jankees
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22 minutes ago, Iain Emms said:
Cracking shots and work as always.
cheers
Iain
thank you Iain, I was inspired by your 'fast uns' post!
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what if more countries would have bought Fiat G-91's? They might have looked like this:
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The Indian Air Force had some wild paintschemes for their Mig-21's
as did the Egyptian Air Force
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lots to see indeed, very nice
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cool collection of shots
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fast set indeed, very nice
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nice, I love that Beech shot
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flew in one last week, they're small...but nice shots
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very pretty
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It did fly like this indeed, but only for a very short period (=16 december 1982). It was the first Dutch F-104 that flew 3000 hours
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mm, I can't edit it anymore, so I try again
sorry about the mixup
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[url=https://flic.kr/p/2mNAK9t][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51723165671_40ef470e7b_k.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2mNAK9t]jk003[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/158986709@N02/]JanKees Blom[/url], on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2mNE4X2][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51723814259_2c5776f687_k.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2mNE4X2]jk001[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/158986709@N02/]JanKees Blom[/url], on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2mNAK9i][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51723165661_216c7c856b_k.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2mNAK9i]jk004[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/158986709@N02/]JanKees Blom[/url], on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2mNwyUp][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51722350767_c7ee53acd0_k.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2mNwyUp]jk006[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/158986709@N02/]JanKees Blom[/url], on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2mNBZVc][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51723410473_f449af8a3d_k.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2mNBZVc]jk007[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/158986709@N02/]JanKees Blom[/url], on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2mNE4TQ][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51723814074_b98a18f57a_k.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2mNE4TQ]jk009[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/158986709@N02/]JanKees Blom[/url], on Flickr
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classical microsoft! Switch computer off, switch computer on, and things work much better...
still room for improvement, but I now see it as it is supposed to look I guess.
What dd I do? Moved autogen sliders to the left, and tried again after restart. Moving them back to the right did not make much of a difference.
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To be honest, I am hugely disappointed in the scenery so far. It was a nightmare to install, but I managed in the end, but the result is pretty underwhelming I must say.
I am running this on my new machine (i7-7700K @ 4.2 Ghz, 16Gb RAM, GeforceGTX1050, from a normal 2TB disc) , with all sliders right, and the ground textures load slow, and I miss a lot of autogen, most houses and trees do not show up.In general, the scenery is slow to load (I have lots of other photoreal stuff, usually much faster, but that may be due to a lack of autogen).
Here's a few shots of Delft, where I live and work part of the time:
the part on the right of the canal is the center, and that shows houses, (though they are too tall, very few 5 story houses in old Delft), but on the left of the canal, outside the center, there is no autogen, except for a few large buildings. My house is not present.
Here's a shot looking toward the university, where I work:
The building in front has a strange roof, but most of the high rise buildings of the university are missing completely, including the landmark 25 story electro building and the building I work in, which also huge. The library misses its cone as well, and most student flats are missing, as are all the trees.
Here's a pic of the real campus: https://www.aerophotostock.com/-/galleries/all/-/medias/805eb728-879d-4552-9682-eaa7cb3bdaea-tu-delft-delft-de-technische-universiteit-delft-gezien-vanaf-s
This is just Delft, but I went and 'visited' my parents in Castricum (no autogen) and brother in Koedijk (no autogen either), so sorry, not very happy at the moment.
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thank you!
in the mean time, I've painted a few more:
LG-Q "Chief Sly" (in reality a B-17F). It was one of the original aircraft of the group, assigned to it in Bangfor, Maine in september 1942. No photos exist of the aircraft, my paint was based on pics of crew photos and their jacket emblems. The names on the nose of the aircraft refer to sweethearts of the crew. Mary Ellen was the girl friend of the bombardier, Steve Lindney, and Loraine was the fiancee of the navigator, Paul Burnett. The end of Çhief Sly' came on 20 december 1942. It was returning from a mission to bomb an airfield in Romilly-sur-Seine, when the lead aircraft, 'Rose o'day' had to slow down due to flak damage. Chief Sly dropped back to protect the struggling bomber, and soon they came under attack from german aircraft. On board Chief Sly, the navigator was wounded, engines 3 and 4 were disabled and a large hole was ripped out of the tail. Struggling to control the aircraft, pilots Bruce Barton and Arthur Reynolds managed to hide in thick clouds, and although the ailerons were no longer working, tried to nurture the crippled aircraft back to England. All unnecessary equipment was jettisoned, and they made it, although sometimes at an height of just 50 ft. On reaching England, they made a wheels up landing in one of the first fields available, killing two sheep. Miraculously, apart from the navigator, no crew members were hurt, and they were soon assigned a new B-17, 42-5139, naming it "Chief Sly II".
and OR-L "Blue Dreams". It was assigned to Captain Ken McFarland and his crew, and was painted by Corporal Tony Starcer, with the december pin-up by Alberto varga. When the crew found out that their captain's wife was pregnant, they had Starcer paint a stork and baby below the pilots window (without McFarlane knowing), adding the name 'Mona Gail'after the birth of his daughter. The aircraft would go on to complete 29 missions with the group, before being written off due to an unfortunate oversight by another crew. Shortly after taking off for a flight to Berlin, on the 6th of March 1944, the pilot, Lt Walter Wilkinson, noticed fuel streaming from the starboard wing. He decided to land immediately, in the hope of quickly solving the problem and rejoining the mission. The nearest airfield was the 355th FG's base at Steeple Morden, close to bassingbourne, and he decided to land there. He lined up with the runway and slowly descended the heavily laden bomber, going for a smooth as possible landing. What came was different, since the crew had forgotten to lower the landing gear, and "Blue Dreams" screeched of the runway and into the grass. The crew evacuated the wrecked aircraft as quickly as they could, but fortunately, the bombs in the bomb-bay did not explode. "Blue Dreams" would not fly again, and was salvaged the following day. The subsequent accident report revealed that the pilot had flown 8 exhaustive missions in the previous two weeks. This time nobody was hurt, but it would be a different story 10 months later, when another 91st B-17 forcelanded at Steeple Morden...
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B-17G 44-6596 LG-P "Sweet Dish" of the 322nd BS/ 91st BG based in Bassingbourne UK. She arrived in Bassingbourne on the 4th of November 1944 and flew her first mission 5 days later, after which she was assigned to Lt Bob Roach and his crew. He suggested naming her Sweet Dish, after his wife, who was known to the crew. Tony Starcer painted her portrait, based on a pocket photograph. By war's end, she had completed 46 missions , including 24 flown by BoB Roach. Her hairiest mission was to Berlin on 5 December. Flak knocked out no.1 engine and set fire to no.2. During the dive to eliminate the fire, the engineer bailed out, and the navigator and bomb aimer followed him. The fire was extinguished however, and 'Sweet Dish' flew home on two engines. They counted 365 holes in the ship next day, and it took until the end of december to get her in the air again. At the end of the war, she took groups of ground crew on two flights over the damaged cities of Germany, so that they too could see the effect of their work, and in May she helped repatriate released PoW's. In june 1945, she flew back to the States, where she was scrapped at Kingman, Arizona in December 1945.
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