Plain Jane Car Decal

[Pat Mustard]

Preparing the stencil for the plane for tomorrow. I don't know planes. 

I've chosen what I think is a Sopwith Camel biplane that will sit next to Jane Porter on the car. Is it important to paint those blue and red targets on the wing and side? Like, it'll look like a biplane if I just paint the wings and body straight colors, yeah? I just want to make sure it'll be identifiable as a "that's a plane, yup" without making it too complicated or specific. I haven't ever looked at any planes for the purpose of painting them before, so, I never noticed the circular patterns they all seem to have on the wings and bodies. Are those important? Or are they brand identifying marks?

The markings are military in use to denote the country of origin of the aeroplane. The roundel (circular marking) appears to be a WW1 era British one, for the US equivalent the colours (outside in) would be red, blue, white; with the blue much brighter.