Ok folks, I'm currently building a r/c Fokker Dr.1. The paint scheme I'm using is that of Werner Voss. Now I've alwaysed believed that his cowling was an olive green with the face. But to make sure I went to his web site. To my surprise they suggest that he may have painted it chrome yellow. As I look at photographs the cowling looks dark, but in a poll taken at this same web site the chrome yellow wins the day. So help me out folks , I would like the plane to look as close to the one he had flown.

Oh no, here we go again!
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VBR
Rod

This subject amounted to a verbal shootout in mid 2000. The most convincing evidence suggested that the cowling was the olive color that was part of the Fokker factory camo paint scheme.
Hope this helps,
Terry

There is now little doubt the Voss cowling was chrome yellow. This colour appeares black on photographs due to the old film and processing techniques of the day.

Ashley,
time to get your tin hat on and head down!!!the arguments from both green and yellow camps are so good I wound up with two Werner Voss tripes.Probably a tad expensive for a R/C plane,but,you'll need two cowlings when the dust settles on this one.
ps 99.9%certain it was green - or yellow.

Aloys Heldmann stated in an interview, translated and reproduced in an early Cross & Cockade (US), that the cowling was red. I assume this is the rationale used by Roden in their kit of the F.I.

Ashley:
It is not my intent to get into a urination contest again. I am going to make a simple statement and ignore all following threads on this subject.
1. Alex Imrie interviewed Ltn Werner Voss' mechanic Karl Timm in 1961 and the interview was published in the Cross & Cockade Journal in which Karl Timm states the cowling was a greenish grey like the rest of the airplane.
2. There is NO creditable documentation or evidence to support to support the yellow cowling, only imagination and wishful thinking.
3.I will not answer any further threads on this subject.
Blue skies,
Dan-San Abbott

There is a British combat report that says his triplane was yellow and brown.

Did I just see Jasta quote a BRITISH COMBAT REPORT? LMAO

Jasta:
Prove it! I would be most interested in seeing this "British Report". Put up or retract your statement. Facts Jasta, not opinions.
Blue skies,
Dan-San Abbott