Olham

Here are some photos of shell pockmarks - Douaumont, and two pics from the Verdun area in winter. They almost look to me like Pollock's modern art; or like an art of war. (I turned Douaumont 180 °, cause it looked headover through the shadows and lighting the other way). The source was this great website here: http://albindenis.fr...cadrille005.htm

Yes, indeed. After the 8 days of preparing shelling day and night before the first Battle of the Somme, A British Major said later, that they had not expected to find anyone alive to fire back. But there were still plenty of German soldiers. It is incredible, when I look at pictures of Passchendaele, or Fort Douaumont - that there were still souls alive down there.

View File Albatros D.V (early) Skin for Jasta 10 For this Albatros I have made a new Mauve-Green camo. JFM wrote to me, that the darker tone on the B+W photos was most likely the green; so I used Fokker's dark green here. Then I made a slightly lighter Mauve after the tone used in the Lozenge patterns. Wether it is historically correct or not - I liked what I had got. I used it on an early Albatros D.V - that is the originally delivered version with the headrest. This was later mostly removed by the Jastas for better vision, and finally given up by Albatros. But I wanted to fly one of these with an own skin, and here it is for all to use now. Jasta 10 was one of the four Jasta of "Richthofen's flying Circus" (Jasta 4, Jasta 6, Jasta 10 and Jasta 11) - they were always in the thick of it. When they had the D.V they were in northern Flanders. So, if you want a lot of action, this skin could be the right one to use. Enjoy! Many thanks to the OBD Skinners, who created the immense output of over 3.400 skins for OFF. I work from their original works and would have been lost without that. Submitter Olham Submitted 04/19/2012 Category Aircraft Skins

For this Albatros I have made a new Mauve-Green camo. JFM wrote to me, that the darker tone on the B+W photos was most likely the green; so I used Fokker's dark green here. Then I made a slightly lighter Mauve after the tone used in the Lozenge patterns. Wether it is historically correct or not - I liked what I had got. I used it on an early Albatros D.V - that is the originally delivered version with the headrest. This was later mostly removed by the Jastas for better vision, and finally given up by Albatros. But I wanted to fly one of these with an own skin, and here it is for all to use now. Jasta 10 was one of the four Jasta of "Richthofen's flying Circus" (Jasta 4, Jasta 6, Jasta 10 and Jasta 11) - they were always in the thick of it. When they had the D.V they were in northern Flanders. So, if you want a lot of action, this skin could be the right one to use. Enjoy! Many thanks to the OBD Skinners, who created the immense output of over 3.400 skins for OFF. I work from their original works and would have been lost without that. The skin needs to get approval by the Forum moderators, but it should be available later today.

No, it's alright, I was only teasing - Creaghorn's work is what I also use, and it is great. No need to make another.

Sounds all very good, but - why is there no Albatros??? Andy, if you want my vote, I must hear a good Albatros sound to tune me friendly. You don't need to be afraid of making sound mods - others have done before. Unlike the real developers of "Over Flanders Fields", modders have the freedom to use sounds from whereever they find them. The devs cannot do that. But I can assure you all, that I have heard from a reliable source, that the new sounds for OFF II will be a very different; they get all done new - no comparison to what there is now. Just to make you all drool a little more...

“They were just buried there in transport crates,” Mr Cundall said. “They were waxed, wrapped in greased paper and their joints tarred. They will be in near perfect condition.” This bit sounds most promising. Let's hope the Burmese climate and soil couldn't make the transport crates rott away. And also, that the farmer finally will get back more than the money he invested. I bet, they could easily sell some of the craft for a lot of money to the some wealthy pilots or groups, and keep a few others. Great find!

Raaaahhh - now you made me VERY hungry, von Paulus - and this at bed time! Raaaaahhhh!!!!

Welcome to the OFF Forum, Heck! Do you fly Over Flanders fields? In that case: please send me a PM with your town & country/state - I would like to add you to our "OFF Forum Pilots Maps" then.

