[WWI] Ref: Fritz Rumey stripes

[Barrett, Kevin]

Mike,

He did fly several stripped D.Vs...maybe you're looking at two different examples? I'm particularly mystified by the different representations of his wing painting patterns and various photographs showing wing painting. I'm doing Rumey right now with the FCM decals. Getting these things right is...challenging...particularly because two of the decal pieces are numbered incorrectly on the sheet, and the geometry doesn't line up very well even when you do figure out which decals are supposed to go where! In any event, I botched my application pretty much, and the model only has a vague resemblance to one of the Rumey photographs. You can see the current state of the build on my blog: mageknightkevin.blogspot.com.

Thanks,
Kevin.

From: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On Behalf Of Mike Cartmale
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:53 AM
To: wwi at wwi-models.org
Subject: [WWI] Ref: Fritz Rumey stripes

Hello All,
I have a query regarding the striped Albatros flown by Fritz Rumey.
On the back cover of Vol.1 of Jagdstaffel 5, there is an illustration of this Albatros by Bob Pearson. This covers the Left side of the aircraft, with a smaller illustration showing the top.
If you go to Vol.2, page 11, the photograph and drawing are correct, but this is where it becomes complicated, on page 16 there is a photograph of the right side of the aircraft, but the stripes do not match.
If you take Bob Persons drawing as the left side and use that as the guide, which is correct, you can clearly see that the broad black stripe is covering the rear part of the cockpit opening, with the front part covered by the thinner black stripe, again as per the photo on page 11.
But, then look at where the stripes are on the right side that go over the cockpit, the thin black stripe is clearly covering the rear of the cockpit with a broad white stripe ahead of it.
My question is this, Is this the same aircraft shown in both photos, or is it the same aircraft, but with the striping different on both sides, split along the spine of the aircraft.
The reason this all came about is that I am intending to paint the Eduard Albatros D.V as flown by Fritz Rumey in this scheme and it was working out the paths of the stripes and that's what started all of this.
If this question has been on the table before please excuse the repeat question.
Regards
Mike Cartmale
Luton
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