7. I do not agree that the aircraft was totally painted in the underside color first with a mask at the bottom longeron at the fuselage leaving that underside color paint "frame" after being removed. There are two resons for this:
- a.) this would add up weight that would not be required.
b.) that would leave us with a two color paint sheme as described in the selvage reports, but for what reason? Reducing a potential three color sheme that would be much simpler and requires less paint to such a two color sheme?
c.) I can not see any use of any mask in the paints of Fokker aircraft. When taking a close look at the letterings you will find enough irregularities to tell these have been painted on by hand. They look smooth and straight at first glance only. The same is for the white fields. I see no reson why the border should not have been achieved by just pulling a straight underside color line there. The painters at Fokker for sure have been well practised. That border just looked nice nothing else. It was a fashion. Nothing more. You will not note it on previous aircraft types and not on later ones.
These last reasons again bring us back to why I think it was three color camouflage paint scheme that sometimes turned out more green, another time more blueish (see Voss`aircraft described as such) or another time more browny. They never looked like one another. Areal circus!
Achim