huub vink
September 28th, 2008, 12:04
In an earlier post (now gone) I already told something about the history of the Fokker D-VII in the German Museum in Obersleissheim-München.
The aircraft was actually build for the Dutch navy after the war and has never flown for Germany. The lozenge is fake as well; this scheme was applied in 1940 and is painted. Real lozenge was printed with inkt. One of the main reasons to use lozenge was weight. Paint is much heavier.
Unlike real lozenge this aircraft has the same colours applied on the upper and lower surfaces.
Nevertheless I thought the aircraft looked nice and I tried to do a repaint for Stuart Green's wonderful D-VII. The shade of the lozenge differs a bit from the real thing in the museum. Although the colour of the actual aircraft look different on the various pictures. As the whole aircraft is already more or less all fake, I decided not to bother :costumes:.
It is almost finished end I hope to upload it later this evening.
Cheers,
Huub
The aircraft was actually build for the Dutch navy after the war and has never flown for Germany. The lozenge is fake as well; this scheme was applied in 1940 and is painted. Real lozenge was printed with inkt. One of the main reasons to use lozenge was weight. Paint is much heavier.
Unlike real lozenge this aircraft has the same colours applied on the upper and lower surfaces.
Nevertheless I thought the aircraft looked nice and I tried to do a repaint for Stuart Green's wonderful D-VII. The shade of the lozenge differs a bit from the real thing in the museum. Although the colour of the actual aircraft look different on the various pictures. As the whole aircraft is already more or less all fake, I decided not to bother :costumes:.
It is almost finished end I hope to upload it later this evening.
Cheers,
Huub