Dan--
Hm, cool...this thread could go on practically forever...A couple random ideas from my chronically spinning brain:
*bone-stock PLAAF dark green (like the one in the lineup shot just posted)
*PLAAF stars-and-bars and fire-breathing-dragon nose art on an overall high gloss Chinese Red finish (ie. Rosso Cino/Ferrari red)
*a livery copped from a postwar air racer: how about blue and white with a checkerboard cowl, like the ex-Soplata F2G? Or red and black like the ill-fated Airacobra "Cobra I"? (Hm. A CJ6 class at Reno...??)
*Soviet wartime camo, maybe an update on the sort of look a Po-2 light-attack/obs bipe would've worn. (Hm. Nose art "Night Witch", with a sexy lady sailing along aboard a broom?)
*North Korean or North Vietnamese insignia on pretty much any sort of finish at all...a "Bedcheck Charlie" depiction (like the random Ryan PT-22 that popped up in an old episode of M*A*S*H)!
*Trying to think what other types the CJ6A resembles...actually thought of one, albeit it's a stretch, but from a "Tora" standpoint it might come in handy for airshows or even film work. Late-war Japanese Navy green over sky grey, with markings for a B6N Tenzan or D4Y Suisei carrier-based bomber (the CJ6 actually looks vaguely like both types, with the long canopy and round engine of the B6N and the slightly-cranked wings of the D4Y). All those late-war F4Us et cetera would enjoy shooting you down at airshows, finally not having to pretend to have been flying at the time of Pearl...Bonus with this is, you could do the paintwork completely plain, dark green over sky grey (Sandy Thomson Fury style)...then change out "decal" markings PLAAF to IJN (or whatever) and back again as circumstances warranted...
*Purple and orange, to go with Walt's BT-13
BTW, am I seeing things, or are the main gear on a CJ6A based on those of a Yak-11, fitted "backward" for a nosewheel application? (Wouldn't be unique, as the Pilatus P2 used "swapped" Me109-type main gear legs)...
S.