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#4607959 - 09/08/22 12:31 PM Be cool if skin makers...  
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Be cool if those who have made custom skins uploaded some for us less talented pilots. Esp for the more famous and most likely more flown Jastas, Squadron etc. I have the odd John Doe for the odd Jasta\Squadron so most of the time I'm picking and historical pilots skin one who isn't flying in my flight at the time. Though I don't really like doing this.

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#4607967 - 09/08/22 02:39 PM Re: Be cool if skin makers... [Re: Wodin]  
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Hi Wodin. Look in the "Alternative Skins Mod by Jerbear" there are a number of skins labeled "personal skin" some are for a specific Staffel but others are usable whereever you want them. There are also some with the unit designation Jasta 0. Some have designs and some are just plain jane aircraft that can take a personal symbol, There used to be more but I culled some of them out because they were my early work and not particularly good. I'll make some more for the next release.

There is also a personal skin or two in the Two-seater Mod.

Jer

#4608260 - 09/10/22 05:54 PM Re: Be cool if skin makers... [Re: jerbear]  
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One more thing I would add, ref the comment about using historical pilot skins. It was quite common for new pilots to be assigned the aircraft of the flier who had left the unit. Some flew them just the way they were and some added some little detail to make it their own. Also, many times, aircraft were handed down from more prestigious units to those lower on the food chain. Many of these were used as is, especially Fodder DR1 and DVII types.

Jer

#4608278 - 09/10/22 08:01 PM Re: Be cool if skin makers... [Re: jerbear]  
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Originally Posted by jerbear
... aircraft were handed down from more prestigious units to those lower on the food chain. Many of these were used as is, especially Fodder DR1 and DVII types.


An apt Freudian slip -- by the time one received a hand-me-down Dreidecker, it probably was fodder for engined-up Se5a and SPAD types prowling the front lines. Although, Josef Jacobs had success with the Dr.I well into Sept./Oct. of '18 I think - and switched between two, possibly three, Dr.Is during the last year of the war.

Cheers all & happy flying,
Von S smile2

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#4608297 - 09/10/22 09:45 PM Re: Be cool if skin makers... [Re: VonS]  
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#4608373 - 09/11/22 07:47 PM Re: Be cool if skin makers... [Re: jerbear]  
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Another tip I just thought of...If, when you decide you want to fly with a certain unit, go through the roster and compare the skins for the unit and those names. You find, quite frequently, that there are skins for ace pilots who are not on the roster. Either they were originally included among the aces and were deleted at some point or, more likely, there was a mis-communication when the skins were being made, and superfluous skins were done.

In that same vein, there are types that a pilot has skins for that he never flies. Let's say, for instance, the unit is flying the Albatros DIII and changes to the DV shortly after this pilot is killed or leave the unit for some other reason. Now we have a DV with no pilot just sitting there.

Here are a few examples. Alb DV Jasta 11 Otto Brauneck and Wilhelm Bockelmann..........Jasta 21, extra Alb DIII early for Schleich and Pfalz for both Schleich and Alvesleben. These skins are never used and are up for grabs. That's what I did with the Horse Shoe and shamrock skins in Jasta 15/18, I co-opted if for myself and made some others of the same design, they are in the Alternative Skins Mod.

It takes a little work to find the extra aircraft, you need to go through a campaign, advancing time every week or every month to look at the aircraft assignments and roster to find them...but hey....you got nuthin' but time....Right?

Jer

#4608435 - 09/12/22 03:34 PM Re: Be cool if skin makers... [Re: jerbear]  
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Here are three more examples of skins that are never flown. Jasta 15 aces have not flown the Pfalz since back before WOFF UE so these three are up for grabs as well. [Linked Image]

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#4608795 - 09/16/22 01:54 PM Re: Be cool if skin makers... [Re: jerbear]  
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And another one...........

There is a Fokker DVII and DVII OAW for Josef Muller from Jasta 23 that is up for grabs, The OAW is in User Skins by Jerbear pack 1 and the DVII is in the Alternatives pack.

I did these years ago and Shredward did the coding to have it included in the aces roster but it never appeared. I assume it got lost in the shuffle somewhere, so it has never flown in Campaign and is there for the taking. It could be used in other Staffels as well if the tail marking doesn't bother you.[Linked Image]

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