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Hard to imagine that the main spar of an Albatros would break under such an impact from a wheel, that is still intact enough for Böhme to land the aircraft. Would a lost port aileron be enough damage to make the landing so hard for Boelcke? For an injury at the back of the skull I have only 2 ideas. 1. Seeing the heavy wet clay ground, Boelcke might have ducked all the way down, 'till his head was on his knees, expecting a terrible impact. So there would have been the chance, that the back of his head hit the machine guns ends. 2. When the plane headed over, he might have got hurled out of the cockpit, hitting a field stone. Such (often rounded) stones are left overs from the last ice age. You find them in northern Germany, Belgium, and northern France. The farmers removed the larger stones from the fields, but stones small enough to not threaten the ploughing (up to the size of a human head) were often left in the fields. Not sure, if a third way could be possible: the hitting of the metal radiator.

Nice shots, Dutch! WOFF is a sim that is using only 1 CPU core - no matter if your CPU has 2, 4 or 6 cores. Maybe the performance on your AMD's CPU cores was higher per single core, while the INTEL has MORE cores? Then the INTEL would be generally faster, but not per single core.

This place here is maximum comfort, and like a holiday for the eyes.

Stressful, Lou, to be honest. Maybe I'm getting too old for port battles, where the Yankees have their best daylight time - while for the Dane I play, it is 02:28 h after midnight... Maybe I'm trying too hard to win it singlehandedly again? (Well, thanks to such people, we are doing quite well for such a small NATION...) Let's wait for Hauksbee and Hasse - but if they don't appear in 15 minutes, we will walk over to the bar. No Lagavulin here nor anything near that origin, but I have discovered a chest with 6 bottles of Loch Lomond under the bar desk, which I guess will do nicely under war conditions.

You guys are SOOO silly - but nice to see you, gents! Come to the bar - I'll buy the drinkies! Large booksize and high quality paper for such works like Pieters' allow firstly one great thing: high-quality and large-enough print of images and profiles.

Ha, I KNEW you had more pics witj Moritz, Jim - thanks for sharing!

There are photos of that last morning, where the other flyers "played" with big Moritz - they had tied some tin cans to his tail. MvR was usually not amused, when they played such dirty tricks on the big dog, but this morning he was overlooking it and laughing with them. Maybe JFM comes round here - he may have such pics with Moritz. Here is one more...

Yeah, those windows might look good enough as a texture only?

Yes, when we have Roucourt, I will fly a looong Jasta 12 campaign with the "Black Tails"! I'll send them the card.

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attilla - Portugal, Europe All the maps are in post #1 of this thread

Maybe you add a reddish tint - to the colour. I wish we had colour photos from those days!

Hauksbee, this looks amazing! Great job! I guess we should show it to Pol, before they start building it themselves! One correction though - I guess it won't be hard to do: the roof was higher, before it was burnt down at the end of WW1. Here is a postcard. Ignore the wrong-looking name - it is the "Chateau de Roucourt".

We mean the same thing, Geezer. Thx for the links!

These are also okay, Hauksbee - if you just remember to make them brighter than in the close-up; cause all more distant objects appear brighter and less dynamic than close on.

Well, it might have been yellowish, Hauksbee - mine is only a guess also, based on what I've seen in the 70s and 80s in France. They might have been painted differently back in 1914... Here is a variety of Chateaus today... https://www.google.de/search?q=chateau+france&biw=1760&bih=847&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjczefuuNTOAhXH3iwKHduqBAkQsAQI0gE

Gee - does the top photo mean, these two bullets really hit each other? What a rare thing that must be! Although - may they fired so many projectiles in that war...

Hey, Hauksbee, that is a great job you have done with the 3D model of the Chateau! As for the colouring: we can of course only guess, what it might have looked like, so I can only try to help with my "Mid-European Eye & Knowledge". I have seen many chateaus in Germany and France, and they often use similar colours. The paintjobs on such buildings are rather reserved and less colourful and dynamic than for example Italian ones. So I suggest here what I have seen in France, as i remember it. Walls in "light ivory", roof covered with slate. The glass house could be made in a grey-blue colour - the dynamics would probably be done by ANKOR's shaders.

Hauksbee, I guess you'll read this. I have finally come to the decision, that I would like to try to build at least some buildings for historical airfields in WOFF. I'd love to do the Chateau at Roucourt, so the whole airfield could be made. There are tutorials in YOUTUBE, which may be useful. Could you guide me to the free GMAX download site, Hauksbee? And would you like to make a collaboration of such projects still? Shredward had asked in the other forum, if anyone would build Chateaus and other landmarks for WOFF. Perhaps something for you?

To Hauksbee: Could we start a PM about making a 3D building? I'd like to give it a serious try now, so we can get on with two or three airfield mods we have in the make.

Flying Venetian blind - Mmuahahahahaaa!!! I call them "Flying BILLY rack" (Copyright: IKEA). The skins of the Fokker D.VII look much improved by OvS, me thinks!

Hauksbee moved to Wisconsin.

Hayle55 - Texas, USA All the maps are in post #1 of this thread

Indeed - all those victories achieved by ugly-looking aircraft...!