Valentin_K Posted March 18, 2021 Posted March 18, 2021 (edited) Edited March 18, 2021 by Valentin_K 11
Reggie_Mental Posted March 20, 2021 Posted March 20, 2021 (edited) On 3/8/2021 at 3:55 PM, Hucky said: Galland with escort on inspection flight Galland was an Me109 man for most of the war scoring 97 victories in that type and 7 in the Me262. Officially, he never flew the Fw190 in combat, so yeah, the log book probably stated 'inspection flight'! From Wikipedia: Unofficial combat missions Unofficial combat missions After his appointment, Galland was strictly confined to operational matters and not allowed to fly tactical or combat missions. As the war continued Galland flew missions in violation of these restrictions against the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) bombing raids during the Defence of the Reich. Galland was keen to familiarise himself with all types of German fighter aircraft and flew the Fw 190 on these interception missions. He actively engaged American bombers on some raids. On at least one mission, he shot down a USAAF heavy bomber. It is possible that as many as three USAAF heavy bombers were shot down by Galland while he was flying Fw 190s. Edited May 16, 2021 by Reggie_Mental 2 1
GiftZahnsSteigern Posted March 20, 2021 Posted March 20, 2021 Heck with harassing the enemy, we mean to discommode him. 5
cripplehawk Posted March 21, 2021 Posted March 21, 2021 Was doing a gun run on a Pe-2....Almost crashed, but and made it back home with no damage. 1 1
ROCKET_KNUT Posted March 21, 2021 Posted March 21, 2021 Note to self: Always bring tea and pack of biscuits when flying with @Diggun? 3 2
BladeMeister Posted March 23, 2021 Posted March 23, 2021 (edited) Day after day those bastards just kept coming! Just when we thought we had the Luftwaffe on the ropes those damn 262s would push over and attack our Aerodrome again and again, but revenge is a meal best served warm. Not 30 minutes before the chaps and I were ducking for cover, but the Boss had now given us fresh Intel from the underground as to the whereabouts of the Aerodrome which the Huns were operating from. "Time to pay a visit to our Jerry brethren", he said, as he sent us off! We had just the weapon to return the favor for the bother those Huns had caused us! Our Tempests were famished for some Jerry Swallows. We need only look around as we rose from the airfield to observe the destruction inflicted by our foes just a short time ago. The motivation was crystal clear. A mere 30 minutes later I was sighting in one of the Huns just as they were spooling up two of their 262s. Their nav lights were burning so I was quite aware that Jerry was most positively beginning another mission to deliver us some cookies. I began my run in while the boys kept the Krauts on the Ack Ack busy. My initial rounds were a wee bit long, but I walked them back a might until I was bidding this Hun pilot a fair adieu'! I observed him frantically working to roust his bird to life. My rounds were true to the mark now as the Swallow began to raise off the ground when the Mark II 20 mm Hispano Cannon's found their measure! This Jerry's end had come as I overflew the Aerodrome. The ack ack was thick as I hastened my escape. The Boss had only given his blessing for one pass, and off we sped hurriedly making our retreat. Only minutes later we were lining up to pancake. Triumphantly we returned to our field now knowing with all certainty where Jerry was attacking from. Safely down, it was a quick word with the Boss and then off to the Officers club to let the rest of the boys know of the events which had just unfolded. There was little doubt in my mind that the Boss would send us back later, better equipped, to put that Hun Aerodrome out of commission for good, but that tale will be for a another time. S!Blade<>< Edited March 23, 2021 by BladeMeister 3 1
=TBAS=jamesirjames Posted March 23, 2021 Posted March 23, 2021 My first submitted screenshot of this amazing game. What editing programs do you all use to make yours so nice? 3 1
Heliopause Posted March 23, 2021 Posted March 23, 2021 Well if you make a recording you can always look back at it. And by using ext. view, different angles, diff. play speed/pause, mouse movement, zoom a bit in or out you will see some nice screens come along ? 3
BladeMeister Posted March 23, 2021 Posted March 23, 2021 (edited) 13 hours ago, jamesirjames said: My first submitted screenshot of this amazing game. What editing programs do you all use to make yours so nice? Welcome to the Forum jamesirjames. That is a very nice introductory screenshot Sir! I am no expert but personally I believe that the picture quality is determined by how good the quality of the Monitor that you use is. More precisely, how many Pixels Per Inch your monitor displays and what resolution you use in game. I use 2560x1440 for all of my gaming and I own a high quality 27" Asus monitor and more recently I have added a 32" Samsung G7 Monitor, and I am overly pleased with each and their respective performance. As far as in game adjustments, you can crank up the eye candy to Ultra in mission, ignore the frame rates and just record for a later picture taking review of the recording, or use the best settings you can in mission, record, and then crank up the eye candy to Ultra for your picture taking review of the recording. YMMV, you just have to find what works best for your situation, the first method being my preferred procedure to get the best quality pictures. I use Infranview as my photo editor although it offers very little in the way of 'Photoshopping' of images per say. I am sure Photoshop or even Gimp are much better but I have never wanted to pay for