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ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Akima on 19 May 2015, 15:32 ---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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My thoughts exactly.
We have airships too of course...
The poster is an original, by the way. Got it at a garage sale twenty years ago for $5. Last price at auction for one not in as good condition was USD $1700.
Akima:
I'm assuming that the zeppelin and the biplanes to the same scale? Attacking a zeppelin in a fighter of the period must have felt like taking a run at the Death Star.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Akima on 20 May 2015, 03:26 ---I'm assuming that the zeppelin and the biplanes to the same scale? Attacking a zeppelin in a fighter of the period must have felt like taking a run at the Death Star.
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Yes they are, and by all accounts, yes it did.
Early on, when there were no anti-aircraft guns to speak of, they raided from low altitude too. Less than twice their length. It was terrifying to the civilian populace.
ZoeB:
Latest - another Nieuport 11C, this one Belgian.
Start with this very rare Orthochrome picture from mid 1916. Reds and Browns appear dark, blues and greens, light with this film type.
Then this Lumiere Atochrome picture of the same colour scheme - "Nieuport Autumn Leaf" - on a French N11. I think the green should have more blue in though. Atochrome sometimes gets one of the RGB values over or under, and all colours look a little washed out, as if hand coloured.
And.... my interpretation of the original. Not flawless, but pretty close.
ZoeB:
Turkish Rumpler C.I
Wanted to get this one done before the end of the month.
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