#4608278 - 09/10/22 08:01 PM
Re: Be cool if skin makers...
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... 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
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#4608297 - 09/10/22 09:45 PM
Re: Be cool if skin makers...
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#4608373 - 09/11/22 07:47 PM
Re: Be cool if skin makers...
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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
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