That's interesting, the point that they were actually more visible from above while in flight... it makes perfect sense: the higher they flew, cloud, also simply density of atmosphere below, would cause them them stand out.

Also, it was known that a coat of matte paint slowed an aircraft by a considerable amount (especially a big one) owing to weight of the paint and the drag. The RAF continued to paint their bombers because they flew mainly at night but I don't know why they didn't also return to natural metal for their fighters.

The Luftwaffe began painting their fighters in more 'earthy' colours such as "braunviolette" right down their flanks and over the tailfins (often previously left light grey) in the later stages of then war because they were having to spend far more time on the ground, at which times a top camouflage would indeed be best.

Luftwaffe camouflage just by itself is a vast, fascinating and often controversial subject.

I've compared your account with that of Dowly in the admin control panel and they are almost identical so some change in the user group settings must have taken place.

I'll speak with Neal about it and hopefully matters can be rectified.

Must be a rodent thing.

Meanwhile, @ Aktung, they never used Braunviolett on the Me109E... it was a late-war RLM (Reichsluftfahrtministerium) colour used on G's and K's, so there :haha:

http://i.imgur.com/8q4GYOe.jpg Done a bit more today

http://i.imgur.com/c8XYJNl.jpg And a bit more today

More progress on 'Remagen Strike'
 

http://i.imgur.com/cU5f3nV.jpg (before)

http://i.imgur.com/ERFAPcn.jpg

I've changed it quite a bit now and tried to convey more speed

http://inktank.fi/wp-content/uploads...0-738x1030.jpghttp://inktank.fi/digital-artworks-jakub-rozalski/ :D

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Thanks for the link mate. Nice concept, the past mixed with the future. Not new I know, but well executed.

http://i.imgur.com/XZ9mINB.jpg A Barn Owl... finished today.

Aww! Perfect!

Here's the tune:
Agincourt - Barn Owl Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW4iWdmquUs

Thank you, fumo30 :)

Just finished this
 

Beautiful hare! Just right for the Easter days, too :)
I recently saw one on a field here, but they have become rare (all this industrialisation eating up there natural habitats).

Thanks, Catfish; we still see them, some years more than others, but they're thankfully not as scarce here in the fens as elsewhere.

Their population has gone back two thirds only in the last ten years in Germany, a direct result of intensive agrarian industry, and all kinds of poisons getting into the food chain :shifty: Then: Hunters, who do not care for protection but are eager to shoot. Hares and does are also hunted by crows, in open territory and all those open fields.

In Germany, hares have a lot of nicknames describing special "features" or manners of those bunnies like "Meister Lampe" or "Muemmelmann".
"Jans Mümmelmann, der alte Heidhase, lag in seinem Lager auf dem blanken Heidberg, ließ sich die Mittagssonne auf den billigen Balg scheinen und dachte nach über Leben und Tod." :haha:
(Jans Muemmelmann, the old heathland hare, lay on its lair on top of the blank Heidberg (heath mountain), let the midday sun shine on his cheap hide, and thought about life and death.) A short story by H. Löns