[StephenLawson]

Originally Posted by jumpinjan

Stephen,
Its been repainted (one should not see brown & green in late 1918, right?).
Stephen, what else can you tell me about this D.I???
Jan

1. On the museum machine, curiously the brown and green look like types seen on colourized images of French machines. But it is in a French museum. It seems like a late production type post the September 1918 amallgamation of Jco & Jfa.The engine cover over the exhaust is interesting as well.

Typically since mauve was so dominant in the German paint schemes (and because it was an easy colour to produce) You would think that mauve and green would be applied. If it has been repainted it may have been done so with existing French colours. Museums have done far more bizarre things to airframes.


2. The colours used in the field. The third colour from the b&w photgraph seems (as you mentioned) to hold a similar tonal value as the colour we would normal associate dk green already present on the scheme. I have a similar view of a standard CL (2 seater) it also has a similar lay out to the camouflage. The pesky third colour present on the pilot's left wing. Here is the single seat version with the possible three colour camouflage I referenced.