The Yellow Count.... RB

[DaveSchilling]

So, there I was, flying a joy flight having fun over Bastonge...



When suddenly! Below.. I see some fould creatures! These nasty ze Germans attacking my fellow team mates! I dive in to save them from the beasts and spot this infamous, noble, fighter ace chasing a friendly Wildcat..



I decided it was time for his reign of terror to stop!





Just got him the second after he got that Wildcat..



They both crashed at the same time.. And I gloriously went home as hero!



..or not. I just sucked alittle less and did some good in Realistic. But I have started to have more and more fun in that mode! Gotta fly more with you RB blokes so you can make me suck a little less, there is so much to learn *over* arcade...

Let me know when you wanna teach me some lower-ish tiered planes!

[AOD_Cadimus]

P40 one of the greatest aircraft ever made

[Aviation21]

Dave be careful!

ONCE you go Realistic you may never go back to Arcadasy!

LOL!

[DaveSchilling]

I have been so annoyed by some Arcade... Behaviours? Lateley so.. I am beeing pushed towards playing mroe RB. :)
But I am happy playing both so.. ;)

Love the P-40, looks good, feels great! Nice skins.. I just seem to be hooked up with hellcats, P-47s and stuff like that which outperforms me.. ;P

[Aviation21]

I started playing Tanks this weekend and it's been a nice change!

Of course, I had low expectations because I never played a MMO Tank game before.

[AOD_Cadimus]

I have been so annoyed by some Arcade... Behaviours? Lateley so.. I am beeing pushed towards playing mroe RB. :)
But I am happy playing both so.. ;)

Love the P-40, looks good, feels great! Nice skins.. I just seem to be hooked up with hellcats, P-47s and stuff like that which outperforms me.. ;P

I use to play arcade alot but I got tired of all of the Bf109 FW190 shenanigans and switch to RB

[Aviation21]

I use to play arcade alot but I got tired of all of the Bf109 FW190 shenanigans and switch to RB

...and let's not forget SOMEBODY who shall not be mentioned use to come down to the Realistic rooms and give us a hard time for not flying Arcade anymore!

Ah! The good old times... hehe!

[DaveSchilling]

I use to play arcade alot but I got tired of all of the Bf109 FW190 shenanigans and switch to RB

Tell me about it..! Some noo.. Dude re-spawns, goes in a shallow dive, straight line towards the closest target for a head on... Gets a kill or two, rinse and repeat...
But I had some stupid people in RB today as well. Me and a Tak-7 were the only ones left alive against five enemies. I am chasing a P-400 and the Yak-7 comes back reloaded, dives in blasting me and the P-400 until he runs out of ammo. No keeping an eye for the rest....
He and the rest of the bad guys all later crashed in some bizarre ways leaving me left totally alone.. xD


So, had to try more... Got Bulge again. Saw some squaded up Norwegians so spoke some "Scandinavian" with the and promised to keep an eye on them, they were going in low... A couple of bf 109s dived on them and I warned and dived in. But I got bounced by a Mc.202.
Still felt I had to help the Norwegians so gived in in a too noobishly steep dive (?) ;-)



Mr Mc.202 keeps chasing me so I made a loop and that bugger shoots one of the Norwegians..!
I failed.. But I wanted revenge!

Got an exciting chase. Just guessed I would outmaneouvre him.. Still have no idea if that was smart first outturning and then giving chase..
But he got one of those guys I had promised to help..







Say "-Hi!" (or "-F-O!" to Benito from me Eytie.. ;D

Now, low and slow a Bf 109 E comes straight for me.. Felt forced into that head on but I got out with barely a scratch.. He got a .50 in the face..






Well, tell Mr. Hitler to "-F-O!" as well Hans..

Home for tea and medals!



So yeah, I start to like it! Probably just been up mostly against noobs though..

[AOD_Cadimus]

Ki43's are very deadly in a skilled pilots hands but they are somewhat of a paper tiger one burst from incendiary shells and it is reduced to ash and dust

[DaveSchilling]

Yeah, I am happy every time I manage to get one into the crosshairs..! Poor guys, taken out when occupied but that is how I do it...

[DaveSchilling]

Need to show Pnut some more skins fpr the P-40 so he works hard for his! ;-)

Got my best RB so far yet, in kills atleast... Guadalcanal.. Having a nice little joy flight in the sun..



"-Bandits twelve o´clock, low! Tally ho!"



I totally managed to miss that float-Zero.. Rubbish me.. I kept flying though and caught up to a Ki-61 chasing a friend - and he had just downed another P-40.. Pay back!





Took some *friendly* fire from a *friendly* P-400 shooting through me (and there was an A6M2 closing in behind he could have diveed on instead..).. Friendly fire isn´t. But that gave me a reason to "help" him with a B5N2... And I got a better angle so..





See ya..!

Meanwhile.. Two team mates were chasing bots while a F4U was being chased by that A6M - he was being critted.. Just 2-3 km away from them. Pricks. I took up the chase but another Corsair drew him off, damaging him.
He went back to their fleet and since he was the last guy standing I followed. DO we shoot people on the runway? He was the last guy and far easier on the deck so.. I did...




Damn glad I did not have to take him on in the air - and that is it.. I even managed to survuve the flak for once..



And some bonus pics of a couple of models I did.. 1/48 Tamiya P-51D. Gotta love the pin-ups.. ;-)




2nd one:



Not great but I am still happy about them. :)

Polish P-51 B/C - also Tamiya 1/48 - lovelly kits!



Brush painted Airfix Spitfire 1/72 (yeah the decal is supposed to be like that..!)



Brush painted Airfix P-40 B/C - did not turn out great (see the canpoy!)