Screen Shots, Videos, Media, OFF Posters

[Shiloh 12]

On a quick combat mission I had a nice head-on collision with a Nieuport 17. Check out my Alb.D.III at the moment of ground-impact.

 

 

[TSmoke 2]

Thanks for all the info on the paint jobs. As to stalling not even close had so much speed from a dive never got a shot off, just half looped and rolled out. Once I get some height on the D3's and D5's I try like a SOB not to give it up, because in a shallow climb the ai planes walk away pretty easy.

 

I don't know the airfields name but it is one of the 3 close together on the French coast, currently flying RNAS 1 late summer.

[UK_Widowmaker 571]

That is one of my only criticisms of OFF....I would like to be able to view the aftermath...instead of the inglorious 'dump' to OFF Manager!

[Shiloh 12]

Agreed Widow. I had to follow my plane down and hit pause at just the precise moment to get that shot.

[UK_Widowmaker 571]

Yep Shiloh...I bet that was split second timing! (shame about the Pilot...you were clearly at a great altitude when disaster struck!...plenty of time to say your prayers on the long drop!

[Olham 164]

Raiding the enemy airfield at Ablainzeville, my Jasta 2 pilot saw how the German artillery literally pulverised the field.

Or so it seemed. He didn't expect to find anyone there anymore, but he found several Nieuports outside the hangars,

and then he was shot at from many guns and angles. He shot holes into 3 of the Nupes, while the shockwaves of the

explosions around him hit his wings and his chest. Big lumps of soil rained on his Albatros. Then his radiator got hit,

and he returned. He managed to fly the craft at half throttle all the way back to his field at Bertincourt.

 

 

[TaillyHo 2]

Great shot of that arty explosion, Olham - and your black spinner DII looks very distinctive in those front on views.

[Olham 164]

Thank you, TaillyHo.

Yes, I like skinning, and since the Bf109s I flew in WW2 sims, I always prefered to have a black spinner.

Looks more like a threat, I find.

[TaillyHo 2]

Indeed - it hints at that cannon-mounted SPAD that Guynemer flew for a while (not that I've seen a pic of that craft, only read about it) - bet you could have fun if you had one of those in your Alb!

[theultimat 5]

It really is a beautiful sim... Especially after you force 16xQ anti aliasing.

But I have to had it to the dev's - you really did a fantastic job of transforming the CFS3 engine.

 

 

 

Just had to try some editing too...

 

 

 

Edited June 22, 2011 by theultimat

[Olham 164]

Good one, theu! Did you use Paintshop or another program?

 

Jasta 37, Foucaucourt-en-Santerre, 23. April 1918

Lt. Mahlow

 

Jasta 37 had to cancel a patrol over Courcelles this morning.

We were still climbing in wide spirals around our field to gain

altitude, when a red flare was fired from the ground. Alarm!

Then the Flak began to decorate the sky behind me with their

dark puffs. We saw 4 Strutter in a steep dive, about to attack

our own field!

They had the cheek! But how could they have known, that our

whole Staffel was airborne and over our field? They ran right

into their doom.

I followed two of them with Tegtmeier and Kloeren. They really

managed to reach our tents and to drop their payload. In the next

moment, they got shreddered in the fire of our Spandaus.

Two minutes later, I assigned to another crew to put their two-

seater down. They pretended to be dumb and ignored our field.

They put the Strutter down on a nearby meadow, and before I could

land to arrest them, they could set their craft alight. You got

to admire them for their grit!

 

 

 

 

[theultimat 5]

Good one, theu! Did you use Paintshop or another program?

 

I normally use Paint Shop Pro 6 for simple jobs (like that screenshot), but for more complicated jobs I use GIMP, as it has a lot of the filters Photoshop does.

And that was a fine job sir, well done! I have yet to force an enemy to land alive.

Edited June 23, 2011 by theultimat

[Olham 164]

You have used the right techniques, theu - now you need to carefully compose and build a

real good poster type of cover. This is too much of a merge - the colours of planes and landscape

are too indifferent. A DVD cover is not very big, so it needs a clear composition, which is easy

and immediately to recognise in 1 second.

Sorry, didn't want to make it down; I'm a graphic designer, and you cannot imagine, how often

I had to realise, that something could be done even better; and then you start again.

So, if you like doing such stuff - why not have another go?

[Olham 164]

elephant, as you said the "13" was available in Jasta 37, I changed mynumber for this Albatros.

Now it's "Black 13" - almost the devil himself!

 

 

Jasta 37, Foucaucourt-en-Santerre, 24. April 1918

Lt. Mahlow

 

Taking off for a defensive patrol, we got attacked by many British S.E.5a.

