[WWI] Hannover markings

[Dave Calhoun]

Hi Ross,
Hannover colors are hard to determine, but according to the Windsock Datafile, the wings & tail fabric areas were covered in 4 or 5 color lozenge (they are not even sure which, guess they used both at different times) and the wooden fuselage was painted in lozenge to match the fabric, but the hand painted lozenge were much larger than the printed fabric,  The center section was also ply covered so this would be painted the same way.  The colors may not be very important, since the next thing says the hand painted lozenge was spray painted a dark blue or green color (probably Prussian blue) blending the lozenge colors. but the fabric was not overpainted.  They gave a very dark look, as Rickenbacker says in his book he helped bring down "a black machine" when referring to the Hannover with the white arrow.  I think the cowl would be the same dark color and not a light turquoise blue.  Not sure what the underside of the fuselage would look like.
Hope this helps, I'm sure if you ask over at the Aerodrome forum Dan San Abbott will give you some more detailed information, as he wrote the book on Schlachtstaffel a couple of years ago that details the operation of the Hannover and Halberstadt Battle Section, as well as colors and markings.
Hope this helps.
Dave
 I need some help....I am trying my hand at Eduard's 1/48 Hannover 
> CL.IIIa kit (ref#8008). It's all cleaned up, fuselage joined together, 
> time to paint. I am going to build the aircraft with the white arrow 
> on the fuselage side. I understand that the entire vertical tail is 
> white, not just the rudder. OK, that's great. Now for the 
> large 4-color lozenge patterns on the fuselage and around the center 
> portion of the upper wing, has anyone figured out what the proper(?) 
> colors are for those patterns? Also the color of the nose and engine 
> shroud...pale turquoise? 
> thanks in advance, 
> Ross Whitaker 
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