GreyKnight

Wow! That is surprising. I thought huge corporations like Exxon manage to wangle the system and end up only paying $4,912 in tax a year.

The size of its wings! http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=939

They forcing you to view ghey pr0n at work now instead DT? Damn! Sorry to hear that dude. Just ask Painless on how to handle the stigma at the workplace, if you need to.

Cheers Kling! I've not re-installed it with XP yet, never mind gotten IL-2 installed. But already I've shot you down during next Tuesdays co-ops. NEEEEEEEEEEE-OWWWWWWNN!

Well I didn't bother going to get that one... I got this instead... Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz 4GB DDR2 RAM 2x 500GB HDDs nVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512MB ...and a load of other unimportant crap that's not important to IL-2, including German Vista for €999. Which will be wiped asap and upgraded to XP Pro. Unfortunately I can't get it done for co-ops tonight, but will have it ready for Sundays SEOW. Wu-Hooo!

Cool! That means we'll be seeing you tonight then.

Chaps, Try this plug-in, it's cool... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5579 Install it and restart Firefox, then go to a website with lots of pictures on it, an example... http://www.flickr.com/photos/farinihous ... 801462303/ Then at the top right corner of Firefox, click the little arrow in the blue box to start PicLens. You can scroll the pictures across by using the area of little dots at the bottom of the screen. Nifty huh?

Damn! That's a cool callsign, Hooter-Shooter! Bagsy it next!

BBloke, What is it about T.R. that gets you so... animated? Apart from the obvious things about Lara. To me this game is just a graphically superior version of this... Jump here, press that, go back, jump here, climb that...

Friar, Silent Hunter III is German U-Boots against allied shipping. Silent Hunter IV is an American sub against the Japanese, so you're in luck there.

I'll try and grab a picture from an old game tonight too.

I would say... Silent Hunter IV?

Wikipedia helps me... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraction_%28mathematics%29

Because this is probably the kind of 'Gentlemen's Entertainment' you grew up on BG. Whereas some of us here would be saying, "...where is the other girl and the ice-cream cup?"

WOW! What a game!

Yeah great game so far. The Giants D is playing real well, their Offense just can't get to the endzone. But what's with all this recorded music? National Anthem, Alicia Keys and Tom Petty all lip-synched really bad to their tracks. Superbowl music should always be live I feel.

~S~ Highlander, Sunday is the perfect night for you to come fly with your fellow Glorious Luftwaffe fliegers in our weekly SEOW nights. See you soon,

CG, Here's my $0.02... 1) For the cockpit masking, you can go the masking tape or post-it note route. Or if you can get a hold of it, this is what I used, PARAFILM M - http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/usin ... lmda_1.htm If you're using enamel paints, then they have a reputation of seeping under masks. I only use Acrylic paints, as they don't do this. As for detailing the cockpit, forget it! It's only 1/72 scale and when the canopy is on you can't see much inside. 2) For decaling, I followed Brett Green (off Hyperscale.com) advice of this technique... a) Spray entire model with GLOSS varnish. Then get some thinned down dark brown/black and paint all the panel lines. Don't forget to thin it down even further when doing underside, as it's usually a lighter colour. c) Get hold of some MICROSET - http://www.chimneyvilledecals.com/mideseso1.html to brush onto area where decal goes. Dunk the decal for only 5 seconds then take it out of water and let it soak out of the water. Then place decal on A/C d) Once all decals are dry, get some MICROSOL - http://www.chimneyvilledecals.com/mideseso.html and brush over briefly every decal, wait till every decal has dried, then repeat process. I did at least about 10 coats. It sort of melts the decal so it conforms to the model and the rivets can come through and it looks like a real paint job and not some ugly stickers. e) When done, do your paint chips with a silver pencil then spray entire model with MATT varnish. I haven't tried making the aerials. GK

IT SURE WILL! It's just that I have the €600 spare, and I doubt I can anything better at this time. But the shop that sells them, Hofer (which is Lidl in the UK), only has a limited stock and once the shop assistants have had theirs, they'll be sold out within 5 mins of opening. So I have to be quick.

Okay for you guys with their fingers on the pulse in the hardware market, is this PC spec worth £450/€600/$890? It's in German, but you get the gist.

With me working in IT too Friar, I would just say to you, "...box up your PC and return it dumb-ass!.." To save pain, I would just reinstall XP. But since you've only got XP SP1, you better hope you're behind a good firewall before you connect to the internet and download SP2. This useful post was brought to you on 100% recyclable electrons.

He is indeed! SHUSH! We might scare him off. He's got a lot of reading to get through!