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Believe it or not I'm still working on this.....picked it back up a few days ago.
I am looking for a nice simple but clourful scheme, for a early batch plane with doped not lozenged fabric wings, the reason being I am not impressed with the schemes chose by Roden apart from the candystripe which is over daunting.
What Lozenge I have managed to source leaves a lot to be desired. I tried the battleaxe and when on did look quite good colourwise but it is clear and shows every flaw and air bubble and is rather thick and lifts easy. Techmods colours seem too out and strong to ghost over to tone down the lower but the upper seems bearable colourwise.
I had thought of Paul Strahles red and blue 2385/17 but there seems some confusion as to whether the lower wing surfaces were painted over pale blue or loz....... I would like to do this scheme so any info would be greatly appreciated.... I am already modding a new cylinder block after Stephen pointed out the (OAW) used the later engine like the D.V did.
Someone help and I'll post progress pics I promise...LOL
Here is abit of fun. Here is Straele's D.V 4594/17.
When he took over Jasta 57 as commander lt. blue became part of the unit identifier covering the rear of the fuselage upto the areas near the cockpit. (This does not include the horizontal tail units) They flew Alb. D.III (OAW) types like Keith is building. Now only some of the OAW had their wings and tail planes done in the two toned upper and lt. blue undersurfaces. The rest were done in 5 colour camouflage. Straehle's D. 2385/17 fell into the 5 colour lozenge with lt. blue rib tapes. According to photo evidence this machine later carried the May 1918 thick type Balkan crosses and possibly a red band around the fuselage behind the cockpit. Straehle's own combat reports say that the underside of the wings was later painted lt. blue.
See cross & Cockade USA Vol. 23, #1, 1982, p.87.