The D.VII is Jacobs' mount, just before Jasta 7 repainted their top wings black. The D.VIIs that were delivered had Fokker streaky olive fuselages,and 4 colour lozenged wings. The fuselages were immediately repainted black, but the wings remained lozenged on top for a while, and the bottom wings may never have been repainted.
At a flying guess, the aircraft in the hanger looks like a Pfalz D.III.
These models are for someone else - I think I'll stick with black top wings and lozenged lower ones for my own, but he requested lozenges. Figuring out just what colour Voss's machine was was tricky. Basically aquamarine all over, then olive applied with longhandled brooms in streaks. Cowling green, with the characteristic face on.
McCudden described it as silvery blue, and the gloss varnish accounts for the silvery bit, and other accounts state that the olive covering was thinner to nonexistent near the back of the fuselage. McCudden also describes Voss as not wearing any headgear, so I painted him bareheaded with a Prussian crewcuts, as seen in his photos.
Like everything else in history, informed guesswork.
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