[WWI] Lothar question

[Dave Calhoun]

Suprised that everyone takes it for gospel that the upper wing was yellow, I
for one agree with Dan San Abbott in that only the fuselage & tail were
painted yellow, and the white upper wing is due to the bright sunlight
reflecting off odf the doped fabric.  If you look at the yellow tail &
fuselage it appears very dark where the yellow is, not the white color of
the upper wing.  But the aileron on the upper wing shows the streaked Fokker
finish nicely as well as the olive cross field.  I think that the yellow
upper wing idea first appeared in Alex Imrie' Fokker Triplane book, same as
the yellow cowl on Voss's F.1.  So does anyone have any information that
says the upper wing was yellow before this book was published, or is that
the information used in the profile in the Osprey books?
I know when I do my 454/17 it will have a dark yellow rear fuselage, olive
cross fields and factory streaked wings.
Dave Calhoun
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:01:39 -0600
From: "Marc Flake" <MFlake at tarrantcounty.com>
Subject: Re: [WWI] Lothar question
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I got my idea to use Tamiya Dark Yellow in the upper wing and fuselage
fields from the color profile in the Osprey Fokker Triplane Aces book.
My guess is that the theory was that the actual fields were Fokker Green
painted over the original white.  Then Lothar painted the yellow over
the green, giving it this peculiar color:

http://www.wwi-models.org/app/album/Acn.php?base=%2FImages%2FFlake1%2FDr
I&hdr=Fokker+Triplanes&picInx=10

I tried to duplicate the prototype by actually painting yellow over
Fokker Green, but I only got yellow.  Therefore I used the Dark Yellow
instead.

Here's a shot of Lothar's downed aircraft:
http://www.earlyaviator.com/archive/1a/images/LotharsCrashedDr1.JPG

Note the difference between the rudder and the fields on the wings.

Another view: http://www.earlyaviator.com/archive/image3/wreck2_mvr.jpg

And here's StE's interpretation?
http://www.wwi-models.org/Images/Weier/CP/FokDr1-2/dscn5505a.jpg

Steve Hustad's:
http://www.wwi-models.org/Images/Hustad/DrI/JG1/fokdr1_lvr_2.jpg

Marc Flake (who should be building a ship)
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