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You are very welcome. I'm happy to help. I don't get to do my share around here. Cheers!

Same here. Nice to know I'm in good company. Regarding the spring stuff and not always taking the right approach in the game. Flak has gotten better, hallelujah.

Happy times for Joch. There is much to discover about this sim. I am happy for you. I hope you a list of pilot names ready, you'll need them.

Rooster, no knock on the dog, I loved him dearly. My words are meant to be self defecating... did I mean depracating? That mornchip is over heating again.

I would agree with you Crossbones except for one big thing. It's gotten better since release. And between flying, forum, skinning and taking picks and updating with the many patches and spreading the good word I haven't played much else either. It rocks harder than ever!

Hey I just saw Gordon Ramsey cooking shepherds pie in the mess hall guys. We feast tonight!

Finally got my new dog and here he is. Have good laugh guys it's my first skinning attempt. It commemorates my last dog. He was a french bulldog named Jack. And true to the last pic he never met a tree he didn't like well enough to lift a leg on. I was able to skin this puppy thanks mainly to the fine tutorials that Gous made available for us. Thanks Gous! I'll try some more.

That about does it Lou, thanks so much. Best wishes, Jim

Thank you so much Lou, you are helping me a great deal to sort this out. Maybe kind of fun tho on this cold and cloudy day in Minnesota?

Wow, Lou that didn't take long, you know your stuff. Do you know buttons from uniforms? I have some of those and leaf pins. Here

Games are for kids don't you know. That's why I like to call OFF a sim. But if the little buggers played our game they would learn a thing or two about history. Maybe OFF BH&H should be in the college curriculum haha! By the way I am a gamer. I play playstation, xbox and whatever, so no snobbery from this 51 year old.

And one more

Lou, Here are 3 pics I can send more if you want to do this indicate where you want them sent please. The small victory medal ribbon has clasps for Aisne,Champaigne-Marne, Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel, Meusse-Argonne and Defensive Sector. If you don't have the time or inclination that's fine. Thanks, Jim

Reminds me of the Bald Eagles around here. They do amazing things in the air, grab each others talons, fly upside down, freefall and screaming like mad.

Very interesting. I envy your opportunity. Please do share your experience with us here. I know I would appreciate that. Best wishes.

Say Lou, it seems you know about medals. Back in "98 I bought a boxlot of WWI medals on ebay. I'm not sure what they all are. I have 2 victory medals and a pin that has wings with a propeller in the middle and there are many others. I am going to find out what they are and display them. My question to you is would it be wrong to clean off the tarnish and some of the silk ribbons have deteriated, would you know of a place to get new ribbon?

Very clever Catch. A new approach and exciting to watch. Fun stuff.

New things...... methinks toys for the boys.... oh joy!

As great as OFF is it just gets better all the time. Thanks for the information Paarma.

Very nice drawing. So much talent is found at Combat Ace. Thanks for sharing this. Are these the Poles that flew during the BOB? I'm no expert.

Well it was what seems a long time ago. As a matter of fact I was in the same Jasta as Udet. To the south. Not much action there during the period but I was able to come to grips with flying the EIII. I lost a lot of them at first.

Olham, Paul Baumer was indeed a top notch ace and seems to be a very good "virtual" pilot as well. He got hits on me immediately when we met, but I was lucky in that he only punched a few holes in my lower wing canvas. I was able to eventually turn inside him and got a good burst into his engine and cockpit which ended the fight. It seemed like it lasted forever but I imagine it was only two or three minutes. Well I'ld have been pissed. Someone, anyone trying to disfigure and generally cause harm to my spanking new dragon crate. The nerve of some people.

I think the landing of the sqaud would make for a nice change as part of someone's You Tube vid. I agree about going from the EIII to the Halb. I struggled my way through a long DiD EIII pilot and made it to the change to the Halb. So I thought the Halbie was just awesome by that time. Can't say I've ever used the gunsights very much. I do a lot of deflection shooting. Tracers are helping with that more lately. I must try to wait for the group landing with my current Roland CII pilot Dieter Siefert.

Well Duce you are right to a point. I would suggest though not to overlook any options. Rabu has the talent and I for one can afford the cost of some posters. I got wheels in my ass and will enjoy putting the posters up. Not much spent and no harm done so why not? I love my time with OFF so much I want to get the word out there. There are many things we can do. Let's just do it. Cover as many bases as possible. Oh... we have the bait. Do we have the determination? Best wishes.

Ja, der, die, das... I don't remember anymore...est tut mir leit. Anyway, you are back in your favorite crate.