It’s getting HOT in here ….

[d8mok]

If I were in your shoes (and thankfully I'm not) and was building the Hot as a hang on the wall / show bike I would go flam red, I once had a Hobbs of Barbican in that colour and it was lovely. The downside was that the paint chipped easily.

If it was to be a rider then I'd choose a powder coat rather than paint, but still a bright sparkly colour

Yeh it’s a wall hanger / show bike

I’m also slightly ocd and if it’s not right it’ll annoy me.

I’ve got a great powder guy whose work is as good as paint. But I feel this frame deserves wet paint / enamel for it to come alive.

 

[PhillB]

Do they do their own decals ? I can email them for a quote.

I've used H Lloyd for both Breezer and Roberts decals. They do make their own. Great quality water slide decals in my experience. Reasonably priced too.

 

[al-onestare]

Here we go, this is what I'd go with. The paint scheme did exist but unsurprisingly, this is the only picture I've ever seen.

I'm confident it isn't a Hot. The tubing is too big, it's more likely a specially painted Kula given the seat-tube decal. Could it be a Ku? But that's not the point. Check out the livery! I've never seen anything like it on Kona. (I've translated the text and it doesn't reveal what the frame could be).

Judy yellow (maybe with a metallic flake), orange fade, zig-zag pattern/edging, deep blue with a purple hint front-end. It has the 1995 spiral headtube decal, no top tube decal.

I'd go with 1996 grey decals as the 1997 jungle decals would clash.

 

[d8mok]

This is scheme I’m also very drawn to.

Matched with some Z2 lower in the same colour.

 

[murphy79]

Very cool! I seem to recall a "Team" Hot (I think a 94/95 bike) in a similar colour (orange to yellow fade) but with out the blue zig-zag. Maybe this is an evolution of those early team colours. As I mentioned I have a Ku needing paint so maybe this is some inspiration for that.

 

[murphy79]

This is scheme I’m also very drawn to.

Matched with some Z2 lower in the same colour.

That's a lovely scheme, simple and classy.

 

[al-onestare]

Very cool! I seem to recall a "Team" Hot (I think a 94/95 bike) in a similar colour (orange to yellow fade) but with out the blue zig-zag. Maybe this is an evolution of those early team colours. As I mentioned I have a Ku needing paint so maybe this is some inspiration for that.

Yep, yellow orange was the team colour those years, or just a single orange colour.

 

[minor_LEGEND]

/\ The Misser scheme shown in the scan has quite a billiard cue look about it.