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My skins only here : Ringlett skins on SVK

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353 skins for download now!

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New skins

 

https://vwings.net/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=6453&pid=355202#post_355003

Edited April 29, 2023 by ATA_Ringlett

[Todt_Von_Oben]

Ringlet, do you have (or can you make) a template for the late-1918 Siemens Schuckert DIV?

 

Anyone?  

 

 

 

  

[Guest deleted@219798]

Very good WW1 skins. Thanks for these. Great Ernst Udet ones.

[=IRFC=Gascan]

Its still pretty new. It usually takes a bit before they release the official template for skinning. Once that's out, its a lot easier to make skins because the template has all the layers ready to go, as well as a wireframe so you know where the edges of each part of the plane are.

[Todt_Von_Oben]

Thanks Gascan.  I heard back from GooseH, too; everyone's still waiting for the template.  I'm sure it will happen eventually.  Meanwhile I'm flying the SS with J13 colors and White SS markings.  What a great all-around dogfighter!  Very grateful to the Devs for making this one available.

 

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New SE 5 skins

 

 

 

 

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New skins for Albatros

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Edited June 5, 2023 by ATA_Ringlett

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Reb Baron

 

Red Baron

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Halberstadt CL.II

 

 

Ringlett skins

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Polish Halberstadt

 

 

Ringlett skins

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Halberstadt CL.II

 

 

Ringlett skins

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Fokker (MÁG) F.VII
 

Magyar Red Army

Hungarian-Czechoslovak War for Slovakia 1919

Keisz Géza, 8. Voros repuloszazad, Magyar fighter ace

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Edited June 22, 2023 by ATA_Ringlett

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S.E. 5a

 

Thomas McCudden, 56. SQN RFC, Estrée Blanche, France, september 1917
McCudden

Edited July 2, 2023 by ATA_Ringlett

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Oeffag D.III ser 153

 

Oeffag D.III

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Nieuport 11

 

 

Nieuport 11

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Hot sky over Palestine

 

 

 

Palestine

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Nieuport-Macchi Ni 11

 

 

Nieuport- Macchi Ni 11

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Nieuport 11

 

Russian Nieuports

Edited July 30, 2023 by ATA_Ringlett

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Nieuport 11

 

 

Nieuport 11

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Aviator Jenda Hofman

 

Corporal Jenda Hofman (1889-1917) was a Czech soldier, a member of the Nazdar Volunteer Company of the French Foreign Legion during World War I in France, a participant in the Battle of Arras in 1915, and later a member of the volunteer aviation detachment of the French Air Force. He was probably the only Czech legionnaire who died in an air battle. Jan Hofman was born on 28 December 1889 in the village of Veselice, near Náchod, in house No. 20. In 1903 he trained as a furrier in Nové Město nad Metují. From the age of fifteen he was a member of Sokol and took part in the VI. Then he returned to Munich, from where he soon went to work in Paris. One of the reasons for his departure to France may have been a premonition of the outbreak of war, and he wanted to fight for the rights of the Czech nation. When the war actually broke out on 28 July 1914, he enlisted in the newly formed Nazdar Company (founded on 31 August 1914 as part of the Foreign Legion on the initiative of representatives of the French branch of Sokol and the social-democratic association Rovnost). He was also involved in educational activities among the soldiers and professed the idea of an independent Czechoslovakia. Nazdar Company was sent to the Champagne region near Reims in October 1914 for combat deployment. By that time the front had been stabilized and Nazdar Company was living a normal trench life. In April 1915 the unit was transferred to the Artois area, where the French army was preparing an offensive and the Moroccan division was to be deployed on its offensive spearhead. On 9 May 1915, during the Battle of Arras, he and his unit took part in heavy fighting for Hill 140 near the village of Neuville-Saint-Vaast near Vimy, during which the company suffered heavy casualties.Subsequently, Hofman was severely wounded there on 16 June. After his recovery, he suffered lasting effects that made it impossible for him to rejoin the infantry.



