Olham

Found this picture of an Albatros in flight - but there was no info with it, if the photo was made in the Great War. Does anyone know more about this picture?

Congrats, old boy! Perhaps you write a neat install description for CFS3, OFF, TrackIR etc. on Win7 (64); for sooner or later many of us will go there.

My MFJ-1 skin has a Naval Hex Camo, Creaghorn - quite different. The photo shows a top wing camo very unusual - it is upper surface Lozenge AND undersurface Lozenge. Also, the elevator is undersurface Lozenge, while the tailplane is upper surface Lozenge. Dan San Abbott said he hadn't seen anything like that elsewhere.

Thank you, chaps! It's like everything else you really want to do - you work yourself into it like a worm into an apple - so to say. In case you really want to try it yourself, there is a very good tutorial by Gous in the skinning section here: http://combatace.com/topic/38522-off-advanced-skinning-tutorial/page__view__findpost__p__263130 Or you just wait - RAF_Louvert, Widowmaker, nbryant, Bullethead, Beanie and others will come up with new skins every now and then. You must be quite occupied doing videos, Hellshade - and I thank you for those; many are really excellent.

Lou, I wonder how you read a number from this picture? Not bad, Creaghorn - Dan San-Abbott of The Aerodrome has the same oppinion. Here is what he wrote: http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/aircraft/49612-original-albatros-photo-great-war.html

I'm with Widowmaker here. I mean, I could and would make a sightseeing walk through a submarine in a harbour, but if it came to diving in it... The film "Das Boot" keeps me nailchewing for most of the time. You are right about the relatively comfortable space and food they had, Streakeagle - it's that being buried and not to know, if you will be found, and then even rescued, that makes it a terrible wait.

Congrats, Cobra!!!! You will have fun this weekend - even if it's going down burning!

HPW: And watch out for that chap, Widowmaker--he has quite the reputation with the ladies! With that name - Mmuahahahahahahaaaa!!!!!

Being a person who gets slightly claustrophobic in lifts, I really felt with them, down there in the dark for two months. And I thought of the horror to be imprisoned in a small rescue capsule for 12 - 20 minutes, getting slowly pulled up through a tunnel of only 3 feet in diameter - hell, they have something to digest now. But now they are back with the ones they love, under our beautiful sky and the shining sun. Good they made it!

If you didn't change anything, a very first thing to try might be to take the router off power for a minute. After that re-plug it, and it may have reset itself.

Yes, thanks for the tip, Wayfarer; I'll try there too. Had hopes, that someone here might know.

Just had a funny moment. Flying my new skin design with Jasta 35, I had to attack De Moeren airfield. I was quite happy to see two Triplanes out of the hangars, which I could shoot to pieces. But then I hardly could do it: one Triplane was painted with my Darkblue/Silver Triplane skin I had done months ago. That was a nice surprise!

Yes, it's a very beautiful Nupe, Lou!

The Bordeauxred Baron looks up "haughty" and "vernacular" in his dictionary, but he still doesn't understand the doubtful tone. Hihi, yes, the Hollywood-style "Bordeauxred Baron" fancies himself as being a terribly good (deflection) shot. He must be like that to make the best of the fact, that he is standing against most of the world's armies.

"Ah, ssank you fore zee inveetashion, Herr Richards! Alzough ziss muszt have been a comerade of mine, I vill follow your requeszt - a good opportunity to practiss some deflectshion shootink on der Scout Experimental square shapez. I vill try nott too hurt you, butt der S.E.5a vill need new fabrick and new colour to hold it togezzer again, after vee finished. Mmuahahahahahahahaaaaaa!!!!"

On the Albatros, the top wing halfs are somehow overlapping each other. I had designed a red triangle with the peak ending at the wing's forward edge, but I got a shorter one. Must work on that again, too.

Oh, you Liverpudlians I knew the meaning of "scouser" (the other one explained it some time ago), but still missed the "e". It's corrected now.

Actually, I found the SPAD XIII rather "friendly" to skinners. But on some planes, the 3D body distorts the skin a lot. And on the Albatros D.II, a bit will get cut out and left away. Now that is fun to find out where and how!

nbryant, your Nupe looks very good - I like how the roundels just shine through the top wing camo. Are these guys you name not already in OFF - or are they from Squadrons we don't have yet? (I'm not so well informed about the French departement). Lou, I had thought the Brisfit would be easy, as square as it is? Not? I have found, that Pearson's profile is wrong, in that it presents a top, that doesn't match with the fuselage sides. First I thought I'd start all over again, but now I don't know, wether the top view or the side view is right, and so I will just carry on with what I have. The tail section is extremely distorted on the 3D model, and a real PITA.

Oh dear - now we have gone completely off topic - Widowmaker wanted to bring some light of joy into our autumn days, and now we got to the massakers of Nanking. (I admit, I didn't click and watch it - I know too much of such things already, Flyby, and it brings up deep depression in me to watch that). Sorry, Widow - next time I won't start it again.

Shrapnel, 10 $ are nothing compared to the fun you could have - do you have Scottish ancestors? The TAC is a kind of radar, switched on and off with Ctrl. + T (at least as I have it configured). See: Controls

Masterly flying, shooting, directing and cutting, Hellshade. Only question that remains open: seeing your flying style, I ask myself, how often you collide???

Thank you for the head-ups and comments, guys. And to get back to "funny" - here is an excerpt from "To be or not to be". ...and a "Nazi-free" bit of the same movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=i9zaMlFrHGs&feature=related

Not sure if it was on TV here - I missed many evening series; mostly watched TV only after 8. Sounds interesting. What really stirred me up was the Lagerkommandant Amon Göth as played by Ralph Fiennes in "Schindler's List". A man with a sympathic, almost melancholic face, absolutely torn between his wish to be good sometimes, and then so absolutely bestial, that he kills Jews during the morning line up, just for fun before breakfast. That man was a monster, that makes Frankenstein look like a guy you could be friends with. Such people can disturb and freeze me to the roots. And - although I know such badly warped sadists exist anywhere else too - it is very painful to know he was a German; maybe even with a good education, with taste and some style. So many from my own fatherland have done so unspeakable godless things - it is a trauma to know that. Sorry for bringing in this mood here, Widowmaker - it's not your fault, and you often bring a smile into my days.

Your dad was right there, Widowmaker - best working man's recepy. An encouraging comedy film I really love, against the Nazis, is Ernst Lubitsch's "To be or not to be" ; a masterpiece of how to make resistence with what you can do best. In this case: acting. They make fools of the blockheads, without using any violence.