I have had three flights today with a Hurricane and still have three to go. I had
had a slightly poorer flying performance than yesterday with a Spitfire, due to the beauties of the latter... Nothing is plain sailing and we all have our highs and lows...
I was top marksman in Quick Combat with 3 wingmen against the challenge of enemy Jap Betties, weak opponents especially chosen, thinking to make things easier for me... And yes, Spits had shot down Betties over Burma in the war. The poor Jap geezers did not have a chance, and--- running as fas as their engines could carry them--- did not manage to save their necks.
Last, but certainly not least, I shot up barracks at Midway for target practice but could not destroy the large hangars there with my guns. Midway is my favorite shooting ground, as it has all kinds of targets.
As Members know, I am a recent member of the Special Simouthouse Honorary and Shameless Repaint Service, and I have been actively engaged in making repaints recently along fairly discreet lines of style.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly have responded to my skins, in analogous ways as their posting habit categories indicate. I have even managed to squeeze in a repaint a friend needed for Italy missions. However, I am not word-logged by posters neither am I water-logged yet in my own repainting bathtub. I can always count on Rami to put misbehavers in order and reward the saints and to also help me upload my repaints--a normal site uploading act I am totallling incapable of doing properly...
I have been in intense discussion with myself as to what repaints to do next--French minor but interesting aircraft like the ANF 115 and 117, German Me-210's, or RAF Hurricanes...I may wind up with some monstrous two-engine contraption in the end. No conclusions reached yet.
For obvious reasons, this relationship with skins, began under Photoshop tutorials, though I learned mostly alone in the end--like most things in life.
For less obvious reasons, I have painted gouaches and oils and watercolors all my life and have also made hundreds of plastic kits with enamel and acrylic paint on them. What next then? “Watch this space”, as they say in Fleet Street, for forthcoming projects.... I normally pre-announce my products to protect the local readers on this forum from the fire and misfire of my aircraft. I give them time to dive into the nearest hole for cover...
Best Regards and do not take me seriously.
This has merely been a "something different", to break the routine.
Nick from Athens