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One of the projects i have wanted to do for a lonnnng time is this, a Viggen painted in the Swedish 4 tone camouflage featured from the 70s onwards. This is the Italeri 1/48th scale one. It is a good kit to build, goes together very well considering the complex curves around the air intakes and wing roots. The colours took a long time to decide on but I am happy with the effect....the light doesn't always work well in piccies and in this case it shows the light colour more and the middle green very green, more than it does in 'real life'. Being red/green/brown colour blind the colour selection was an impossible task for me so a very patient Suzi helped with choosing from the colours I had looked up for the scheme. In the end I went for acryllic spray cans: Tamiya Dark Yellow TS3 (there is Tan also but they are exactly the same), Humbrol Grass Green 80, Tamiya Olive Green AS14 and Tamiya USAF Green AS13 on top with Tamiya Medium Sea grey underneath. The top coat of matt varnish tones things down nicely and blends them in really well. I have seen a few of these models built but haven't been happy with the overall finish due to the colours selected but to my weird eyes, this looks right. The masking was done using a Maestro masking set, taking about an hour and a half for each colour to be masked and 5 minutes or less to spray. I started off with Olive green, then the grass green, then the tan and lastly the dark green. I did the Olive Green first because it was easier for me to reference the ares to place the masks. Will weather the paintwork, fit the undercarriage and load it up with 4 x rocket pods, 2 x Sidewinders and a belly tank. Cheerzen

Asus PG278 27" 144Hz Cost G Sync Good one Perf....Tom's Hardware review VESA fitting Scan Computers (retailer and my primary source of tech and bits) reviews Asus Wouldn't know one screen type from another but I tend to steer clear of monitors that are marketed for artistic purposes (unless you include modelling??? websites) as artistic.

Actually I would like to change mine to M - My Little Piggy.....I miss having a green top LOGGED

S '- Les Vins' for me please LOGGED

Basically what FT says but mine has a few more....non essential other than visual effects and personal choice

I can't let you do that Dave....

Can you verify me please....

You have been busy... 😉

Hi Dave These are the ones I use. I haven't activated the polished canopies or 4k cockpit textures since the 4.006 update as I am liking the new canopy reflections and aren't fussed about cockpit mods yet. Have you checked and made sure that your various folders inside your Mods folder, when opened, show the 'data' folder? The 'ICON_D_D_ etc' folder for example when first unzipped is a folder within a folder, you need to copy/take out the one you want. In GBS, the first folder you see in a usable Mod folder when opened should be 'data' although others eg. 'documentation' may be present. The incorrect file path is generally the most common issue as to why a newly installed Mod doesn't show up in game. Cheerzen

Excellent Tom, thank you.

Ok with me :)

CPU i7 5820k @ 4.1GHz GPU 2080ti Rift S 32 gigs DDR4

I recently did some reading on the GBS forums and found some recommendations re. nvidia settings by 'dburne' here Friar and I had a chat recently and he appears to like them too. I have put some piccies in this thread of my nvidia settings and In conjunction with the game settings piccie it appears it can be quite pleasing. Friar, since our chat I have changed landscape filter (in effect anisotropic filtering) from Blurred to Sharp. I am still up for recommendations re. game settings but these work for me at the moment.....always room to manoeuvre. Cheerzen

Thanks for the heads up Friar. I tend to do the same as Arthur and use centre VR view when I want to get a centre forward view. I am moving around in cockpit eg. leaning forward, looking around for instruments etc. so i am not sure defining a custom position will gain anything.

Words, schmurds....

Painless, do you remember me saying my brother has a train set and that the locos have sound chips for 'realistic' sound? This is his track, Abbotswood Junction , that he takes around the country with his son and displays. Hope you don't mind me showing it....

Hey Crasheroni.....I fixed my Realteus problem and it is working again !!! At some point I ran over the usb cable with my chair wheel and unbeknown to me I had severed all of the little eight cables inside the sheathing. I found this after I was inspecting it and it felt a little odd.... Opened up the cable and soldered them together again. All works....chuffed because they are colour coded and I got them right

What the feck are key requirements....

Especially for JP and his German invasion colleague !!

Engine management in GBS has been a learning process since it came out and I think we are now getting the hang of it. What has been happening for some months now is that when asked for engine settings the reply has been to use the 'Cruise' figures quoted in the Pilot's Notes found here. The figures contained in the Notes have been replicated on the crib sheet mod found in the cockpit (the one that replaces the tottie picture). An example of this would be 2,600 RPM and 44 inches on the Manifold pressure dial on the P38, these dials being found on the right of the instrument panel at the top on this aircraft. Whilst on some aircraft this may work out as what we knew as '80 - 80' in the '46 days unfortunately this no longer applies for optimum performance at cruise settings. I know these RPM and Manifold pressure figures as the 'Standard' settings. The majority of German aircraft have only the 'ata' pressure gauge that needs to be monitored...this is usually running at 1.15 for cruise but does differ. What has been happening recently is that, as the P38 is being used more intimately, these standard cruise settings aren't always used. I have noticed that when climbing out and awaiting the formation to assemble over the airfield these settings are reduced to 2,300 RPM and 30 inches to allow for a gentle steady climb and to give pilots towards the rear the opportunity to use the standard settings, or a little bit more in accordance with the crib sheet, to catch up. Fen and Painless are used to these settings and call them out when making changes so in conjunction with Fen's method of cutting the corner he mentioned above hopefully we can all pick up on this and adjust our settings for catching up. With the P38, for optimal setting, mixture can be set at 70% when on the ground and generally left there. Hope that helps.

One odd issue for me during the mission was that I lost the 6DOF in VR. I could turn my head and lean backwards and forwards but I couldn't tilt my view to look around the instruments or use the mirror. I had full functionality during the dogfight server, coop server before the mission and after the mission I flew a single mission and went onto Arthur's server and had full functionality for both. Weird....

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We'll be ok next time Friar 👍 Thanks for the work Fen....as someone said last night I think we are breaking new ground with the mission generator and are pushing it's workings to the limit and beyond. Good to be testing it like we are though. My issues with the mission and how it went have mostly been mentioned in the previous posts so few additions from me. I don't think everyone will need to set up whispers, perhaps just set up one between Fen and Painless to start with and see how it goes. Take it step by step and maybe expand coverage if required. Last night emphasised how necessary it is to have controls set up and the need to push the P38 in order to keep up with others. Painless reduced his engine rpm and manifold pressure quite a lot to allow us to catch up but if you can't please say so as flight leaders can put in banking turns to allow those behind to catch up. I will be more attentive and look to do that next time. Cheerzen

Something that would affect me if I upgraded the processor on my X99-A Asus motherboard would be that the newer processor would need the Bios to be updated to a newer version. I have never flashed/updated bios so that sort of put me off. Mine has an LGA 2011 v3 socket in the mobo.