Marry Christmas 2 all,i lov 2 fly n skin WW1, so as soon as i could get OFF, i was fly n skinin , skinin n flyin, i have a dr1 which is 99% done & here is a screenie of the progress so far.

It looks very good to me. Similar to Jasta 18 but blue instead of red on forward areas. Is this a historical skin?

sinbad

A little insight here. Gambit probably used the illustration in the Squadron/Signal DRI book?
(am I correct Gambit?)

This picture got it wrong, the blue should be red.
The Squadron/Signal WWI monographs are error ridden and should be used w/ caution.

Nice skin from a technical stanpoint tho'.

Barkhorn.

hi ya sinbad2, i saw it and thought the same thing , but i am sure its the same guy , blue with white bird is Lt Von raben jasta 12, & red is him in jasta 18
http://server3.uploadit.org/files/gambit168-driraben.jpg

Sorry Barkhorn1x , god knows how but i only saw sinbads post, i got it from the url i just posted, and as ive seen a replica dr1 flying with the same colours,
http://server3.uploadit.org/files/gambit168-dr1rabenside.jpg
I asumed it must be correct !!!!
Its ok though i was gonna do the red 1 also LOL
Thx 4 posting guys

Very nice Gambit looking forward to flying this, blue or red!

On a point of detail I'm pretty sure the final (thin) style of "Greek" upper wing cross as carried by Dr1s did not have an outer black line; just the white border.

Also, if the illustrations in the Osprey Dr1 aces book are accurate, the thiner style of cross when carried on the Dr1 upper wing usually had a white outline at the ends of the cross arms, like the earlier, thicker Greek cross. Tho this was not factory standard on that type of marking, most if not all Dr1s started life with their crosses painted on white squares, so the thinner style of Greek cross would have been a field repaint, not a factory job; so the white ends are plausible. Hence I'm inclined to think the Ospery interpretation is accurate, the photos on the book seem to bear this out.

Thx Ivor,i found a model of this achine and it has thin black cross's underside and none on the fuse so thats what ive gone 4, still bits n tweeks 2 do but is in good shape
pic of red n white r here
http://server3.uploadit.org/files/gambit168-REDNWHITE2.jpg
http://server3.uploadit.org/files/gambit168-REDNWHITE1.jpg

Hi Gambit, she's looking well!

Another thought, this time re the struts. On the Dr1 the undercarriage and interplane struts were steel tube, definitely not wood. So they would have been painted not "wood effect". The interplane struts, one of my sources (an excellent Airfix Mag article dating from the 1970s) says were wood, sometimes varnished, sometimes painted in undersurface blue, sometimes in uppersurface olive green.

Hi ya Ivor, ur right m8, the model shows red outers, & skyblue inner struts on fuse & wheel tubes , but a duckegg green bottom, i will get on 2 that , got 2 find out which wood is which on the original .dds
file
cheers

Looks great Gambit If you get a few accurate ones together maybe we can put them in the game if the guys don't do some.

Hi Polovski, how ya doin m8, i do intend 2 do a few dr1's & yeah will be accurate,im gonna see what i can use from my WOW psd's it would save alot of time than 2 start a new camel or se5 from scratch
cheers
P.s. do you know if there is a wireframe for each model finished, the wow wireframes helped a great deal for seeing overlaps & doubleups

have a great christmas OFF team , put yer feet up u deserve time off

Hello Gambit,

Yes please keep up the good work, the Dr1 has to be one of the most recognised aircraft of the 1914-18 war and a favourite to many.

I am surprised someone else has not pointed you to this site:

http://www.fokkerdr1.com/

Here are some photo's I managed to take around Easter time 2005 of some Replica Dr1's & some other aircraft, hope you find them of interest.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v640/pc777/Classis%20FIghters%202005/WW1/

Regards to all - please keep the great skins comming!!

PC

Thats a beautiful dr1, can you insert skins into OFF & if you can where do I go to find out this info?
Thanks in advance

HEY Thx pc777, lov the shots of the dr1's u took they look the nuts m8, i have a lot of C&C & the osprey aces series, and a great REVI mag, no 19,
thx for the dr1 site url, any help is a great help cheers

Hi dasriech, I can only change the default skin in its folder at this time, but i spend my time between quick combat n skinin, so for now i will just swap out , the single skin for each type as i make a new 1, but im sure WM & the OFF team , will be looking too expand on the amount of skins in the air at any given time, pc777 dr1 lineup in the paddock


would be so good 2 reproduce in OFF, fingers crossed

OK quick screenie , almost ready in red n white
this shot is how it 'll look in yer sights

Nice one Steve, send it too me via messenger when its ready

Really looking good!

Hello again to all Dr1 fans out there,

Gambit I am glad you liked some of the photo’s, let me know if you would like a high resolution version of any of them, I would be happy to send some to you, keep in mind they are about 2 Mb in size, but I can find a way to make them available to you if you like.

I don’t know if you take requests but one skin I would love to see in the game is an accurate rendition of Werner Voss’s plane. He really is my all time WW1 Ace hero.

If you are interested in getting a good book on Dr.1’s then I would highly recommend the following:

Fokker Dr.I Triplane – A World War One Legend by Paul Leaman

I have been collecting books on Dr.I’s since I was a teenager and this is the best I have come across so far.

I hope you can find a copy of it somewhere as it’s worth every cent.

I also have a lot of Ground to air footage of the Triplanes in the photo above, if I can find somewhere to post movie files I might make some small movies to share.

OK keep up the good work & please don’t fill that lovely Tripe full of holes!!!

PC

looks nice gambit I will pass it on to my sqaud memebers.

OK, technical question: how did you edit skins in Photoshop?

The original texture is in .DDS format, and Photoshop CS2 won't read it. So I worked around that by using Irfanview to convert it to .BMP format, and then I opened it in Photoshop and converted it into .PSD format... But now I can't get it back into .DDS format. Hmm...

So how do you edit your skins?