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Nearly twice his age, survived bombs, bullets and homicidal ex-wives, Life, <and it's counterpart, death> is friggin weird. The loss of the man I do not feel, as I did not know him, his talent I will miss a great deal. I do not feel for Lawrie, there are much better people for that nearby. Vaya con dios

109-E3 had cannon in wings, and the paint scheme's right for an E. And if those are "thrown together textures" I gotta improve my aim.

The only time to fear a "muhreen" is in the bathroom of the local strip club Air Cav, fly low, fly fast, hit hard and look damn good doing it

minor niggle, K98 sight picture, umm, go back into photoshop and flip it <bolt is on wrong side> The nonridable stug isn't really an issue, we already have 5 vehicles they can ride on, jeez. Love the motorcycle toops

@shadow nx I'm sure there are, and I'm sure it'll be cool, I'd still rather have the tanks, becuase I'm a DAT

Awww, now if we all in love agin <english is my first language, but Ah'm a redneck> I don't really care about another helicopter, even a stellar one, just give me those T55's Now! ....please?

Canadian, Nope, I'm an American, last time I checked, when we get worked up we bomb your ass <joke people, it's a j-o-k-e> Maybe I'm too harsh but seriously, Stopple's stuff is AS good as I44's WW2EC's stuff is AS good as I44's Lots of folks make stuff, some good, some bad, some in between. Nobody is held to a standard other than community support, and once you, the community, start asking crap like "how does this compare to so and so's?" You just put a premium on someone's work, you took the friggin fun outta modding with that question. I no longer even try to make mods for the "community" I make them for my friends and myself. The community has grown jaded, selfish, and none too respectful of modders in general, even as new ground is broken, many folks are dropping out, figure it out folks, my "personal" commitments don't change on a rotating scale, neither do anyone else's, Just a modders graceful way of saying y'all suck and I don't want to deal with it anymore. And I can hold I44 to whatever standard I wish, hype aside, they are a good mod team, GOOD folks, they make mistakes just like the rest of us, I'd hold off on godhood, but that's just me. I'm not overly critical, just critical, and I will DEMAND you hold other mod teams to the same level of respect, Or you can go make your own, get it? Signing off, I'm done, period. Singh Loi

Waittaminute, hold the phone. Avon you are OUT OF LINE, I44 takes forever and releases a DEMO, and all of a sudden other mod teams must meet THEIR standard? Christ, might as well not mod in that case, just post screen shots every other month. and for the last time, duplicating their work? Tell me Avon, at what point in time did Invasion 1944 invent the SECOND WORLD WAR? last time I checked, all of this crap is in the public domain, so whoever mods first, mods first, whoever mods best, mods best. You guys keep going, not everyone is buying into the I44=God crap. <strangely enough, my viewpoint is probably shared by more I44 members than the common forumgoer>

The point being prz, that WHEN they sent them to Kummersdorf, the Red Army was only 10 miles away, I don't know how y'all do it, but we generally don't send experimental sh!t to what's going to be the frontlines, unless we want to combat test it. And The Sovs do say the things fired on them, I find it most strange that no one has ever heard from the Maus crews.

@prz, no not that set of photos, @reed, LOL the problem is, there is very little hard information on the last days of the war, most of what we know right now is from dredging through the massive Soviet archives, which until recently, were classified. It will take years to find all the info, and even then it will not be complete. <not to mention national "spin" doctoring> Prz if they weren't using them in battle, why were they at Kummersdorf? <look at a map, find Meppen, then Kummersdorf, as a former tanker I find commiting to battle to be only viable reason for them to be there>

membership in the NSDAP was not compulsory except for SS, The oath of personal loyalty to Hitler was a bit of legal trickery to bind the Wehrmacht to obey, since there was no way to legally force the army to join the nazi party.

Only source I have is a friend in the armor museum at Aberdeen, the documents he showed me <in '88> were copies of documents dated from 1946, the soviet description of the battle was 2 pages out of 30 most of the document pertained not to combat but examining German Armor plate, the battle was one of 4 references <the other 3 involving a TigerII, a Hetzer,a an unidentified "enemy armored unit" which apparently stood up to 3 IsII's long enough for them to exhaust their ammo, then it left the field>

Looks almost like the real one

Maus specs called for 1.5Cm, not what it had in field. Soviet documents say Maus engaged 134th Tank Rgt of 8th Guards East of Kummersdorf, this has never been confirmed although there is a group of 6 photos that show a battle damaged Maus with Soviet Soldiers around it, the turret reportedly was used in the Kubinki reconstruction, and, for the Record, Meppen was in the Free French zone, no American forces ever saw Meppen until 1947.

