Special thank you to all skinners..... .
I was flying a Jasta 2 Albatros D1 the other day and noticed this emppenage......
-https://s26.postimg.cc/nv8e8pppl/2017.09.03_16-06-57.jpg
the canvas, plywood & faded lettering
A masterpiece courtesy of Max, vpmedia & Phas3e !
Cheers
Alfie
I am happy someone noticed the little details on these WW1 albatros skins.
The lettering and roundels on this fighter aircraft is not actually "faded" but painted over with some
brown colored paint..... a watered-down brown paint.
The actual airplane was made up of yellow colored wood body-panels and the wings were covered
with canvas (sometimes in camouflage losenge). In the early days of WW1 someone had the idea to start painting some
of these airplanes in a (Ugly) brown color to darken the yellow wooden body-panels and the white-colored wing canvas,
and make the airplane look more like "mud"
Great dirty camouflage for when flying over "No ManĀ“s land" with
all that mud and destrution.