Photoshop nor take the time to learn the intricacies of either one. On very rare occasions I use the 'sharpen' button in Infranview(I used it in 2 out of the series of pictures above. Can you tell which ones?), but mostly I only crop, boarder and save to PNG format with it. I do use the 'color corrections' option sometimes, but I am simply raising or lowering the 'gama level' in the screenshot. PNG is the best quality, most practical size wise(bmp is better but huge in size), format to use for screenshots. LukeFF will hate me for saying that as the PNG format does slow down picture loading on most smart phones, sometimes to a crawl, and he dislikes that, which I can understand. Sorry LukeFF, the secret is out and it is what it is. The one tip I can recommend in game or in a recorded replay is to pause the action push F2 and then to push the F11 view. It is very sensitive and almost impossible to use unless you 'HOLD' the numpad '0' key down and use your mouse to maneuver around. Combining the F11 view with holding the '0' key down and scrolling with the mouse or pushing and holding either the left or right mouse button while scrolling the mouse will let you move along all axis to get the angle you want and take the pics you want. I used to use the Post Process before Reshade in ROF and CLOD, I can't even recall its' name anymore, but I no longer use any post processing unless Nvidia or the game which I am using has it incorporated. The two reasons I don't use PP anymore are, 1. todays sims look so good they don't need it IMHO and 2. You can drive yourself crazy with the endless adjustments that Reshade provides, and life is to short for this as I am getting older. I have nothing against Reshade, Photoshop or anything anyone else does to present nice pictures here and in other Forums, but for me, 'Keep It Simple Stupid' is my motto so that I spend more of the time available to me actually in the sim playing and not fiddling so much. That is my 2 cents worth and I look forward to seeing your next pics here in this thread. S!Blade<>< S! ICDP, such incredible detail in the templates. Thank you Sir! Spoiler Spoiler Edited March 23, 2021 by BladeMeister 5
BladeMeister Posted March 23, 2021 Posted March 23, 2021 Shouldn't that top shot be behind a spoiler Sir? Children do sometimes frequent this Forum. S!Blade<><
SR603-Flowbee Posted March 23, 2021 Posted March 23, 2021 (edited) Edited March 24, 2021 by SR603-Flowbee 3 2
Rjel Posted March 24, 2021 Posted March 24, 2021 WIP. 4thFG P-51D Lil' Aggie flown by Lt. Michael Kennedy. 5 1
LR.flyingfisch Posted March 24, 2021 Posted March 24, 2021 On 3/17/2021 at 1:30 PM, offelkart said: Klingon's field modification Ah yes, the Tomschwalbe
=TBAS=jamesirjames Posted March 24, 2021 Posted March 24, 2021 3 hours ago, GiftZahnsSteigern said: What? Hahaha, dang dude. Canopy open and errrything!! What map was this on? 11 hours ago, BladeMeister said: Welcome to the Forum jamesirjames. That is a very nice introductory screenshot Sir! I am no expert but personally I believe that the picture quality is determined by how good the quality of the Monitor that you use is. More precisely, how many Pixels Per Inch your monitor displays and what resolution you use in game. I use 2560x1440 for all of my gaming and I own a high quality 27" Asus monitor and more recently I have added a 32" Samsung G7 Monitor, and I am overly pleased with each and their respective performance. As far as in game adjustments, you can crank up the eye candy to Ultra in mission, ignore the frame rates and just record for a later picture taking review of the recording, or use the best settings you can in mission, record, and then crank up the eye candy to Ultra for your picture taking review of the recording. YMMV, you just have to find what works best for your situation, the first method being my preferred procedure to get the best quality pictures. I use Infranview as my photo editor although it offers very little in the way of 'Photoshopping' of images per say. I am sure Photoshop or even Gimp are much better but I have never wanted to pay for Photoshop nor take the time to learn the intricacies of either one. On very rare occasions I use the 'sharpen' button in Infranview(I used it in 2 out of the series of pictures above. Can you tell which ones?), but mostly I only crop, boarder and save to PNG format with it. I do use the 'color corrections' option sometimes, but I am simply raising or lowering the 'gama level' in the screenshot. PNG is the best quality, most practical size wise(bmp is better but huge in size), format to use for screenshots. LukeFF will hate me for saying that as the PNG format does slow down picture loading on most smart phones, sometimes to a crawl, and he dislikes that, which I can understand. Sorry LukeFF, the secret is out and it is what it is. The one tip I can recommend in game or in a recorded replay is to pause the action push F2 and then to push the F11 view. It is very sensitive and almost impossible to use unless you 'HOLD' the numpad '0' key down and use your mouse to maneuver around. Combining the F11 view with holding the '0' key down and scrolling with the mouse or pushing and holding either the left or right mouse button while scrolling the mouse will let you move along all axis to get the angle you want and take the pics you want. I used to use the Post Process before Reshade in ROF and CLOD, I can't even recall its' name anymore, but I no longer use any post processing unless Nvidia or the game which I am using has it incorporated. The two reasons I don't use PP anymore are, 1. todays sims look so good they don't need it IMHO and 2. You can drive yourself crazy with the endless adjustments that Reshade provides, and life is to short for this as I am getting older. I have nothing against Reshade, Photoshop or anything anyone else does to present nice pictures here and in other Forums, but for me, 'Keep It Simple Stupid' is my motto so that I spend more of the time available to me actually in the sim playing and not fiddling so much. That is my 2 cents worth and I look forward to seeing your next pics here in this thread. S!Blade<>< S! ICDP, such incredible detail in the templates. Thank you Sir! Reveal hidden contents Reveal hidden contents Love your pics, man! Okay, I'll have to check out Infranview. I do have a decent PC (RTX 2070), Gsync 1440k monitor as well. Thanks for the long explanation. Cheers
