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Brown 7 done. Packing

Hi, afaik it is, but im not sure. Youd have to tinker around with the lua files, or create new ones

Brown 7 of 7./JG26 Late Fiesler Build 601xxx series

finished the generic 7./jg26 texture and made a color variant for the squadron leader. Brown 7 is the last unique dora of 7./JG26 im gonna do.

@NineLine Anything?

If you want to turn like a spitfire, well.. get a spitfire. or a k4. Eg. on 4ya red is also way outnumbered. But they numbers dont mean much if the majority of those blue players are new players, bare able bein to navigate, yet even be able to engage in the simples form of energy conserving dog fight. you dont need to be able to turn tightly with them. A way larger portion of the regular red side players is way more capable and many blue players. After all, the p51 etc are a gateway drug into ww2 dcs.. so. Im not going into flight characteristics and if those are true or not cause i cant say sh1te about that. each airplane will fly differently. and that is a fact. If you want equality, then fly 51 vs 51. There are enough capable a8 players who regularly compete with p51s, 47s and spits and slaughter them. Yes, it is no turnfighter like the spit, but it doesnt have to be. I also cant comment on the accuracy of the enginepower, but, if you´re a crap pilot, more enginepower will not really help you. If youre having alt and speed advantage of your opponent and dont screw it cause you engage in an energy draining turnfight, you pretty much win it easily. even with an anton.

I just tried downloading. they work. the file you download from user files is a pdf that contains the links to one drive. please retry. Meanwhile: Generic 7. / JG.26 skin

Those JaPo books opened a can of worms. The prop blades were primed with the infamous RLM99 (fictional) green-yellow primer. Many paints used were very deluted and thinly applied due to the progression of war and its shortcomings. I tried to implement this, but for some technical stuff ive omited this, but applied it to eg, break up pattern on the wings and brushstrokes on the prop blades. Also added some small details to the gun cowling and a forgotten detail on the bottom. A grove for the ETC rack. The normals for the gun covers on the wings were also modified to pop a bit more. Red markers on the push buttons were painted red. Albeit late war doras often had the bare minimum of service markings applied i just added it for <profanity> n giggles. Ill be stressing the skin a bit more to break up uniformity in the next days.

As per title... bushes / shrubs have a collision model... which causes pretty much of an inconvenience when you do a belly landing and slide against/over them. same with wooden fences.. planes explode sliding into them... small shrubs and bushes shouldnt have any collsion at all. its all nice to look at, but if you´re pressed to do a belly landing cause youre engines out you have to get your plane down and not zoom around and look for a wee spot without any foliage whatsoever. It would be nice if this could be adjusted.

Yeah. Whatever. /thread

Imma take a coffee break and do some reading.

Sort of makes sense. Gauges usually stay all in the norm. Broken oil temp gauge maybe? I usually fly it at 110 120 oil temp where the needle is in the bracket. Usually it also stays there during combat and lower with lower settings. There is nothing i can read in that states faulty useage. The one thing ive observed sometimes that right when the uproar sound appears and i shift my view upwards the cowlflaps are closed. And i did not touch them. In my first track i was even flying pretty fast and at 2500 or lower. Temps good. Pushed it to past 3000. Clunk. But what mad says sounds logical. So either the oil gauge does read wrong or theres something wrong with the oil/water cooling...

https://1drv.ms/u/c/153140320d8bd7a3/EemSBqhDUdJFkxsYAHfL5cEBXwq7A0EKC8WePMAOPV3OGg?e=lKZRiJ @NineLine another dead engine with temps ok. same short uproar and death no matter how fast i pull back. again, temps are ok, you hear the uproar, then temps start to rise and engine death can only be delayed Occurs in the first half. I also have some lagg down low which seem to appear only since 2.9... not sure if its visible via track but eg occurs when i try to land at carpiquet after the engine siezed. right before touchdown i get serious lagg.

Brown 14 next.

Right. Worked on the tail section and jumo drop in as per JaPo book procedures. Base in rlm76 light blue and then sprayed in the beige variant. Engine topped with RLM81 green. The effect is "minimal" and did consume hours.... oh well.. it is what it is... Also adjusted colors as the rlm81 brown was tad too dark imho. further colors on brown 4, 14 and 2 and a generic 7/26 will be differnt from another in their tonality. Its pretty interesting to see the battles one has to fight with finding the right colors especially for a PBR environment. In the shaded view, rlm82 looks nearly slime green, whereas in diffuse only its a medium olive green. So even if there were correct RLM charts, colors would have to be corrected for a PBR environment or would look "off".

in the editor you can set it up for a mission. if thats what you mean. but thats up to the mission designer

Will there be any improvements/fixes on the terrain? Whiles new is nice, but bernay airfield is still jagged....

Thing is that the dora isnt the most popular plane atm. Most fly A8 or K4. I basically only fly the dora. Yes, the bug appears randomly and not often, but sometimes it pops up in succession... which can be frustrating. ill keep the tracks coming in.

command angle means use of mw50 yes. mw50 is switched on by the mw50 switch and pushing the throttle past 3000 to 3250. iirc only ata does change. its a bit irritating. per technical manual you shouldnt use mw50 for t/o as you might overheat the engine too fast. but in dcs its quite possible.

