Olham

The complicated game of the graphic designers (Lol!!!) But really - in our job, there often is so much to change and change again, that you can quickly overlook some bad mistakes. I know that too well.

Wolfar, I have in similar occasions put my flight member names in, PLUS: ground crew of Bertincourt airfield (for example). I can't tell, if it really helps to get accepted, but in my case, they where. Also put in: type of craft, Squadron (if known), time, location.

Field modificashionz arr vell allowed, Herr Leutnant, but "mid air modificashionss" ?!?!?! Next time you ask your Mechaniker! We need EVERY pilot - even foolz like you!!!

Great stuff, Canvas! Now, of course, I must enlist in Cappy, at the time, when the great MvR did his last flight! (Many others will have similar ideas now! Lol!!)

Makes sense - never thought about the "missing bullets" through synchronisation. So, my two guns would then fire similarly slow each, but added together, be more effective?

Found these data in Wikipedia about them: VICKERS Rate of fire: 450–600 shots per minute Caliber: 0.303 Effective range: 800 m LEWIS Rate of fire: 500-600 shots per minute Caliber: 0.303 Effective range: 1000 m

Great build, Hauksbee! And an interesting shape of a plane, and good colouring! But the left picture seems to show aircraft without pilots, and their numbers are mirrored. Secret weapons of the Luftwaffe?

As one of the members of Can-O-Worms Inc. I had to do it - sorry, WomenFly2!

Just had a tough fight with your colleagues from Esc.86 Damn hard to fight those agile craft with an Albatros, and I was lucky, it was a DIII. They where 12, coming down on us 5. A hell of a fight. (see "Reports from the front) Your question I can't answer though.

Hmmm - somehow, the pilot looks like Jammer...?

Reading Jim's post "17 hours", it seemed to me, that getting into Campaign may not be an obvious procedure for everyone. So I thought, I write it down here for all, who only used QC so far. When you start the sim, you see several words at the bottom of the screen. There are: Leave - Pilot Dossiers - Campaign - Missions - Quick Combat - Multiplayer - Credits - Workshop Now, you click Pilot Dossiers and create a pilot there. [You can choose nationality, Squadron, time in war, and your rank to start with] Then, you leave. Now, you are at the start screen again and click Campaign. From here, you get into your first real campaign briefing. Read all at the right about your mission. Check the total flight distance and choose a right amount of fuel (best is for twice the way). You can reject a flight route by clicking optional flight, or you can click advance time, to get a different mission type. (For this, manual "time advance" must be allowed in "Workshop"). If you have more than one pilot, you must activate the one you want to fly with, in "Pilot dossiers", by clicking on "make active" below.

Perhaps rather some country side in Flanders or the Marne region - you could visit some of the villages where they had aerodromes, and the fresh air would do you good. PS: whereever you go - have a nice holiday, Widow!

More skins from Jasta 28w, Wasquehal. Albatros DIII - Erwin Wenig - 4 victories - Jasta 16, FA9b, Jastas 28w, 65 - Jafu Jasta 80b Albatros DIII - Karolus Baerenfaenger - 1 victory - Jastas 28w, 76b, Schonger

Great addition - thanks, Bullet.

Three more from Jasta 28w, Wasquehal, 1917 Albatros DIII - Karl Bolle - Victories: 36 - Jasta 2, 28, Kasta 23, KG 4 Albatros DIII - Max Ritter von Müller - Victories: 36 - FA 1, Jasta 2, 28, KEK B - KIA Jan. 1918 Albatros DIII - Franz Ray - Victories: 17 - Jasta 1, 28, 49

To add another story about colours in combat: the Germans had painted their Afrika Corps tanks in some dirty sand-like ockre. But at the various stages of sunlight, they would appear darker sometimes in front of the surrounding sand. The British found a better colour, that was looking rather absurd for a military vehicle: they chose Pink. And the Landrovers of the desert rats got the nick name "Pink Panthers". But it reflected the sunlight at any time of day so, that the vehicle fitted almost invisibly into the background.