We had hardly gained any altitude and were easy prey for them. One shot

my engine up. But before he could do so, I forced one of his comrades

into the mud. Then my engine cut out, and I had to make a rough landing

near our field, with 7 mad Scout Experimentals above me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[TaillyHo 2]

Oooh, inverted flying just a few hundred feet off the deck - very exciting stuff. Bet that made your hands a bit clammy!

[Olham 164]

Not for me, but for the S.E.5a pilot surely!

The 7 Scout Experimental behind me made it a bit tense though, indeed.

[Shiloh 12]

Not for me, but for the S.E.5a pilot surely!

The 7 Scout Experimental behind me made it a bit tense though, indeed.

 

I fly like that all the time as many off my fights take me low and I still need to maneuver well. They are tense though as there is no room for error.

[Olham 164]

Yes, to be honest, my heavy Albatros D.Va stalled several times, and I could just catch it up close above the ground.

Very straining fight, Shiloh - the D.Va needs some space below it for energy fighting.

So I am of course double proud, that I could sack one S.E.5a.

[TaillyHo 2]

I fly like that all the time as many off my fights take me low and I still need to maneuver well. They are tense though as there is no room for error.

 

Yeay, yeah - alright Mr 5-kills-in-one-mission. Geez, Shiloh - your head'll be gettin as big as that one you got painted on the side of your Alb!!

[Shiloh 12]

Yeay, yeah - alright Mr 5-kills-in-one-mission. Geez, Shiloh - your head'll be gettin as big as that one you got painted on the side of your Alb!!

 

Wow! I better order a round of drinks before this gets out of hand my good friend.

[TaillyHo 2]

Just attempting to add a little mess-room frivolity on the forum, my friend - certainly not meaning to be at your expense!

[Olham 164]

Well, when I started reporting from my missions (ages ago), I was also very eager to make many kills.

It took me quite a long time, until I realised that I might rather spoil the "historical probability" of the sim.

Nowadays, I mostly report just one - the most interesting - victory per sortie.

There may have been more, but I find it not realistic to report them all.

 

But as I said, that took some time, until the "hotspur" turned into a veteran, and I'm still on the way to

even better realsim for myself.

[Shiloh 12]

Just attempting to add a little mess-room frivolity on the forum, my friend - certainly not meaning to be at your expense!

 

I never took it any other way TaillyHo - all in good fun!

Edited June 24, 2011 by Shiloh

[RAF_Louvert 101]

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Greetings All,

 

Thought I'd share a screenshot of Major Jeffrey "Kooksy" Alberts fighting off Hun nasties who tried to jump his flight this December 1916 morning. After a protracted stay at hospital following a particularly bad scrape in which he had downed three enemy planes, he was promoted to Major and given operational control of the squadron. Eight weeks later he was transferred from RFC 24 to RFC 54, which was moving from Home Defense work at Castle Bromwich to Flanders and front line combat. The Major was put in charge of bringing the lads of 54 up to snuff in the ways of escort and scout duties, as he had accrued no small amount of expertise in these roles flying the DH2 since March with the likes of Lanoe Hawker. Along with his experience the Major also brought with him his favoured black cat emblem and, as he was now in charge, promplty claimed number 13 for his new Sopwith Pup, noting that both would be bringing bad luck to the Boche rather than himself, (pilots are a superstitious lot).

 

 

 

As an aside, the nick “Kooksy” was acquired following a crash behind enemy lines during an escort mission along the coast. After three weeks gone he was presumed dead, only to return home the following day in a "gifted" Halberstadt that the Huns unknowingly bestowed upon him by leaving it idling and unattended at a Marine Feldflieger Abteilung near Oostende. This caused the Major’s wingman, Lt. Robert Brooks, to comment in the Officer’s Mess that evening that the whole affair smacked of the myth of Halcyon and Ceyx, with Alberts cast in the role of Halcyon’s departed husband, raised back up from the dead in the form of a glorious sea bird. As both drink and the lads’ spirits were in excess, this led to an animated discussion about the proper pronunciation of ‘Ceyx’ with Brooks claiming it to be ‘Sakes’, while the Major maintained it was ‘Kooks’ in the original Greek. By evening’s end Major Alberts was officially, and forever to be, “Kooksy”.

 

Cheers!

 

Lou

 

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[TaillyHo 2]

Excellent stuff, Lou!

Nice skin - good flying (tucking right in close behind that dreaded Hun) - a lovely pic - and great little introduction for your (presumably new) pilot.

 

Now, let me get you a drink, Major - that looked like thirsty work.