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These D.V's are from Jasta76b. The one on the left is believed to belong to Walter Boning if I remember correctly. And the one on the lef does display the city arms of Muenchen, Bavaria. Good call Olham. The band colors are black and yellow. This is all from memory. I have the info somewhere on this picture. But dont know where. I think I knew the pilots name of the D.V on the right too. I'll look for the info. Very cool pain schemes.

The Vickers and the Spandau's are too big. The heat exchange tubes around the gun barrels are just too big to be pulled off as a schwarzlose. If the barrel was removed from the Lewis its pretty close. Thats why I went w the Lewis. I believe the "GunData" already has a Schwarslose in it. we just need a decent 3D model like the A-Teams Gun Pod models. It would be great to have because many Austrian Two-Seaters used multiple Schwarslose guns in different locations. Sometimes two on the upper wing. It would be cool to be able to place the gun as a "Weapon Station" on a plane via the aircrafts "Loadout". That way we will have the option to place it where we choose. I for one would rather not have it as a part of the aircrafts .LOD but used from the "Weapons folder" like the A-Teams add-on gun pods.

Its really not that important Stephen Im sure you have many projects on your plate already. All my pics of an Aviatik DI are in my "User" data in the computer shop.. I should be getting my Data back tomorrow or Friday But then I have to reinstall everything into my new PC I just got. Major PITA . But I will have a handfull of pics for you in a few days if you want.

ditto!

Maybe Stephen can create a Shwarzlose model for the "Weapons" folder. I'm sure he could make one while he's reading this post

Awsome stuff once again Stephen1918! I too am anticipating the Eastern Front campaign. Your models need "Bump" maps! You should have gotten FE2. The Bump maps add an incredible amount of detail and realism to the models. You have done so many awsome (and rare) models they would look incredible with the "bump" detail. Just sayin

As soon as I get a PC up and running I will work on a hand full of Eastern Front aircraft skins. This new terrain will be cool to play. How do you find the time Stephen???? Glad you do though!

Well it looks like I need to buy a new crate. The place told me it would cost more to fix it than to just buy a new one. Argh! Like I just happen to have $500 bucks laying around. I got kids man! Damn!

The Day CA went off line so did my PC. Apparently the graphics card required atleast a 450w power supply and my PC only produced about 350. So over time it just fried my harddrive, motherboard, and processor. The place I brought it too pretty much told me I need a new PC. It was only a couple of years old too. Great! Like I have $500 bucks laying around for a new tower. I'm stuck between a rock and..... well I guess another rock. The only good news is they were able to retrieve all my "User" data. Pics, videos, GAME files (thank God). But Now I will have to reinstall ALL the Program Files stuff into what ever PC I get. It's going to take forever! But it could be worse. I could have lost EVERYTHING. 4 years of kids pictures, wedding Pics, videos, 6 years of FE work, and all my business files. That would have been bad...really, really bad. Now CA is back, very cool BTW, I have no PC

It was only a few days and we all freaked out! Lol. It was like the end of the world. I for one didnt know what to do with my spare time. No place to discuss FE mods or post stuff. The day CA went down so did my PC. Totally crashed. Was able to recover all user data (thank God) but fried my HD and Motherboard. Apparently my graphics card was drawing too much power and my PC couldnt produce. My PC only had a 350w power supply and my GC required atleast a 450w. So it baked my PC. Now CA is back online and I have no PC...Great!

There are so many ground objects now for FE. Placing objects all over the terrain is going to be just as fun as flying! Seeing action and objects on the ground adds so much to this sim. Thanks again Stephen1918

Since I spent a whole day trying to get a dual Vickers Triplane to work not knowing Peter01 already had a Data.ini already made,Duh! I decided to create textured decals to be placed right on the triplane and create all three flights for Naval 10. Red (A Flight), Black (B Flight), and Blue (C Flight). I'm still working on them to get the colors right and I will use the original decals for B Flight to create Collishaws' famous "Black Flight". I know they came with the SkunkWorks Triplane, I'm just going to add the decals to my new skins. By using the decals you can just select Naval 10 in the single missions loadout screen and randomly fly any of the 3 flights. If you create a new aircraft called "Triplane 10RNAS" or something along those lines then if you like to fly an Albatros D.III or D.V then you might come across these flights in the big blue. Should be pretty cool. I did this w the Jasta11 D.III's and Jasta19 Dr.I's awhile back. I should post these in a few days.

It sure does. They move along the ground w a little dust following behind. Great targets

I havnt used either one of them. I didnt even know they were out there. Well.... onto other things

I have and use all of his WWI models. Great stuff! Thanks for your work Geo.

I removed the single stock Vickers and added two new "Weapon_Stations" to the data.ini. In the Triplanes's "Loadout" there is now the default "Dual Vickers" displayed. Only a handfull were made and because of the extra weight they were less manuverable and slower than the regular Tripes. They were mainly used by Naval 1 in mid Summer of 1918 for low level intercepts and ground attack. Especially when the weather was poor and enemy aircraft would fly low and slow. I just made a new skin for the Triplane (a very hard model to paint) and I will be redoing all of my old ones. I created a new nation called "Royal Naval Air Service". And I also created new decals to go along with it. Roundels without the white border will appear from the beginning of the war till mid summer 1917. The white border then appears in July1917 till the end of the war. But on April 1,1918 the nation name "Royal Naval Air Service" (RNAS) will change to " Royal Air Force" (RAF). It's very cool. I dont know why I havnt done this sooner. Keep in mind you will have to rename the aircraft or skins yourself for which ever you would like to be an RNAS aircraft. In my Triplanes Data.ini I changed the "NationName=RAF" to "NationName=RNAS/RAF (I named it this way because all RNAS Squadrons became RAF squadrons in April1918.) You'll see soon. I'll be doing the Pups too.

Cool stuff Geo. I've been using these for a couple of years now. They're awsome looking mixed into No-Mans Land. BTW what about the " battle field debris" object that you had. Could you post that too? Thanks a lot Geo.

The Cockpits have their own .LOD's. These cant be altered like the aircrafts DATA.ini. And most aircrafts' Cockpit .LOD's cover the inner cockpit as well as the upper Cowl including windscreens, sights, and guns. So a lot of times what you see on the outside is not what you see from inside. I dont know why modelers do it that way. Most of the time there arent even .bmp textures to edit the paint of cockpits either. Just whatever came w the .LOD.

Well that would be from me. I've been working on a whole lot of skins for the new Italian Front campaign. I've set it for the summer of 1918. The only trouble is the terrain. I would like to rename all the locations and airfields from the Vogesen terrain. But it's very time consuming. But either way I will be releasing a new campaign. Not sure when though. Still a lot of work to do and research.

ARGH!! Just when I finish with the skins! Just kidding . I could do something to continue with the hex pattern I'm sure. The painted on guns probably give the new guns a shadow effect. Even deleting the painted guns is no problem. Time consuming but not a problem. I love the AvaitikD1 so I would gladly do it. Now if we only had some variants of the OEF Albatros D.III like Jan Tuma wasnt allowed to post. Shame too, his modified stock D.III's were right on. He put so much work into those too.

Wow I forgot about the Lewis gun install instructions. I forgot it wasnt part of the game It is an item thats in a download from SkunkWorks : www.cplengineeringllc.com/SFP1 It's part of a WWI Gun Pod download. There's a few guns that you can add to any aircraft via the aircrafts' "Loadout" They are pretty cool to have. The Aviatik D.I is supposed to have a Shwarzlose, but thats not yet available (Stephen1918! ) So the Lewis Will work just fine for now. BTW you'll need to ask the site administrator for a password to be able to download their stuff. You'll see in their site how to do this. Send him an e-mail and wait a couple of days or so. It's well worth it. They have lots of cool WWI stuff for free.

Stephen1918 noticed that in my AviatikD1 skin pack, "AviatikD1_Mid_Flik14J" has all the nation names in each skins' "TextureSet" file spelled wrong. They read: [TextureSet] Name=AviatikCamo3 Nation=Ausrtia2 <-------------- Should read "Austria2" Squadron= Specular=1.800000 Glossiness=1.850000 Reflection=0.000000 AFAIK it's only w Flik14J skins Sorry about the mistake. You will have to manually edit the entries.

I was wondering about that Stephen1918 these guns look awsome on the ground. In my new Austria-Italy campaign they are spread out all over the terrain. They ,and your trucks, add so much to this sim. Ground objects do make a big difference. Oh and less I forget, your soldiers are awsome too

Adding the Human element to the ground objects is the way to go. Right on Stephen1918! They look awsome in the game too. Thanks a bunch