Hi ! my next model wil be the Wingnut Roland DVIa, the one with half wooden fuselgae
and half painted in black (?).
I saw different discussion, also on this forum (or maybe another forum), about the color the
fuselage band.
There's a picture in which the front band looks different from the rear black fuselage.
I came up with a personal theory and I would like to know what do you think.
let's start from the wings
:
On page 16 of the instructions there's a picture where is clear that the older
Eisernes kreuz was painted over with grey (?) paint to convert to the baknekruz
(by the way is this correct? I've never any scale model of this plane with these detail,
some other references of this practice would be useful).
And now my fuselage theory:
there's a picture where the fuselage band looks lighter than the rear fuselage color.
Somebody says that maybe there were 2 different colours, but what if they were only
2 different shades of black? One newer and more black and one more worn and more grey?
In the image below what could be happened. At the start there was only the front
band, painted black, with an Eisernes kreuz on the wooden fuselage, then,
when the cross where converted to the Balken kruz, also the rear of the fuselage was painted black,
but at this point the front band had already worn and so the different shades visible in the picture...
Could this be or there's some weak point in my theory ?
Thanks!
Andrew