Bullethead

Damn, Olham, that hand-painted swirl job must have taken you a while to do!

Pretty cool. He must have been off away from where the main lines stood and died in heaps, so was missed when they came around picking up the bodies a few days later.

I'm quite flattered. Glad you like it. But please don't scratch the paint. That took me a couple of days to do :)

File Name: BH_DFW_CV_KuK_2-Tone_Hex.zip File Submitter: Bullethead File Submitted: 05 September 2012 File Category: Aircraft Skins Another KuK skin for the DFW C.V. I made this for House Hobbit's Italian mission pack. Fuselage factory painted with 2-tone hex-edged bands. Rest of plane hastily sprayed in field. Based on a UFFAG-made Brandenburg C.I from 1918. Click here to download this file

Looking good, HH and Olham! Here's a contribution from me, another KuK-style DFW skin. This one ain't pretty but it's fairly typical of late-war paintjobs. It's based on late-series Brandenburg C.I built by UFFAG (not to be confused with OeFFAG) in mid-1918. The fuselage sides seem to have been neatly painted at the factory with the hex-edged 2-tone scheme common at the time. However, the wings and tail surfaces seem to have arrived at the front unpainted except for the insignia. Or maybe they were taken from another plane that wasn't painted at all. In any case, somebody at the Flik went crazy on it with a spray gun, not taking much care to blend out his spray passes and not caring that the crosses were in the way.

Looks like you're off to a good start. I'll be making some more DFW skins for this.

I've volunteered to make some more KuK DFW skins for this project. It would be nice of folks who already have templates for various other planes could do KuK and/or Italian skins for them. There'd be a definite need for SPADs, various Nupes, Camels, Strutters, and perhaps even SE5s and Hannovers. I'm thinking that the SE5 is probably the closest match in flight characteristics to the Aviatik D.I and it would look cool in a hex paintjob ;).

I look forward to seeing it, Stump

Tbanks again.

:deadhorse: :deadhorse: SimQH totally sucks compared to this place. No avatars, no reply to PMs asking to upload files, not even a friggin' "jump to new posts" button. What a friggin' dump. Can we PLEASE move back here? Please please please?

Here ya go . If you'd like some more, keep talkin' ;). On Stumpjumper's stuff, I see various planes available here but I see no Italian landmass. Is that already there in the game or do you have to also get the map? But what I'm most interested in is things like the flight, damage, and sound models. In the README for "HPW Combined FM and AI EW Mod 2.2 for JSGME", I came across the following rather disconcerting note: I don't much like the sound of this. Is this something you have to do every single flight? And is this all worth the trouble? It would be nice to fly the Pfalz and Eindecker without them just falling out of the sky for now reason :)

Thanks Lou. Whatcha drinkin'? I know the Italian Front isn't a campaign thing, I was just wondering where to find it and how it works.

But how does that serve the interests of either the devs or the customers? This is insane. SimQH is totally inadequate in basic forum features, let alone the widely recognized moderation issues there. BTW, funny how this place won't let either of us type Sim Aitch Queue in the proper order. I edited my post several times trying to fix the apparent typo before I realized this forum wouldn't let me blaspheme by mentioning that other abominable place.

Amazing model, Elephant! Looks like Lt. Othmar Wolfan's ride. It was one of the unusual ones where the pilot actually had a small amount of forward visibility ;).

Ah yes, the infamous naval hex. That's what the model has, using colors hashed out at the Aerodrome with Dan San. I skinned the DFW and D.VII with that. As I understand things, naval hex was only 3 colors. If the hexagons were regular (and usually large), they were hand-painted. There is some evidence that there was a pre-printed version as well, using the same 3 colors more or less, but the hexagons were smaller and scewed slightly out of regularity by being stretched at an angle. However, on the fabric, all hexagons were the same size and shape. The pattern by itself above the model uses 5 colors. All the shapes are hexagons but all their sizes and shapes are different. I've seen that pattern before but I can't remember where. I don't think it's naval and it doesn't match the usual shapes of army lozenge patterns, either 4- or 5-color. Ah, finally we get to see the infamous purple triplane. That's pretty cool :). What were you drinking when you came up with that idea? Hehehe, that sounds hideous :)

@ Lou Yup, very much like that Nupe and various other fish-themed planes. Only cooler ;). @ JFM The worst skinning atrocity I ever committed, that actually got out in public, was for the MMOFS Aces High. It was for one of my squaddies who was a mailman and liked Hurricanes. Most folks thought it a very bad joke but my squaddie loved it. The kill marks under the cockpit are UPS logos....

@Widowmaker Yeah, no matter how I arranged the colors, I always ended up something looking more like a bristro tablecloth than a fish. So... after sleeping on this, I'm going to forget camo and go straight-out fish. In fact, I'm thinking of using the golden shades of your favorite carp with some tweeks to make the whole look more fishy. The Halberstadt fuselage is rather fish-shaped, which is what inspired me to try fish scale camo in the 1st place.

I look forward to seeing it. And if you need any skins made for it, let me know :).

The course could be completed in less than 1/2 hour by such planes. They had no more fuel than that and skin-tight radiators only worked with fast air flowing over them. So it was start the engine, spend the minimum time making sure it was hitting on all cylinders, and then full speed ahead. Essentially a drag race of seaplanes.

Yup, that's the one. Simply an amazing machine, built solely to go REALLY FAST for a short period of time. Look at how practically the entire surface, even the struts, is radiator. That must have been the very Devil to plumb and keep from leaking. And what about filling the cooling system and getting all the air bubbles out? But all it had to do was keep the engine from overheating for a few minutes :)

I was just perusing Wings Pallete for new skin ideas and I came across this: http://img.wp.scn.ru/camms/ar/151/pics/9_8.jpg Tempting, very tempting.....

Damn, I feel an Otto Prohaska moment coming on.. Makes me want to stand up and sing "Gott Erhalte Franz den Kaiser" :).

I've been wondering the same thing :)

Great story! I really liked those Macchi racers, especially the later version with 2 engines in tandem. Also note how nearly the entire wing surface is radiator :)