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by rotton50
Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:08 am
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Little Wars and Obscure Planes
Replies: 6
Views: 188

Re: Little Wars and Obscure Planes

Happy to help, I love producing the obscure ones. Put it in my folder and I'll get on it after I get done pulling my hair out over the R/S issues with the Japanese H6K. :roll: Also, don't forget, I just recently added the WM.23 to the inventory. :yes: And then there's the Belgian Renard series of fi...
by rotton50
Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:02 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Moggy's Log February 2024
Replies: 2
Views: 148

Re: Moggy's Log February 2024

Wouldn't take much to adjust all the plane.dat files to make them Brit / American.
by rotton50
Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:00 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Chris Cartledge, Fleet Air Arm pilot who bombed Tirpitz
Replies: 5
Views: 159

Re: Chris Cartledge, Fleet Air Arm pilot who bombed Tirpitz

The commentator of the video mentioned that the wheel base of the F4F was about the same as the Seafire but because of low speed handling characteristics the pilots had no problem landing the Wildcat. If you watch the video it is plainly obvious. The F4F toodles onto the deck and catches the 1st or ...
by rotton50
Tue Feb 20, 2024 11:42 am
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Chris Cartledge, Fleet Air Arm pilot who bombed Tirpitz
Replies: 5
Views: 159

Re: Chris Cartledge, Fleet Air Arm pilot who bombed Tirpitz

Recently watched a Youtube video on British carrier fighter ops. A huge number of Seafires broke into pieces landing on the carriers. I mean, they literally came apart. The F4u didn't have that problem but the landings really did look like controlled crashes. OTOH, pilots made landing other planes, ...
by rotton50
Sun Feb 11, 2024 10:00 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Watch an encounter on the Moldovan Front 1941
Replies: 2
Views: 157

Re: Watch an encounter on the Moldovan Front 1941

So there I am watching the video and I see a bunch of R/S issues with the I-15 and I think "how the hell did I miss those?". Headed off to the aircraft inventory to fix said issues only to find out I never did that model. Whew! If you'd like it fixed just point me to the source or better y...
by rotton50
Tue Feb 06, 2024 5:38 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Glide Aircraft Skin Issues
Replies: 17
Views: 704

Re: Glide Aircraft Skin Issues

I use modified pallets all the time. For instance, the winter camo on many of the Eastern Front aircraft. I convert the summer skins to Gray Scale, lighten them a bit with the brightness function and then cut the pieces from the modified texture back to the original texture. I also change one or two...
by rotton50
Tue Feb 06, 2024 3:24 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Glide Aircraft Skin Issues
Replies: 17
Views: 704

Re: Glide Aircraft Skin Issues

Maybe we're talking about two different things. I was referring to the problem of reversed textures, mostly on the wings. I found a work around to this when the extra 3dz files were incorporated by splitting the wings horizontally. I did it on the F2a Buffalo and it seemed to be successful but that'...
by rotton50
Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:13 am
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Glide Aircraft Skin Issues
Replies: 17
Views: 704

Re: Glide Aircraft Skin Issues

To my knowledge this has never been solved.

There is a workaround but it requires a lot of editing of the wireframes to make it work and there's just no manpower for such a project. :(
by rotton50
Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:51 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: How accurate is Spielberg’s "Masters of the Air"?
Replies: 22
Views: 12387

Re: How accurate is Spielberg’s "Masters of the Air"?

I read a few other reviews and they all say the same thing. An OK series but lacking in character development, exacerbated by the fact you can't see the crew members faces during the flight sequences. And two reviewers even mentioned how they had to "squeeze" the Tuskegee Airmen into the s...
by rotton50
Thu Feb 01, 2024 5:24 am
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: How accurate is Spielberg’s "Masters of the Air"?
Replies: 22
Views: 12387

Re: How accurate is Spielberg’s "Masters of the Air"?

It's behind a pay wall.
by rotton50
Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:58 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: How accurate is Spielberg’s "Masters of the Air"?
Replies: 22
Views: 12387

Re: How accurate is Spielberg’s "Masters of the Air"?

Why I love the internet - https://premierrelics.com/8th-air-force-100th-bomb-group-bombing-raid-mission-maps/rare-mission-270-ruhland-dresden-factory-area-mission-wwii-100th-bomb-group-b-17-navigator-bomb-raid-map "Over the course of 22 months of aerial combat, the aircrews of the 100th had ser...
by rotton50
Fri Jan 26, 2024 3:44 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: How accurate is Spielberg’s "Masters of the Air"?
Replies: 22
Views: 12387

Re: How accurate is Spielberg’s "Masters of the Air"?

Moggy wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:04 pm That means I can include them in my Italian setup :)
Turns out Nico did a hi-res "Red Tail" model. I'll have to do a bit of updating to the 1.6 standard but nothing too difficult and then you'll have it for your Italian campaign.
by rotton50
Thu Jan 25, 2024 7:50 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: How accurate is Spielberg’s "Masters of the Air"?
Replies: 22
Views: 12387

Re: How accurate is Spielberg’s "Masters of the Air"?

My strategy is to suspend (or cancel) a couple of the pay services, watch a couple more for 3-4 months and when I've wrung them dry of quality shows, suspend those accounts and reopen the previously suspended ones. Wash, rinse and repeat. Side tip. I had a massive hack of my Amazon account a couple ...
by rotton50
Thu Jan 25, 2024 4:17 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: How accurate is Spielberg’s "Masters of the Air"?
Replies: 22
Views: 12387

Re: How accurate is Spielberg’s "Masters of the Air"?

Ok, so there I am watching the trailer and lo and behold up pops a section on the Tuskegee airmen. I'm hoping it's just a "fly by" reference thrown in to satisfy the Wokesters among us because they never flew escort for the Bloody 100th. They were stationed in various locations in Italy, m...
by rotton50
Tue Jan 23, 2024 1:54 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Definitive books on Eastern Front air war
Replies: 4
Views: 1128

Re: Definitive books on Eastern Front air war

They ARE all available in the 1-6 inventory. :rock: