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Amazing video of DIO!
Great sound and I think you cant came closer to that group during a concert!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfoJrDQ7SDk

Hi mates,

Look at what I found today...

It's incredible !!!! The plane stalled while parachuters are still inside.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5c5_1331438922

Fortunately every one safe, the pilot landed safe the Pilatus.

Ted

S~

A winter camo scheme for our push to the east.
I overheard something about us pushing to the east in "two weeks"

As far as I know it was a camo scheme worn on a Bf109G6, flown by IV/JG5, based at Petsamo, but I put it on a Bf109E, so we could use it sooner

http://airwarfare.com/sow/index.php?opt ... 24&cid=316



Enjoy..
EZ

I made the correction of the skin, according to a color photo I found, taken from the film about the P-61. Thanks Duggy (member of SAS Forum), for the help in the correction of nose art. Also I changed the color of the symbol of unity, and include the red stripe on his nose which was not included in the previous skin. The number of tail was also modified. On the left, contained only the symbol of unity and the inscriptions with the name of the pilot and crew.


P-61B-15-NO "Lady In The Dark", 548th NFS, Lt. Robert W. Clyde,
R/O: Lt. Bruce K. Leford. Ie-Shima, Ryukyu Islands, China Sea. August 1945.

Template by Crazyflak & 101tfs
Skin made by _Harpia_Mafra55_

DOWNLOAD SKIN : http://www.mission4today.com/index.php? ... ils&id=990

Good day

The longest aircraft carrier in the fleet of the United States of America makes her proudest and final journey:
http://news.yahoo.com/storied-carrier-b ... 06276.html



Fireskull

I know this might not be the right place to post this but I've been a memmber of AAA first AAS then and SAS for ages and i believe i can rely on your support. Now this is my problem, today I tried to open SAS site but all I get is a message saying my account is suspended. can any of you guys with an account overthere ask on my behalf what happened? pleaaaaaaaseeeee...

- F-4K Phantom II - FG.Mk.1 - XT874/E - 111 Sqn, 1979, RAF

- F-4K Phantom II - FG.Mk.1 - XT868/153/VL - 767sqn,1972, RN

- F-4K Phantom II - FG.Mk.1 - XV590/001/R - 894sqn, 1978, RN

- F-4K Phantom II - FG.Mk.1 - XV574/Z - 111sqn, 1989, RAF

- F-4K Phantom II - FG.Mk.1 - ZE356/E - 74Sqn ”Tigers”, 1991, RAF

- F-4M Phantom II - FGR Mk.2 - XV490/M - 29sqn,1975, RAF

Modified template, Internals and skin made by _Harpia

note: The new Template that I created, added new lines, rivets and internal elements. The placement of new objects were based on the F-4E skins made by OC-tiger. Kept in the new template, original parts of the skin, made by the OC-tiger.

CLICK ON PHOTO TO DOWNLOAD SKINPACK



Photos of skins in skinpack

PROS
-Cheap
-Easy

CONS
-Low detail
-Inaccurate
-No painting references


THE PLANE

This kit represents one of the early Curtiss P-40s flown by the volunteers of the "Flying Tigers" group, who helped China standing against the Japanese invasion.
In particular, the plane is nr. 68 flown by Charles Older of the 3rd squadron "Hell's Angels", based at Kunming in the spring of 1942.



THE KIT

Looks like this is a pre-'90s kit (the instructions sheet says "Copyright 1987"). The little box contains four grey sprues plus one with the transparent parts, almost flash-free. Pieces immediately show a quite basic detail level: panel lines are "recessed", but in some places they are barely visible, and their pattern looks incomplete (i.e. the rear fuselage section is almost fully flat). Besides, there's no riveting at all, gear bay interiors are empty, gun shells exhausts are missing, and so on. Poor cockpit internals too, except for the gauges panel, that is adequately detailed. Anyway, open cockpit isn't an option, since the canopy is one-piece with the windshield and, even if you slice it off, it won't fit properly over the fuselage.
On the positive side, you get pieces for two complete gear sets, either in extended or retracted position. Optional parts include a pilot figure and either a droptank or a bomb.
Decals are for nr. 68 only, with very little stenciling besides the main insignas and arts.


BUILDING

This kit builds up pretty much the classic way. First you make the cockpit block and the propeller, then you put them between the two fuselage halves (don't forget the gauges panel and the radiator intake). Note that the upper air intake is closed, unless you cut it open. Wings are "classic", too, since you get both lower wing halves in a single piece and you need to add the two upper ones; this part goes pretty smooth. No particular problems with tailplans, either.
When it's time to join the fuselage and the wings, here come a few nuisances. The fitting is good enough at the front and on the sides (wing roots), but the rear edge of wings fails to snap in: apparently, the matching edge under the fuselage is about a mm too forward. A little slicing work can fix that but, despite this, a "step" will remain, requiring heavy puttying and sanding to fully flatten the surface.
Then, once the main body of the model is built, a relevant inaccuracy catches the eye: while the P-40 is supposed to have a neat positive wing dihedral (a.k.a. "wings are bent upwards"), this model has not. A front wiew clearly shows that the wings are almost parallel to the ground, more like a Hurricane than like a Tomahawk.



