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Offline flypaper

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Ernst Udet's WWI aircraft color profiles
« on: January 17, 2016, 09:20:43 AM »
While on poking around I came across these side views of WWI German aircraft done by Udei in the 1940/41 time era. They were supposed to be part of an illustrated book he planed on the history of aviation. Thirty two paintings were mentioned but I was only able to find these 7. Three of the missing were a Ni17, Camel and a US Spad.

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Re: Ernst Udet's WWI aircraft color profiles
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2016, 10:19:48 AM »
Udet was an ace and an artist? Wow, talented man! Thanks for sharing this.

George

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Re: Ernst Udet's WWI aircraft color profiles
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2016, 12:27:22 AM »
Pretty nice Artwork. You mentioned 7 but I only see 2 am I missing something? Too bad he didn't do DDN! That certainly would have saved us all some grief  :-X
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Re: Ernst Udet's WWI aircraft color profiles
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2016, 01:54:36 AM »
Pretty nice Artwork. You mentioned 7 but I only see 2 am I missing something? Too bad he didn't do DDN! That certainly would have saved us all some grief  :-X
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I only posted 2 because the size limit of this forum is a pain....downloading and then trying to get the paintings down to less then 200kb ....sorry I got better ways to waste my time.
Its a shame because I have shite load of pics to share but I'm not inclined to change them to the small limit available here.

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Re: Ernst Udet's WWI aircraft color profiles
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2016, 10:29:34 PM »
Maybe posting just the links could help...

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Re: Ernst Udet's WWI aircraft color profiles
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2016, 10:47:28 PM »
Udet was quite the artist.  Yes, if you could post a link that would be great.

Drew


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Re: Ernst Udet's WWI aircraft color profiles
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2016, 01:56:16 AM »
Really beautiful!

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Re: Ernst Udet's WWI aircraft color profiles
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2016, 12:59:20 PM »
The Aerodrome had a post on these back in 2012:
http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57027

23 WW1 drawings were sold at auction and there are at least another 9 (post-war?) I've seen mention of.
« Last Edit: January 23, 2016, 01:05:11 PM by CMcLeod2012 »