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I couldn't let Mouce (RedMouse) have all the fun. I hope this isn't too clown... . Just for fun. The CandyApple Club. Link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o1krp3ujv51vqvcvetnwe/A-Candy.zip?rlkey=vpfgt82s440a6g9yfd7aoh4mc&dl=0

Rgr. Sounds good to me. If you want any help regarding the paint packs, please let me know. I'm available.

I thought that with a title of "Digital Crew Chief" that it was a Maintenance based sim

I'm currently focused on historical skins that don't necessarily have anything to do with JG1 and I'm thinking that these historical skins have no need to be in the skinpack (with the possible exception of the Walter Oesau skin https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3320924/). There is really no need to have JG1 members DL these historical skins unless they want to. Our squadron skins should be the only "mandatory" skins since they are for inter squad identification. Any historical should be announced in a separate thread here: @Klaiber, Should we pare down the current DCS skinpack? I would be happy to revise it.

This is the place for skins that are not part of the official JG1 skins.

Certainly none of the DDR Fishbeds were bare metal and I'm pretty sure that most other countries were not bare aluminum either. Plastic modelers are good at research. From Britmodeler.com: From Jyrki Laukkanen's book MiG-21 about MiG-21F-13 painting: General exterior finish: base coat AK-113F clear dope top coat AC-16 clear dope with 7% PAK-4 aluminium powder added High temperature resistant paint KO-814 on part of rear fuselage and other relevant areas. Finish over milled skin panels/plates: primer FL-086 mid coat clear dope 170A with 10% PAK-4 aluminium powder added top coat AC-16 dope (= overall) Radome and other glass fiber covers green EP-225 epoxy paint. I interpret the darker areas on the MiG-21F photo posted by Ray_W to be milled surfaces (load carrying areas with stronger/thicker alloy). FL-086 is high temperature resisting phenolformaldehyde primer of non-standardized yellow colour according this: https://chameleon.ru/special-coatings/heat-resistant-materials/gruntovka-fl-086.html BTW I have painted thin layer of yellow strontium chromate primer on bare (= not alclad) al7075 aluminium alloy and the resulting colour was oliveish green! This site says enamel KO-814 is prepared by mixing 100 parts of KO-85 varnish and 5 parts of aluminum powder: https://termika21.ru/product/termostoykie-emali/ko-814.html I think with 5% al powder the enamel is translucent. The "uniform grey" finishing system: During MiG-21F overhauls if corrosion status so dictated the plane was treated overall with uniform tone finish of: primer KF-030 clear dope 170A 10% PAK-4 aluminium powder added top coat AC-16 High temperature areas KO-814 paint as usual Laukkanen lists "uniform" tone has been on: MG-48, -61, -63, -65, -79, -91 and -92. So no natural metal for MiG-21F. These were Soviet finishes! Here's the link to that thread: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235109579-soviet-cold-war-era-aircraft-bare-aluminium-finishes/#comment-4390524 The USAF captured Fishbed from the "Have Doughnut" program looks to be bare metal. They may have stripped all paint as part of the examination process and to apply US markings. See photo. Most of the DDR ones were green camo but I did find this example of one apparently painted with the aluminum powder paint. East German Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21F-13 on display in the Military History Museum in Berlin, Gatow. Berlin, Germany March 24, 2013. The other photo.

Agree Super agree

Douglas A-20G Boston, A28-67 DU-V of No 22 Sqn., RAAF This A-20G was delivered in August 1944 and served with the Squadron until it was damaged in an air raid in October 1944 and was later reduced to components. Standard Olive Drab upper surfaces over Neutral Gray undersides. Note heavy weathering and darker shade of Olive Drab tail fin with Medium Green splotching on the rudder. I have included a generic version with selectable Bort letters. Link: TBD

Douglas A-20G Boston, A28-52 DU-C of No 22 Sqn., RAAF This A-20G was delivered in June 1944 and served with the Squadron until it was badly damaged at Morotai on 22 November 1944. It was subsequently written off and reduced to spares. Note the larger diameter fuselage roundel proportions. This A-20G was possibly painted in the field with the original Olive Drab being painted over with RAAF Foliage Green whilst still retaining its Neutral Gray undersides. I have included a generic version with selectable Bort letters. Link: TBD

A-20G Havoc ser. no.43-9521 nicknamednamed "LITTLE CHIEF" of the 321st BS, 90th BG "Jolly Rogers", New Guinea. Nicknamed "Little Chief" with the nose art of a woman wearing a leather jacket with a 90th Bomb Group patch, her legs resting on boxes stenciled "Gin Cairns" and her head on a parachute with "521" below her arm. This A-20 was used as a "fat cat" for flight from New Guinea to Australia for fresh food and alcohol, essentially a beer run hack. Why Little Chief? The B 24 in the same bomber group, was Big Chief. I have included a generic version without the Little Chief nose art. Not historically correct since the Jolly Rogers were pretty much a B-24 squadron but who doesn't like a shiny, bare aluminum aircraft. Link: TBD

