You guys can't be serious - it's not a good try or a commendable effort, it's a complete crock, and an insult to anyone who's serious about the subject.
And to think that people will actually read and
believe this "Fritz the Fox" person - I hate the Internet...
John
HI John
I had a quick look at the some of the other sections... the guy actually makes VVS camo sounds more complex than Luftwaffe camo!!!!
The IS the internet, well, internet generation, have a read
http://www.fritzthefox.com/ww2airplane_guide.htmlIf you're like me, you love airplane books. Big, coffee-table-sized, lavishly illustrated books with lots of exciting photos and cutaways to pore over for hours. It's a good thing those books have lots of pictures, too, because they are often dreadfully boring to read. While it may conceivably be helpful to know that the Bf109 was powered by a Daimler-Benz dee-bee-five-oh-whatever producing so many horsepower at such and such an altitude, it certainly isn't light reading. So I took the liberty of preparing a kindler, gentler coffee table book, with all the boring technical bits left out. You don't even need a coffee table! What follows is still packed with information, but presented in an eye-friendly format for your amusement and enlightenment. The format should be easy enough to figure out, but below are a few comments that may provide you some further insights into what it all means...
classic
http://www.fritzthefox.com/building_a_model_airplane.htmlIt's like asking me to play soccer, [or any other sport] and write it up..
also worth a quick squizz
http://www.fritzthefox.com/tenworstplanes.htmlincluding the repated story about the Buffalo... yeah, not the greatest plane in the Pacific, but a bunch of ill prepared US or British Empire flyers against some of the best flyers in the world....
They guy does have a contact address. mailto:barry@fritzthefox.com
the ONE good thing is he does link to sites with real information.
maybe he needs some emails to add a link here to his VVS fantasies...
The internet is great if you have a brain. If you have half a brain you might learn. But it also gives the dim a platform, and there are a lot of them... especially the ones with ADHD who make sites like this...
erm, slighly off topic..
I never did rant about Pilawskii's 151 wing Hurricane profile with a big grey fusleage repair patch did I....
still this is the an who prefaced his Hurricane fanstaies with
I have no expertise in the field of RAF camouflage, and whilst working from excellent resource material, I have not undertaken physical studies of these paints nor their properties. The resulting character of the various British paints, and the Soviet ones used to modify their appearance, is therefore theoretical in nature, and represents my own attempt to find the most likely solution which fits the current evidence.
http://vvs.hobbyvista.com/Modeling/Hawker/Hurricane/HurriProfiles/Part1/VVS_Hurricanes-1.htmlI can't even begin to to pick my way through that train wreck [or is it worth another posting??] but the 3rd plane in winter camo is not DFS but TLS.... sky undersides show nearly white against snows, not dull grey....
blah, too cranky to be posting, got a cold...
T
PS Jason -
http://www.fritzthefox.com/ww2guide/il2.htmlJohn -
http://www.fritzthefox.com/ww2guide/yak1.htmlcutting edge research here...