Hi!
This reply is for Edgar, I think the owner of Copper State Models.
The photo that you posted of Baracca's mount have a "line" that divided the portion of the main wing repainted to the original one. The same "line" you may see in the photo of Ruffo's mount posted by myself. Hope you may see. Under the new aluminium dope the "shadow" of the roundel is still visible, but no traces of the colors. I attach here a better photo to show it. The question is: if I want to cancel french roundel why I left it visible again? When we received Ni.24 and 27 from France simply we repainted blue centers with green, why they don't choose same way?
About white central section: in the latest years some good books about our Aces and Aviation came out, written by italian historians more famous and documented as myself. No mention and no traces of the white central section in NONE of these books. No traces also on every relics arrived safe to our days, as the two Ansaldo A.1s held in Trento and Bergamo of Palli and Locatelli. You are right about "Comando Supremo Ufficio Servizi Aeronautici on 28 june 1915 issued a new regulation regarding National insignia" etc. (I have a copy of it) but no one followed this orders about white. Again, color drawings edited by Comando Supremo Ufficio Servizi Aeronautici shows green and red sections more wider than in reality. My thinking is that every weight added with overpainting in those early days were dangerous for the life of pilots, so no white section were added. The photo that you posted shows a Ni.11 of Macchi production. In that production, serials in the "1000" range were painted in a real "white" Clear Doped Linen, they changed only for the uppersurfaces in the 2000/3000 serials with a "light khaki" Clear Doped Linen, keeping the undersurfaces with the "white version", as the one in your photo.
I reviewed your sets of decals about our Ni.17 in an italian modelling Forum where I am the Coordinator of the WWI SIG, I wrote that finally we have a complete and decent sets of decals for our planes, because this is the truth. Unlucky, it's first time that I see instruction. On the other side, in Italy we have many historians that can help every producer of our subject (we are happy to do this and for free!) because our aviation in WWI is considered as "second line" also by italian kit makers.
I see now: set 32-007, the ace is Giovanni SAbelli; set 32-006, the pilot is Elia Liut.
Finally, I really recommended the sets of decals made by CSM about our Ni.17.
Back to the WIP, Jorgo you are making a little gem.
Greetings,
Roberto