[WWI] Richthofen & Voss's Tripes

[Ray B]

You have to be carefull here, Voss never flew a DR1. He flew the F1 which was the infamous aircraft he was killed in. As Jamie said it could have been pale blue or CDL with upper surfaces both fuselage and wings streaked with the standard for the time fokker finish of an olive green. In pictures the fuselage is very thinly streaked (Fokker DrI datafile special page 3 photo 3 Voss's F1 or V4). Most places I've read its stated  was pale blue and streaked btw.  Olive green cowl with the famous kite markings lol maybe....

Richtofen's F1 would have been the same and there is doubt if there was enough time for it to be repainted since I beleive this F1 was wrecked whilst he was on leave, therefore he didnt get to use it much. 

Richtofen then flew DR1's and the Albatros DV's/DVa's up until his death. These were not all completely red and or could have been in differnt painted states over the 5 or 6 months he lived after the introduction of the DR1. 

Lastly Fokker was known for thin finshes of the streaky paint so dont go mad with the green. 

Clear as Mud!!! I'll go back to sulking now. 

btw a good reference if you can get it for Richtofen is the Ed Ferko book published by Albatros Publications, or the Fokker Triplane Special and the Datafile.... 
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Tom Mason <tom.mason at charter.net>
To: World War I Modeling Mailing List <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 6, 2007 10:45:37 AM
Subject: [WWI] Richthofen & Voss's Tripes

Over the years the color schemes of Richthofen's red Dr. I and Voss's Dr. I have varied. I would like to know what is the consensus of most these days on what is believed to be the correct color schemes.  Also, Why was Voss's tripe described those who saw his plane as being blue or silver/blue, when books show the color scheme as standard streaky olive green?

T.O.M.






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