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  3. Posted

    Hardly getting a moment to play off at the moment let alone get on the forum!!! Bring on the end of my degree!

     

     

    Thought some people might be interested in our latest experiment. Me and my fiance are living off of ww2 civilian rations for a while, we did it for a month last year and it was great fun (and I lost half a stone...).

     

    Here is the blog complete with photo's which we will try to udate each day. (if you hear ambient sound effects it is the blog... you aren't going mad...)

     

    http://ww2rations.blogspot.com/

     

    Hopefully get back in the sky one day soon.... just as soon as disertations are finished!

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    Oh.... and eventually you should get hold of a TrakIr system as they are good fun!... not essential though as you can pile up the kills just using the padlock and snap views. Drawback is you can't look around with the mouse in OFF so a head tracker like TrackIr offers the only way to smoothly look around.

     

    Don't worry to much though, If anything I found targeting and padlock view easier once you are used to it as you can't lose track of your target. Real benefit of trackIr is emersion into the game rather than improving chances of a kill.

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    Your computer has slightly higher spec than mine so should run fine, just adjust the graphics for best performance... on that note dont be surprised if OFF looks awful when you first load it. Most graphics settings start low and you have to turn them on (at least it was on my version!)

     

    I also recomend buying the new downloadable addon to OFF from the OFF website. Adds even more aircraft and some extra features. think its about $20?.... much cheaper than RoF where you have to pay cash for every single plane you want to fly!!!

     

    In fact as a point of interest, when RoF finally has as many aircraft available to buy as OFF comes with it will cost you......

     

     

    $347.23 :boredom:

     

     

     

     

    Further to your question about RoF... it has a thick layer of dusk where it sits on my top shelf.... can't wait for the day when I have a wobbly table so it will actually be some use.

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    Its perfectly reasonable, its best to gloss over the past and forget all about so i can't ever happen again!..... hang on that doesn't sound right....

     

    What's next? Banning any mention of the British Empire in case we accidentally invade india?? :)

     

     

     

    Really silly thing is ebay dont allow any Bhudist, hindoo or native American items with a swastika even though they have nothing to do with the Nazi party... just because Germany (and I believe France?) have made a simple geometric shape illegal regardless of context.

     

    Lucky the Nazis didn't use a circle as thier symbol or anything with wheels would be banned!

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    Looks fantastic! (if a little arrid for the western front lol). The great war society in the UK have a stretch of recreated trench complete with frost and mud... not many planes though!

     

    Hoping to join the great war society next year and will hopefully get to travel over to some of the larger US events although mostly will be on marches and original battlefields in france.

     

    Iv'e noticed looking through youtube that even though America fought in WW1 most americans prefer to dress up as Germans? Doughboys seem to be greatly outnumbered!

     

     

    For anyone else interested here is the link for the british great war society. Watch the vid, nice shot of a tripe going over!

     

    http://www.thegreatwarsociety.com/

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    More progress towards my final uniform!!!

     

    I managed to find a company selling replica rank tape/braid for ww1 jacket cuffs as well as replica cloth pips!

     

    So I had a go at converting a jacket myself. Not quite perfect yet and this jacket is still too small around the rib cage - yes its really my ribs... I can suck the gut in!... even at 18 years old and 11 stone I had a 42" chest!... although my waist line has now more or less caught up! so will probably go on sale along with the others to fund my project further.

     

    For this jacket I machine stitched the tape which means its not as precise as I'd like... the bunching flattens itself out when wearing but could still be perfected further.

     

    All I need now is a suitable jacket with a 44" chest to begin my final project....

     

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    Next attempt should be far more acurate as will be hand stitched!

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    We have settled snow in plymouth which is very rare as this corner of the uk is usually kept warm by all that nice heat the mexicans send us over in the gulf stream! Certainly the first snow since I have lived here.

     

    And Lou.... feel our pain?... stay indoors??? You don't know the english! It snows so rarely in england (sometimes years apart) that we all get exited and go out in it! I may well go and get my own car stuck on Dartmoor for a bit this afternoon! All part of the fun!

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    Sorry Lou been meaning to put this photo up for a while but kept forgetting!

     

    The top belt is from my uniform and is vintage.... ww2 maybe, or possibly older... the bottom belt is modern. As you can see the british army doesnt allow any deviation from the pattern! So those rings on yours are very unlikely to be original, much more likely a later field repair, have you turned them to see if there is a weld hidden behind the leather?.. and is the back ring the same? I wonder what happened to lose the originals... It's a minor detail really though as no doubt the french belts where different in pattern to the british, and the french uniform seems to have been a lot more flexible.

     

    The lower angular rings are for holding a sword belt on ceremonial occasions.

     

     

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    I've done a bit of research and it seems people have had good results with epoxy resin, especially as excess can be removed easily without damage to the surface. It's been pointed out that adagio wasnt actually written until the 1930s! so a WW1 pilot would never have heard it.... but it will still be interesting to hear OFF music played with WW1 technology!

     

    Now if only I can find an old record press to record the main theme to 78... or is that going too far? :)

  19. Posted · Edited by Stiffy

    OK so I'm begining to thing my real life is begining to get absorbed by OFF...

     

     

    While rummaging through some old 78rpm gramophone records in a local charity shop i saw that there was a broken one at the bottom of the box... I gave the confused shop assistance 50p for it an went on my way!

     

     

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    But why do i need a broken record I hear you ask!

     

    Because it is Adagio for Strings!

     

     

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    For those who don't realise Adagio for strings is the secondary theme music in OFF... the mournfull classical one.

     

    And here it is on a record using more or less WW1 technology! Although this record is most likely from the 40s the only difference in WW1 would be the type of microphones used to create the original recording.

     

    So the music from OFF.... as it would have been heard by a WW1 pilot.... couldn't resist bying it!

     

    Now here comes the tricky bit....

     

     

    Although I can play 78s on this little number from my collection...

     

     

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    ....the record is clearly in two pieces.

     

    So I need to repair it! and try to minimise the clicking from the crack once it is finished..... and then record it somehow to share with the OFF community.

     

    Wouldn't it be cool to have a recording of this playing sometimes in the ambient background of an aerodrome?

     

     

     

    Stay tuned for the next installment!

  22. Posted

    Actually British troops where allowed beards up until 1939! (at the discretion of commanding officer) from 1939 it has only been permitted for combat engineers and colour sergeants.

     

    The reason it was changed at the outset of ww2 was the new tight fitting gas masks.

     

    It was often discouraged in trench warfare due to the added risk of fleas and lice but was more common in allied high command, often to ape the fine whiskers displayed by the king.

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    ITs nice.... but they didn't use Enfield revolvers in WW1, they used the Webley. Enfiled mark one was replaced in the 1880s with the webley because the enfield wasn't very good! Mark 2 enfield didn't come along until the 1920s. They made damn good short rifles though!

     

    Although the enfield is similar the only bit you usually see is the handle poking out of the holster which is very different to the webley, webley is rounded and black, enfield is squared off and wooden.

     

    Good find though!... I didnt realise they made a replica of any service revolver.... odd that they chose the crap one to make though lol!

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