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Duke, here is just a quick copy&paste job I have made for you, using OvS' skins for Goering, and a Jasta 11 skin. If you don't have Photoshop, try Windows' "Paint" to add some markings. For finer works, study the above link. This file needs to get unzipped and moved into this folder: (your OFF folder) > campaigns > CampaignData > skins You could later make a copy and name it: Off_Alb_DIII_t_Jasta 11 1717 Duke, to make it available, when you move to the Albatros D.III. Enjoy!

Duke, skinning is a nice profession, and after some learning, even rewarding. You may want to look into this part of the OFF Forum (you get there again by clicking on "Forums" above): http://combatace.com...nd-3d-modeling/

Thanks, Lou. I have a second guess, but will wait 36 hours.

Very good, Lou! I'll just copy your wishlist as my first wish. And you, Carrick, can have Pam Anderson; because Iwish for me: Jennifer Connelly.

The pilot looks to me like Ernesto Cabruna (but I only know a different photo). Cabruna also flew with Squadriglia 80a. He had 8 victories, the first two were with 80a; all others with 77a. He survived the war. The plane could be the 2140, which I have found at the Vintage Aviator. Edit: without your find, that it is an Italian Macchi Built Nieuport, I would never have found any traces, Dej. I'm not very familiar with uniforms. So, honestly, thanks for the good work.

Perhaps OFF P4 will not be much more demanding, HPW.

Reminds of the great W. C. Fields, when he tells the story from his great deeds fighting off indians as a trapper: "...so I pulled out my Bowie knife, and I cut - my - way - through a wall of human flesh - my canoe always right behind me!" Couldn't find the sketch, so here is another wonderful short about this great old loser:

I am a bit dazzled myself about that, Lou - everyone of my friends here knows me as a sluggish chap, who is either not yet awake, or beginning to get tired, or tired already. Seems I have SOME strengths - now I only need to convert them into making money somehow. Need a "quick-finder", anyone? Perchance?

Pilot: Norman Miers McGregor - British Plane: Nieuport 17 bis from RNAS-6, 1917. He scored in a Sopwith Camel. In September 1917, having scored 4 victories with 6 Naval Squadron, Norman Miers MacGregor was posted to 10 Naval Squadron. Flying the Sopwith Camel, he scored his 5th victory on 15 September, downing the first Fokker DR.1 of the war. The Triplane exploded when it crashed, killing the pilot, Kurt Wolff of Jasta 11. MacGregor later scored two more victories and accrued 325 hours of operational flight time during the war.

The RODEN models are the next best step below the great WINGNUT WINGS sets. The 1:32 scale are pretty good. Here is their site: http://www.roden.eu/...framemodels.htm

I didn't fly the E.III before BHaH, and I think it may be made quite believeable. You need to fly it like an early, comparably weak kite, with good use of energy. I have even fought Nieuport 11 in it and won! Although, I constantly felt the threat of "smearing off" due to a lack of lift in turns. If you fly the DH-2 first, and then subtract 1/3 of it's flying abilities, you should get to grips with it, Dej. Pretty challenging, though.

Haha - so you fooled me! And I thought, this must be hardly known anywhere outside Europe.

Heavy stuff, innit?

Just this morning I was wondering, when I would meet Georges Guynemer again in OFF. I had met him once before, for two seconds only, when he came out of the sun alone in his SPAD VII - he fired at us and was gone again, before we could chase him. Today, I was sent out to attack a balloon south of Bapaume. After crossing the lines, we (5 Albatros D.II from Jasta 2) sighted a flight of 5 Nieuports high, crossing over us. They didn't seem to have seen us and continued flying west. I went lower quickly, and into the haze. I thought we had fooled them. But before I began to dive on the spotter, I checked my six, and there was that Nieuport falling down on me, growing bigger very fast! After half a turn, I saw the others turning with my flight behind me. I could place several rounds more or less in Guynemer's craft, but he was squirming like a toad, and before I could hit him really hard, René Dorme was at my tail. This time my opponent was too close - no way to shake him off. He hit my engine; the nasty sound could only mean that I should run over to our lines, before it would fail completely. In a distance, I saw Guynemer shooting up one of my wingmen, while I zigzagged at treetop level, still receiving one or another round from Dorme. Man, were they angry! Did anyone else ever meet Guynemer in OFF?

Nibelungenlied. Never heard of that? Siegfried, who bathed in a dragon's blood to become invincible? And the Tarnhelm, that he got from a dwarf, and that made him invisible? Yeah, such stories are much older than "Lord of the Rings", old chap! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibelungenlied

Beecoz vee Dsherrmanns hav der "Tarnhelm" - a cap of invizibility from der Nibelungen! Mmuahahahahahahahaaaaaaa!!!!!!

No way to let the wind rush through your hair - they wore leather caps, so no one would see you're bald

That CLASH song comes to my mind: "London calling" - for some Gotha raids! You built it all so nicely, Winder, that the two-year-old in me comes up and wants to bomb it all down. That is a damn fine mega-city! Understandable, that it is so anxuiously guarded by Brisfits.

Ah, thanks, Pol - now I know, why it didn't work on any other.

My Thrustmaster T Flight Stick X never failed me once; it has a twist axis; and no less than 12 buttons. It is none of the expensive ones, but worth every penny. Here it is - or better: was. Not available right now. http://www.amazon.com/Thrustmaster-2960694-Flight-Flightstick-PlayStation-3/dp/B000U1OOH4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1306422278&sr=8-2

Well, there is a ring of truth, Capitaine Vengeur. The Germans, I believe, are rather bad at making conversation, and out of this social unability, may react pretty rude in such a case. Also, they are taught too much how to behave correct, how not to behave etc. - and then they expect the same from everyone. Our sordid ways to overcome the Teutonic rough in us often lead to new Teutonism, unintentionally.

Geeze - that's bad luck after all that comotion, UncleAl! I suppose it was you?

Well, nobody's perfect, old chap - neither the British nor the Germans (not to speak of the French!)

Very interesting, Widowmaker. Yes, I noticed a lot of what she is writing about. But it's not all completely "chiseled in stone" that way. She found (or verified) that Germans really don't do small talk, those little phrases so familiar to the British about the weather or a person's general well-being, but which she describes as "empty verbiage". This is not totally true - we have that in Germany too. How are the kids? How's your granny? The weather is supposed to get better; etc. Maybe we don't do it as much as the British and Americans, that's true. But if you have a ride in a taxi, you often begin a conversation by talking about the weather or such. Saying things like "It's nice to meet you" are rarely meant the way they are said, she says. "It's just words. It's simulating interesting in the other person." From a German perspective, this is uncomfortably close to deceit. This is often true, but again, not always. We also have such "pretended interest" by asking the neighbour "Is your back a little better now?" or "It's nice to see you again!" But maybe we don't do it so much. Sometimes it's endearing, or at least the British think it is, as when this announcement was made by British Airways pilot Eric Moody in 1982, after flying through a cloud of volcanic ash over Indonesia: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress." Very British, indeed! I would prefer a British Captain in situations of distress - the way they would tell me would be almost comforting the panicing soul. I noticed, that my English friend's wife often said "I'm afraid I don't know that." And I was wondering about that - why should she be afraid? What about those sun-loungers - the seats by the pool, which German holidaymakers allegedly grab at the crack of dawn? "I think what you've got there is a clash of prototypical German efficiency with the prototypical British sense of fair play," says Bousfield. This is true, and it's a very bad habit of many Germans in holidays. Some seem to even get up earlier, just to make sure they can place their towels on the chairs, and so occupy them first. I really hate such behaviour!!! But you see - I'm German - and I would hate to do it.