Mysticpuma Posted March 24, 2021 Posted March 24, 2021 2 hours ago, LizLemon said: The ground colours like nice, warm and vibrant. Is that stock? 2
ICDP Posted March 24, 2021 Posted March 24, 2021 (edited) New Mc.202 official template in 4K released. The stock skins will be updated in the next release and will include some new skins. Though it will be released in the the update, if you want the Mc.202 to look its best now, download the 4K normalmap as well. https://btcloud.bt.com/web/app/share/invite/tGWBHLkaot Edited March 24, 2021 by ICDP 15 2 2
Cybermat47 Posted March 24, 2021 Posted March 24, 2021 (edited) 16 minutes ago, ICDP said: New Mc.202 official template in 4K released. The stock skins will be updated in the next release and will include some new skins. Though it will be released in the the update, make sure to download the 4K normalmap as well for best effect. That Ennio Tarantola skin looks great! However, my understanding was that only one of his victory markings was red (to denote that it was a Spanish Civil War victory). This is what's presented in Osprey Publishing's Italian Aces of WWII: However, on closer inspection of an actual photograph of Dai Banana!, it does seem (to me at least) that your version of the skin is correct; the inner five victory markings are in red, while only the outer two are yellow. This does raise the question of why the markings are in different colours, however; the only reason I can imagine for this is that the two yellow markings denote victories scored on the G.50, while the red markings are for his C.202 victories, at least if this source is to be believed: http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/italy_tarantola.htm As for why his single victory in the CR.32 over Spain would be excluded, I'm not sure why. But this Bf-109 may give a precedent for such a thing. Its claimed to be Walter Oesau's and seems to have a victory tally matching his, but only if his SCW victories are excluded: Spoiler I feel like the key to figuring out what's up with Tarantola's victory markings is to find out the date that the photo of Dai Banana! was taken. Don't ask me why I'm suddenly so interested in this one guy's victory markings; I have Asperger's, I'm kinda hardwired to dig deep into this stuff. Edited March 24, 2021 by [Pb]Cybermat47
ICDP Posted March 24, 2021 Posted March 24, 2021 15 minutes ago, [Pb]Cybermat47 said: That Ennio Tarantola skin looks great! However, my understanding was that only one of his victory markings was red (to denote that it was a Spanish Civil War victory). This is what's presented in Osprey Publishing's Italian Aces of WWII: However, on closer inspection of an actual photograph of Dai Banana!, it does seem (to me at least) that your version of the skin is correct; the inner five victory markings are in red, while only the outer two are yellow. This does raise the question of why the markings are in different colours, however; the only reason I can imagine for this is that the two yellow markings denote victories scored on the G.50, while the red markings are for his C.202 victories, at least if this source is to be believed: http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/italy_tarantola.htm As for why his single victory in the CR.32 over Spain would be excluded, I'm not sure why. But this Bf-109 may give a precedent for such a thing. Its claimed to be Walter Oesau's and seems to have a victory tally matching his, but only if his SCW victories are excluded: Reveal hidden contents I feel like the key to figuring out what's up with Tarantola's victory markings is to find out the date that the photo of Dai Banana! was taken. Don't ask me why I'm suddenly so interested in this one guy's victory markings; I have Asperger's, I'm kinda hardwired to dig deep into this stuff. Lol, tell me about the OCD we skinners and template creators have for accuracy, it is equal measure gift and curse Your post demonstrates the problem of using profiles as a primary source, because your are basically doing that artists version of the real thing. The real image you showed was what I used (among others) to base my intpretation of the colours on. 1
=TBAS=jamesirjames Posted March 24, 2021 Posted March 24, 2021 Edited these two using a trial version of Adobe Lightroom, which I found particularly user friendly. One pre-flight, One post-fight. 4
=TBAS=jamesirjames Posted March 25, 2021 Posted March 25, 2021 6 hours ago, CUJO_1970 said: Love the first 2 shots, Cujo! The profile shot and the top-down really show off that skin, nice. 1
cripplehawk Posted March 26, 2021 Posted March 26, 2021 North of Stalingrad gorund view circa September 1942. overhead 27th IAP of the Soviet Union flying La-5s was engaging against the Reich's JG3 "Udet" squadron which were flying BF109G2s 2 1
Heliopause Posted March 26, 2021 Posted March 26, 2021 "The thin air started to affect F/O S. Kubrick's brain" 8
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