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    May 18th, 2013, 17:53
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread Daughter graduating from High School in The NewsHawks
    Don't I wish... I retired from the Army in 85! No regrets though... I hope I make it to 114 - provided health holds...
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    May 18th, 2013, 13:37
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread Daughter graduating from High School in The NewsHawks
    I graduated from High School in 1954!
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    May 18th, 2013, 11:37
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread P-47 "Joan" in FSX General Discussion
    I follow your repaints religiously... they are the best... keep up the good work:wiggle::salute::applause::applause::applause::applause:
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    May 18th, 2013, 11:31
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread Daughter graduating from High School in The NewsHawks
    After I retired in 85, I still worked for the Army as a contractor in Italy... and in sometime in 89 or 90 I went to organize and teach an EMT course in Stuttgart along with another Hispanic doctor and a senior nurse. And they had just started construction on a new American High School... well, guess what... they were closing down Stuttgart and taking most dependents out... BUT THE HIGH SCHOOL STILL HAD TO BE FINISHED!!! by contract with a German engineering company!!!! Anyway... fortunately, I think Stuttgart came back to life with the Gulf War 2, etc. and they put it to use eventually... haven't been back that way (was over in Landstuhl until 2009 when we finally came back home to sunny California) Now we are going back for a year to Schweinfurt... my wife decided to take a contract for a year to medically process out the folks from Iraq and Afghanistan [she was in Kabul for 18 months) and retired from a Navy job here in San Diego... We have lived in Germany on and off for many years... still have a house in Vicenza, Italy which I hope to sell this time... getting too old to go there, especially in the winter.
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    May 18th, 2013, 11:12
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread Just finished a new 2D panel for the Storch.. in FS 2002/2004 General Discussion
    Just redid this Fuerza Aerea Bolivariana of Venezuela panel... the other textures need very little work...
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    May 18th, 2013, 08:12
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread USS Oriskany SCB-27C/125A in FSX General Discussion
    :wiggle: Whatever happened to the neat little menu that used to come up when you upload images? The one showing what one has on file at SOH... so you can upload them to a message without going back to your computer archives... Also, how can one upload a larger image beyond the resizing to 1024 by 768 (or whatever) allowable by the upload program... I've seen very large images on the forum... but never learned how to do it... Anybody else's help welcome...
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    May 18th, 2013, 07:57
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread Texturing in The Paint Shop_Skinnin' Your Game!
    Very fine modeling!!! :applause::applause::applause: One little thing... if possible, make the textures large enough to give room for detailing and repainting... very simple renditions can be turned into excellent more or less realistic replicas depending on the talents of the repainters :wiggle::icon_lol: The actual profile size is in PSP 800 dpi 3000 x 2000 - as you can see there still some detail even in this very small jpg
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    May 18th, 2013, 07:30
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread USS Oriskany SCB-27C/125A in FSX General Discussion
    The term "font" comes from the printer's lexicon going back decades if not centuries... Before Windows hardly anyone outside the business used it... Now, if you are trying to reproduce it for a repaint... to my knowledge... the US Navy of the reference picture I don't think you will find it in any list of fonts... for the original lettering on Navy aircraft and ships was simply called "block lettering" with mitered corners inside and outside which was used semi-standardized until the early sixties... (not all assets were the same because they were hand or spray painted by different people in different units, and some were made into giant size decalcomanias (decals for short) fairly standardized). In the late sixties this type of lettering was replaced (for quite a while) by a similar type with inside corners not mitered. .
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    May 17th, 2013, 16:18
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread Just finished a new 2D panel for the Storch.. in FS 2002/2004 General Discussion
    Started a remake of an MC 202 whose textures are amenable to render a really nice, quality product... The textures, like the panel, fit very well and the model flies and looks pretty well even as is... The panel is a bit primitive, but it can be made to look pretty nice...
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    May 17th, 2013, 08:51
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread Just finished a new 2D panel for the Storch.. in FS 2002/2004 General Discussion
    Here is my version of the A-10 2D panel... As usual always available through PM and return e-mail... you do your own config.
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    May 15th, 2013, 15:29
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread Just finished a new 2D panel for the Storch.. in FS 2002/2004 General Discussion
    Just finished a new take on the Vindicator panel...
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    May 14th, 2013, 20:52
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread Just finished a new 2D panel for the Storch.. in FS 2002/2004 General Discussion
    While ago I redid the textures of a very rare naval fighter of the early 50s very nicely developed by the master Kazunori Ito... so I decided to spruce up the panel - which as we all know is not quite masterfully done by Ito (I don't think painting is amongst Ito's plethora of talents... or does he cares...) The textures came out quite nice I think... and if you have the model and want to improve it...just send me a PM and you can have them by return email...
