Bullethead

I look forward to it. However, after finishing that skin I started on an naval Albatros. Doing some research for that, I've come to the conclusion that all the DFW's camo is wrong, both in color and arrangement. Apparently there's a lot of bad info out there, but it looks cool so most folks have accepted it, as I did when I made the skin. But Dan Abbott says it's all wrong and has the offical German Navy painting orders to back him up. So..... I guess I need to repaint the camo parts to be more accurate. It won't be as pretty, I'm afraid. Still, I like what it looks like now, and many folks think it's accurate or at least like it, too, so I suppose I'll leave it up as-is and just make a different version with the supposedly correct scheme.

VERY dramatic!

I've seen many similar things, but none quite that bad. I'm thinking a lot it is air-to-air shots and grount-to-air shots at 400m or so, but just too far away for you to "witness" it happening, so you just see the kill messages. But some of them also appear to be planes crashing on landing. This is one reason why I turned AI firing range to "easy", to eliminate the laser-guided shots at such huge ranges. Since then, I've seen a lot fewer mass kills like this.

I always saw a wide, blurred prop from day 1. Of couse, I'm usually full of "anti-freeze" when I fly so my vision might be a bit blurry, but I suggest that you've changed something in your graphics settings.

Damn, that is un-friggin'-sat. After all you've done for us and how cool this latest creation looks, I can't believe you didn't have your 10 guys in as many minutes. What happened to all the wannabe fighter pilots who are young, dumb and full of c**? I was laying back to let the young studs have their go. Kids these days...... Sheesh. OK, sign me up. Where youth's flightiness fails, old age and blooded-mindedness must, as usual.

I've killed beaucoup braincells since then, but IIRC this was something mentioned when OFF 1st came out. I vaguely recall having a similar issue but can't remember if it was the same type. HOWEVER, I think it was close enough to count. So, what you do is, go to Workshops and make sure you disable campaign skin error messages or some such thing. Then the game continues to run but you no longer get this sort of nag.

It would have to be 2-seaters, which weren't replaced with anywhere near the same regularity as scouts (and some were used well past their prime). I'd say the BE2, the FE2, and the DFW. The DFW/LVG family served from nearly the beginning to the end without enough change between the various models to really make much difference in game terms. Even the Fee continued to the end of the war as a night bomber. Again, 2-seaters. There were always more of them than scouts. Some that pop to mind are the Rumplers, the DH4, the FK8. Also, some twin-engine Caudrons.

File Name: DFW Naval Blue Hex File Submitter: Bullethead File Submitted: 26 Aug 2009 File Updated: 23 Oct 2009 File Category: Aircraft Skins A DFW skin in the blue version of the naval 3-color hexagon camo, for use by Marinekorps Flandern. This isn't any specific plane, but the paint scheme is based on 1 interpretation of German naval colors. The bogus aircaft number 3841 is my signature. That was my ID number in the old DOS MMOFS Air Warrior and I kept it through the years in Warbirds and Aces High. NOTE: Since making this skin, I have come to the conclusion that it's rather inaccurate in both colors and hex size. However, it looks cool so I decided to leave it up here for them as like it. Now includes text file with OBD credit for original skin. Click here to download this file

I'm sorry. "Ohlam" looks more German than "Olham", so I guess my subconscious just transposed the letters. High praise indeed! Thanks, sir. BTW, the download thingy is working again so I've put the blue DFW up just now. Once the mods OK it, you can have it.

What you really need there is an oil lamp that burns castor oil, set just upwind of the fan. Set the lamp's mixture pretty rich so most of the oil burns but not all of it, resulting in a heavy aroma of burnt castor oil with enough unburnt building up over time to burn your eyes after a while. NOTE: It's to do all this outside, so as not to get water and oil all over your carpet, drapes, etc. Power everything off an unmuffled gasoline emergency generator that hasn't been run in a month or two, so the partially gunked carburator makes the automatic choke open in close every few seconds, var-ROOMpoppoppop var-ROOMpoppoppop. Position the generator between the fan and your monitor, so you get the benefit of the exhaust and the fan noise doesn't muffle the generator. It's OK to set your in-game engine sound to zero if you do this :).

Bravo Fates & Co.! It's good to see the familiar puke stains and empty bottles on the mess(y) floor again

Yeah, the main thing OFF lacks is that it doesn't give the uncomfortably numb feeling of spending several hours above 15,000 feet on a winter day. You have to add that yourself. So chug about 3 fingers of neat whisk(e)y to simulate both the lack of O2 up there and the usual antifreeze of the aircrew, drape yourself in ice packs, and have a 48" shop fan blowing full speed on you from a couple feet away. If you're really hardcore, you rig the fan to a garden hose if it's a rainy day in the game . Personally, I just do the 3 fingers of whisk(e)y, which is why my realism rating is only 90% .

