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Title: JASTA 19 tail colors
Post by: Von Salza on April 17, 2023, 04:45:28 AM

Hi everyone.
I am starting 1/48 Albatros D.V project form Eduard. Walter Bohning plane during his Jasta 19 service.

(https://modelwork.pl/uploads/monthly_2023_03/Bohning.thumb.jpg.dd633abb1378837f84697ea4a2b4d6ca.jpg)

Eduard's paint scheme:

(https://modelwork.pl/uploads/monthly_2023_03/Malowanie.thumb.jpg.ffaaf5c518c6786381afc68ceaf26565.jpg)

Does anyone know probable colors of the horizontal stabiliser? Those white and blue stripes from Eduard's instruction look very nice, but Jasta 19 had it's own paint schemes in that period (August 1917).
Thank You for any help.

Title: Re: JASTA 19 tail colors
Post by: jeroen_R90S on April 27, 2023, 06:02:35 AM

Not an Albatros marking expert, but Wingnut Wings depicts the Jasta 19 colours here:
(http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/v98C7274C/www/products/decals/30013/online_instructions/30013%20Albatros%20D.V%20Wooden%20Wonders_page%202.jpg)
It could be perspective, but the black-white upper fuselage bands look different in the profile to the photo -the black band seems wider? The aircraft you posted does not seem to have them at first glance.

Although I freely admit I don't know if both aircraft are from the same timeframe.

Jeroen

PS the windscreen on your example looks like it came off a Nieuport?

Title: Re: JASTA 19 tail colors
Post by: Von Salza on May 02, 2023, 07:34:05 AM

Thanks for Your answer.
I accepted that Eduard's camo shows the plane just after moving from Jasta 19 to 76.
Maybe as it was...

Title: Re: JASTA 19 tail colors
Post by: jeroen_R90S on June 25, 2023, 05:18:35 PM

Yes, we'll probably never know for sure!
What I recently discovered on the WNW site while my script was trying to pull a copy of it is that in the "archive photo's" there are images to be found that don't always seem to have been linked to product pages. There are some more images marked as Jasta 19 in there as well -though none of "your" Albatros.

It is a nice scheme!

Jeroen

Title: Re: JASTA 19 tail colors
Post by: RedLeader1 on April 21, 2024, 04:48:19 AM

Your scheme is not a Jasta 19 example.  It is Albatros D.V 2092/17 was flown by Ltn. Walter Böning first CO of Jasta 76b in late 1917.  He already had six victories to his credit, achieved while attached to Jasta 19. With the new unit, he gained a further eleven kills over British and French aircraft. He gained the last two on May 30th, 1918, but the following day would prove fateful.  He was wounded in a combat with Camels of No.70 Squadron.  He was not flying this machine at that time.