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ZoeB:

--- Quote from: Akima on 31 Mar 2015, 01:22 ---Did you paint the camouflage "squiggles" on the upper surfaces of the Albatross (?) by hand? They're amazingly regular.

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The original is silkscreen printed cloth - so I researched the pattern and colours, and made one spiral using Paint. Then repeated by cut and paste. Then used a colour printer and decal paper. Getting the discontinuities between 64-66" wide strips was tricky.





The result -



These hand-crafted aircraft models aren't large.

The hand that crafted them.



Linke-Crawford and his hexagonal-scheme Aviatik Berg D.I



While all the rest of his Flik (squadron) used black backgrounds for the lettering, he apparently (at least sometimes) used red on one of his aircraft. Hence the option on the decal for black or red background, black or red filling. Interpreting colours from orthochrome film is something of an art. This one's usually thought to be black background, red filling.

Active Madness:
That sounds quite nifty - is it a game that needs much of an investment to get enough stuff to play a game with?

ZoeB:

--- Quote from: Active Madness on 05 Apr 2015, 04:53 ---That sounds quite nifty - is it a game that needs much of an investment to get enough stuff to play a game with?

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The Kickstarter that gave the complete rules and 4 aircraft for $49 USD has just ended.
However, you can get the rules for $25 USD and each aircraft costs about $10-$15 USD - that's for the ones already painted, like these:



So no, $90 would be more than enough. Careful though, it's addictive.

Some start with just the basic rules - no bombing, balloon busting, AA etc - and 2 aircraft. Those packs cost about $22



Real afficionados have the pre-painted ones - all 60 or so of them - but want more, so get 3D Nylon models like this



Paint a decal them themselves.

ZoeB:
Many people know about the "Red Baron", Freiherr Manfred Von Richthofen, and his all-red Fokker Dr.I triplane, Well, triplanes. And a few that weren't aall-red. And some Albatrosses that were.

Anyway... few know that he apparently got the idea from Jean Navarre, "the Sentinel of Verdun" who had a red Nieuport 11 (and at least 2 Nieuport 16s...) a year earlier.



Anyway, here's my interpretation of the Nieuport 11 "Bebe" N 872. It's the size of a butterfly, sitting on the back of my hand.





A rather larger contemporary, also first flown in 1915 and entering service in January 1916 - on the Eastern Front intially, though it later transferred to the West and was used to bomb London in the first "Battle of Britain" in 1917-1918, was the Zeppelin Staaken R.IV. serial R.12/15.

Akima:
The large biplane looks like something straight out of a steampunk comic! I know steampunk is normally all about the airships, but Klaus Wulfenbach would love that.

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