[WWI] Another One

[Matt Bittner]

Awesome!!  Thanks, Tom!

One wing masked on one HB D.I (whose idea was this, anyway? ;-) ).  
Prepping the F.I parts for painting now.  Hopefully my MK Turquoise 
isn't dried up...


Matt Bittner


Tom Solinski wrote:
> Are these any help?
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> http://www.fokkerdr1.com/101_17.htm
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> mrt
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On
> Behalf Of Matt Bittner
> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 4:37 PM
> To: World War I Modeling Mailing List
> Subject: [WWI] Another One
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> Okay, since I'm finishing the F.I I've been working on as 101/17, I've 
> decided to base it on the only photo I've seen of it, in the Datafile 
> Special.  According to the caption - and looking at the photo - it 
> appears the top of the fuselage where the middle wing "resides next to" 
> was left natural metal, as was the cowl.  In addition, it appears the 
> wheel covers were left CDL.
>
> What about the axle wing?  It appears dark, so maybe olive?  Also, since 
> they don't appear in the photo (it's a photo of the fuselage only), were 
> the main wing struts turquoise?  Would the center struts be olive as 
> well?  It almost appears the landing gear struts are dark, so probably 
> also olive.
>
> I'm going to spray something this weekend.  I have a new compressor, so 
> it's either going to be the HB D.Is (when I get the rib-areas masked), 
> the Nie.17bis, or the F.I.  Unfortunately the MoS AC and Strutter are 
> not far enough along (sorry, D, although I will scan that one part for you).
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> Matt Bittner
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