Light blue Albatros C.III

bughunter
As the winner of a Forum Grand Giveaway, a kit of the Special Hobby Albatros C.III is on its way to me. As the kit was only sent a few days ago, it can't be here yet, of course. But ...
The only condition was to build the kits and publish a build report about the project in the Forum.
My library has the Windsock Datafile 13 describing the Albatros in detail. I love the title painting, done by Brian Knight. So I decided to replicate again his paint by my model. As no serial is shown there is no decal problem to be solved.

And after opening this Datafile, I came across a wonderful opener picture on page 1 showing a beautiful Axial air screw with three different kinds of wood! Since I don't need the kit for this, was tired of rigging the DH-2 project and working with wood is always relaxing, I just had to give it a try!
That is so far a start of the new project. For the rest we are in the hands of the postal minions. Until the kit arrived the project is on hold.

Moritz Fentzahn
Count me in. I am sure this will come out great

David R. Meizoso
Unpainted airscrew looks more like the original picture, I think.

Michael Kohl
I agree with David and will follow of cause.

Spanjaard
Airscrew looks fantastic already

Lochsa River
Sittin in!

Dietmar Bogatzki
Have that kit in stash so i will follow 🙂
Airscrew looks like on the painting, i would leave it.

Sy Bar
Watching another master class

Uwe Kaeding
Looking good Bughunter.

I think I agree with David and Michael and prefer the higher contrast, at least if the plane in the picture is the one you want to do. As the painting shows a moving propeller, I think the two tones would naturally blur together, and that might be what Brian Knight was showing. However in my references its a bit of pot luck in pictures whether you have high contrasts or not in the propellers, a lot of which might be due to lighting and angle but might also be due to different manufacturers. In the end, as with a lot of WW1 stuff, just do what feels right to you...