Thanks, Dej, for the additional info - yes, I wrote "forest", but I meant "wood". Edit: yes, Human Drone, those are shell craters. And if you should ever see an aerial photograph of the Paschendaele area after the third Battle of Ypres, you will see even many more.

I bet these words are so very true - we all cannot imagine how much work it is! I recommend to everyone, who begins his first commenting post with something negative: try to work so hard and devoted on something only 1 % of the time involved into creating OFF, and you will fall silent.

Seeing through the aerial photographs at McMaster University, I found this picture. It is said to be over Polygone (wood?) of Zonnebeke. First I though it would show an S.E.5a, but the annotations say it is probably a Sopwith Strutter 1 1/2. I spent quite some time looking at it. Looking at the black&white freeze of a moment in time, 94 years, 9 months and 18 days ago. Looking down a crew, who are both already dead now. In this frozen moment they may be around twenty. Did they survive the Great War? Did they realise the recon craft above them? Or were they an escort craft for it? Did the observer, who made the photo, realise that aircraft, that was slipping into his picture? However - I always find such finds somehow touching - makes me remember them. The Info to the photography: Area: Polygone De Zonnebeke Year: 1917 Month: 6 Day: 12 Annotation on Front: No North arrow. Annotation on Back: AIRCRAFT FLYING TOWARDS POLYGONE DE ZONNEBEKE. AIRCRAFT IS PROBABLY A SOPWITH 1 1/2 STRUTTER OF 70 SQUADRON R.F.C. printed in pencil. .

rjw, you haven't seen it all yet - there are even cavalry in some sectors! But I don't get what you need all the instruments for, holy Moly! If you should ever want to switch them off, you only need to press the keys Ctrl. + 1, Ctrl. + 2, Ctrl. + 3 etc. You can press the number repeatedly to switch through all gauges, and at last that gauge will disappear. That way you can switch off the gauges you don't need. You can grab each gauge and even the blue text, and move it where you want it. And with the key F5 you can switch Gauges + Text on and off. Hellshade, your video is like a marketing commercial, and I hope you will make some more of that kind, once OFF II will be released.

Jasta 10, Summer 1917: it's getting more and more doggedly over Flanders Fields...

When I see them again, it feels as if I had never seen this or that bit before. So it's always worth having third looks - thanks, Carrick.

Yeah, like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in "TWINS - Only their mum could tell them apart"! (Question is, who would play which role? Guess I'm too tall for DeVito, but then again...) Lou, the problem with making a proof read of your own typed text is, that you may later overlook the same mistake you made earlier. Hapens to me all the time.

A busy day for Jasta 15 - the British sent many bombers into our area to attack our airfields and structures; and the French escorted them with Nieuport 24 and SPAD VII. Jasta 15 shot down several of each type.

Update 16 April 2012 - 19:25 h Berlin time (= GMT + 1) akulawien, Austria, added. The maps are in post 1 of this thread

What a work of beauty! Let's hopw they will also make a video of the craft in flight!

Your first line is the correct folder for personalised skins, Shiloh. I just thought it might have happened, when you intended to move a skin in there, that you accidently dropped it into the other folder. I had that twice - I wanted to drop it, and just in that moment, the superintelligent Windows explorer opened further subfolders, and it landed wrongly.

Widow, I just looked through some YouTube vids on Border Collies, and this one really made me eyes moist - damn, they are great!

...or as the toad says in "Wind in the Willows": "Here today and next week tomorrow! Oot-oot!!"

Hihi - we seem to be almost a bit brotherly in many ways!

Shiloh, before you re-install, you should check all Fokker D.VII folders in this aircraft folder: CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields > aircraft Maybe you have accidently thrown a Jasta 18 skin into one of the Fokker D.VII folders here. These folders should only contain basic default skins. You must open each Fokker D.VII (and D.VII OAW etc.) folder and check the dds-files.