[WWI] AEG C.IV

[Pedro Soares]

Paul, Nico,

 

I opened the rear view  on Nico's Link in photoshop and fiddled a bit with
the levels commands, I could find no trace of streaks in the wings and if
they were there, they would probably appear. The wings do give the
impression of having been recovered, and CDL is an obvious possibility.  The
light area on the fuselage is the most intriguing factor here. could it be
that the  streaking was not done over CDL but over some other colour? Blue?
Were there not some such examples of fokkers? Voss DR1? Under the blue would
be varnished linen, and it looks like the paint was "cleaned up" in that
little part of the fuselage and also on that "stain" above it. 

 

P

 

De: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] Em nome
de Paul Thompson
Enviada: sexta-feira, 16 de Outubro de 2009 10:17
Para: wwi at wwi-models.org
Assunto: [WWI] AEG C.IV

 

    Any opinions on the photo at this link?
http://ipms.freeforums.org/post2616.html#p2616

 

    The poster is asking , among other things, what colour the top wings
should be. He thinks CDL, I think not, unless they recovered the wings (not
impossible, because they seem to have done that to the rudder, to remove the
cross, although it could be paint. Why I don't think CDL is because Fokker
built machines, from my reading of the Datafile, had typical Fokker streaky
camo as on the fuselage here, if early, and then got disruptive camo if
later production. And this is a machine from September 1917. I think any
camo pattern on the lower wing has been washed out by the same glare you see
on the top of the fuelage.

 

    The other unexplained bit is the light area at the bottom of the
fuselage sides behind the lower wing - either it's CDL and the fuselage
streaks are painted over a darker colour, or the lower fuselage has been
painted a light colour. Messily.

 

    

 

    Any ideas, please?

 

 

Paul.

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