Dr.1 204/17

[perdue3]

Was there a cross on the top of the horizontal stab? Looks out of place but I may be wrong.



perdweeb

[perdue3]

Disregard last message. Just looked at it. Two things to look at Baumer:

1. The wheels were black and white in quaters. Like a pizza cut into fourths. Black and white alternating fourths.

2.Also the rudder had a black edge all the way around.



perdweeb

[perdue3]

Forgot one more, sorry for triple post.

204/17 had Iron crosses rather than the tradiotional as you have on the current product. May want to look at these three things Sir.

Good luck


perdweeb

[Baumer]

Perdue3

You are describing an earlier paint scheme for Baumers Dr.1. This is the one I'm working on,

[perdue3]

This was the one I saw.

perdweeb

[Treize69]

This was the one I saw.

perdweeb

Don't use modern warbirds and reproductions as skinning references.

[Ghosth]

Looking very good Baumer! Can't wait to fly it.

[Nr_RaVeN]

whoa this one got past me. looking great, love the scheme too

[Baumer]

Thanks everyone, I appreciate the feedback.

Still plenty of work to do but, I'm getting closer with the fuselage and wing finish.

[Plazus]

Perdue3

You are describing an earlier paint scheme for Baumers Dr.1. This is the one I'm working on,

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Excellent work on the skin so far! I just noticed on the picture you gave us, the wing struts look to be bare metal. Were these struts painted over before going in combat?

[Krusty]

Excellent work on the skin so far! I just noticed on the picture you gave us, the wing struts look to be bare metal. Were these struts painted over before going in combat?

Nope. They were wooden. Painted light blue to match the underside of the wings which they attached to, is my guess. Note the belly and the gear struts are the same color.

[Baumer]

That's an area of discrepancy I'm working on. Most "modern" profiles have them painted the base turquoise color (which is close to RLM-78 blue) but in the photo's of the actual plane I have, they are very dark, see below.





This is the Spring 1918 paint scheme that perdweeb was looking at on the modern Dr.1


The only evidence I have that it might have been the blue color is this image. If you look at the cowl you'll see that the front face isn't painted white yet which makes me think this is a very early shot before it received it's Jasta Boelcke paint scheme.


I have done a version with it as the blue as well, just in case, but I think it's more accurate for the May 1918 paint scheme to be dark.

<S> Baumer


 

[Baumer]

Just wanted to pass a long a few more updates.

I haven't been pleased with the streaking of the olive dope so I decided to start with a bare canvas and frame. Here are a few screen shots of the basic clean airframe, I thought it looked pretty cool.

I still have a couple of items to fix but it's very close.

[Krusty]

What's the plan, then? Build up multiple layers, each to some degree of opacity, and then turn the colors/markings back on so that all the details/weathering shows through the uppermost layer?

Or is this to give you a better idea how/where to map the weathering, based on the internal structure?

[Baumer]

It's really to get a better effect of the dope building up through the painting process.



This is a sample of the fuselage fabric from Dr.1 144/17. The brush allowed a fair amount of the fabric to show through and that's what created the "streaky" appearance. That combined with the fact that some (about 25% or so) Dr.1's were completely covered with a turquoise primer first, created a wide variety of appearances.

I just haven't been able to create a finish in GIMP that I think captures the look properly.