Werner Voss, Hans Klein and Max von Holtzem

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Well repainting can be very addictive....

This evening I finished the next few.

Although not very spectacular, but as Voss was one of the great aces I thought I had to do his aircraft.

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Hans Klein was staffel leader in Jasta10 until he lost his index finger during a dogfight. After his hand was healed he returned to the staff of Jasta10, but never flew again. As I had promised a yellow tail, I had to do this one.

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Perhaps the aircraft flown by Vzfw Max von Holtzem was the most spectacular painted Pfalz. Von Holtzem emigrated to the USA after the war. During the war he worked at the production of P-51 Mustangs.

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Cheers,
Huub
 
Nice!

Just finished reinstalling the Pfalz and all of your paints for it; looks like I'll be adding a few more soon! :applause:
 
I just installed the Pfalz for the first time tonight I can't believe I had missed this one... :redf: I really like that yellow tail paint Hubb, I'll be looking out for it in the downloads.
 
A few shots from my personal favourite :wavey:

I just re-did the comet's trail te get it more smooth.

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Cheers,
Huub
 
That is a beautiful paint.

Huub, there is of course a small question that lurks here:
If you find war so abhorrent, how is it that you paint so many of these machines of destruction?
 
....I think I'll have to go out and buy a special, external hard drive for all of Huub's great paint jobs.........:ernae:
 
GNZLAP said:
That is a beautiful paint.

Huub, there is of course a small question that lurks here:
If you find war so abhorrent, how is it that you paint so many of these machines of destruction?
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Thanks for the compliment. The fact these machines were used in a degrading war doesn't really make them less beautiful. I find the shaped and colourful schemes quite facinating.

Due to other hobby, I have visited the Ypres area several times where you can still see what has happened there 90 years ago. When you see the endless graveyards, filled with the remains from young men, you realise we people are not as clever as we pretend we are.
Do you still know the real reason why the First World War was fought? And do you really think any economic conflict is worth this amount of lives?

Huub
 
"Do you still know the real reason why the First World War was fought?"

Huub,.....I admit my ignorance of WWI history. I always thought it was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria by a Serbian nationalist type in Sarajevo, Bosnia that kicked it off. One country after another started to declare war on another country because of prior alliances.
Was it more than just these commitments that led to the First World War?
-Brad
 
huub vink said:
Do you still know the real reason why the First World War was fought? And do you really think any economic conflict is worth this amount of lives?
Huub
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Well the real reason why the First World War was fought was due to a mistake on the part of one Leopold Loyka.
On 28 June 1914, Leopold was driving Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie from a meeting at the Town Hall in Sarajevo.
He made a wrong turn near the Latin Bridge, and had to reverse the vehicle.
A Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip came out of a food shop at that moment, saw them, and shot and killed the pregnant Sophie, then her husband.

The action changed a lot of things: WWI, WWII, and the Cold War would not have happened if Leopold had not made that wrong turn. If that isn’t a good enough reason I don’t know what is.

Back to the aircraft, then: in a sense what you’ve done amounts to a work of restoration.
From a scrap of B&W photo comes a full-colour 3D 21st-century rendering of it.
Bravo. :applause:
 
Another set of remarkable paints Huub.

One thing I have noticed all along Huub and other Pfalz Phanatics, why does the plane require so much right aileron input? Is there anything we can do to the cfg to correct that. The Fokker D.VII requires just a minimum of input to offset torque, but the Pfalz is a beast.

Caz
 
GZNLAP, there is a difference between reasons and causes. You might need to do some additional reading. The mixture was already explosive before it was ignited by the assassination of Franz-Ferdinard.
The real causes had more to do with colonies, raw materials, market and the succussion of the Spanish throne. To summarise; power and domination.

Cazzie, the Pfalz is indeed more difficcult to fly, compared with the Fokker D.VII. It stalls quite easily and need a lot of rudder. However this matches with what I have been reading about the flight behaviour of the real Pfalz. Somebody did an alternative configuration file for me, however I have not tested this yet :redf:. Somebody else who is working on a model which was powered by the same engine :rolleyes:, has offered to do an alternative flight configuration as well.

Slund I'm glad you enjoy the repaints. Nice composition you've made! I have learned a lot again while doing this repaints. I'm please I finally found a way to have mono-coloured textures, like the silver grey on the fusleage, look less "flat".

Huub
 
I was always under the impression that WW1 was about domination (colonialism), A new substance called "OIL", and who was going to control this new substance. It was loyalties or potential for gain that decided who was on which side of the "Debate".

Unfortunately, War has no Winners. Here we are, so many years later, playing at the same game. It's no wonder that the people of the Middle East (as I am told), dislike all of these outside influences.

I can see all sides as I am an American of German and Bohemian descent. The country of which my Grandmother was so proud of no longer exists. Try that on for size. So many other countries survived war after war.

Daniel

PS. Thank you Huub for keeping History Alive.
 
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