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Sorry guys, I wasn't planning on posting any new screenies until it was ready for release (which is relatively imminent at last!), but I couldn't help myself after yet another round of tinkering with the bump and specular maps ..

...unfortunately we'll never know. Mandatory Screenshot "Recon"-Skyhawk. Bomb damage assessment camera - a small visual gimmick. :)

Persian Gulf intercept F\A-18Cs over the Persian Gulf.....(because my FB feed has suddenly become clogged by DCS screenshots)

Below are my OBJECT/AIRCRAFT files. They are WIPs, except for the Martinsyde Elephant. Also attached are my new WW1 pilot figures, and templates for most of the aircraft. Enjoy! WW1 Aircraft.rar Pilots.rar Templates.rar

Busy with Real Life at the moment, but did have time this morning to fool around with the China Skies stuff. Maybe some day...

Gterl: gorgeous! My copy of CS2 does not like to make .tga files. If you are willing to convert .pdf art to .tga, contact me by PM and I'll send you the wake art for the WW1 ships I have inwork. When/if I get the .tga files back from you, I can then send you the complete LODs for the WW1 ships/boats shown below.

Attached is the Russian air service artwork and LODs for the N17. Per VonS' request, the silver colors are bit darker to simulate the Russian paintwork. Russia N17 Artwork.rar Russia Nieuport17c.rar

I'm pretty busy right now. If you guys can cooperate and produce an FM that incorporates all of your fixes and improvements, I'll find the time to update the model and LODs.

If we could only get DCS graphics in SF2........

Trenches cannot be dug, any more than water can be found, on the Carso, for a spade's depth below the surface the unkindly stone turns to sullen rock, and everything must be drilled and blasted out. For the moment, because spring had been wet, the stones were greened over with false growth of weeds which wither utterly in the summer, leaving the rocks to glare and burn alone. As if all this savagery were not enough, the raw slopes and cusps of desolation were studded with numberless pits and water-sinks, some exquisitely designed by the Devil for machine-gun positions, others like small craters capable of holding eleven-inch howitzers, which opened at the bottom through rifts into dry caverns where regiments can hide - and be dug out.

WHEN ONE REACHED the great Venetian plain near Army Headquarters, the Italian fronts were explained with a clearness that made maps unnecessary. 'We have three fronts,' said my informant, 'On the first, the Isonzo front, which is the road to Trieste, our troops can walk, though the walking is not good. On the second, the Trentino, to the north, where the enemy comes nearest to our plains, our troops must climb and mountaineer, you will see.'

Relax brother, you didn't "fail" anything .. agreements and negotiations go south all the time! Good on you for trying!

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Dear Gentlemen - you may not have noticed, but unfortunately I have the duty to bring to your attention that this forum is currently rather quiet. In order to change this slightly disturbing fact, I've come to the only conclusion to provide a bit of entertainment. These hopefully amusing distractions will contain graphical images from the southern front. More precisely from the region between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy, that is. The pictures will be accompanied by according temporary descriptions, mostly by Rudyard Kipling. Sincerely George

Douglas A-4C Skyhawk - 340 Mira Hellenic Air Force, 1966 Skin Credit: Marcelo Silva

COMMEMORATING THE 74TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE D-DAY LANDINGS DURING WORLD WAR II On this day (June 6), in 1944 the Allied Armed forces under the leadership of General Dwight David Eisenhower stormed the beaches of Normandy, France. The Allies comprised of a multi-national task force of mainly American, British and Canadian infantry, cavalry, airborne and seaborne units as well as the brave personnel who operated them. This day was the day the Allies began to liberate Europe from Nazi occupation. Their sacrifices and dedication to the fight against fascism and tyranny shall never be forgotten. A big salute to all of them!

because TK (the original developer you bought the series from) hasnt done so much as a patch or said so much as a peep about PC development. one could hope for a suprise, but after 5 years dont hope too hard all forward progress on this series has been from the modders for the last half decade. while there is much great work out there, we are a bit fragmented and preoccupied with our own lives to get a community SF3 rolling. Shoot major campaigns and aircraft are stop and go, let alone the whole series revamped mandatory screenie

Stratos, you mean something like this?

why ?

