ndicki

Looking good... Let me check a couple of things more though. Got an idea...

Beautiful! I'm looking forward to seeing them soon!

Yes - the only Euro 1 schemes that have got into SF2 have the markings fused, more's the pity. They look very good, but you can't mess around with them!

This will give you some idea what I have in mind, but it really isn't up to scratch as the tan is only photoshopped out.

Well, I've got Sundowner's templates - which are excellent - but there is no Euro 1 skin in the download, and the SEA skin has been used into a solid base layer, which is unfortunate. As the work has already been done on the Euro 1 skin, I'd hoped to find that one ready for use! Do not despair...

I'm looking for an unmarked version of the F-4E Euro 1 scheme, as for the F-4E_78, 526 TFS RS that I've got - but completely without markings. I'm looking at doing a fictional RNZAF F-4E and as they used a similar scheme on the Kahu, it would make a nice change from the all-too-common SAE scheme. Anybody got any ideas? (Kevin?)

So let's hear a review from someone who knows his way around - how does it compare with the existing F-4Ks? I'm still running a number of ex-SFP1 versions as I have the old LODs as well.

The stork is one of the traditional symbols of Alsace, one of the Departments France lost to Prussia during the 1870 war. Using the stork was an affirmation of their belonging to France - a moot point to say the least, in cultural terms, as the local dialect is German-based - and in the same register as the Second World War 'Rhin-et-Danube' title of the French 1st Army.

About the flak - I tried to increase the warhead weight (weight of the explosives carried by the projectile)

and they shot off my tail without actually hitting me :-)

ndicki you can try it, I started with correct weight x 10

Monty CZ

Can you pm me the data.ini? That way I have some idea where you started...

That's the problem - direct hit or nothing. Don't some SAMs have proximity fuses though?

I like those guns, too! Good stuff.

Has anyone worked out a way to make flak kill you? (Thinking aloud... If each flak shell were actually configured as a a non- or not very manoeuvring SAM, would it work?)

Brilliant work, Monty! Looking very, very good.

Fantastic work - looks absolutely stunning!

(With reduced LODs, please!)

It's got nothing to do with the politicians, except perhaps those who proffer every possible excuse for bad, uncivilised behaviour on the grounds that the defendant comes from a disadvantaged background and never had access to HD TV until he was eight. And so on.

If it was political, they'd be off to trash the Party headquarters or the Houses of Parliament. As they've decided to trash Dixons and Curry's instead, you can assume that it is exactly what it looks like - the criminal underclass who generally sit swilling Tesco budget lager in car parks, have decided it's time for some new gadgetry about the house. After all, there's a limit to the quantity of electronics and brand-name hoodies and trainers you can buy when you're on handouts.

This is what you get after decades of lefty do-gooders who sob about the injustice of it all - "Poor boy, it isn't your fault you're a foul-mouthed dangerous little sh*t, have another handout and please be nice and stop mugging grannies and pushing drugs" - instead of teaching the bastards to get out of bed, wash, get dressed like normal human beings and above all, GET A FECKING JOB! And there are jobs to be had, even if to begin with it might not be much fun. Why do the Polish come to England by the boatload? And succeed?

The future does not look frightfully rosy, I'm afraid to say.

Very nice! Well done.

Couple of minor hitches - the Springboks always face inboard or to the fore, and technical markings, for example on the control surfaces, are in Afrikaans or English, not French (admittedly, I can't read them, but they appear to contain three words - NE PAS MARCHER - rather than the two of BLY AF or NO STEP). I can't remember precisely how this was managed. I think it was English port side and Afrikaans starboard side on aircraft with an even-numbered serial, and vice-versa... Don't quote me because I could very probably be wrong. Lloyd might know.

Silvermans will have it, I'd expect, or Du Bora.

http://www.silvermans.co.uk/ProductDetails/tabid/89/Department/Military/Category/WEBBING/Description/PLCE+WEBBING+YOKE/ItemId/3240/CurrentPage/1/Default.aspx

You'll pay as much in carriage as you will for the yoke, but still, if you want it badly enough. Can't think why - PLCE is utter rubbish. '58 was far better once you got rid of the large pack.

The problem is that we DON'T have workable fixes! We've got a few ideas, many of which might vaguely help get a few extra FPS, but the basic problem remains.

Cheers, Kevin!

This shouldn't work, but it does. You'll need to renumber the moves, of course.

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ParentComponentName=fuselage

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DetachWhenDestroyed=TRUE

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15.jg 52, nice

What, like this one? The one above is NOT a Luftwaffe machine, but a Croatian National Air Force one. This one below is from 15./JG 52. Enjoy, as the Yanks would say!

Well, I've just had a look, and it is there... Except it is, well, somewhat symbolic. That is fine, given that the terrain seems to have been built with more up-to-date concerns in mind, with US air bases in Sicily and the Evil Ones living in Libya. If I were an Apache or Typhoon pilot, I'd be on that bit of terrain all day!

But for WW2 Malta, it would need to be much more accurate...

Most cool! Malta is one of my favorite places for simming.

 

Any chance you could make a blue/tan Maltese skin for the Mk V?

Of course! It's on the list - Further MkVBs and VCs from 126 and 249 Sqns. I'm just doing things more-or-less chronologically.

Malta is on the Libya map.

Thanks - didn't know that!

We should have - it was the fighter pilot's paradise, so to speak.

These are from the first batch of 16 Spitfires ferried by HMS Eagle during Operation Spotter - 15 aircraft finally took off from the carrier under S/L Stan Grant on 7th March 1942, and all 15 arrived safely in Malta. They were handed over to No.249 Sqn at Takali. Two weeks later when a further 9 aircraft arrived on Operation Picket I, only two of the initial batch were still airworthy.

They were all newly-built MkVb aircraft received by No.8 MU and specially ferried to Gibraltar for embarkation on Eagle. It is practically unheard of for a squadron to have aircraft with consecutive serial numbers, but here, one or two gaps aside, it was the case!

Now if a MAX-er would build me a fake pylon Vokes filter, it'd look far better...

You all have points, but it IS the bullets. I've deliberately chosen the He111 because it does have good LODs - one of the few! - and you can get twenty or so of them before your fps get unreasonable. Heck has been thinking along the same lines as me, but appears to have got further.

Are bullets actually modelled? That for each one, there is a tiny LOD file travelling through the air? Because if that is the case, there is very little we can do... Disabling tracer doesn't seem to help much, by the way.