Model Forum / General / Models / March 2006

I have a Pegasus 1/72 Halberstadt D.II on the to-build stack. Looks
like a nice little kit, allowing for a bit of creative substitution of
brass for the provided stock material.

I do not have much in the way of detailed references for the Halb. The
Pegasus scheme (http://www.pegasusmodels.com/halbd2.html green / brown
camo over linen) looks OK. I am curious about this finish. Does anyone
have it in any references? A man could go blind trying to figure it
out from the photos I've seen. Pegasus and a couple of modelers who've
posted images on the web seem to have painted the camo pattern with a
fairly broad feather between the green and brown. This implies that
the historical finish was applied using some kind of spray. Does
anyone know if this is the case? And if it was sprayed, was it still
the typical semi-gloss dope, or was it some kind of matte paint?

Norm