Colors The Belgian air service was equipped mainly with French aircraft and, beyond applying Belgian markings to them, generally left them in the finish in which they were received. For example, Belgian Hanroit HD1s received from France in aluminum-doped finish served under Belgian colors in that finish. When HD1s started arriving in the new French five-color camouflage scheme, that's how they served in Belgian markings. Markings The Belgian roundel (once again, illustration A), which appeared in the standard six positions, was similar to the British and French roundels, but had a black center, yellow inner ring, and red outer ring. Rudders carried tricolor black-yellow-red vertical stripes, with black in front and red on the rudder's trailing edge. Aircraft serial numbers were applied, French fashion, on the rudder in white. Unit and personal markings, again like the French, were common and applied to the fuselage sides. More WWI Air Wargaming WWI Air Wargaming Introduction WWI Air Wargaming 1/300th Scale WWI Air Wargaming 1/144th Scale WWI Air Wargaming Painting, Markings, and Colors WWI Air Wargaming France: colors and markings WWI Air Wargaming Britain: colors and markings WWI Air Wargaming Germany: colors and markings WWI Air Wargaming Austro-Hungary: colors and markings WWI Air Wargaming Italy: colors and markings WWI Air Wargaming Russia: colors and markings WWI Air Wargaming Belgium: colors and markings WWI Air Wargaming Turkey: colors and markings WWI Air Wargaming United States: colors and markings WWI Air Wargaming Colors Chart (extremely slow: 600K) Back to Table of Contents -- Courier #75 To Courier List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1998 by The Courier Publishing Company. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com