Panther_99FS
Retired SOH Administrator

That must have been exciting Pat. I can only imagine the pride you must have felt.

Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery - Memorial Day 2012 by RedTail_Panther, on Flickr Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery - Memorial Day 2012 by RedTail_Panther, on Flickr

Looks like the Marussias have no grip to go along with no power....:blind::isadizzy:

A great model an great shots! But suddenly I realise that I have forgotten to show you the picture below. It is a picture from the Fairchild UC-61K Argus, taken in the Royal Army Museum in Brussels. I thought there was a sign explaining the history, but I'm afraid there wasn't. For those who didn't recognise it, it is the aircraft in Roger's first screenshot. Before the aircraft ended in the museum, it had flown with a French and Belgian civil registration. The aircraft has construction number 951 and is the ex F-BAMB and ex OO-LUT. I haven't got a clue what the marking on the right side of the nose stands for. Cheers, Huub

Fort Sam Houston cemetery is here in SATX. When I used to be on Honor Guard, I performed quite a few funerals there. Words can't describe the experiences...

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Do you really think out current police force look different? :icon_lol:

Every day I open this thread to look what beautiful shots have been added during my night. And I'm always pleasantly surprised to see how pretty FSX actually looks, like Walter already mentioned when he opened this thread! Keep posting! Huub

Becker entered the Fliegertruppe in 1916. After serving as an observer on the Eastern Front, he was trained as a pilot and sent to the Western Front to fly two-seaters. In May 1917, he was assigned to Jasta 12 as a single-seat fighting pilot. Becker scored his first victory on 6 June 1917. In May 1918, Becker assumed command of Jasta 12, replacing Ewald Blumenbach. On the afternoon of 3 November 1918, he scored his final victory, shooting down a SPAD XIII east of Joncq. During this dogfight, he and his men were credited with the loss of five SPADs. Although Becker was recommended for the Blue Max, the Kaiser's abdication prevented him from receiving it. With 30 years, Becker was an old pilot. Nearly all of his 23 victories were against "for those days" modern fighters. He survived the war, but there is not much more known about him. Strange, as we still know what his aircraft looked like in March 1918.....

Nice shots, the last one could have been taken over my country. I hope we will see a native Bf110 in FSX soon..... Cheers, Huub

Thanks John :salute: Ted

You're welcome Matt! Von Richthofen or the Red Baron is more or less synonym for a red Fokker Dr.1 "Driedecker". However van Richthofen scored only 19 from his 80 victories with a Fokker Dr.1. In most cases this Dr.1 was not even painted (overal) red. From the seven Fokker Dr.1s, from which it is know he has flown them, only two were painted completely red. The best known one is of course the 425/17, the aircraft in which he scored his last two victories and in which was killed. The other one is the 152/17 which originally only had red struts, wheel covers, tail and upper wing, like most Dr.1s von Richthofen flew. Later the 152/17 was painted overall red like the 425/17. When the 152/17 was on display in the Berlin Züghaus Museum is was completely red. I have painted the 152/17 as it originally looked, which is very similar to most of the Fokker D.1s von Richthofen flew. For those who want it: Its available in the file library.

LightRoom will become the Photographer's tool. It already does most of what Photoshop will do. I see LightRoom and maybe a beefier version of Elements becoming the photographer's tools. Adobe has said that Lightroom will remain a packaged downloadable product.....for the foreseeable future, at least. Another program that will do a lot of what PS does for a photographer is the Onone suite. It has a lot of PS's features and works with layers. I expect to see them add to the feature set. They are in a good position to grow with photographers. They are photographers.

Looks great! Huub

I'm almost positive I saw that in school as a child when we learned about Helen Keller....

Nice shots, I would love to see them (and hear them) once with my own eyes (and ears). The nice thing from modern technology is that I can see (and hear) them on You Tube. Not quite the same but a nice substitute. So thanks for the video. Cheers, Huub

Even in my small country there are already 2 flying replicas I know of, so you are most probably right when you think the number of replicas is close to the number of DR.Is originally built. For a period when photography was still something new an amazing amount of pictures were taken from the Fokker Dr.1. Personally I think the aircraft would have been forgotten already a long time when the guy above hadn't died in one. Manfred von Richthofen was made a myth by propaganda already during his life time. After his death people only continued to add to the story until he had turned into something which was completely invented and had no nothing to do with the real person von Richthofen. But ike Mikael Carson said in one of the interviews; when you build a replica it should be something people recognise. Well everybody has heard of the Red Baron, although most people think it is a guy with a big moustache and a pike on his helmet :icon_lol:. The myth around the red Baron leads to weird things. Like all the bad guys in the movie Flyboys fly in a red Fokker, while in reality even most of the 7 (!) different DR.Is van Richthofen flew, were painted only partly red! Fantasising about von Richthofen did also lead to the weird idea that some dogs can fly on top of their doghouse.......

