Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Films and Screenshots => Topic started by: Betown on October 29, 2002, 06:23:02 AM
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My Grandads (Ken Brain) from the side
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Ken Standing by his Tiffy
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Front of Ken's Aircraft
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Ken up at the front
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Another typhoon from the same squadron but not his
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The Typhoon from RAF Hendon, gives u a good idea of colour
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Also another piece of information for you guys... Just a rough Idea of camo paterns and such
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Okey Guys, Let's see what you can do....
If you need higher rez pictures just post your email address here and I will post them to ya. Also... If you need any more pictures then please ask...
For the best one I may even donate a prize :)
BT OUT
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I just want to thank you for posting your grandfathers aircraft pictures.
I just always seemed amazed how good of a quality some of you keep them in.
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May your Grandfather rest in peace and forever live his fantastic memories.
I would like to ask not to disgrace your grandfather but was he ever shot down?
A book some of you should read is Under a War torn Sky very short but very meaningful book.
About a bomber co-pilot getting shotdown over enemy territory.
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Thanks for sharing Betown. Fantastic pictures :)
Gatso
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It is my pleasure to post them here and I am glad you got enjoyment out of them. Hawklore, thank you for your kind words :) No he was not ever shot down. He did 172 operational missions in a Typhoon and then went on to be an instructor on the Bomber Defence Flight.
He was then a test pilot and flew over 40 aircraft. He also did a fair ammount of ops in a P40.
BT
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The serial seems to read JP504..
Invasion stripes only on the underside...
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hmm... were there any "personal markings" we should know of?
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Yup,
JP504, SF@R and D-day black on fuselage, White/black on wings is what I'm going with.
Betown, Pics like you have posted are more special than anything we come up with in a 'game'. Real WW2 pics, especially those of a single person with some sort of connection are always moving. If you feel happy to do it more details/stories/anything would be well recieved.
My family keeps bugging my grandad to put all that he remembers down on paper (82 and Royal Navy, HMS Newcastle mainly). Once gone it's never regained, anything you have would be gratefully recieved, I'm sure, by this community.
Again, thanks for posting.
Gatso
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looks a bit like the one i just did :)
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Awesome!
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Well,
I have a whole BOX and I mean a BOX FULL of pictures and stuff from right the way through his life and I have not yet finished going through them all. I am finding bits an pieces of stuff and have not yet finished by a long shot... When I find more I will post them
Kindest Regards to all of you! Thank You ever so much.. This means a lot to me
BT
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Oh Also as a point of interest, the signed picture if the typhoon is signed by Typhoon & Tempest pilots. We all meet up every year and the Pilots and there familys have a convention. Unfortunatly the numbers have got progressivly fewer over the last few years... I also had the priviage to know the WW2 Pinup "JANE" (will post pictures later) Who used to visit the convention every year with us (her husband was a typhoon pilot) She was the first lady to do Naked Photos that where published in a Paper (Daily Mirror)
Amazingly my mother ended up working for the same newspaper some 50 years later and it was amazing how things come together... Jane, like so many others recently died last year of Cancer which she had been battling for the past 5. Even she was always a very happy woman who would have time to talk to anyone. She will always hold a special place in my heart.
Will post more...
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Thanks alot Betown for sharing your stuff.
Man thats alot...
Ill look into skinning that aircraft...
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I cant seem to find the Typhoon textures anyone know what there named?
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Also an interesting story about that actual aircraft:
The aircraft is a 1a Varient. My grandfather flew this aircraft for a fair while on quite a few combat missions. The aircraft went in for some really heavy maintenance for a week or so and during the meantime he flew his squadron leaders 1b which had the 4 bladed prop like we have in Aces High. He flew this aircraft for coming on a week and when he got his own aircraft back (the one in the picture) it just didn't feel right. (these where his exact words)
He managed to convince his squadron leader that to let him go down and pickup a new 1b from the factory and amazingly he said yes. So off he toddled down to the factory to pick up his 1b and his 1a was given to a young ladd who had just joined the squadron.
A day or so later (can't remember exactly how long) The squadron was on a combat mission and they went down on the target. The aircraft in the picture never came back up....
He also told me that the Squad Identification SF@R was marked as "The unlucky one" for the squadron. The reason being that the last 15 pilots to have it had been killed. He flew SF@R for the rest of his time with 137 Squadron and he never had any trouble. When I asked him about it he said.
"Well I guess it just ran out of bad luck"
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Oh boy i spent 30 mins adjusting it just to find out that i had it right in the first place, and I cant get that white stripe down.....
I have to go thru cobra and everything before i can see deatield areas cobra and me will work together :D
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and am i right about using the tempest templet cause i cant find the typhoon template?
Skinners??:confused:
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Very nice. TY:D
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Originally posted by Hawklore
and am i right about using the tempest templet cause i cant find the typhoon template?
Skinners??:confused:
No.
Look in the TE /terrains/ folder. shpfilter.txt
This file tells the TE what objects NOT to show. Delete the typhoon line and any others you want to see in the TE.
;)
Viper