LnS
Thank you for the compliment! The paint scheme is known as the Gene Soucey starburst. Gene was an airshow performer in the States during the seventies and he and the factory devised the starburst scheme.
The factory still produce the S2C in starburst and the more usual colours are red/white black or yellow/white black.
Painting the aeroplane took me 3 months (elapsed) and it was a pretty full on job. Masking for the three colours took me in excess of 2 man weeks! My only major disaster was that I had finished the third colour on the last component, an upper aileron and whist unhanging it from the spray booth, I dropped it - it landed on a corner and broke.
So uncover, repair, have it inspected, recover, redope, repaint - another week goes by!
The paint is Courtalds FE102 which Airbus also use - though not in such a nice shade of purple! FE102 is a two pack polyurethane and once you have the knack it goes on very easily.
There were some Vans aircraft at the PFA Rally this year finished in the same stuff that TVR uses to give you a couple of different shades/colours. Automotive paint is okay on aluminium aircraft but needs a plasticizer/flex agent before it can be applied to fabric.
Stik