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Yes, but does the game engine take angled armor into account? If not, you'd have to increase your armor value by a certain amount to compensate (60 degree slope= 2x). If the game does account for it, then what you may be seeing in strafing attacks is the fact that the rounds are striking close to the vertical on the plate, which negates the angle advantage it would have if struck from ground level. Just wondering... Heck

This is a silly mistake I usually make, that's the reason I mention it, but what decal level have you set for them? I've made some individual aircraft numbers and placed them by copying and pasting another decal call out, then forgot to change the decal level to 2. It's the only thing I can think of.

Superb model, Julhelm. Thank you.

View File Me-109e 2-JG26 Fourth skin in the series for the Battle of Britain Me-109e. This is 2/JG26, overpainted with sponges, another common technique. All other information is in the readme. Hope you enjoy, Heck Submitter Heck Submitted 10/05/2008 Category Axis/BF-109/ME-109/Ju-87

View File 9-JG54 Third skin in the series for the Battle of Britain Me-109e. This skin uses a different overpainting technique. The standard 71/02/65 scheme has been hastily overpainted on the sides in RLM 71 using a paintbrush. Two bitmaps are included in this skin; one with overpainting, the other a standard 71/02/65. You could use this standard paint scheme for any of your Me-109e skins, just rename 109ETexA.BMP by removing the A after renaming your original bitmap. Also enclosed is a complete readme. My thanks go out to Russo, Wrench, and Gocad for the use of their files, and their help and ideas. Any questions or problems, pm me. Hope you enjoy, Heck Submitter Heck Submitted 10/05/2008 Category Axis/BF-109/ME-109/Ju-87

JG2 and JG3 decal update View File These files update the decals for my Me109e skins. I inadvertantly uploaded files with miskeyed decal levels for the kill markings that would prevent them from showing. I also uploaded an old version of the JG3 decal folder that lacked the kill marking decals. My apologies. Just unzip these to a temporary directory and copy and paste the enclosed decal.ini and D folder into the proper skins folders. These have been tested and do work. Learning the hard way.... Heck Submitter Heck Submitted 10/04/2008 Category Axis/BF-109/ME-109/Ju-87

View File ME109E 8 JG2 Second skin in a series for Russo's Me109e. This skin represents 8/JG2 during the summer of 1940 and uses the speckling technique of overpainting common to aircraft of this Geshwader. The base scheme is a standard RLM 71/02 upper surface with lower surfaces in RLM 65. Nose and tail overpainted in RLM 04. All colors in this series are based on the standard values found at SimmersPaintShop, but are interpreted by me as far as fading goes, so they will appear different from other skins, or profiles, you might have seen. Also, my aircraft numbers appear in a more random order, because this is how I feel aircraft were flown in the field. All skins in this series borrow heavily from Russouk2004's .psd. I am indebted to him, and to Wrench, for their help. A full readme file is enclosed. If you want to mod this, feel free, I believe in the Freeware agreement I signed on to, just give credit where credit is due. Hope you like it. Heck Submitter Heck Submitted 10/03/2008 Category Axis/BF-109/ME-109/Ju-87

View File ME109E 2 JG3 This skin represents 2/JG3 during the late Battle of Britain period. The scheme is the later RLM 74/75 Gray upper surfaces with RLM 65 lower surfaces. The nose and tail have been overpainted in RLM 04 yellow for ease of recognition. Lots of information is presented in the readme, please read it. This skin, and all from this series I'm going to present, makes extensive use of Russouk2004's .psd file. All the detail work; panel lines, rivets, weathering, etc., is Russo's. I am indebted to him for allowing me to use these parts of his file without restriction. I painted the underlying camouflage and created the decals, which include numbers for 16 aircraft and kill markings up to thirty kills. Hopefully, someday, I will possess one third of Russo's skill at creating detail work, until then, I'm grateful he's allowed me to use his, so I can at least get a start in skinning. I hope you enjoy this, and the others to come.... Heck Submitter Heck Submitted 10/03/2008 Category Axis/BF-109/ME-109/Ju-87

Just don't break the arm you paint with.

I would love to have them. This is to both you and Gocad, Wrench. You guys are the best! Heck

Thanks, Gocad!

I would love it, Gocad. Thank you! Heck

Thanks, Johnrey. These, plus two others, should be up by Friday. With eight or so, I'm going to move away from the Battle of Britain for a while (you could spend a lifetime showing the variations used ), and try my hand at creating my own template for Wolf257's Me109F, so I can gain experience painting the details on aircraft, and weathering them. I'm expanding my BOB installation into 1941-42, so I can fly the Fritz and the Butcher Bird. From time to time I may add another 109E, since I now have usable templates for yellow noses, white noses, etc., because I'd eventually like an example skin from each Gruppe of each Geshwader involved in the battle. Heck

Sorry, Gocad. I should have looked much more closely at your BOB skin package. All that needs to be added to that is the Squadron letter codes. Doh!!!! I think the same thing should be done for the Hurricane, it's a great system for both these aircraft. Heck

Exacatacally, what I was thinking, so I see it can be done. I was considering mating the aircraft serial number to the letter code of the aircraft, the same way you combined the Squadron letter codes with the roundel. Wonder if it would all play nice together.... Heck

I'll do some investigating and see if I can find a way to make them work for this group of skins. The knowledge has to be in the Knowledge Base. Heck

Just something I wanted to try, just to see if I can make it work. I already have every Spit and Hurri skin posted here. I'm terribly lazy when I'm flying in the sim, so I like to be able to choose squadrons when I fly a single mission, and have them in the correct scheme, sort of like a default scheme. Also, I have some questions for you. Do you know what time period the black/white underwings were used? And were they used on all aircraft of a squadron? And when did they stop using them? Just curious, this new world of skinning has opened up all sorts of questions for me. I like tinkering with things, just to see what I can do, and learn something from it that might be useful later. Sorry about the blizzard of questions, but I feel like a kid in a candy shop again. Heck

Thanks for all your help and tips, Wrench. I'm going to finish just a few more of these, at least one from every JG present in Baltika's BOB campaign, then I have a couple of ideas I'm going to try. I'd like to come up with a SquadronList.ini and a decal system for my BOB installation that would present every Spitfire and Hurricane squadron from 10, 11, and 12 Groups, so I'm going to have to try my hand at painting out the squadron letters on the present skins, unless someone has a template without them. After that, with Baltika's Kursk campaign, there's the 109F to start painting, and a whole bunch of East Front 109e's. Maybe some 110s too... Heck

With Russo's permission, these use his panel lines, rivets, weathering, etc., because I don't yet have the skills to do those. I painted the camo, and created the decals and decal system. This is what I've finished so far, just checking the details and working on two more skins, then I'll post them. 2/JG26 1/JG51 1/JG52 6/JG52 8/JG2 9/JG54

How?