In case anyone isn't aware I'm posting this here in our forum. This has also been posted numerous places. See it here at the IL2 Sturmovik Great Battles forum: https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/85881-jg1-is-proud-to-present-the-next-acme-event-aces-over-crimea/ All JG1 members are highly encouraged to participate, if able and interested but participation is in no way mandatory. ACME Discord server: https://discord.gg/QcQ2AcwZhz

I was at a supermarket for shopping today and noticed smoke trails over San Francisco. It was the Blue Angels performing for our local fleet week. Of course, I was mesmerized and watched from the balcony which had an excellent view. The performance box was about 12 miles away. What really struck me was the intensity of the canopy glints (it might also have been reflections on the gloss paint scheme that the Blues have). It was like high intensity strobelights going off. None of the sims that we fly reflect this as far as I know. Cliffs of Dover did to some extent. I've flown in RL for many years but never really pay'd attention to this phenomena and can't remember anything this impressive. This was intense.

The second post (by @k98_zock_tv47) in the comments section in Youtube pretty much sums up my feelings. Paraphrased: "Anyway, nowadays the game becomes a dogfight simulator only. There are only few servers which are playable and to be honest - they are not that good either. Nor Finnish is realistic and certainly not the warm up server called Wings of Liberty. You want to play exclusivly only on Rheinmald / Normandy ? Go than for Combat Box. You want P38 Lightnings over Stalingrad and a ground target cluster with tank garages? Go than for Finnish. You want to never fly with your buddies together? Play on TAW, if you get a seat there. On which server, beside on TAW (all 2-3 months if you are lucky and the crew did not just split up) can you fly during night - at cloud overcast of 400m during a snow storm? Nowhere, right? Flying the old prop planes is more than just a sunny safari without clouds. Its more than dogfighting. Ground attackers and bombers did not got big love - not from the devs, not from the server creators. There are no events, not a dedicated very good server from the developers, in fact - they should care with such a MP server for the community." DCS suffers from this in WWII and Cold War also and the minimum amounts of WWII and Redfor Cold War planes is also stifling robust multiplayer. For IL2, the fact that the Devs haven't been posting regular news isn't such a big deal for me. I'm okay to wait until there is concrete news. There have been regular patches with new content. I have no idea how affected SP is on the whole but SP people are also complaining on the forums. The decline in players may also be due to the fact that both games are well past middle age at this point. EDIT: Enigma makes good points about the two Mission Editors. We have several people in JG1 who can make missions for DCS (in various levels of complexities according to skill levels / experience) but currently only one in IL2 due to it's super steep learning curve.

Nice!

Another one

Here's a first draft. I make no claims to being a graphic designer and have no sense for fonts so I am completely open to suggestions.

Here's a bunch of screenshots that I took from last night's recordings. I've reduced them in size for posting here. I'll be choosing a few to further work on in Photoshop. Any thoughts?

Another A-20G: https://forum.dcs.world/topic/334132-a-20g-skins-update/#comment-5296810

I saw this in our Discord in Schmenkel #cw-notams. A Google search seems to have the consensus that it's perfectly fine to do this. I'm going to give it a shot. Enigma's Server #server-announcementsSERVER — Today at 11:46 AM Disclaimer: We aren't liable if this breaks your shit. So do this at your own risk. Someone on our discord posted this fix and a few of us tried it out and it greatly increased performance in DCS. I am just posting this out for visibility so people can see if this works. We are just one server and if this fix helps you then word will get out to help the other players across the game in all the other servers. Deleting the files located here improved my FPS and stability in DCS. %AppData\Local\NVIDIA\DXCCache

A-20G skin (AI only). Link to post in DCS forum: https://forum.dcs.world/topic/334132-a-20g-skins/ USAF_Little Joe_New Guinea.zip

https://il2sturmovik.com/news/815/update-5106-lisunov-li-2-albatros-dii-nieuport-17-/?_gl=1*9qm0w7*_ga*MjgzMTAxNS4xNjkyOTkxNzg5*_ga_M3ND9NY3EC*MTY5NTI0NzM0Ni4zOC4xLjE2OTUyNDc0MDQuMC4wLjA.

Here's Snaggle's Dora v_!_JG1_FW-190D9_Snaggle.zip

Looks great!

I just installed OVGME after deleting my old JSGME. Do you guys who use OVGME have it pointed to the main game folder or the Saved Games folder? I see that you can set-up two separate OVGMEs with one pointed to main game and one to Saved Games. Is there an advantage to doing this?