Jenda Hofman therefore enlisted for flight training, which he completed, among other things, on Blériot XI machines. He was transferred to the French Army Air Corps and in February 1917 he was deployed to the 80th Squadron (Swarm) near Reims, equipped with Nieuport 17 fighter biplanes. After a brief engagement he achieved the downing of a two-seater enemy aircraft, but was himself hit by rear gunner's fire and crashed to the ground with the damaged machine at 9:45. He was buried in the Roucy cemetery. He was posthumously awarded the Croix de guerre (Military War Cross) with palm tree and the Military French Medal in memoriam. In 1928, his body was exhumed, cremated and the urn with his remains was transported to the Resistance Memorial in Prague-Troja. After the closure of this museum, the urn with the remains was lost.

 

Download Hofman´s Nieuport 17 here

 

Edited December 29, 2023 by ATA_Ringlett

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Nieuport Nie 17C.1

No.4214 from 33rd Czech-Slovak Hussite Czechoslovak Airborne Corps of the Czech-Slovak Legions, Russia, spring 1918

Download 4214

 

Onokichi Isobe, Escadrille N 57, Vadelaincourt, France, december 1917
Download Isobe´s Nieuport

 

Maurice Jean Boyau, Escadrille N 77, France, summer 1917
Download Boyau´s Nieuport

Edited December 31, 2023 by ATA_Ringlett

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Nieuport 17C.1

 

Donat Akimovich Makijonok, air ace, one of the first Polish military aviators.
7th Air Detachment of the Russian Empire Air Force, summer 1917
Makionok served in the air force from 1912, during the Great War he achieved 8 kills, after the war on the basis of nationality he joined the Polish Air Force. He became commander of the 3rd Squadron and distinguished himself during the Polish-Soviet War in 1919. As part of the liquidation of the Polish resistance movement, he ended up in a concentration camp in 1940. He probably died in Auschwitz in June 1941.

Download Makijonok´s Nieuport

 

22th KAO Russian Empire airforce, september 1917
Download 22th KAO Nieuport

 

"Mermaid"
Unidentified unit of the Peasant-Agricultural Red Army Air Force, Soviet Union 1919
Contrary to the widespread reconstructions, the aircraft was photographed with only the fuselage painting in progress.
Original photo
Download russian Mermaid

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Halberstadt CL.IIau from Marine Schlaghtstaffeln 1
Autumn in Belgium

Propably october 1918

Download Bavarian Lowe CL.IIau

 

Download Triangle CL.IIau

 

Download Tricolor Triangle CL.IIau

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Almost complete my creation of skins for FC divided by nationality of pilots.
 

Germany

 

Great Britain & Commonwealth

 

France

 

USA

 

Russian Empire

 

K. u. K

 

Czechoslovakia

 

Italy

 

Poland

 

Belgium, Serbian etc.

[Ringlett]

I am currently painting on the basis of a redesigned Albatross D.II template, template for Oeffag D.II series 53. Only 16 of these aircraft were produced for K-u-K, then production switched to D.III series 53.20.

The problems of the model are different radiators, missing undercarriage wheel axle cover and slightly different layout of some covers.

I see the radiators as the biggest problem. If I had noticed this before work started I probably would not have proceeded. This is how I ask, is this a problem for you?

The plane was operating on the front in Galicia, Italy, it grew some of the K-u-K air aces.

Well?

 

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Oeffag D.II series 53

 

Licensed D.II Albatrosses fitted with a more powerful 185hp engine, a more modern radiator and other modifications during production at the Oeffag factory. Unfortunately they are not in the game, so at least as a reminder as follows.

53.01 personal machine of Flik 21 commander, Hauptmann Walter Lux Edler von Treurecht, Pergine airfield, June 1917
Download 53.01

 

53.02 on which Julius Kowalczik from Moravian Ostrava achieved the first kill on this type of aircraft. Pergine Airport, Italy, 19 June 1917
Download 53.02

 

53.03 served in the summer of 1917 in Galizia at Krasne airfield with Flik 14, where in June it was flown by Fw. Rudolf Lonstak (4 kills).
Download 53.03

 

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Spad S.VII C-1

 

Aviation mischief, the desire to show off one's aeronautical prowess over one's hometown, is as old as aviation itself and has taken its toll from time to time for just as long. When inattention causes an aircraft to exceed its limits, it doesn't matter whether the pilot is sitting in a canvas-covered wooden airplane or a modern carbon-fiber "grind" equipped with a "glass cockpit." The low altitude above the home is then a guarantee of a quick end if control of the machine is lost. One of the aviators who paid the price for their efforts to show off shortly after the birth of the Czechoslovak Air Force was Corporal Karel Tkadlec in November 1923.

