Geezer

Been busy packing to relocate, but found a little time to work on the AA pack and Martinsyde: first shot shows bomb racks, second shot shows Euro and Desert camo.

Thanks. Why not post some shots to motivate others to try the gun pack?

Thanks, but Steve deserves as much credit as I do - he's the guy who figured out how to make this stuff work ingame. We've both been busy with real world stuff but found time to squeeze this in. I should get back to FE later this month, and will finish the Martinsyde.

Very impressive! You do good work.

Taking a short break from the Martinsyde, and started work on Palestine skins for the Albatross D.V. One of the firms that made printed camo fabric in WW1 still exists, and occasionally runs off small batches for museums and restoration projects.

I was fortunate enough to help test the original version - it was outstanding. This improved, final version should be even better. The Lawrence Of Arabia stuff is icing on the cake!

Yep - 'tis a fine madness! I've been wanting to mod First Eagles for several years, but real life kept getting in the way. Since retiring, the old restraints have gone away so I can lavish all the time I want on this stuff. Kinda scary.

Thanks, guys. I intend to finish up the Martinsyde in the next few weeks, plus maybe get the WW1 AA gun pack done - with Steven1918's help. Then, I'll start the AEG CIV, requested by ojcar for the Palestine mod. Then, finish the Halberstadt DV. Sprinkled through this activity will be upgraded Palestine textures for the Albatross DV, SE5, Rumpler CI, and Albatross CIII. After that, the new Italy and Verdun game maps look really tasty....

Slowly grinding my way through the zillions of details - the textures are nearing completion. It won't be ready in "two weeks" but it should be ready "soon."

When I asked Steven1918 how he set up AA gun models, he replied there was no one source that described "how to do it" - he just kind of figured it out on his own. We agreed to set my collection of low-level MGs and medium-level 37mm auto cannons aside to concentrate on the Palestine mod, which uses a few of them. Now that Palestine testing is nearly finished, it looks like the AA gun pack should be revisited so it can be released to creative guys like you.

Thanks. The Coopers bombs are mine - they won't replace the standard game bombs, they are just place holders. Still gotta add scratches, dents, broken pencils, cigarette butts, etc - if I don't get tired of looking at it!

More progress shots. The fuselage, and all its little fussy bits, is nearly done. Have started work on the flying surfaces, finished with Protective Coating No 12 (red oxide) that was widely used in the Middle East. Got a question about bomb racks. Some FE models have the mount rails, but not the actual racks as shown here. You guys will have to go into the ini files to attach the bombs ingame, so I thought I'd ask if bomb racks are harder/worse than mount rails.