Vonrd
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This looks pretty good! Download link: https://drive.filen.io/d/1a499758-63aa-43b8-8fdd-dea14cb467f7#VAvbNSmQojw7tOrfVJE07Ud0nYdqfRML
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Winter is coming... Starts at 2:00
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Latest Playing for Change
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Those have gotta be some major coinage. I wouldn't have the guts to raise the collective. And a Hip Scale helicopters look more realistic in the air than most fixed wing scale planes since they can fly at a slower speed.
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How do you do that and why?
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https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/news/changelog/openbeta/2.9.0.47168/
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Those of us running servers for IL2, @Moxy, @Kliegmann, @Wittmann. Be aware that there was an update for IL2 today and the servers will likely need updating as well.
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This event is strictly player vs. player (with minor exceptions in AI supply columns, trains, ships and AI guns / tanks at capture points. The guns / tanks are not mobile). The success of this event is highly dependent on player participation. Last Saturday's dry run attendance was low, therefore for maximin team play, it will require your attendance. Especially tankers. Registration is encouraged, for team balance, but all are welcome and will be included. There have not been many events well attended recently in IL2 Great Battles (with the possible exception of JG5s Black September) and there are discussions in the community that online events are currently in a downward spiral. Come join us and prove that wrong! https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/85881-jg1-is-proud-to-present-the-next-acme-event-aces-over-crimea/#comment-1288502
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Some good points here. For sure get the latest graphics driver. I initially had a complete PC crash. Updating driver fixed it. I also got the latest CPU driver to be safe. He makes a good point about allowing time for the fxo and metashader files to re-build. I always delete them prior to any update.
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I've looked around but can't really find anything on Nvidia Control Panel settings. I haven't changed anything from what I had in the past. Anyone have some info?
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Thought I'd start a thread for DCS 2.9 rather than having scattered posts hiding in other threads. Jabbers has a good video about DLSS. Especially good regarding shadows:
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Tutorial on the Voice Chat:
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https://forum.dcs.world/topic/170893-dcs-world-changelog-and-updates-of-open-beta/page/8/#comment-5306717
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I thought that with a title of "Digital Crew Chief" that it was a Maintenance based sim 🤣
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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.
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This is the place for skins that are not part of the official JG1 skins.
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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.
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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
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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
