RE: Tips for hand-painting German Pattee crosses?
It would be nice to have an authentic documented source for the shape of wide-armed pattee cross. The document in MajorTomsky's link gives WWI German government specs for the narrower style (as seen in Matz' photos). But I can't find any similar description of the dimensions of the wider-armed cross. In fact, the ONLY illustrated outline I can find at all is the one is the Wikipedia article (shown below). I've even looked through a dozen datafiles of other aircraft and can't find a single 3-view that uses the wide-armed cross...even when the majority of actually photos in the datafile show that style, for example, the EIII datafile.
To further complicate matters it looks like the wider cross on the fuselage was just slightly "fatter" than the ones on the wings.