Wow!
The fuselage stripes are now like the real ones!
Fantastic finishing.
Roberto
Hi Roberto,
I wonder if you clarify something for me.
I'm about to apply the Clear Doped Linen (CDL) onto the upper surfaces of the Macchi M.5 wings.
I know that some aircraft had the upper surfaces of the wings coloured green, but many had just CDL with no colour applied.
The aircraft I'm building had the CDL covering.
Those aircraft with green surfaces had the full green, white and red Italian roundels painted on.
If you look at the photographs below of Macchi's with CDL wing covering, you can clearly see the wing rib tapes show dark over the wing surface, due to the rib tapes being applied on top of the CDL covering.
Normally the roundels would have been painted on after the wing covering was completed and the paint would have covered the rib tapes under the roundels.
However, the rib tapes also show over the Italian roundels, but it seems only over the white ring area of the roundels, not over the outer green or centre red circles.
I wonder if this is because aircraft with CDL covering
did not have the white rings painted, but just the green and red.
That would account for the rib tapes showing where the white ring would have been painted.
I can't find any reference to this.
I suppose the apparent rib tapes could be shadows cast from the raised wing ribs?
What do you think?
Mike