Negative.....glad you all are still enjoying it. Just was thinking what if...

I have been playing WoX/Strike Fighters series since 2008 and this is the first time I see something like that... While testing SAMs, a missile hit the skyhawk, didn't explode and wedged on the airframe! The white smoke you see is not contrail but it is produced from missile's engine! Has anyone else experienced something similar?

Ok I can confirm I never turned a wrench on that particular tail number, so not my fault!

Enjoying the sunset..

Still sleek after all these years............

Speaking of somewhat creative skins...here's another that I will include with the ver. 9.5 FM update pack...to go with a separate data ini for an early/obscure variant of the Spad 7 200-220hp that I've been tinkering with...Rudolf Windisch acquired a captured Spad 7 sometime in Jan. 1918 that he flew occasionally (180hp or higher? no data I could find)...Windisch "disappeared" after being shot down in late May 1918 on the French side of the lines. Those with skinning talents will perhaps create an accurate dragon to put on the sides of the fuselage...I've used Stephen's decals, and others, to improvise. The Hisso 8 sub-variants 8Ad to 8Be range from 210 to 220hp output, the 180hp variant is listed as 8Ab and possibly 8Ac...this gives some room to speculate on what Windisch acquired in early 1918, considering the variety of Hisso variants in use...the Germans did fly some captured Spad 7 types as early as April of 1917...those would have been likely of 180hp...perhaps 150hp only. Von S

Hello Crawford, that was my attempt at a mottled gray-green color...perhaps a factory paint-job gone wrong - while I like to be accurate with the FMs, sometimes I get creative with the skins (color filters, etc.) but within reasonable limits - no pink or neon green aircraft. Regarding the Dux Nieups., the sources I went with were these four...not the best ones probably but they do give me room to include obscure types such as the 16 Dux...although it's possible that the sources confuse the Dux-built Nieu. 11 (that has a headrest) with western-built Nieu. 16 types. Flyingmachines.ru, Historyofwar.org, Aerodrome.com, Wikipedia Nieu. 11 article... Happy flying, Von S

In this thread there is a lull, it's time to make "easy modding" by adapting the received WIPs to my old good FE1. God bless Geezer, for his planes fly in the 1st Generation without problems. This requires only the conversion of some files in other formats and minor "cosmetic" changes. But most of the time I had to spend on this Caudron R.11. Even in this incomplete state, the model looks amazing! I entered the correct Node names in the corresponding positions in the DATA.INI file, and the control surfaces started working. Only ailerons for some reason deflected simultaneously in one direction. I quickly realized how to fix it. ... But I really rack my brains over the rear gunner! He obstinately did not want to look back, but only forward. I tried many combinations, but this did not solve the problem. In the end, I found the solution almost by accident. But now the trouble is that, although both shooters now have the necessary viewing sectors, they very rarely attack the enemy. And even if they attack, flashes of their shots appear in the most unexpected positions around the aircraft. And this problem has not been solved yet. I’ll think of it all tomorrow )) Here is my preliminary, raw version of the DATA.INI - maybe someone will be interested. Note. If someone wants to try this, do not forget to rename the aircraft's main folder to CaudronR11 so that the folder's name coincide with the name of the main INI file. CaudronR11.rar

A good foreshortening, Von S... but why is it GREEN ??? It being known that the Nieuport airplanes, manufactured at the Dux Plant, were painted in silver (using coarse-grained matt aluminum-pigmented dope, so they seemed gray compared to the French ones). In addition, Nie.16, like Nie.23, was not produced in Russia.

War on Drugs... Somewhere over Central America...

On a CAS mission

the canopy animation is done now and some minor items are fixed , i have to check for some more items to fix