[WWI] Richthofen & Voss's Tripes

[Ray B]

425/17 was all red and may well have been factory painted
152/17 was probably painted in the field and every picture I've seen its all red apart from the cross backrounds in white and then attempts to over paint them in red too. 
Undersides were red cowls were red. 

Richtofen flew other dr1's and those probably were not all red
Lastly f102/17 was as delivered streaked green over pale blue or cdl take your pick. The cowl was probably green along with the wheels. I say probably since Wolf was killed in this aircraft whilst richtofen was on leave and it really wasnt in service very long at all. Sheesh see what happems when you let the kids fly the plane whilst your away...... (sorry dry humour)
 
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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: Sunday, January 7, 2007 11:44:03 AM
Subject: Re: [WWI] Richthofen & Voss's Tripes

On Richthofen's all red tripe, was the bottom blue, are the struts painted 
red, and finally was the cowl red?

T.O.M.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Solinski" <dr-i.417.17 at cox.net>
To: "'World War I Modeling Mailing List'" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [WWI] Richthofen & Voss's Tripes


> Matt writes
> Since everyone like to finish their F.Is in either Richtofen's or Voss'
> colors, I'm thinking along the lines of finishing this one as the first
> F.I.  I've seen a picture of it on "trestles" (or "saw horses", if
> you're a hillbilly ;-) ) but if memory serves, the top wing wasn't on.
>
> What is the consensus of the finish of this F.I?  Probably the olive
> streaking over blue, but I'm thinking the cowl wasn't painted.  Yes?
>
>
>
> I disagree with the overall blue then covered with green.  There is a 
> chance
> that 102/17 and 103/17 may have been aluminum doped first  but I think
> 101/17 which changed looks several times in its short life had blue on the
> bottom an streaked green on the top.
>
> http://www.internetmodeler.com/2006/november/aviation/roden_FI.php
>
> This base on the previous pictures showing it CDL, And painting the plane
> all blue then cammo green would have been a first for Fokker and the 
> German
> military.  Why add the weight, time cost of slapping on a coat of color 
> that
> won't be seen. Kinda like the CDL argument for the cross fields also 
> doesn't
> make sense when the time to mask off the CDL would be the same as it would
> to mask off the white.  And that national marking were crosses on a white
> field.
>
> Mtc
> YMMV
> MrT
>
>
> 








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