Congrats to all for this bunch of Hanriots, one of my favourite airplanes of WWI.
The scratchbuilt floatplane in 1/32 scale is really a fantastic work in every side. It's my favourite toghether with the "Blue bird" built by Andonio.
Some comments for the italians Hanriots:
- the 7517 of Scaroni had red "76", not black;
- the 6254 of Michetti was a silver french production aircraft;
- the "four Aces" example built by Iancshippee was flown by unknown pilot of the 85a Squadriglia based in Valona, not Baracchini's mount;
- same airplane is painted light khaki overall, in fact there was not italians Hd.1 with metallic nose and light khaki fuselage, despite the rear cover of Datafile 82 with Baracchini's mount;
- the silver italians Hanriots were the ones delivered from France, the overall light khaki were the ones built by Macchi. The former, arrived in Italy, had only the undersurfaces of lower wings re-painted red/green, the Macchi ones had also undersurfaces of upper wing painted in that manner. This is one of the general rules, on internet you may find photos of 4048, a silver aircraft with cockades under the wings, maybe the first Hanriot sent to Macchi for copying under license.
Cheers,
Roberto