Two sheets of the five-color printed lozenge pattern for German aircraft of the First World War, upper and lower surfaces, 1:48 scale.
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In 1917 the German air service introduced printed fabric with a regular polygonal pattern, which today is called lozenge. It replaced the laborious spraying of camouflage: the fabric was printed in advance and only then stretched over the framework. For a modeler that means the pattern cannot sensibly be painted, and a decal is the only way to capture it convincingly in a small scale.
There are two separate sheets in the package, because the upper and lower surfaces of the wings differed in their coloring. The upper pattern is kept in darker tones, the lower one in a more muted and lighter range. The pattern is here in the five-color form, which was more common on later machines. Each sheet measures roughly 180 x 130 millimeters, which is an area from which the wing of a single-seat machine including the horizontal tail surfaces can be covered.
Work in strips, the way the fabric was stretched on a real machine, and keep to the direction of the pattern on neighboring parts. The commonest mistake is to try to cover a whole wing with one piece: the print will inevitably wrinkle on the leading edge. Cut strips corresponding to the width of the original strips of fabric and run the joints where they were in reality too. This set does not contain national insignia or an aircraft model.
Naši poradci a znalci sortimentu jsou připraveni odpovídat na Vaše dotazy (Po–Pá, 8–18 hod).
Zeptejte se na co potřebujete, odpovíme co nejdříve.
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