Luckily, this can be solved with little effort and some time. You simply need to literally bend the wings upwards and use some tape to stick them in that position by linking one tip to the other (the picture explains it all). Be careful not to stress the plastic too much! Instead, start with a moderate bending, waiting some time before increasing the tension. The wings should be left several hours "under stress" at about twice the desired angle so that, once released, they'll keep the correct dihedral.



As we've already seen, there are different pieces for either raised or lowered gear. No major adjustments are required here; I only dont' understand why you are requested to add the two rounded "tips" ahead of main gear roots. Couldn't they just be molded with the wings?!
The final bits are the canopy, the two side windows behind it and the two nose MGs, whose pieces are easy to be mistakenly placed upside-down.



Now, before talking about the loadout, I have to say that, by looking at the fully built model, something looks wrong. Even if you manage to correct the wrong wings dihedral, the completed kit will look MORE OR LESS like a Tomahawk, but FAR from accurate.
I compared a side view of the model with a screenshot of a P-40C in IL-2. Some differences are evident: the radiator is too slim, expecially its rear end; the windshield is too much "steep" and the canopy is too thin compared to the upper rear fuselage, the whole cockpit appears to be set slightly too backwards. The bomb/droptank rack is far behind its correct position, too: this, along with main gear legs being clearly shorter than they should be, actually creates a real "ground clearance" problem for the external loads, which are themselves even a little oversized! As you can see, there's barely room for the bomb, and just because I "pushed" it as close to the belly as possible!



PAINTING AND DECALS

Painting this model isn't difficult. The problem is, NO REFERENCE is provided!
The "painting reference" section on the instructions sheet consists in a roughly printed 4-side view of the plane... whose size is about 1/144 scale, without ANY indications about colors, just decals positions are reported. A line states: "refer to box top for additional paint and decal information". Yeah, sure... the box shows the main boxart (where only the nose is clearly visible) and a microscopic picture of a completed model on the side, and they're not even painted the same way! So I just used Light Green and Sand for the main camo, and was happy with that.
Decals are decent, but nothing more. It was quite a pain wo wrap the red line around the fuselage, since it is printed straight while it must be applied around a cone-shaped surface. It also broke while applying, but this wasn't a problem because, oddly, it is much longer than needed. "Shark mouth" decals don't fit with absolute accuracy, but at least they're not too difficult to apply.
Besides, in my decals sheet, the different color layers weren't perfectly aligned (see the "tiger" decal and wing roundels).



CONCLUSIONS

It is clear that, if you're looking for an accurate P-40B/C replica, you'd better look elsewhere. On the other hand, this kit is cheap, quite easy to build, and still better than many re-boxed "antiques". Good enough for beginners and/or kids: after all, a shark mouth is a shark mouth! :wink:

YELLOW light!

Hallo,
vorab schonmal, das hier ist vielleicht das falsche Forum für mein Problem, aber vielleicht ist ja doch einer da, der mir irgendwie helfen kann:

Ich hatte seit mehreren Wochen in regelmäßigen Abständen Bluescreens, meistens wenn ich ein grafisch anspruchsvolles Spiel gespielt habe. Schien jedenfalls nicht weiter schlimm zu sein, nach einem Neustart hatte wieder alles einwandfrei funktioniet. Heute dann ist ein relativ altes und kein allzu anspruchsvolles Siel hängengeblieben, dazu gab meim Rechner mir einen langen ununterbrochenen Piep-Ton. Habe das gegoogelt; die Probleme die ich dann gefunde habe haben sich aber von meinem unterschieden;
Wenn ich meinen Computer jetzt hochfahre bekomme ich KEINEN Piep-Ton, der Bildschirm bleibt stur schwarz, bekommt auch kein Signal, denn er schaltet sich in den StandBy-Modus. Die anderen Geräusche, die beim Hochfahren sonst zu hören sind bleiben auch weg. Ich hab noch 2, 3 Sachen gelesen, nach denen gefragt wurde, daher beantworte ich diese Fragen schonmal im Voraus:
1) Kleine Lämpchen, wie z.B. bei den CD-Laufwerken gehen an, eine kleine Lampe ist sogar an, wenn der PC aus ist, das ist immer so, wenn der PC "gewaltsam" ausgeschaltet wurde,
2) Die Lampe auf der Tastatur, die man mit der "Num"-Taste ein-/ausschaltet bleibt immer aus,
3) Die CD-Laufwerke selbst kann man noch öffnen und schließen.
Den Foren nach zu urteilen, ist entweder die Grafikkarte oder das Motherboard kaputt, aber w.g. dort gab der Computer einen Piep-Ton immer beim Hochfahren ab, mach meine eben nicht.
Gibt es da wenigstens noch die Möglichkeit an die Daten auf der Festplatte dranzukommen, oder sogar eine Lösung das DIng wieder zum Laufen zu bringen?? :lol:

Hoffe, dass ihr mit helfen könnt,
Gruß

Itelz

Just wanted to share this short video showing a small part of a mission I flew in my 109E-3 earlier tonight. You will see why it is entitled "Three Birds, One Stone" once you see it, haha.

http://youtu.be/Gn9MB6SNHio?hd=1

Enjoy! :wink: