Heinrich

This is just awesome
 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxhDk-hwuo&t=306s

I visit this site every day: http://ww2today.com/
 
For me always interesting, sometimes with subjects I never heard of, some horrible and often sad stories of men and women trying to do their task or even beyond that.
Although we are just sim pilots I have compassion with especially the pilots reading their stories, no matter if he's flying a B-17, Mosquito or Bf-109.
By reading it every day you see the war developing. 
For instance I never saw the relation between the events leading to D-Day, I get the impression (which will never be confirmed) that the 24/7 bombing had an extra purposes: to provoke German leadership in reviving the bombing campaign on Britain and exhausting the fighter pilots capacity in their numbers and experience.
Thus causing heavy losses which couldn't be sustained, while the Allies could, and thereby reducing the threat of them for the coming invasion.
Even the slow progress made in Italy seems more a binding of forces than a will to defeat them.
 
 
Someone familiar to us: http://ww2today.com/17th-november-1943-luftwaffe-fighter-ace-knoke-meets-reich-marshal-goring
 
Never knew this: http://ww2today.com/4th-october-1943-uss-ranger-planes-attack-german-ships-in-norway
 
WARNING: don't start browsing, it will eat up your day.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sorry Boss, was revering to real life in same conditions.
I know you think high of me 

Welcome Cfbgaming, 
 
nice to have an extra European with us.

Congratulations to you all, well done.
Also to Klaiber, not all commanders are that quick in appreciating their soldiers.

Rest easy, fellas.

Thanks.
Well all streaks have to end one way or another, but I didn't realized it was 64 sorties.

No worries, Heinrich, we all knew your intent, just the typo made it humorous

That's terrible I have edited it. Sorry
 
It was tint, but than it showed as wrong and came up with t***t. A check with S3-Translator, showed in Dutch exactly what I was trying to say.
US English is already difficult enough now I have to check another dictionary as well, thank you Vonrd
 
Okay, I'm dead again, my weekend is gone to smithereens 

That's terrible I have edited it. Sorry
 
It was tint, but than it showed as wrong and came up with t***t. A check with S3-Translator, showed in Dutch exactly what I was trying to say.
US English is already difficult enough now I have to check another dictionary as well, thank you Vonrd
 
Okay, I'm dead again, my weekend is gone to smithereens 

That's terrible I have edited it. Sorry
 
It was tint, but than it showed as wrong and came up with t***t. A check with S3-Translator, showed in Dutch exactly what I was trying to say.
US English is already difficult enough now I have to check another dictionary as well, thank you Vonrd
 
Okay, I'm dead again, my weekend is gone to smithereens 

Gross

I have a feeling that Heinrich won't get this...
Heinrich, Google the urban dictionary for the word "taint"  

Tint is what Heinrich was trying to say, but yeah, my first reaction was the same.

Fully agree. I think color in itself is a difficult subject, very difficult. Talk with my girlfriend.
I painted the walls in my house in a blue tint, my girlfriend talks about the green walls, I still see them as blue, and that's just one item 
 
Colors depend on the light which strikes it. Morning, noon, evening sunlight give the same surface a different reflection. Noon in the tropics gives a different effect than at the Polar Circle.
I use most of the time Vallejo colors, but you're not going to find my body in a ditch over the argument that their Black Green is the correct RLM 70.
In the past when using photo film I liked Agfa, because to me Fuji was to green, Kodak to blue. But that was how I saw it.
 
I use the template above as an start point, but comparing it to the rare color pictures makes me sometimes alter it just a little. Am I wrong? Is the picture correctly colored? When was it taken?
With all you're modeling experience, I think I will like each skin or model you produce.

Thanks for responds guys. I reworked skins, especially alpha channel. Skins pack contain all skins what were above (updated and reworked) and one new skin - I maked another version of Grislawski plane as well - now with yellow bottom marks.
 
Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/odyndagxb31bf7r/Fw-190A-8_1.JG1_Skins_set.zip/file
 
Pictures:
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-7 "White 9", Hptm. Alfred Grislawski, 1./JG1, early 1944, version 1 with red bottom marks

 
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-7 "White 9", Hptm. Alfred Grislawski, 1./JG1, early 1944, version 2 with yellow bottom marks

 
Focke-Wulf 190 A-7 "Red 13", Major Heinz Bär, II./JG1, Rheine, March 1944

 
Fw-190A-7, Stab I./JG 1, pilot Technischer-Offizier der I./JG 1 oberleutnant Wilhelm Krebs, Dortmund airfield, january 1944    Focke-Wulf 190 A-8 "White 23", Stab I./JG1, Greifswald, November-December 1944 - this plane participated at Boddenplatte actions

S! All,

The following JG I pilots are being recognized for their actions during Session A2 of Flanders In Flames 2019 "Winter Campaign" (flown on 9 February 2019).

Congratulations!

. . .

Iron Cross 2nd Class

Gfr. Carl Wolf, Jasta 6 (session #A2, 9 February 2019), posthumously, for the destruction of 2 enemy aircraft within one gunner streak. Honor Goblet for the Victor in Air Combat

Gfr. Carl Wolf, Jasta 6 (session #A2, 9 February 2019), posthumously, for the destruction of 1 enemy aircraft within one gunner streak. Wound Badge 1918: Silver Class

Sgt. Lothar Loopy, Jasta 10 (session #A2, 9 February 2019), prisoner-of-war, for being wounded in action 3 times within one streak. German Army Report

Hptm. Fritz Butzzell, Jasta 11 (session #A2, 9 February 2019), prisoner-of-war, for gallantry in battle, but also extraordinary fidelity and essential service. [good streak - 1 air victory, 2 ground victories, and 1 wounded-in-action, over 4 sorties.] Oblt. Richard (Vonrd) Ausweichen, Jasta 10 (session #A2, 9 February 2019), prisoner-of-war, for gallantry in battle, but also extraordinary fidelity and essential service. [good streak - 3 air victories, 1 ground victory, and 1 wounded-in-action, over 4 sorties.] Sgt. Lothar Loopy, Jasta 10 (session #A2, 9 February 2019), prisoner-of-war, for gallantry in battle, but also extraordinary fidelity and essential service. [good streak - 1 air victory, and 3 wounded-in-actions, over 4 sorties.] Lt. Peter Pragr, Jasta 6 (session #A2, 9 February 2019), posthumously, for gallantry in battle, but also extraordinary fidelity and essential service. [good streak - 6 ground victories, over 3 sorties.] Hptm. Wilhelm (Wiley) Luftritter, Jasta 4 (session #A2, 9 February 2019), posthumously, for gallantry in battle, but also extraordinary fidelity and essential service. [good streak - 2 air victories, 2 ground victories, and 1 wounded-in-action, over 4 sorties.]

New planes will be  We need a couple of time for testing - FM and DM is not the same like at the RoF (thanks God  ) If you liked D.VII/D.VIIF at the RoF - you will love them at the FC 

All,
 
Upon reviewing the FIF stats from Session A1 and Session A2 of the FIF2019 Winter Campaign, it's come to my attention that a number of pilots from both the Blue Team and Red Team are not waiting the full 5-minutes before hitting refly.
 
This is a violation of our tournament rules, as that 5-minute wait is supposed to simulate refueling and rearming of aircraft.  Additionally, the 5-minute wait is designed to make the aerial engagements more realistic by preventing air quake scenarios (where pilots instantly take off to aid their team mates who are dogfighting nearby).
 
All pilots must wait a full 5-minutes before hitting refly!
 
Here is the exact wording, taken from the Refly Rules (Friendly Territory and No Man's Land) section.
 
http://forum.jg1.org/topic/2216-flanders-in-flames-ruleset/?p=17545&do=findComment&comment=17545
 
 
Commanders, please take note of this rule and remind your pilots to wait 5-minutes before reflying.
 
If I continue to notice violations moving forward, I'll start sending out written warnings to specific pilots.
 
Thanks!

Hello Skinners,
 
I found this document in my archives, thought it could be handy for creating the RLM colors.
RLM.doc

Here is a video of a sortie from last weekend's FiF session. DavJack and I worked very well together, and I wish I had our first engagement as well, but sadly I wasn't recording.
 

S! All,

The following JG I pilots are being recognized for their actions during Session A1 of Flanders In Flames 2019 "Winter Campaign" (flown on 2 February 2019).

Congratulations!

. . .

Honor Goblet for Successful Attacks from the Air

Gfr. Carl Wolf, Jasta 6 (session #A1, 2 February 2019), for the destruction of 1 enemy ground target within one gunner streak.  
Prussian Air Gunner Badge

Gfr. Carl Wolf, Jasta 6 (session #A1, 2 February 2019), for acting as an observer / gunner during an official sortie.  
Wound Badge 1918: Silver Class

Gfr. Emerlist Davjack, Jasta 10 (session #A1, 2 February 2019), for being wounded in action 3 times within one streak.

Wing Walkers have a new and improved website... y'all should check it out.
 
Here's the updated link to their paint shed:
https://www.wingwalkers.org/paint_shed/
 
There's a Lot of skins... 
 
I think we need to have a discussion on how we are going to manage this in the future when we have campaigns running...

Luft,
 
They are adding specific control mappings in the game, some keyboard and some analog for sticks.
 
S!

May drifting away from the OP, but how many of us have the Tank Crew.
I saw that we now also have a JG1 race branch, why not a JG1 Tank Regiment or Battalion?
Or have I missed that?
 
Anyhow, Carl and I can bring up our tanks for the unit.