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Dan and Rick,
Thank you both very much for all of the information! It sounds like I can simply use the insignia decals provided with my Dragon kit(Jacob's Markings) with a couple of minor trimmings and have it reasonably accurate. I understand the plane was pretty freshly painted so there would not have been much colour bleeding or peeling or weathering for that matter. I suspect that the "Dr.1 425/17" also did not show much if at all under the red. No need for complicated pre-shading etc of the markings.
A couple of other questions though. Rick makes a comment on the plane being factory painted red, based I believe on the lack of olive or turquoise undercoating on Dan's sample fabric. However, from what I understand the cross fields on the wing underside where the sample came from were often simply natural linen. What do you think?
Another question is what was the scheme of 477/17? I have seen a reference to this plane but I have only seen any colour profiles of 152/17, F.1 102/17 and 425/17.
I am doing one of von R's planes because I have always been fascinated with the legend and also because my son and Richthofen share the same birthday, about 101 years apart! My wife would not let me call him Manfred though....
Thanks again!
Chris
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