I may be wrong, but I think at least as many WW1 pilots died in non-combat accidents as in combat. Maybe he had a mechanical failure on the way home and crashed in some trees. Maybe he dweebed his landing. Maybe he got home OK from the mission but then got killed test-flying a machine that had just come out of the repair shop. Those sorts of things happened every day. I'm glad the campaign has such pointless wastage of human life--makes it feel more like WW1

Once again, bravo zulu on the support .

OK, here she is, muddy feet and all. NOTE: Ohlam just wants to see the front because he was my consultant on the nose color and what you see is his idea. The DFW 3D model has a problem in that the entire nose needs to be the same color due to some 3D vents on the nose being textured with their own piece of skin instead of using the main fuselage skin. In this naval scheme, the upper fuselage is dark gray and the sides are light blue, but the same vent skin would be in both areas so some of them wouldn't be the right color. So, you have 2 options skinning this beast. Either paint the whole nose some non-camo color as like a personal marking, or paint all the vents like bare metal on top of the camo colors. Ohlam and I decided the solid nose color looked best, and Ohlam like the black option best out of the several options I tried. Thanks. I haven't done a skin a several years so I'm a bit rusty. I'll do better next time . As soon as the download thingy of this forum is working again, I'll put this skin there. I, too, would like to see some German floatplanes for Marinekorps Flandern. I'm the meantime, I'm going to do some Albatri in either this scheme or the brown naval 3-color hex. Or perhaps the counter-tone version with the upper wing in blue and the lower wing in brown .

My 1st OFF skin, a DFW in the 3-color blue hex pattern of the naval planes. As such, I guess it should only be used by the naval bomber squadron. This isn't any specific plane, it's just the normal camo for planes that spent a lot of time over water.

#20 is the cockpit area of a Morane-Saulnier Type N "Bullet". The "Bullet" was roughly analogouse to the Eindecker, using a similar system of wing warping. The pylon in front of the cockpit is the leverage point of the wing warping cables. Its gun was NOT synchronized and there were usually deflector plates (an idea of Roland Garos) to protect the prop, but those are absent from this one. It's also armed with a Vickers instead of the usual Hotchkiss. This, combined with the absence of deflectors, makes me think this one served in the RNAS. It was powered by a 110hp Le Rhone 9J, not the 80hp type.

Sorry, but what with all this DFW talk, I can't resist showing this off even though it ain't finished. This is for Marinekorps Flandern. BTW, the DFW is the only 2-seater with a working bombsight for level bombing. Hit F7 to use it, then F6 to get out of it.

Yeah, she's usually in a fickle mood. But still audentes Fortuna iuvat; I'm living proof . I'm just glad to be able to take a shot at this one. The other bonus pics were over and done with before I knew they existed .

Well, let's see what Lady Luck has to say this time . The stuff I'm reasonably sure on: The item in the photo is an air valve for fuel management. One slide determines whether the air comes from the hand pump or the mechanical pump and the other slide determines which fuel tank the air pressure from the pump acts on. The thing I'm guessing on: This was installed in a Fee.

Yes, I knew the manufacturer, but I was less sure on the specific model than I was on the SVA picture, so I went with that one. Now I think I've got this one figured and am impatiently waiting until 1110 my time tomorrow when my 36 hours run out, meanwhile checking periodically for bonus questions (which I hope are more obscure in the future so I have a chance to answer them ). But in the interests of fair play, I'll buy all participants a drink to lubricate the thinking gears. This is a drink I learned from a complete sot in Southampton: one of those little bottles of Bass No. 1 barley wine topped up to a full pint with mild. Bottoms up!

Having had military discipline beaten into me for years, in my bomber campaigns I've been following orders and thus have mostly been doing boring observation hops. That's not why I joined a Schusta--leave that to the FFA boys. So, what I'm going to do now is, if the briefed mission doesn't involve bombing, I'm going to take my flight and a load of bombs and do some ground attack work along the front lines. If the boss doesn't like that, he can put me back in the infantry .

Bravo! Impressive blind shooting. Have you noticed how the observer's head tracks enemy airplanes? That's not only a cool tidbit thrown in by OBD, but it's actually rather helpful at times. But Geez, if I was the observer, I'd be leaning WAY over to the right , what with that stream of hot lead going by a few inches from my left shoulder .

Very nice movie . I bet, like me, you die in collisions a lot