1:32 Albatros D.III, Jasta Boelcke

[Fokker boy]

Excellent. Thank you. For the most part that's what I'm seeing as well, but with the greens sometimes reversed. Thanks a bunch. I now have a better understanding of how I want to approach this. In fact, I'll be painting the upper wing sometime today.

[drdave]

The voss decals are mid Atlantic right now!

[Fokker boy]

Great, Dave. Thanks again, I appreciate your help.

Here are two of the three upper wing colors I've tentatively chosen. Once lightened during the weathering process, they should look OK I think.

[Fokker boy]

Tires/wheels given base coats, and wheel covers scratched up a bit with a colored pencil. (Mud splatters will be added later.)

[RAGIII]

I am good with your color choices. Remember that although the Drawings Bo posted show HARD demarcations between the colors it is generally acknowledged that the color separation was a tight SOFT sprayed edge.
RAGIII

PS nice start!

[radio]

Very nice your start.
Martin

[Fokker boy]

Thanks, fellas, and I will be going with a sprayed edge.

[Fokker boy]

Dave doesn't think the stripe is really on the upper deck, having looked at the photo again, I tend to agree -- anyway, I think he has it nailed here:

In the illustration above, the fairings that are fore and aft of the lower wing appear to be wood, but on some other illustrations I've seen, these are painted as if they were metal. Which is most likely correct, anyone know for sure?

It also looks like the step is different than what the Roden kit supplies. I may or may not change this; not real sure yet.

[uncletony]

In the illustration above, the fairings that are fore and aft of the lower wing appear to be wood, but on some other illustrations I've seen, these are painted as if they were metal. Which is most likely correct, anyone know for sure?

I really wish you would read Paolo's log

Dave (Douglass, the illustrator of the above profile) makes a very strong case that the fairings were always wood on German-built D.IIIs, and that the idea that they were painted metal is a figment of imagination based on incorrectly interpreting photos. I tend to agree with him but not everyone does, and there is plenty of room for reasonable disagreement. One thing I can say with some certainty is the photo evidence definitely shows they were at least sometimes wood -- while the inverse is not so imo.

PS the step as Dave illustrates it is correct for this aircraft. There were round and square steps at different points in production.

[Fokker boy]

Thanks, Bo, you're a pretty handy guy to have around. 

[Fokker boy]

Yep, I found a photo of this very machine in the Osprey Jagdstaffel 2 book (page 48), and the rectangular step is present.

[Fokker boy]

Over the last week, a few more goodies arrived for this effort; the  gorgeous Master Spandau's and Barracuda wrapped intakes. A fellow moderator from another site also sent me a bunch of decals from an unused WNW sheet.

[Fokker boy]

Wing bottoms. This color looks good to my eye, so I'll run with it.

[radio]

Very good colour sight!
Martin

[Fokker boy]

Very good colour sight!
Martin

Thanks. I figure it's close enough for me.