Pfalz DIII Interior?

Fokker Ace · 5 November 2009, 08:06 AM

Digging through the net I've seen some saying the interior of the Pfalz cockpit had a fabric coving (seems odd) while other's depict a varnish wood.

Any consensus? The wood seems logical, or is there some argument about this?

bobs_buckles · 5 November 2009, 11:07 AM

My recent 1/32 DIII from Roden had the wood treatment but wood or silber grau will do the trick. No one has the definitive on this one so either will do.

Cheers,
Bob

Hans · 5 November 2009, 01:34 PM

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modelhound · 5 November 2009, 01:59 PM

Personally I go for duck egg blue. Probably not correct, but I dare you to prove me wrong.

mIke

I know, a wise guy in every crowd.

Fokker Ace · 5 November 2009, 02:07 PM

Sorry for asking and I appreciate your setting me straight.

Bob, thanks for the info and for letting me get another look at your build!

Hans · 5 November 2009, 02:24 PM

No reason for apologize. Sometimes the older threads are more confusing than enlightening....so maybe a concise question will produce a concise answer. Sometimes.

Chock · 7 November 2009, 12:43 PM

I would think fabric is unlikely, given the construction method of the Pfalz. Here's a picture of how they built them, which is in fact one of the reasons why they were limited in numbers, since it was quite labour-intensive:

Note the scalloped inside radii of the fuselage formers, which would not lend itself particularly easily to attaching fabric, it being a concave cure, although they may possibly have pasted some fabric on the inside of the wood paneling, but it seems rather pointless to me to do that unless the skinning was really sloppy and not airtight, which again, seems unlikely.

Al

StephenLawson · 8 November 2009, 06:08 PM

Just a quick point the half shells of the Pfalz fuselages were steam formed from strips of wood. The interiors were covered in a peservative coat against errant moisture that could weaken the wood and the glue. This is especially seen on the Pfalz D.XII factory photos.

These were seen in the form of either a wood varnish or the silbergraü (for the Pfalz D.III / IIIa) & wood varnish or blaügraü on the Pfalz D.VIII & D.XII types.)

The wooden formers were also given a preservative coating for the same reasons. Since they were manufactured in a different shop of the factory, there were instances where the silbergraü inner shells would be united over varnished wooden formers or vice versa. You could even have all varnished interiors or all silbergraü. No hard evidence says different.