Actually there is some dispute as to the Maus prototypes seeing combat <there were two combat ready that were apparently destroyed by their crews when the fuel ran out> The Russians apparently built as Maus out of the parts they found at the factory, it's now in the armor museum at Kubinki. The thing SkyQuake is talking about was the E1100, never got past early concept stage. The ones that are interesting are the other E series E100 140tons 1.5cm gun <btw the maus used this as main gun> E75 65 ton replacement for Tiger II and going all the way down to the E5 5 ton light tank. Of these the E100 prototype was 60% complete when the factory was captured by the British in '45 and looked to have been a superior design (The Maus was more of a concept car design, the order to build and outfit them for actual combat came as a shock to the design team)

You're right, and you're wrong, It's not a BRDM-2 It's a BRDM So is a FUG, <license built renamed vehicles are NOT new types, rampant nationalism aside>

Actually my sources are Bruce Culver's panzer colors and Thomas Jentz Panzertruppen Vol I. Afaik Pfc Mike, there was an early brown shade used initially in Tunis, but was replaced as impractical, since the overall effect was simliar when using Dunklegelb oversprayed with a wavy Red Ocher pattern <most of 501's tanks were to use this later> the Italian theatre used wavy green in place of red <look at the Sdkfz.251 in the demo> while in France they often combined both. <avon, I have been painting WWII microarmor miniatures Commercially for nearly 15 years, this kind of research comes with the territory, and I already have the library>

FYI, It's not *desert* camo, it's called DunkleGelb and ALL wehrmacht vehicles started using it as the primary base color in 1943, The tigers are a tad too bright, the shade needs to be darker, and the whole texture needs *dirtying* up, otherwise that's no big deal. Minor niggle, I44, the markings on your tiger make it from sPzAbt 501 which operated in Tunisia 1942-43, AFAIK none of those tigers left Tunis and the unit was reconstituted and sent to the Russian front about the time we landed in Sicily. sPzAbt 506 and 508 operated in Italy, 506 used black numbers with white border, 508 used black numbers with no border.

FYI while the snorkle kit is installed the tank can not fire or rotate the turret, While it would be a case of "whoa, neat" after the lack of usefullness was discovered it would be a case of "whoa, delete" I wouldn't waste resources on it.

See how easy the less attentive are swayed? Yes it's pink, yes it's fuzzy Underneath it's still an M16 @2stoned to think, Ever consider that if a gay man shoots you, it's just as bad as if a straight man did it? I'd be more mindful of the weapon than the proclivities of the holder.

Do we NEED a T64? no, not really, then again, do we NEED 100 different versions of a sorryass short-barreled spec-ops POS that folks seem to think is THE weapon? No but we got 'em Gimme a t62,t64, and any other stuff ya can come up with.

Currently, This model is offered in Blued steel,Tactical Matte <flat black>, Later versions may be offered in Chrome and Olive. <damn girl tried to SELL me one, I luv her like a sister but, LOL what the heck am I gonna do with it?>

Installer? <sigh> yeah I remember us ASKING for that. OPEC-TAG system, you know, not to bash OPEC or any other addon maker, but I do recall in my experience with the Flightsim mod community, that anything that segregates the community is bad for the community. I think this would be a mistake, and I also think that restructing the mod community should be up to the mod community, not the game devs, no offense, but what's in it for you? <yes I'm suspicious, if you had paid for a commercial aircraft addon in the past only to find it contained one of your mods, you would be too>

Installer? <sigh> yeah I remember us ASKING for that. OPEC-TAG system, you know, not to bash OPEC or any other addon maker, but I do recall in my experience with the Flightsim mod community, that anything that segregates the community is bad for the community. I think this would be a mistake, and I also think that restructing the mod community should be up to the mod community, not the game devs, no offense, but what's in it for you? <yes I'm suspicious, if you had paid for a commercial aircraft addon in the past only to find it contained one of your mods, you would be too>

Hmm, color doesn't look like the one I saw <of course neither do the barettausa photos> Let me chk with a friend, see if there's more than one color for it <Dani works for Baretta>