For those who want it, the Voss repaint is available in the download section. Enjoy, Huub

beana, I see a bit of Jackie DeShannon in Duffy :mixedsmi:

Wombat, Looks to me like you're going to have "the time"....:ernae:

Thanks for the links John. Very interesting read and the demonstration in the second video gives a fine impression of what this aircraft actually could do. It gives whole new definitions of STOL, steep turns and fast climb. On of the nice things about repainting is that during your research you learn a lot about history. I never knew that all German aircraft manufactures used their own paint. Therefore the grayish light blue from Albatross is quite different than the turquoise Fokker used. Standards like RAL and RLM were not introduced yet. With engines which develop less power than the ordinary family car, all the weight counts! Therefore on Fokker aircraft the olive paint was applied as thin as possible. The (later) production models had the upper surfaces not painted turquoise, but the olive brush strokes were applied on the bare fabric and afterwards coated with two layers of varnish. The later lozenge fabric was mainly invented to reduce weight as the ink of the printed pattern weighted less than paint. This also explains a bit why Mikael Carlson's replica weights more than the original. Although I must admit not the full 80 Kilograms.... :isadizzy: Cheers, Huub

LOL can't count the times I bet my grandma's dog saw the answer to his prayers was the apple pie cooling in grandma's window sill! He licked that pie plate clean!

...but as the title indicates it is a thread about the paintlkit, I thought you wouldn't mind that I used to thread to mention I made some use of the piantkit as well :running: In August 1917 two prototypes of the Fokker tri-plane were delivered. The 102/17 went to Manfred von Richthofen and 103/17 was delivered to Werner Voss. Von Richthofen was not impressed, mainly because it was slower than the Albatross D.V it should replace and handed the aircraft over to Kurt Wolff. Although van Richthofen initially disliked the aircraft he made scored two victories with the 102/17. On 15 September Wolff was killed in this aircraft in a dogfight with Norman MacGregor. Aircraft number 103/17 was flown by Werner Voss who was impressed by maneuverability of the aircraft and later convinced von Richthofen about the qualities of the aircraft. The "face" on the engine cover is based on the images on Japanese flighter kites, which Voss used to fly with his cousins in Krefeld. The aircraft was equipped with a French Le Rhône engine which was more reliable than the German Oberursel copy. Voss was killed in this aircraft on 23 September after a fight with six aces from RAF 56 squadron. The aircraft were delivered in an overall turquoise finish with olive brush strokes over the upper surfaces. There is a lot of discussion about the colour of the engine and wheel covers. Some sources claim they were painted in the unit colour (yellow). However I haven't been able to find one single picture which supports this claim. Cheers, Huub

Reports in the Australia (18:00 EST) media are sad, 91 fatalities so far and many missing. :kilroy:

Busch is shooting for 2014 :mixedsmi:

Flyboy, most of Bob "Banana Bob" Riviera's prop blurs have been uploaded by OleBoy here in the file library at the SimOuthouse. Just do a search on "bob riviera" in the file library. Thanks for another beautiful repaint John! Cheers, Huub

Once again...a real winner!!! Thanks Paul:salute: Ted

Fokker DR.I in factory finish.

The #48 team did put together a good race & seemed to steadily work their way up. - Don't know what happened to Kahne there at the end - he really dropped off. - Seems like Kurt was only good in clean air - Danica did get some boos - is the "love affair" over? Hypothetical: - If Logano had been leading with Stewart in 2nd & Newman in 3rd, what would have happened? :icon_lol:

Although I fully understand your reasoning, I liked the site as it gave a such a nice clear overview of all your models. Thanks for maintaining it all these years! Huub

Thanks Paul, really appreciated! Huub

Gaucho, If that's you @ 75, you're livin damn well! :applause:

John there is a paint kit for this, its that same paint for the pavelow, you just have to just minus a few layers

nice work has anyone one done a upgrade to the VC textures, thats the only thing that stops me from reinstalling it these days,

for the people who may be struggling with the systems and or would like to know how i know the first one has happened, but theres another and theres some news coming out about something soon http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/topic/17144-dash8-q400-training/