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Love 'em.... The piccies.....not the Hens! Well, maybe.... Brilliant! Was fun avoiding the security geezers in the American Museum

Just confirming.....that's a 8pm GMT start as Dogz time is currently 1 hour behind.

I've been watching this with interest all day GK. I have had it loaded onto my hard drive since Day 1 but have run the game offline for a total of 13 hours - to be honest I didn't think it was that much but that is the Steam figure. I haven't enjoyed it. Too many bugs and glitches and until antialiasing is sorted out I won't take it seriously. I will be flying IL2 for a loooong time yet, probably some Rise of Flight too. That looks nice and behaves itself. Cheerzen

To the point where a Hen approached me and said that they (the Hen Party) wished that they, quote "....had spent some time with you lot instead of going out. You seemed to be having fun!" unquote I agreed, saying that we indeed had had great fun and also that it's a shame the Hens didn't join us as their presence would have enhanced our evening greatly. The Hen suggested that she could enhance my evening greatly if I wanted. I coyly suggested that I didn't need any enhancements as I was happy with what I had. She laughed and playfully slapped my shoulder. At this, we both knew what should be happening that night. She leant toward me and said "I cant invite you back to my room, I'm in with my sister" I said, with a cheeky wink, that's not a problem...... She giggled, and said "Your room would be fine, I'm sure" And, nodding towards a figure behind me, said "Any way your pet monkey could go elsewhere for the night....?" I knew without turning that I was scuppered....I didn't need to look......'effin Painless....again..... Blown out. PS The quote is true.

Welcome PapaBear, good to see some maturity here....!!! Cheerzen

That's what I've got - it came with a few useful attachments and is easy to use.

Nice to hear you are getting into it. This list will no doubt get added to: Good eyesight Steady hand Patience Place away from others Modelling knives with a selection of curved and straight blades Straignt tweezers, curved tweezers Various grades of glasspaper Wooden board to build on Small hand/electric drill Polystyrene glue, super glue, epoxy glue cocktail sticks to apply glue Clothes pegs to hold things together Various sizes of elastic bands to hold things together Lint free cloth to wipe and dry Soap tissues to clean surfaces A clamp that can stand alone on a surface so's you can use both hands

You lucky, lucky bar steward Well done mate! Your grin says it all......

Yes it was 'sunk' - don't take it literally. Someone or something being in a hopeless situation can be described as being sunk.

I agree, 4.101 until UP is stable. We use up far too much time sorting out issues rather than flying, 2-3 workable missions during an evening's co-ops isn't enough. Dogfight server will remain UP (unless Rog decides different, of course).

Well done Angus...I like to see the reports of you brave self-build guys. FT, my Belkin N52te game controller did that to my system. I had it set up beautifully for World of Tanks but In the end I got fed up with the effects and the constant plugging in and unplugging when the issues occurred.

'Effin great. I had this same 'effin popup 2 weeks ago....... I bought the effin' software......

Yay, thanks Gec. Rog

Gents Need to get the icons sorted out on the dogfight server Rog is running for us. Can anyone pass on the method of getting them set as: Grey Icons (or red & blue will be OK) Plane ID approx 2 Km distance indicators @ .5 Km Much appreciated. Ta

Done. Good luck to them, in the competition and for the future. Cheerzen

Same here, and I agree wholeheartedly, best M$ product in a long time. As a user of OS X (work), some of the features of Win7 seemed, hmmm... somehow familiar, but very welcome all the same! You won't look back mate.

That worked for me last night First time I've had issues like that. I get this when trying to log into the Dangerdogz server. Rog, is it something that needs sorting on the server end?

Me too. Installed it to the basic il2 folder containing the game just like most other stuff. Was not prompted to replace any existing files, so I have no idea if I did it right or not. Double click on the JSGME icon on your desktop. Hover your mouse over the '#UP#_Enable_UP3.0' mod. A text box appears and should say 'Activates UP3.0 RC2 Version of game.'. If it doesn't say RC2 then it hasn't updated it. Cheerzen

And again Nick - I hadn't picked up on a couple of those updates

Yes, that's DEFINATELY Painless....I know it is......apparently he dumped her and she was threatening to jump.

Gorgeeeous!

I use Milliput , an epoxy putty. It can get messy but one of it's advantages is that you can use plenty of water to smooth it and shape it when applying it. On a wing root, for example, where there is a long thin gap between the wing and the fuselage, I'll roll out a very thin 'sausage' of putty to the length of the gap. I run a very small amount of water into the gap and press the putty in, smoothing it over with my finger making sure it was a little wet before otherwise the putty will stick and pull out. Doing it this way I haven't found the need to tape off although I could see the advantage of that in some places. When it goes off it is fairly easy to sand and shape. Airbrush.....ooeeerrrr. I have an airbrush but it has stayed in it's box. I can't seem to get on with them, I create globs of paint and spatter paint everywhere. The last time I used it the top popped off the paint reservoir when I let the air through. Covered the freezer with orange paint - managed to get it off before the missus got home I stick to brushes or use the Humbrol spray cans or an equivalent, I can handle those easily and you can get most colours represented. Once I've finished the camo scheme I spray the model with gloss varnish - if the paint was gloss I leave it. This is to help when applying the decals, they slide better on gloss surfaces and it also gets rid of any transparent film in or around the decal that appears to stay when putting them onto a matt finish. There are other products that do the same thing so it's a case of finding something you are happy with. To finish the paint off I then spray a matt, satin or gloss varnish - this gives the right effect and also makes the decals look painted on.

Yes, I fill in the gaps after a base coat is applied. At the moment the model is shiny and quite pale - giving it an undercoat of mid grey makes it easier to see gaps, the pale coloured filler shows up better when applying it and because it's a matt undercoat the overall contrast is better so making the model 'cleaner' and easier to 'see' areas that need attention. Sounds a bit I know, but it works for me . I do grey undercoat like this on all planes irrespective of the finished colour scheme, although I have used lighter grey on pale schemes. If there is only a small amount of filler and sanding needed then I won't bother spraying over the filler with the grey undercoat again, I'll just go straight onto the colour scheme. On this model, the undersides will be black - a grey undercoat reduces the possible number of coats over a pale surface and can help in giving a weathered finish.