AIRCRAFT COLOURS AND MARKINGS OF THE FIRST
WORLD WAR ERA
Fokker D.II
The first D.IIs were finished in overall CDL with riffled cowl. Later,
red-brown/green was painted on the uppersurfaces leaving the sides of
the fuselage in CDL. Eventually the sides were also painted. Some D.IIs
appear to have carried streaks akin to those used on later Fokker aircraft.
In most cases the exhaust ate away at the finish below the exhaust channel
as well as the lower forward fuselage.
Crosses were originally applied directly to the fabric with no fields.
Later squares were applied which were subsequently overpainted - often
crudely - leaving thin white surrounds.