Well the 8 is a single stage, 3 color paint job, for which I did the rendering.. It needed some fiberglass work to the windshield, wheel pants, cowlings, and wing tips.. as well as a lot of oil contamination clean up before we could begin the paint process.. But its paint work was about 5700.. glasswork and clean up was around 1300 bucks.. then uncle sam had to get his cut that was around 500 bucks so the total was 7500 and change.
The 7's body work was finished, and very nicely done so most of that was not part of my invoice (Rick Grey took care of that stuff before it got here).. Its paint work with the renderings that id did for it as well, was just over 14,500. As you can see there are ALOT of colors and masking involved with the 7. Total there are about 16 colors on it.. 7 major colors and 9 accent colors (pinstriping and other little things)
The differnce is about 7000 i guess (and about 900 miles of 3M tape)
Neither of these are 2 week turn arounds tho.. Admittedly they took a bit longer than expected, mostly due to taking over the FBO at Giddings (yeah thats been a pain!! but i love it out here) And finding help that actually wants to work..