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Sailor Steve · 10-15-13, 04:07 PM

A couple weeks ago I ordered a copy of Windsock's Datafile on the H-B C.I. It came literally in the nick of time, as I was putting the decals on today. It cleared up all questions I had about serial numbers and who built what. Part of the problem was that Hansa-Brandenburg themselves only built 80 C.Is, while Phönix built 446 and UFAG built 732 (sources vary, but those are the numbers in the Datafile, and I trust their research). Other sources show Austrian serial numbers for the Phönix and UFAG variants, but none for H-B. I had assumed that this was because the Hansa-built C.Is all went to Germany, but I was wrong. The first UFAG production run was serial 61.1, and nothing else was said about it. The Datafile points out that there were only 24 aircraft in that series, and 61.51-61.72 were assigned to Hansa-built aircraft. Other Hansa planes were assigned numbers in-between other UFAG series: 63.51+ and 64.51+. Though H-B's numbers are higher, they were the first ones built.

It also seems that only the first 10 aircraft - 61.51-61.60 - had the smaller unbalanced rudder, so I had to choose between them. I chose 61.58, mainly because it was just "one of the crowd", and had no particular distinguishing events happen to it. I prefer to model relatively unknown planes, just because they fill in as generic models and get loaned out a lot.

Pictures once it's rigged.

10-15-13, 04:07 PM	#255
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	A couple weeks ago I ordered a copy of Windsock's Datafile on the H-B C.I. It came literally in the nick of time, as I was putting the decals on today. It cleared up all questions I had about serial numbers and who built what. Part of the problem was that Hansa-Brandenburg themselves only built 80 C.Is, while Phönix built 446 and UFAG built 732 (sources vary, but those are the numbers in the Datafile, and I trust their research). Other sources show Austrian serial numbers for the Phönix and UFAG variants, but none for H-B. I had assumed that this was because the Hansa-built C.Is all went to Germany, but I was wrong. The first UFAG production run was serial 61.1, and nothing else was said about it. The Datafile points out that there were only 24 aircraft in that series, and 61.51-61.72 were assigned to Hansa-built aircraft. Other Hansa planes were assigned numbers in-between other UFAG series: 63.51+ and 64.51+. Though H-B's numbers are higher, they were the first ones built. It also seems that only the first 10 aircraft - 61.51-61.60 - had the smaller unbalanced rudder, so I had to choose between them. I chose 61.58, mainly because it was just "one of the crowd", and had no particular distinguishing events happen to it. I prefer to model relatively unknown planes, just because they fill in as generic models and get loaned out a lot. Pictures once it's rigged. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo Last edited by Sailor Steve; 10-17-13 at 09:58 PM.