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TY Ill look at these later at home - not allowed to use you-tube at work My problem is that at 40m you are vulnerable to the AA in ships whereas at 10m you were under their scope What is your survival rate in online missions now compaired to 4.09 ? mine is way down as I have to spend longer over target and coming in slower and higher leaves me vulnerable longer

I used to be good at jabo - Old method was climb to 6k , start dive to targets 1 grid out,scream over ship or column at 10m and 700kmph, drop, boom, go home Now with 4.1 friggin fusing my bombs dont go off and if I drop above 20m then Im always long due to speed and angle If I try winging over and use a more verticle dive from above then Im slow in the zoom ,sometimes it does not fuse or AAA or fighters get me Anyone got tracks/tips on how best to do it and survive ?

Happy new year all - hope its a good one for all and their family

My wifes from Scotland too LOL

1. Dont do it unless necessary, it is a bit of work and there is the real risk of something bad happening- remember you will lose EVERYTHING in a format 2. If you do decide to go ahead then be prepared you will need 1) the windows disk- preferrably the pro version 2) driver disks i) motherboard ii) graphics iii) soundcard- if seperate from motherboard iv) any other peice of hardware If you dont have them then download all the latest drivers you require and burn them onto a dvd and keep this handy 3) Installation disks for all the software you need 4) patches for your software - burn these to the same DVD you burned your drivers on 5) Copy all your game patches and savegames and config files to your DVD 6) copy all you important information to your backup drive- all your my documents folder, all photographs , porn etc 7) get in a supply of patience and coffee 8 ) google for a guide, print and keep it handy e.g. http://howtoformatacomputer.com/format-windows-xp http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_setup.htm or go to library and get a manual, microsoft official manual is excellent but pricey 9) Convince yourself you really really want to do it and after setting bios to make sure your PC will boot from cd drive first, put windows disk in and carry on 10 ) consider partitions when doing the reinstall - I like these for dividing up my drive into logical areas like Operating System; Work; Games; Photographs etc 11 ) Take a backup just after you have a clean system i.e. just windows with updated drivers using ghost With il2 you can copy the entire folder to your spare drive and copy it onto your new system and it will run ok , with most other software you will have to install it fully onto your new sytem so that the registry is complete good luck

That will be huge - look forward to more pics as you progress I have started a 1/32 Me109G10 with lots of etch, I have decals for JG27 as well for this, Santa bought me a Gladiator and a F-5 tiger so I have lots for next year.

Merry Christmas all S

Out now - downloading

well done mate - great story

Perhaps not suitable for the calander but one for the old timers The lesser spotted formation flying Dogz

Last harrier flight from aircraft carrier http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11831207 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11830094

superb - a whole new level !!!

Hasegawa 1/48 FGR1 phantom Aries wheels Eduard cockpit set Tamiya paint and Halfords white Kit decals My solution to the intake problem - photograph sized to fit and put onto plastic card and gaps filled - not truely seemless but cheap and effective

Good news Hope the new treatment works out for you S

Sorry to hear the news Jim. Hope they can work on your treatment and get you what you need Take care and best wishes

I use one and it seemed to help, at the price it was worth the punt However there are many more variables in the system including your local exchange and especially your ISPs servers. Any problems I have had were primerily down to virgin.net servers however they seem to have got their act together and are good again S

Take care Jim, hope you feel better soon S

Here is my attempt at the Tamiya 1/48th Swordfish It was a MK2 kit and I know they didnt carry torpedos but I didnt like the look of the rockets so armed it as I wanted and I think itlooks better Apologies for dark photos , I get some more when the natural light is better....so that will probably be next June here in Scotland Apart from the kit I used Tamiya Etch for the wires Eduard etch for pit Xtracolor for paints Humbrol acrylic white spray Promodler wash I enjoyed making the kit and it had few problems apart from my own doing The bottom wing sags -they should be straight and I didnt notice until I checked my refrences after everything was set - I just trusted Tamiyas fit as nearly everything else was almost snap fit-it would have meant too much work and lots of flying etch wires to put right so Iv left it I had trouble getting a neat finish where the struts fit into the top wing. I didnt get a good finish with the humbrol spray and I found it difficult to work with the xtracolor white, I used this to touch up areas and it needed a few coats to cover anything and get a neat finish and it had a yellow tint over the humbrol The wire etch was difficult to glue and to get a neat join

Heads up - Tuesday 8pm bbc4 wellington bomber Tuesday 9pm bbc1 first light geoff wellum story Sunday 8.30 bbc1 battle of britain more here http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/schedule/battle_of_britain may come to iplayer for our colonial friends S

If its just for IL2 I would wait and save my pennies until BOB comes along as I dont think that the newer graphics cards will enhance this significantly my machine is nowhere near top spec now - dual core pentium with an nvidea 8800GT card that I bought second hand from a friend- and I can play perfect at full resolution 1680*1050 on my 22" monitor at high fps However when online I use the resolution the game is optimised for; 1024*768 I like nvidea , I have used both ATI and Nvidea and the only real difference I found was that the nvidea was brighter and sharper out of the box but with all the available tweaking options both drivers offer Im sure I could have set up the ATI the same way with a bit of effort.

nice !!! I was just going to post this and you beat me to it - also see this related article , http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10989709 and there are links to the iplayer as well with interviews of veterens

@Snacko No mate , apart from the dark promodlers wash to highlight the panel lines and the gears, plus a bit to dirty up the wheels, its very clean. The area behind the seat could probably benifit from drybrushing to bring out some detail but Im rubbish at this so left it alone. I probably should have preshaded some of the panel lines and would do so if I made a production one but the good thing about this "what if" is that I can call it a fairly new plane and get away with it I have just bought the Osprey book on painting techniques to help me improve on this area and its good so Ill see how I get on with my next kit

Here is my Revell 1/48th Eurofighter- I have done a harrier and have a A-10 so didnt want to build a plane grey scheme so went for this WHIF -decals are from the kit and Model Allience Dragon Hawks The kit decals were a pain - slid off in 2 secs in water and then wouldnt stick to kit so I had to use future to settle them down - the hawk dragon went on ok until I tried to make one last adjustment then I ripped one so had to hand paint the face Paint is humbrol grey primer and Tamiya black- future for varnish and pro-modlers black wash. dont know how long the pit will stay open as its very delicatly attatched and so cant see it lasting long

Not often you will see me praising mods but thought Id highlight this one http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,3594.0.html?PHPSESSID=8735e1b332a4835add3a9fe43d0d12ac It allows you to change any plane or loadout for any mission - QMB / Single / campain by dropdown boxes in the game So you can fly a mission with a 109F4 and if you dont like it, restart with a FW 190 A6 or spitfire etc simply put the download into your MODS folder - not JSQME and it works fine S

very neat work - well done