Just some screenshots from P2 to 'show OFF'

Hey Stumpy,
you still have that in mind ?!
i guess i would get over it with P3 and your "Ilya Mourometz" Sikorsky :applause:. But the Taube WOULD BE REALLY NICE :jump:
I have tons of screenshots, and i did most to demonstrate something - unfortunately i never looked at it again, finding them finally in the OFF folder, and having forgotten why i made them lol ..
Anyway the first pic was taken to demonstrate the unbelievable long shots from those sniper AI planes (here a Camel shooting at my barely visible Hannover). The RE8 in the clouds was just a magic sight in-game, i did some careers in it, and was a terrible bomb dropper (the hitting score was terrible hrrm).

Greetings,
Catfish
 
OMF . . taube!!

Taube! Taube! Taube! :jump:
Totally useless and all that but, what if there were early
reconn missions and that sort of thing!
 
Here is an Se5 paintjob I was working on. I abandoned it though as the model of the Se5 in P3 is gonna be brand new. I am gonna rework it for P3 though.
Hope you like it :jump:
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Don't forget that Phase 3 has 2 versions for the SE5:

Viper powered with 2 blade prop, no headrest

HS powered with 4 blade prop, gunsight and headrest

Examples below :applause:
 
Hello,
great SE5a skins, both of them !!

Thanks to Gimpy, i knew of this site, however it seems there are more and more photos there - so it is well worth looking at again - much more "Tauben" than 3 months ago !

It is bad that the wing warping cannot be shown in this sim, but i would like the Taube anyway (did i say this often enough :icon_lol:).

This Taube (=dove) bird was not bad at all, in fact it was one of the first that could be flown "artistically", from barrel rolls, loopings, flying inverted to recovering from stalls and spins (which was neither easy nor common with those early birds).

The Taube was a very stable plane, its wing developed from the Zanonia seed, not from a bird as one might think. You could take your hands from the controls, and it would still fly on straight and level, you could then steer it by shifting the pilot's position alone. There are even stories where a Taube started alone without a pilot, and landed with an empty tank, and without damage, some 2 hours later on an open field, and there are some similar stories about different Taube planes - however this refers to the T. built by Igo Etrich, and later Rumpler, who cheated Etrich and his patents for the plane. The later Albatros-built and steel doves behaved different.

Those good-natured properties and its smooth flying without much vibrations made it a perfect reconnaissance plane for taking photos etc. but it was simply too stable and slow to evade attackers - a good scout had to be fast and virtually unstable, like the N11, or the DR.I. After all the Taube was not intended to be used in a war in 1912.

B.t.w. during the first time of the war the Taube was indeed used for all kinds of missions, and all german planes were at first called "Taube" by the french, even e.g. an LVG B.I

Thanks and greetings,
Catfish

This is not a Taube ...
 
Great screenshots there lads. More than good enough to have as wallpaper on my desktop. Is there any trade secret to it or is a straight forward procedure??
 
Hello,
was it ctrl-F11 to make a screenshot ? Or ctrl-print ? You can find or adjust the setting in your "mine" control setting file, while you are at the airfield via "Escape", and then "control settings". I have the screenshot set to "ctrl-screen down".

All screenshots are usually dropped into your ""CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields" folder under the "My documents" folder.

Greetings,
Catfish
 
Nice skins and models Sand :mixedsmi:. Looking forward to get to work with them! :jump:.
 
Well painted, Gousgounis; you seem to know how to keep the original weathering traces, bolts and rivets etc. With Photoshop you can do everything you want on them skins. Maybe, I'll thread a kind of workshop about it in the new year (with the help of a native Canadian friend).
Have a nice Christmas time.
Olham
 
Looks much more realistic than the all white edition, which heads toward my question. In WWII the underbelly always, and sometimes the lower surface of the wing, would be sky blue, inorder that they'd be more difficult to spot, while in flight. Any of that in WWI ? :kilroy:
 
Thanks Olham and Gimpy.
The black wings are for camouflage while flying under heavy clouds :kilroy:
But why not? Maybe Ill paint the undercarriage blue in another version :ernae:
 
Yes, Gimpy, some of the German planes did already have sky blue fuselage bellies in WW1, wings even mostly, it seems. In WW2, the Germans used Sky blue first, and later a light blue-grey, whilst the British had an egg shell green, which was more towards torquoise.
 
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