Small update. Im evaluating new info i could scavange on painting procedures of the dora. As established the junkers pre manufactured jumo engines came prepainted in a light blue rlm76 and rlm81 green on top having a very clean straight demarcation line. Upon assembly it is said that the power egg was oversprayed in the blue-green/beige version of rlm76 and topped off with brown rlm81. Same method was sort of applied to tail section as these came premade from another subcontractor. The joint then was overpainted in the saddle section. With the mimetall 500xxx series this was done with rlm 82 as previously discussed. Pictures somehow underline aforementioned procedure as the cowling often has a misalligned demarcation line most noticably on the right side where the demarcation line of the power egg is somewhat centered around the middle of the supercharger scoop and on the fuselage the demarcation line is higher around the strengthening spars. This methid was explicitly stated for the 5006xx series. However there seems to be a tripping stone... rlm81 green and rlm 81 brown look very identical on b/w. Nearly indistiguishable... Also, planes like the blue 12 of the same series also had the top front of the cowling sprayed in rlm82 light green... that strikes it pretty odd given the fact how much paint was used / wasted and lookin at the dire situations the luftwaffe was facing... Basically youd have rlm81g/rlm76b then rlm81b/rlm76bg and then a coat of rlm82.... overspray a green with brown to be resprayed with green?? Sorta odd... It sure would make a nice visual detail but the question about execution and time investment vs result arises... Anyway.. ive got some books incoming that might help hopefully... Theres few minor adjustmwnts and fixes bein done meanwhile along with slight color hue corrections. Unique serial nrs were made for brown 18 and 4, underside spray pattern of the elevators were fixed, nr "4" was fixed in shape and dimension. The droptanks were colored rlm65 as it seems this was the predominant color. Also theyll receive some dings in the normal.

So... a little study of Brown 4 of 7./JG26.. i only know 2 pictures of that thing... and now try to determine the colors... some stuff has to be made up pattern wise.. but we can draw parallels. Now. Attached are 3 images. if you look at the first two, youll se the color swatches i use for RLM75, 76 and 81, black and the orang-y brown used for the group marking and the number 4. Studying the picture ive noticed that the gear leg root cover right above the gear is pretty much lighter than the surrounding area. Neither JaPo, nor Eagle Publications did seem to notice this or discarded it for whatever reasons? JaPos conclusion says that the gear cover and surrounding under/upperwing is all brown RLM81. EP / Crandall says its all RLM75. But, compare the color/light values of the gear cover with the sidesection of the tail. same value! it is known, that the fuselage was painted with a yellow greenish variant of RLM 76, while gear covers seemingly were not, but RLM76, 81 or 75. Now, if you look close at the area, where the upper portion of the gear cover inserts into the wing it casts a shadow. Both, the gear cover part and wing root cover have the same value in that shadowy area. If you progress to the right youll see a somewhat opened hatch which has the rim coverd in a lighter color. Incidentally it shares the same value as the gearcover and gear root cover and aeleron! Now, how to determine the rest? Assuming the wings leading edge and bottom is painted either RLM75 or brown RLM81 we can simply put swatches next to each other in exposed areas and in shadowy areas and then play with brightness/contrast to match the values of the previously determined RLM76! Bang on RLM81! Now, as we have that tricky part, we need to look at the top side of this plane. The only pics i have is attached. It is known that late war MiMetall build planes had very high contrast patterns, namely RLM76 and RLM81 as per JaPo, however, i have to check this out as its tricky to deal with as photoquality isnt best and it appears over exposed. The breakup color might be RLM76 or RLM82. Both colors were used on MiMetall birds. The mystery remains the engine cowling and the tail section to some extend. It is established that Wrk.Nr. 500647 is of the third and last batch produced by MiMetall. Its sisterbird 500666 has the whole forward section painted in one uniform color, so its save to say it was painted in the same way, but it remains speculation. The tailsection is what makes brown 4 famous as it uses a Ta152 tail. Of course we dont have this in dcs... but what the heck.. Id imagine - and this is speculation- that the tail would use a different shade of RLM76 as the tail sections were build by different subcontractors and delivered prepainted. To "buff out" uneveness in camo pattern, the "saddle" section between tail and center fuselage, which contains the extension plug, was usually painted with a different color, with MiMetall builds its RLM82 light green. I have no idea about the horizontal stabs tho... top and bottom...

Right... i think ive arrived at a point where i cant really think of improving anything anymore. Ive redone the matte fraying edges on all markings so that they match the frayin where stencils lifted and left a more soft mark. before that it was just a uniform inner glow. also fixed the fug16zy morane antenna which was actually made out of wood. last thing ive done was to tint the used metal parts to represent different alloy batches. ill just take care of the silvering on the metal surfaces and then do few more 7./JG26 machines.

Any AI wants to dogfight you.

After some testing i could find/create a good brush to imitate the luftwaffe splotchy application of paint and partially redone the camo. Tweaked the markings to be a bit less gloss. Might reduce further. Also the gasoline stains were fixed in color and adjusted.