 

 Full story in czech language

 

 

Download this Spad

 

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Two against six

 

 

On the fateful day of March 21, 1918, Munzar attacked an Italian tethered balloon in a group of five other aircraft – and never returned from the flight. Munzar was hit during the attack by six Oeffag D.III aircraft on a tethered balloon in a dogfight with two Italian Hanriot HD.1s, but managed to make an emergency landing behind the Italian front. (The image above is an excerpt from his estate, where he captured the entire event in his own handwriting).

Bohumil Munzar

 

 

(29. prosince 1897 Dvůr Králové nad Labem – 6. června 1922 Praha)

 

(December 29, 1897, Dvůr Králové nad Labem – June 6, 1922, Prague)

After completing his apprenticeship as an electrical engineer, he was drafted into the 18th Infantry Regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Army in Hradec Králové in 1915. He voluntarily enlisted in the air force, where he underwent pilot training in Szeged and later a fighter course in Vienna's New Town. On July 26, 1917, he obtained his Austrian FAI pilot's license, number 739. He was then sent to the Italian front, where he was assigned to the elite 55th Fighter Squadron (Fliegerkompagnie 55J). Here, as a pilot of an Albatros D.III (Oef) aircraft, he participated in the shooting down of an Italian SAML two-seater aircraft near Asiago on December 7, 1917, and achieved the rank of Korporal. However, on March 21, 1918, during an attack on an observation balloon, he was shot down by Italian ace Lieutenant Silvio Scaroni, piloting a Hanriot HD.1, who thus achieved his 16th victory. After a short period in captivity, he enlisted in the Czechoslovak Legions, where he was accepted on August 11, 1918, with the rank of gunner. As he wanted to continue serving in the air force, which he was not allowed to do in Italy, he requested a transfer to France, where he was assigned to the 5th Company of the Czechoslovak 23rd Rifle Regiment. However, World War I ended before he could begin retraining on French aircraft. He completed it after the war and returned to his homeland on September 8, 1919, where he was assigned to the 2nd Air Regiment in Olomouc. On December 15, 1920, he was demobilized and became a test pilot for Avia. He died on June 6, 1922, during a demonstration flight of an Avia BH-3 fighter plane, whose structure collapsed, probably after failing to withstand excessive stress.
He was buried in the cemetery in his native Dvůr Králové.

 

Oeffag D.III153.100, from right: Franz Lahner (in the cockpit), Alexander Kasza (on the fuselage), Georg Kenzian, Alois Lehmann, Bohumil Munzar

Oeffag D.III 153.100

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Silvio Scaroni

 

 

 

(May 12, 1893 – February 16, 1977)

 

Silvio Scaroni joined the Italian Army's 2nd Field Artillery Regiment as a corporal. He was serving in this unit when World War I broke out across the rest of Europe. On August 2, 1914, Italy declared its neutrality as the parties prepared for conflict.

Scaroni transferred to the Corpo Aeronautico Militare in March 1915. Shortly before Italy entered the war on the side of the Entente on April 26, 1915, he began training to fly Bleriot and Caudron aircraft. In September 1915, Scaroni was assigned as a reconnaissance pilot to Squadriglia 4a. In January 1917, he was promoted to lieutenant and assigned to Squadriglia 43a. He was subsequently transferred to Squadriglia 86a and then to Squadriglia 76a as a fighter pilot.

On November 3, 1917, Scaroni submitted his first claim for an aerial victory, but it was neither confirmed nor recognized. On November 14, Scaroni scored his first official victory while flying a Nieuport 17. By December 19, he had scored six victories.

Scaroni scored the rest of his victories with a Hanriot HD.1 aircraft. With 26 victories, he became the second most successful pilot of this type of aircraft, right after Belgian Willy Coppens.

