Hello,
sorry for my late reply and again thank you very much for your kind comments!
Are you using Drooling Bulldog on the upper surfaces as well?
Yes, Bud, I use these Drooling Bulldog Colors for the upper camouflage as well. When it comes to the colors I followed "The Camouflage and Markings of the Albatros D.II Aircraft" by Dan-San Abbott (
http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26276), that means I used three tones: a dark, olive green, a light green and a red, "Venetian"
brown. Regarding the exact pattern I interpreted the pics in the WDF 100.
This time I wasn't too convinced about the Color shade (or I used the wrong Colors?) For the light green I used "blaßgrün" - too dark in my opinion, and for the venetian red neither "caput mortuum" nor "raw Umber" seemed to fit the tone I had in mind and in the end I used Revell 37. For the olive green I used "olivgrün" - a Little bit on the dark side for me too.
So I repainted the wings and added some yellow and white to the "blaßgrün" and to the olive green. Now I liked it much better.
I stored my mixed Colors in some old cleaned bottles that i always use for my own mixes. One of the bottles was made of plastic... The next day I found the plastic bottle melted by the paint. Well, it's enamel and I had just used acrylics for the last about 8 years... I felt sad for the pretty Color and had no mixed spare paint now to touch up any possible faults...
The Roden decals are famous for being awfull and these here sadly were no exception. I would have had to stop this tragedy before the decals stuck too well on the painted white fields.
Painted crosses for the undersides...
Shadowing again with Mr Color smoke; then normally I would again tone down this effect...
How did you do that?
Stephan, I tone down the shadows by overspraying the shadowed wing with diluted blue/Brown/green Color. But as I had no light green here any more, I couldn't tone down the whole affair on the upper wings...
Next Step: Prepairing the fuselage for the Wood decals. That meant preshading
Overspraying with diluted Mr. Color "random"
lightening up with white
and overpainting again every wooden Panel in a slightly different shade
(that takes ist time since it's better to leave the Colors enough time to dry before masking them).
So much for now - as always any comments, critics, questions are welcome!
Thank you
Borsos
P. S.: Manni, you can find the Drooling Bulldog paints here, if you like them:http://www.droolingbulldog.com/ (I have no Connection to the seller, I am just a happy customer ... with a melted plastic bottle...)
