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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => WW1 Aircraft Information/Questions => Topic started by: GHE on October 20, 2012, 04:22:25 AM

Title: Brush application or Airbrush application ?
Post by: GHE on October 20, 2012, 04:22:25 AM

Messieurs !

As far as I know the airbrush is a post 1918 invention and already very old.
The NASM Halberstadt looks airbrush painted on the fuselage.

Does anyone know whether ordnance was already airbrushed instead of paintbrushed  during WW I  ?

viele Grüße, Gunther

Title: Re: Brush application or Airbrush application ?
Post by: WarrenD on October 20, 2012, 11:24:38 PM

Gruss Gott Gunther!

As RB stated, airbrushes were around during WWI, and there were some a/c that had paint airbrushed. (Some of the camo on some of the Nie.11's and 16's comes immediately to mind. I know there were others.) However, it certainly was not all. Best to closely look at images, etc. of which crate you're interested in replicating, etc.

Warren

Title: Re: Brush application or Airbrush application ?
Post by: GHE on October 27, 2012, 08:46:08 PM

Hello Warren !

In a Windsock magazine the author on a Rumpler C.IV writes on camo schemes and states that they were airbrush-applied.

I think - steelhelmet-production for ex. or handgrenades - they must have used airbrush painting for the mass production already.

viele Grüße, Gunther

Title: Re: Brush application or Airbrush application ?
Post by: WarrenD on October 28, 2012, 12:16:29 AM

Gunther,
              In my cluttered memory I seem to recall this question coming up a few years back, and someone posted some photos of airguns/brushes being used to spray paint some camo. maybe it was at the Aerodrome, but I can't recall right now.

Warren

Title: Re: Brush application or Airbrush application ?
Post by: Trackpad on October 28, 2012, 03:54:11 AM

Spray guns were definitely used. The best example is the later mauve-over-green disruptive painting of the Junkers J.1.  ;)

(http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff205/29selley/DSC_0135-1.jpg)

Title: Re: Brush application or Airbrush application ?
Post by: GHE on October 29, 2012, 12:23:12 AM

Thanks for the helping answers !

Gunther