Dr-1 factory camoflage

[Tripehound]

I've got this on the model board, also.
Does anybody know what the "streaked" Fokker factory camouflage is? I understand that the base coat for the entire airplane was a metallic sky blue, or aluminum paint colored with a light blue pigment. Then the olive green streaking was applied to the upper surfaces with a wide brush. One color of olive, varying in weight (and thus shade) as the brush deposited its paint. The wings were done chord-wise, starting at the leading edge, and angled slightly to the left toward the trailing edge. The fuselage was near-vertical on the sides, slanted a little to the rear, and the top decking was slanted up a bit from left to right, almost wrap-around stripes.

[StephenLawson]

Since I did the search on the models thread and you posted here too I include the various threads from the aircraft title here.

http://theaerodrome.com/forum/search.php?searchid=2747

[Tripehound]

It's been decades, but I once had a book that described the Fokker finish as overall silver-blue with the brushed olive streaking applied to the upper surfaces. I just plowed through the threads in the previous reply, and they were an education, but nothing that would cause me to change my belief. In the photos I've seen there hasn't been the transparent effect I've seen in CDL finished airplanes. All the streaky finishes appear to be opaque.

[Dan_San_Abbott]

tripehound:
The camouflage on the Fok.DR.I was;
1. All fabric surfaces were clear doped.
2. On the top surfaces there was one coat of olive-brown applied in a streaky finish of a single stroke from one edge to the opposite edge, and in continouing strokes until the brush runs out of paint.
The streaking on the wings was diagonal stroke from the leading edge to the trailing edge of the left, one rib bay wide.
The turtle-deck @ a 45° angle from forward right to left rear. the sides were vertical. The method the same as the wings. the tailplane the same as the turtle-deck.
3. The under surfaces were painted sky blue over lapping the bottom longeron of the fuselage 20 mm and the tailplane 20 mm on to the upper surface.
4. The matt black cross were painted on the top surface of the top wing, the lower surface of the bottom wing, both sides of the fuselage and rudder.The rudder was painted flat white. The crossfields were painted white on the upper surface of the top wing and both sides of the fuselage and rudder.
5. All fabric surfaces were given one coat of varnish to water proof the surfaces.
The metal cowlings were painted solid olive-brown.
Blue skies,
Dan-San

[Tripehound]

Another long-held belief bites the dust. With what I've read it appears the upper surfaces were CDL with olive streaking.
An interesting web site is http://memorial.flight.free.fr/indexuk.html which has photographs of a replica Dr-1. What I thought interesting was the fabric wrapping they used for the steel fuselage tubing and the "partition" behind the seat. Lozenge fabric!

[StephenLawson]

Originally Posted by Tripehound

Another long-held belief bites the dust. With what I've read it appears the upper surfaces were CDL with olive streaking.
An interesting web site is http://memorial.flight.free.fr/indexuk.html which has photographs of a replica Dr-1. What I thought interesting was the fabric wrapping they used for the steel fuselage tubing and the "partition" behind the seat. Lozenge fabric!

Only on the replica. No lozenge was used on actual Fok. Dr.I types from WWI.

[Dan_San_Abbott]

Gentlemen:
Fokker did not use printed fabric on any part of the Triplane. The triplane frames was wrapped with natural linen fabric.
The purpose of the wrapping was to:
1. To protect the cover from chaffing against the longerons.
2. The verticals and cross tubes were not taped.
3. On the forward fuselage the purpose of the strips of linen wrapping wasp for the purpose of sewing the edges of the cover to the frame. This is also true for the tailplane, rudder and ailerons, the ribs were wrapped with fabric strips.
Blue skies,
Dan-San