It would be much more complex and complicated than that, WomenFly2. So, I had realised, that the underside grey-blue of German WW2 craft looked pretty dark from close on. But then I made 50x 50 cm proofs, and put them 10 m, 25 m, and 50 m away. The further away they were, the brighter and shinier they became. Also important, whether the colour was applied on metal or canvas, and if another colour was overpainted (shining through effect). And another point: in which angle to the sun the colour is seen. A colour is just a material, that reflect light of a certain frequency - very difficult to match.

Well, if you took a wrong way, and had a Qick Combat mission instead the real campaign, you could easily end up the wrong side of the line, cause in QC you can choose all this. And when it was on "German" so to say, you would fly a German craft then. I think, you could even choose other German craft as opponents there, but I'm not sure.

Hi, Dej - thanks for the link to the FS colours. In that site, it was possible to enter other numbers and check the colours as well. And so I entered the FS equivalent number for the colour RLM Red. It was almost looking the same. I have always thought, that in those early days of industy, they would only have had small variety of colours, and wouldn't have changed it much from 1918 - 1939. RLM 23 Rot (FS 31136) is almost identical to the number you sent. I believe, this is the colour, that was painted on MvR's Fokker.

The "Deutsches Museum" (German Museum) in Munich has an exhibition until September, in which they compare painting from Paul Klee with camouflage and markings of German war aircraft. It seems, they found a lot of Klee's art after WW1 was directly inspired by his service time in Schleissheim, where he had to do paint jobs on warcraft. The airframe in the picture is a freshly painted craft, loaded on a train for it's transport to the front service. http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http...sa%3DN%26um%3D1 So, all skinners are in good company of a famous artist - who sais, skinning wasn't art?

I have only overflown the text, as it was rather long, but I think he only did the "factory default" things. One of his diary text said: "Overpainted numbers; stenciled new ones." but that craft on the photo is delivered to the front with a painting on it, and in such (rather rare) cases, he might well be the artist. I assume, that in those days, monitary assistance came from regional dukes, or industrial barons; like this: "Mein Kaiser - let me make my contribution to this war, by making the Empire a present of 20 Albatros fighters, from my own private whealth, to help to win the war!" Now, if we assume, the son of some duke enters some Jasta, and his dad "sponsored" his craft anyway, he might have had the right connections to get his craft pre-painted already in the factory. I hope, OvS and Paarma correct me, if they know, it wasn't possible?

Yes, Hasse Wind - we tend to imagine those early cultures as far less developed, and those ages as darker, than they really where. The Romans already had floor heating in their villas. And at the time of Hermann/Armin, which was the same time as Jesus', there was a wide span of trade and shipping - I often think, the world wasn't that much different from today. And how much would one find from our cultures, 2000 years later?

Dudley - do you know any links to the colour reference you mention? I can't find any. Does anyone know, what the seat metal is? Is it steel? And how much bulletproof would that be? (Or not...)

Hey, Jim Here's the way again. When you start the sim, you see several words at the bottom of the screen. There are: Leave - Pilot Dossiers - Campaign - Missions (and more) Now, you click "Pilot Dossiers" and create a pilot there. Then, you leave. Now, you are at the start screen again and click "Campaign". And from here, you get into your first real campaign flight. You can reject a flight route by clicking "optional flight", or you can click "advance time", to get a different mission type. (For this , manual "time advance" must be allowed in "Workshop"). Hope, you'll get in there now - your comrades are waitning. Cheers; Olham Edit/PS: if you have more than one pilot, you must activate the one you want to fly with, in "Pilot dossiers"

I was under the impression from some old Roman historian (I forget which) that a few years later, the Romans went back, gathered up all the identifiably Roman bones they could find scattered about the ground, and burned them. Thus, I've been curious as to whether the excavations verified this somehow. Yes. After old Roman reports, another Roman High officer returned 5 or 6 years after the battle, and collected and buried the bones. Graves of Roman bones where found there now, and they proof the former theory, as they show teeth marks from animals, that must have eaten from the dead bodies, when they where still on the surface. I will search for a good site about the exhibition, and add it here later. Edit: here it is - and even in English: http://www.kalkriese-varusschlacht.de/