hi ralph,
welcome back to the building board! you're dead right about not showing your bits in public, especially coming into the winter. re colours of k8... i think alan's k8 is based on the dublin gliding club's 'yellow 8', so if you did yours as their 'red 8', we would have my k13 and k18, alan's k8 and your own k8 all in the dgc colours. what do you think?