Very nice choice and it fits your Halberstadt perfectly. Also the paint sheme is one if my favorites, I just like those transitional crosses. You have a sharp eye, I wouldn’t have realized that the fuselage camouflage was sprayed on, or do more sources exist next to this photo?
Andreas
Hi Andreas,
There are not many photographs of this type of lozenge so it's difficult to be positive.
I've only found two so far that show this lozenge scheme not over sprayed, neither of good quality.
Here's the other photograph (different aircraft).
Many of the aircraft were over sprayed with, for instance, transparent dark Prussian Blue glaze to tone down the lozenge colours.
This aircraft had 1.6mm thick plywood covering over the fuselage.
The large lozenge scheme was applied to the fuselage, both sides of the upper wing centre section and both sides of the lower tailplane.
Also the linen lozenge on both sides of the ailerons was applied at 90 degrees to that on the upper wing.
The 'Wingnut Wings' instruction manual suggests that the large lozenge was, on this aircraft, spray painted rather than hard edged brush painted.
Also the 'Windsock' data file No.23 notes that these lozenges were 'sometimes soft edged', suggesting spray rather than brush painted.
Of course it's all subject to interpretation and most models I've seen of this colour scheme have hard edged lozenge.
It will be difficult to soft edge lozenge by airbrushing, but we'll see.
If not then it'll be the hard edge brush painted type,
Mike