 

His success with the Hanriot began just four days later, when he scored his second victory on November 18. Victories the following day and two more on December 5 and 10 made him an ace in less than a month. He scored another victory on December 19. The day after Christmas, he became the top scorer in one of the most evenly matched aerial battles.

As he himself described in an article for Nel Cielo magazine, his airfield was attacked by ten enemy bombers. At 9 a.m., he shot down one of the bombers, which burned up. He then fought another for twenty minutes before it crashed. The observer jumped out of the wreckage and set it on fire to prevent its capture. Unfortunately, he set his own clothes on fire in the process. Even more unfortunate was that the pilot remained trapped under the wreckage and burned to death. Meanwhile, Scaroni's squadron mates shot down six more attackers. Scaroni ended the day by shooting down another, even larger bomber at 12:35 p.m. He thus ended the year with nine victories.
By June 16, 1918, he had racked up another ten victories. On that same day or the following day, he doubled his firepower by installing a second machine gun on his plane.
In June, he recorded four more kills, including two on July 25, when he had two confirmed and two unconfirmed kills on July 7, and one confirmed and one unconfirmed on July 12. The following day, he was wounded and did not participate in any more combat until the end of the war.

 

Scaroni, an unknown mechanic, and H.D. 1

 

In November 1926, Scaroni took part in the Schneider Trophy air race as part of his duties as Italian air attaché in the United States. The race took place near Washington, D.C., in Chesapeake Bay. Italy was represented in the race; they arrived with such high expectations of victory that, in violation of American Prohibition law, they smuggled celebratory Chianti wine into their seaplanes. When they had engine trouble, Scaroni suggested replacing the American spark plugs and gasoline with Italian ones. This solved their engine problems.
In 1933, Italy sent a military mission to aid the nationalist Chinese government. Around 1934, Colonel Scaroni established an aviation school for the Chinese Air Force in Luoyang as part of this mission in China. Its policy was that every student should graduate from the school. The aim was to win the favor of the parents of the air cadets from the ruling class and to undermine the popularity of the previously established flight school in Hangzhou, which was occupied and operated by the Americans according to the stricter standards of the US Army Air Corps. The mission in China lasted until 1936. Scaroni reportedly served there until 1937.
The Italian mission also established an aircraft factory that produced Fiat fighters and Savoia-Marchetti bombers under license.

During World War II, Scaroni commanded the Italian Air Force in Sicily.

H.D. 1, No. 7517
Download Scaroni H.D. 1

[Ringlett]

Current status:

 

 

 

Czechoslovak pilots' aircraft: 146

 

British Commonwealth: 108

 

Germany: 98

 

 

 

USA: 72

 

Russia: 44

 

France: 30

 

 

 

Italy: 17

 

Austria: 14

 

Austria: 14

 

Romania: 12

 

 

 

Hungary: 5

 

Poland: 5

 

Egypt: 3

 

Finland: 3

 

Greece: 3

 

Turkey: 2

 

Belgium: 2

 

Israel: 2

 

Japan: 2

 

Spain: 1

 

Netherlands: 1

 

Switzerland: 1

 

China: 1

 

Serbia: 1

 

Burma: 1

 

 

 

A total of 588 plus various unfinished projects (laziness, template errors, loss of interest), withdrawals due to excessive imperfection, and others.

 

 

 

Lately, the number has been growing quite slowly. This is due to wear and tear and other priorities.

 

 

[JGr2/J5_W0LF-]

Just curious are these on the Skin app 

[Ringlett]

Hanriot HD. 1

 

Franco Sarrocchi, 85a Squadrilia, Valona, Albania, summer 1918
Download Sarrocchi´s Hanriot

 

Mario Fucini, 78a Squadrilia, Istrana, Italia, spring 1918
Download Fucini´s Hanriot

 

Flavio Baracchini, 85a Squadrilia, Peshkep, Albania, spring 1918
Download Baracchini´s Hanriot

22 hours ago, JGr2/J5_W0LF- said:

Just curious are these on the Skin app 

Only links on this forum or here Ringlett skins on Czech internet page "World of virtual wings"

[Ringlett]

Who would like to shoot me, I am available....

 

Albatros D5, Camel & Tempest

 

But often just with the number 42, or AT*R, or just R.