictures. My indoor rocket "garden" may be a little too disorganized for photography.

 

[Hobie1dog]

Going to see if I can get a spray can of Admiral Blue-Corvette color:

Most of my rockets are unpainted.