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    May 14th, 2013, 14:05
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread Just finished a new 2D panel for the Storch.. in FS 2002/2004 General Discussion
    I think the Dassault Etendard is one heck of elegant looking aircraft... Here is a tribute to those crazy argentine gauchos that gave their all for a futile cause....
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    May 14th, 2013, 12:54
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread Your Opinion on my Bombay Baboon in CFS2 General Discussion
    I would begin by cleaning the edges of the primate (white ) on the color borderline with the black background... After all, a real life paint would have smooth edges... this looks obviously like a cut and paste job... Now you see... that is what your comments on Allen paint job of the Baltimore sounds like... Not very nice to say things like that, is it? Let's be sensitive to peoples efforts however meager they might seem... it is their best shot... I think the cartoon is cute... and your effort not bad... of course, I am a consummate graphic artist and could go on like the beginning of my post... In other words, keep trying you are doing fine... One thing I learned in my 75 years is that folks who live in glass houses should be careful when they throw stones....
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    May 14th, 2013, 12:44
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread Martin Baltimore V colors in CFS2 General Discussion
    Back when I was a young pup (and used to belong to IPMS) I was equally pedantic about RLM color chips, etc. Then in 1969, I spent a nice one year vacation on the then Republic of Viet Nam courtesy and commission appointment of President LBJ... There I saw more aircraft than you can count with the fingers and toes... of a battalion... NOT TWO OF THEM... had the same color shades... and I mean... the camouflage patterns and all... were dissimilar... I discovered (how naīve can one be) that UV radiation, heat, rain, condensation, etc. and myriad other phenomena can change factory finish colors... Even natural metal changes... I got a ride to visit my parents in Uruguay from Gen. Maxwell, then commander of Howard AFB in Panama just before I went to war... and you should have seen his personal C-118... gleaming like the chrome on a 1957 Buick! While waiting for my ride, his crew chief showed me around the aircraft... I was astounded by the gleaming finish... and he confided in this super-green Captain that he had orders to cannibalize any C-118 passing through Howard for any parts that where newer or shinier than the Old Man's mount... Similar aircraft in Viet Nam, Germany, etc. later seen in my military career were more often than not very oxidized and dull... uneven shine panels, etc. So you see... rivet counters out there... dwelling on the precise color saturation or shade is purely a pedantic and... in my modest opinion... futile endeavor...
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    May 12th, 2013, 11:18
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread Martin Mars - Pan American World Airways v1.0 in FSX General Discussion
    This links surely works... on FSX Library.... I got to it on FS9 Library before... didn't work as such... but did bring it up skipping the virtavia, etc. At any rate... the link as you suggested just now... DOES WORK:salute::jump::jump::jump:
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    May 12th, 2013, 08:15
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread Just finished a new 2D panel for the Storch.. in FS 2002/2004 General Discussion
    As you can see by the number of hits... a lot of folks seem to follow this thread... so changing the name - in my modest opinion - would only confuse people... I think the name of the thread is not really that important... Here's my last addition... a nice revisit of an old 2d panel by some Japanese designer whose name escapes me at the moment... again... the basic panel was worth the little time spent improving it...
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    May 12th, 2013, 08:06
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread Martin Mars - Pan American World Airways v1.0 in FSX General Discussion
    I found it by using only Martin etc. instead of the long name mentioned in the post... Instead of the "virtavia_martin_mars_paa_v1.0.zip" just use "martin_mars_paa_v1.0" (no .zip either)
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    May 11th, 2013, 20:41
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread A Riddle for fun in CFS2 General Discussion
    It is either a brown shirt or the Arbeiter Korps... but no spade... therefore...I'll go with the Sturm Abteilung...
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    May 10th, 2013, 12:49
    Matt Wynn replied to a thread VIRTAVIA SALE in FS 2002/2004 General Discussion
    *Running over the Horizon laughing like a maniac* i'm like Ian, paying off my bills.. but my thinking is "Sod it...." so i'm eyeing up a few :icon_lol: thanks for the H/U! :salute:
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    May 9th, 2013, 08:08
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread Just finished a new 2D panel for the Storch.. in FS 2002/2004 General Discussion
    It cleans up fairly nice... Before I proceed further with it.. a question if anyone knows about it... is the paint scheme correct for mid to late forties Aussie markings to display the wing roundels only on the undersurfaces?
