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Neoqb Fokker Dr.1 Paintkit



Even in my small country there are already 2 flying replicas I know of, so you are most probably right when you think the number of replicas is close to the number of DR.Is originally built. For a period when photography was still something new an amazing amount of pictures were taken from the Fokker Dr.1.

Personally I think the aircraft would have been forgotten already a long time when the guy above hadn't died in one. Manfred von Richthofen was made a myth by propaganda already during his life time. After his death people only continued to add to the story until he had turned into something which was completely invented and had no nothing to do with the real person von Richthofen.

But ike Mikael Carson said in one of the interviews; when you build a replica it should be something people recognise. Well everybody has heard of the Red Baron, although most people think it is a guy with a big moustache and a pike on his helmet :icon_lol:.

The myth around the red Baron leads to weird things. Like all the bad guys in the movie Flyboys fly in a red Fokker, while in reality even most of the 7 (!) different DR.Is van Richthofen flew, were painted only partly red!

Fantasising about von Richthofen did also lead to the weird idea that some dogs can fly on top of their doghouse.......


Cheers,
Huub
 
You're welcome Matt!

Von Richthofen or the Red Baron is more or less synonym for a red Fokker Dr.1 "Driedecker". However van Richthofen scored only 19 from his 80 victories with a Fokker Dr.1. In most cases this Dr.1 was not even painted (overal) red. From the seven Fokker Dr.1s, from which it is know he has flown them, only two were painted completely red.

The best known one is of course the 425/17, the aircraft in which he scored his last two victories and in which was killed. The other one is the 152/17 which originally only had red struts, wheel covers, tail and upper wing, like most Dr.1s von Richthofen flew. Later the 152/17 was painted overall red like the 425/17.
When the 152/17 was on display in the Berlin Züghaus Museum is was completely red.

I have painted the 152/17 as it originally looked, which is very similar to most of the Fokker D.1s von Richthofen flew.

For those who want it: Its available in the file library.

Cheers,
Huub





 
The Fokker Dr1 from Leutnant Hermann Becker.

Becker entered the Fliegertruppe in 1916. After serving as an observer on the Eastern Front, he was trained as a pilot and sent to the Western Front to fly two-seaters. In May 1917, he was assigned to Jasta 12 as a single-seat fighting pilot. Becker scored his first victory on 6 June 1917. In May 1918, Becker assumed command of Jasta 12, replacing Ewald Blumenbach. On the afternoon of 3 November 1918, he scored his final victory, shooting down a SPAD XIII east of Joncq. During this dogfight, he and his men were credited with the loss of five SPADs. Although Becker was recommended for the Blue Max, the Kaiser's abdication prevented him from receiving it.


With 30 years, Becker was an old pilot. Nearly all of his 23 victories were against "for those days" modern fighters. He survived the war, but there is not much more known about him. Strange, as we still know what his aircraft looked like in March 1918.....





 
I still must upload the Becker textures but..

the next are already finished

Vizefeldwebel Paul Bäumer was fascinated by flying. He survived the war with 43 victories. After the war he became a a dentist but went back to aviation. He even started his own aircraft company. In 1927 he was killed in a crash of one of his own aircraft.

The person Paul Bäumer in the book "All quiet at the Western front" is named after this pilot. Paul Bäumer was the dentist of the writer.

Cheers,
Huub





 
I must post a link at NZFF of this thread with the NZ connections..I am sure some well be interested in John's repaints of the Vintage Aviator Triplanes:salute:
 
It would be a pity when they only looked at the Vintage Aviator Triplanes, as I personally think John's repaint depicting Mikael Carlson's is really the one you should not miss.

Cheers,
Huub
 
Awesome Paint Jobs-NE1 got the mini-panel to work?

Excellent work with the paint jobs, have been looking for a Red Baron Fokker DR-1 for a while, this one is the best; and the other paint jobs are awesome as well; congratulations. In regards to all neoqb Fokker DR-1's, has anybody been able to get the mini-panel (shift+1) to work? I just get a black screen.
 
Can someone explain please how we open the compressed file for the basic aircraft? My WinZip apparently does not have that ability. Thanks.
 
SSI01 said:
Can someone explain please how we open the compressed file for the basic aircraft? My WinZip apparently does not have that ability. Thanks.
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Using 7Zip, all I did was to double-click the .zip file so it shows the 2 Fokker.PSD files. Click on each .PSD and copy to desktop. Double-clicking each .PSD file makes them open in Photoshop.

I really like 7Zip compared to WinZip.
 
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