World War One Whifs

[stevehed]

Thank You All, the comments are much appreciated. The floats are scratched and are based on the Roden Albatros type. Really into whifs at the moment as the BM and ATF GB's follow each other.
Regards,
            Steve

[NARSES2]

Roland is just 

[zenrat]

I'm impressed you've scratchbuilt two floats the same.  Better than I can manage.

[Joe C-P]

Only the truly mad and courageous take on lozenge camouflage.  :thumbs:

[ericr]

beautiful floats indeed, and very beutiful lozenges 

If I began scratch building floats, I'm afraid I would never end floatplanizing non-float aircraft ...

[comrade harps]

Master 

[MaxHeadroom]

Hello and welcome stevehed!
You know, you are lunatic, don't you?   

Crazy and well done whiffies... the best "hi folks, I'm new here" since a long time. 

Honestly, until I'd seen the tripple Fokker of this "unidentified Feld Flieger Abteilung on the Eastern Front 1917" I wasn't sure if you show whifs or real planes. 

Norbert

(Btw: perfect Lozenge-camouflage on some of the wings..., did you used decals? If so, what decals?)

N.

[stevehed]

Thanks Everyone for the kind comments. The lozenge on the floatplane is by Printscale via Hannants. It represents the naval version and has been called to account by the experts for accuracy. I leave that to those souls as just about every manufacturer has their detractors. I've used Almark for land planes in the past and have recently acquired some Pegasus. As for the floats I made a template of a side and taped it to four sheets of card and scored around it. Right or wrong they were all the same size.

HTH Steve

[NARSES2]

Yup German WWI Lozenge is/can be a minefield. Not just colour but even shape of the lozenge. Given there were Army and Naval types and different types within those before we even get onto the subject of colours  What gets me is that this is all based, or mostly based, on grainy, very old black and white photos where even the type of film used can misrepresent the colours. Just look at a lot of WWI photos of RFC aircraft and check the roundels out ! There are very few extent examples of original lozenge about.

So I really don't give a fig about what the so called experts say, and I'm a subscriber to Cross and Cockade  If it look's ok it is ok and yours do/are 

[PR19_Kit]

'Accuracy'? 'ACCURACY'? 

This is WhiffWorld for goodness sake, any accuracy is what YOU make it! 

[stevehed]

My first post of the new year is the Albatros D.VI. A hydrid fighter utilising parts from the Albatros D.V and the Hannover CLIIIa it was designed by a very little known company called LMA. It arrived at just the right time to re-equip Germany's allies, Bulgaria and Turkey, when everything else was needed on the Western Front.  Here's an example that was flying with Jasta 25 on the Macedonian Front in late 1918.








http://airfixtributeforum.myfastforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=562&t=47613

Regards, Steve

[NARSES2]

That's nice, love the bi-plane tail. Desperately trying to remember which company actualy used it on a project ? Was it Roland ?

[stevehed]

That's nice, love the bi-plane tail. Desperately trying to remember which company actualy used it on a project ? Was it Roland ?

Hannover CL types which were licence built by Roland as well. Most biplane tails were on twins such as the Gothas and Handley Page 0/100 and 0/400's and the Vimy off the top of my head. Bound to be more but the grey cells haven't recovered from Christmas yet.

Regards, Steve

[Captain Canada]

Glad I read your comments before posting Chris, or I would have missed that !

Great job of this one. Love the mix of camo.

[NARSES2]

Yup it's the Hanover's I remember now  Strangely until you mentioned it Gotha's and HP's had completely slipped the memory