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    May 8th, 2013, 21:23
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread Just finished a new 2D panel for the Storch.. in FS 2002/2004 General Discussion
    Just downloaded an Avro Lincoln (rare specimen for me..:mixedsmi:) last of the Brit heavy prop bombers... in Aussie colors... already redid the panel and started on the wings... very interesting thing... somewhat intriguing in looks... sort of a odd looking airframe...
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    May 8th, 2013, 09:20
    Matt Wynn replied to a thread What FS9 Is In Need Of in FS 2002/2004 General Discussion
    if i can shape a wing and a tailplane, cut a rudder and cap the holes in a day you lot'll have no trouble :)
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    May 8th, 2013, 04:30
    Matt Wynn replied to a thread SpaceShip Two goes supersonic in The NewsHawks
    SSTwo is fuelled by a mixutre of Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) and Nitrous Oxide, HTPB is a translucent liquid (and the Butadiene element is a monomer in the production of Synthetic rubber) and though highly viscous is tricky to ignite, needing temperatures of over 700 Degrees Kelvin...; tC=tK-273.5 (Simple Physics equation opposite of converting Celsius TO Kelvin, tK=tC+273.5) means to ignite it requires a pre-charge of about 426.85 Degrees Celsius to start the chain reaction going... that first flame is the RM2 Control System on the SS2, which is used to open the oxidisers and fires an ignition charge....
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    May 7th, 2013, 06:34
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread Just finished a new 2D panel for the Storch.. in FS 2002/2004 General Discussion
    The Opensky Project 145 is just too cool to believe for a freeware! :applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause: and so easy to repaint... no need for a kit or anything else.... did a Brazilian first and then found this Belgian Air Force livery that is just so nice just to look at...
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    May 6th, 2013, 20:07
    Matt Wynn replied to a thread What FS9 Is In Need Of in FS 2002/2004 General Discussion
    likewise... i've started learning to model Aircraft myself, it's a long road... but patience and perseverance pay off.... still a long ways off anything but i have an FK Lightplanes FK14 Fuselage that displays in sim... and that's about it... still needs cutting etc... it was started a while ago as a joint venture, but only now am i willing to pick it back up and get going....
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    May 5th, 2013, 11:55
    gaucho_59 replied to a thread BH23 Piper L4 Grasshopper by UncleTgt in CFS2 General Discussion
    Working on de-mirroring an enhancing textures.... Got it to show a little better the fabric covering and ribs effect (still need to work on its relative saturation and transparency) I think the serial number display is right on... (working now on sorting the de-mirroring) and still have to see about introducing transparencies and bracing for the enlarged sides and back window that distinguish the Grasshopper from a regular Cub.. as well as getting that darn pilot in the front seat!!!
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    Carlos,
    Great about the gauges! That's a terrain that I didn't explore yet. I'm afraid it would take me too much time to do myself and I think it's great to make this a 'group effort'. Shall I send you a beta of the S.IV and the D.XVI ?

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    You estuve en Sinai (Egipto) con la MFO y alli conoci un monton the uruguayos (you iba por 2 meses varias veces al aņo desde Italia, donde vivi por mas the 20 aņos cuando me retire del US Army ) dado que el contigente oriental se cambiaba cada 6 meses...
    (Un batallon de logistica e ingenieros)... Yo sali de Uruguay en 1959 a estudiar medicina en USA y durante la guerra en Viet Nam fui comisionado official y me quede en el Army por 22 aņos... ahora volvia California... pero en Agosto o Setiembre volvere a Italia por uno o dos aņos... mi esposa que ahora esta en Afghanistan va a trabajar en Vicenza por ese tiempo hasta jubilarse.... Vamos a ir a Uruguay el Febrero proximo por un mes...
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    El castellano no se me olvida nunca... eu falo portugues tambem... morei no Brasil in Rio Grande do Sul por dois anos... molto tempo fa pero... (italian... lol) You should come to Palm Springs and talk to
    this restaurant that purpots to be a "churrasqueria" and tell them how it's done in Brazil...lol
    At any rate...we do have enough languages to communicate... I reworked the textures on the last plane you posted... (including the cockpit) and I would like you to see it... I am not much on technical bits of the sim.. but a fairly experienced aeronautical illustrator..
    I have an old site you might want to check: http://westwood.fortunecity.com/chanel/132/index.html
    I like what you did with this model... and think maybe we could collaborate in future projects...
    I am a retired US Army officer who lived in Europe for the last 24 years or so...
    Let me know an email where I can mail the textures to you...
    Ate' poco...
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    If you wish, we can talk in Spanish. I'm Brazilian and we talk Portuguese, a very similar language. I learn Spanish when I lived in Paraguay at the 70's...

    You choose a fine place to live.

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