Fitting Americal night loz to Roden Gotha GVa

[jamo]

Greetings All
I am hoping that someone has already worked this out and knows the answer.
How many sheets of Americal night lozenge decals will I need to buy to cover the Roden Gotha Gva?

Looking at the Americal catalogue http://home.sprintmail.com/~tbittners/AG/
it looks as though I should buy Sheet #4 for the wings/tailplane and Sheet #23 for the continuous lozenges on the fuselage. If anyone has these sheets could they please measure the size of the decals and post a reply?
Thanks
James

[sperry]

James:

An A/G loz sheet contains 8 strips of loz 6.5" x 11/16".

1/72 Gotha Lower wing panel fabric area is 3 7/8" x 11/16" Times 2 panels top & bottom for night loz.

Top wing panel 6 1/2", (inc aileron balance) x 1 3/8" Times 2 panels top & bottom.

You can play with the math, but I believe 2-3 sheets of loz bolts and one of the hand painted loz ought to do it. Don't cut it too fine as you need a little extra to allow lining up of the adjacent bolt widths, covering tailplanes fuselage and fixing mistakes.

You'll spend the cost of the kit on aftermarket loz. I haven't scanned the kit decals with the Mk.I eyeball yet, but they'll need to be at least 25 bucks worse than A/G .
HTH
sp

[jamo]

Thanks for the reply SP.
You are right about the cost, it is a bit sobering. I might have to sell a few kits to afford that! The Roden decals are not unusuable, but some of the lozenge colours overlap each other to create 'new' colours. Maybe I could hand paint over these bits. Overall, the Roden Gotha GVa lozenge colours are lighter and redder than the Superscale Night Lozenge decals (which may also be wrong!)
Cheers
James

[Lufbery]

One way or another, I bet your model ends up looking really impressive. That's a big plane, and all that lozenge cammo will look fantastic. Good luck with it.

Regards,