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So the Alb is already delivered? Must check my E-mail then! I find your colours too "pastel" (? - bright and soft), Lou. Perhaps more contrast and darkness? But you're right - we'll probably never know. Thanks for the "5 degrees" reminder - I had forgotten. Must change it all over again.

The Germans like to standardise everything, but I don't know for WW1 colours. In WW2, there where the RLM Colours (Reichsluftfahrtministerium); behind that the gigantic industrial enterprise IG Farben. Their camo colours where named RLM 75 for example, and they seem to be identical with the nowadays RAL colours - the same tone has the name RAL 7500 there. Notice the 75 in it's new name. What I'll do next now, is compare the Munsell Naval Colour Chart with a RAL Chart. I would not be surprised, if I could find the same tones in there still.

A friend of mine looked me in the eyes ernestly, and said, he had just seen a report about computer game addiction among young people. I replied: Well, no danger for me then.

Indeed, UncleAl! But much nicer than "mad cow disease" (although - for others sometimes similar).

Searching for trophy pics, I found this great site: www.jasta5.org And there was a pic of a trophy, Jasta 5 made for MvR. http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jasta5.org/Jagdstaffeln_5/images/misc/MvRTrophy.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jasta5.org/Jagdstaffeln_5/red_baron_j5_history.htm&usg=__uAY-k9LbI02sncnvBTi3_LShAk0=&h=2816&w=2112&sz=528&hl=de&start=32&tbnid=LvvvLfQFHSAp8M:&tbnh=150&tbnw=113&prev=/images%3Fq%3DTrophy%2Bvon%2BRichthofen%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Dde%26sa%3DN%26start%3D18

Someone must have given some Russian a good amount of money then, I guess?

Welcome, Firecage You are on the map already - now you can't step back anymore, pilot! If you have family, spend as much time with them as any possible - they may not see you much no more, once OFF has arrived. You should read the "Tips & Tricks" sticky above, and the FAQs on the website www.overflandersfields.com Oh, and if you are wearing glasses - clean them. You may see the real specs in the sky better.

I'm still trying to get the German Marinekorps hex camo colours better. I have checked Dan San Abbott's fabric samble photo again, and took up the colour info of several more pixels; so I came to a different value. Of course you can come up with lots of varieties, but it is interestingly darker in it's appearance; maybe more like on some b&w pics? I attach it here - feel free to judge about it.

Update 08/30/09 13:40 Berlin time (GMT +2) Firecage, Oklahoma, added. (Okyone, now you're not lonely there anymore more) the maps are in post 1 of this thread

RedDog, you can also use the "lasso" (set on: straight lines). With that tool, I do a "choice field" first; when that looks right from its angles and proportins, I save the choice (give it a name, to find it again), so I can reload it later. A choice can be moved, when you first click on the first tool (rectangle choice), and then press the arrows for left , right, up, down. A choice can also be transformed; go to "choice", "transform choice", then to there, where you find "transform", and now you can transform it there (distort, enlarge, turn etc.). Now I don't know, if your Photoshop would use my English words, sorry - I can only try to give you ways. The "choice" means an area, marked by an interrupted scribbly line. Very important: always choose the right tools, otherwise you do undesired things. But in "windows" (in the top bar), you can open "protocoll" or "report" or how you call it. In there, you can always make many steps undone by pulling them down into that little dustbin. Maybe for "choice" they use "sample"? Don't know...

Mine is pure phantasy, but looks good.

Hm - I always seemed to find wrong info on the S.E.5a then. In my chart it is even faster than the SPAD XIII? The Aldiss sight isn't my problem - those struts looking like a headover "V" are. But I'll give that N17 a try. Are they assigned with "Lewis", when I choose an Esc. for campaign?

Perhaps you want to try the Albatros DII, Roger? Flying the Imperial "Dark" Forces side? The Nupes are not my cuppa for one main reason: the terrible sight. You have that triangle (N 17?), or a kinda protection screen in front of you. They are nice for flying, but terrible for fighting IMHO. If you want turn fights, the Imperial Luftwaffe can offer you the Fokker Dr.1 (nothing turns better), and the DVII (best overall fighter). My beloved Albatros versions II and III are good, when they are new designs - a mix of boom&zoom and turn fighter. When you can shoot precise, they are a great weapon with their two machine guns. On the Entente side, you should try the early Sopwith Pup (very nimble, good climb), the incredible Triplane (extreme turnfighter). the S.E.5a (fastest fighter, good for turning and boom&zoom, two guns). And the Camel anyway. I am curious how the later Nupes will be sight-wise; maybe more to my taste.

He said it in the first post, Stump: Animation Master.

Hasse Wind, here is a book from AMAZON Germany - still 65,- Euro; not cheap. http://www.amazon.de...l/dp/381320541X And a website of the Seeflieger (interesting the craft list from 1914): http://www.seeflieger.de/geschichte/geschichte6.php

A very special design. Here are two pics with sources. www.directart.co.uk www.marineflyverforeningen.dk

I read somewhere, that the artillery was often guided by two-seaters, directly from the air. Now, they had no radios. So, how did they do it? Did they use flags? Did they wip with their wings? Does anyone know that?

Indeed, Lou, they where! Even without historical knowledge, simply from flying OFF, you must realise the immense step, aviation made in only four years of war - from a kite like the Eindecker to powerful aircraft like the SPAD XIII or the DVIII. Thank you all again - a lot of detail knowledge around here.

Rumor has it, that underwater there is tons of Nazi Gold still today, but where ??? People are always searching for treasures. But what would you do, if you had lots of gold? Sink it in a lake? Or put it into bank safes in Switzerland? There are treasure maps from the old pirates. Many people searched and still search for them. But why should they still be there? If I had been a British king or queen, when those maps first appeared, I would have sent out the right men to bring those treasures home. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the book "Treasure Island". He was from a familiy of engineers; they built lots of lighthouses for Britain. When you search for a treasure, it would be good to have engineers on board. And when the treasures are yours, you hand the maps out to the world again, to wipe out the traces, that could lead to you. People love secrets. Secret maps. Ideas of treasures. But treasures rarely ever get lost from those, who are the mighty ones. Just an idea...

Wow, RedDog, you got the connection from side pattern to back pattern very good! Do you see chess boards now? Lol!

Well, now Arizona can stand together. There are OFF Pilots there - could you help Roger?

Great model, Hauksbee, right colours or not - they look believeably "German colour style" to me.

Wow - great works, Sandbagger! In future, more and more will discover the SPAD in BHaH, I'm sure.

Roger, you could try the "CFS3 reset" or the "OFF reset" button, to elininate the mistake. Not sure, if it will help. But if you use those, the pilots are all erased, and you may have to do some settings again.

This sounds like hell in the sky there! Which Jastas do the 148th have to face in mid 1918?