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Love my Scottish History...my clan is the Moffats { yep bloody reivers again lol } altough , upon reading up, it seems they fought with Longshanks against Wallace but with Bruce on the fields of Bannockburn, used the 'Devils Beef Tub ' as the hideout..so it was their cattle that hid there lol Now what is interesting is that both Bruce and Wallace are Ayrshire born and bred { as I am } and before folks go on about Elderslie and Wallace being born there, Blind Harry's chronicles talked about him being born in Ellerslie { note the different spelling...Elderslie as a name didn't exist as a town until the 14th century I believe }. This is a part of Kilmarnock, where Wallace's uncle had a castle at Riccerton, although his father did own lands in Renfrewshire. Many of his deeds were commited in Ayrshire { if true that is }...for instance, he had a small skirmish at Irvine { not far from where I was born }, the barn incident was at Ayr, where he also attacked the local English garrison, he also had a victory at Loudon Hill, just outside Kilmarnock, where the mid march and west march were connected.. There was a monument at Knadgerhill in Irvine,where various stories show up, which are true can only be guessed...one being that Wallace setup camp before fighting the English at the ford over the River Irvine...although I think this story is probably more true

Guild of Aviation Artists..here is the web site :)..... There are some fantastic aviation paintings...and a lot of wonderful WWI stuff. Either use the gallery section, or the advanced search function. Hope you enjoy it :) http://www.gava.org.uk/

I know Al personally, we are in the Northern Region of the GAvA together....and I have to say, that painting is even better in the 'flesh'. He had it at the meeting about 2 years ago...his stuff is always great as he says..'' I love to paint the aircraft that usually don't get painted''..Keep posting paintings..I love em :)

Thanks for the replies...I'll soften up the shadow later today..these are the type of things you miss when your head is stuck in the drawing for weeks :)

Took a while but overall Im very happy with it. 2B pencil on 300gsm smooth card, 20" x 17" approx.

Thanks you so much for the kind words, unfortunately, I have'nt anywhere to view my work, they are scattered over the web lol. Hopefully, this piece will be selected for this years annual exhibition of the Guild of Aviation Artists { I'll keep my fingers crossed :) }

hi folks, been really busy upgrading my operating system to win 7 and working as much time as I can on the Charlie drawing, needless to say, it doesn't leave much time for forums etc, anyways, hope to have the drawing done by the tail end of next week.

Thank you :)

Lol..yep..I usually forget to post them...here is the Fokker completed, some things Im not happy with, but its a learning curve. :)

Short story with the details.. I play NHL 10 on the 360 online, we have a team that play with each other against human opponents.. a new guy joined about a month ago called Charlie. His in game player was called C. Nungesser. I thought I recognised the name and asked one of the others if he was a hockey player , as I knew the name from somewhere! Well, the answer was a resounding no....when Charlie came back on I asked him { I had remembered by that time that Nungesser was a WW1 pilot } why he had named his player C Nungesser, was that after Charles Nungesser of WW1 fame? He said yes it was the WW1 pilot..and his reason...well it turns out it was his Great Uncle. Quite a character if I may add... http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/france/nungesser.php Anyways, the latest drawing is of Great Uncle Charlie and so far Im quite happy with the way its going...

''1)OFF HitR does demand more GPU memory - if you experience any graphics issues/freezes please reduce either your scenery slider one notch or goto workshops and if you can select a lower Ground Object Density... reduce by one....'' I found that the frame rate is killed by the shadows in game, take me from 60fps to below 40 when enabled...running a gtx 260 with 1.8gb onboard memory..are they being looked at to be optimised in future patches?

Thanks for the input, now to try and fix it before its to late :)

Hi folks..been a while since I been on...just popping this up to have a quick critque from the folks that know..its now on its fifth attempt and is driving me nuts!! anyways, poor photo, but you'll get the idea.

Left school at 16 and joinned an explosives factory as an Instrument Artificer..been one ever since..nearly 28 years, currently working in the local paper mill.

Thanks folks, most appreciated...I'll post back when there is some progress.