The Boulevard of Broken FRIDAY!

Tuna · March 23, 2018, 10:45:53 AM

Quote from: JudgeDredd on March 23, 2018, 09:52:10 AM
Quote from: Ian C on March 23, 2018, 09:23:39 AM
I love this stuff. I grew up with these kits and some of my fondest memories are of my dad helping me make these. I remember him being impressed when I added camo to the Me 109 with some paint lightly brushed on a tissue for a mottling effect. The first two kits I got were the Airfix 1/72 Me 109 and Spitfire. I was also into the plastic soldiers and I once got the legendary D-Day gun emplacement set for my birthday.

I spent hours in my parent's back garden fighting epic battles. Great days. These days I do it on a PC. We are so lucky to have these virtual toys...
Yeah - my brother and I used to make them with my dad...though I reckon he generally made them...can't recall. As for the soldiers, I can't remember the scale, but we had loads. Used to dig pits and trenches over in the local park and throw pens at them to knock them over...great days.

Back then as a kid, you made models to play with. Lol sometimes the paint didn't even get to dry! Who else had Auroras Anzio Beach and Rat Patrol kits?

stolypin · March 23, 2018, 11:37:18 AM

Combat Mission Red Thunder
TOAW IV (Ardennes scenario)
Panzer Campaigns Stalingrad Gold (Jul 42 scenario)
Open Rails

and maybe..

Command Modern Air/Naval Operations - Shifting Sands (1964 scenario)

DoctorQuest · March 23, 2018, 11:40:41 AM

I'm going to try to dig into Steam and Iron this weekend. I need to get in some study time for my FAA written test as well.

Vintage Dude · March 23, 2018, 12:45:12 PM

I also put together plastic models when I was young. All WW2 ships, tanks and planes, including the Rat Patrol kit. Do you remember how weird you felt after inhaling the glue fumes for a few hours!!

Skwerl · March 23, 2018, 01:04:57 PM

JD - I been playing Project cars a bit and I find the steering wheel controls are ridiculously oversensitive. Do you know an easy way to fix this so I don't have to burrow through 25 sub-sub-sub menus? Sorry if this sounds lazy, but I recently spent a hellish couple of hours trying to set up the controls for Assetto Corsa, and I just don't have the intestinal fortitude to go through that again right now.

mikeck · March 23, 2018, 01:27:06 PM

Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Loving this game

Arctic Blast · March 23, 2018, 02:22:42 PM

Fairly busy this weekend, but I might start up a Franchise Hockey Manager sim as the Carolina Hurricanes and try to turn them into...something. If I get the time, I'd like to get Spirit Island and/or Vast : the Crystal Caverns on the table, too.

JudgeDredd · March 23, 2018, 02:50:56 PM

Quote from: Skwerl on March 23, 2018, 01:04:57 PM
JD - I been playing Project cars a bit and I find the steering wheel controls are ridiculously oversensitive. Do you know an easy way to fix this so I don't have to burrow through 25 sub-sub-sub menus? Sorry if this sounds lazy, but I recently spent a hellish couple of hours trying to set up the controls for Assetto Corsa, and I just don't have the intestinal fortitude to go through that again right now.

My steering wheel is fine. What I would say is EVERYTIME I go into the game, I have to go to the controls and configure the pedals and steering wheel. I have to do this in my F1 game too.

Basically, if I don't, the controls are over sensitive. Touching the brake locks the brakes for example. So either the first thing I do before going into a race or when I get there, I go to the controls and just configure the steering and pedals. Nothing else. I never mess with any other settings. Just doing that seems to make the game recognise the range of movement in the steering and pedals. It's almost as if without doing so, the game "assumes" a default range which is way off.

Aside from that, I can't help I'm afraid because I don't mess with anything else. I have an Logitech Driving Force wheel...nothing fancy.

Skwerl · March 23, 2018, 03:32:57 PM

JD,

Thanks for the help! I'll give that a try.

Tuna · March 23, 2018, 04:38:24 PM

Quote from: Vintage Dude on March 23, 2018, 12:45:12 PM
I also put together plastic models when I was young. All WW2 ships, tanks and planes, including the Rat Patrol kit. Do you remember how weird you felt after inhaling the glue fumes for a few hours!!

lol, I was an Alter Boy back then, and I remember passing out up on the Alter. My father attributed to the fact that I was working on models before Mass and had been around the glue too much!

MengJiao · March 23, 2018, 06:51:22 PM

Quote from: Jarhead0331 on March 23, 2018, 06:36:04 AM
Arma 3 testing out the new tanks dlc
Synthetik, which I'm still absolutely having a blast with
DCS 2.5 in honor of Igor's passing
Maybe something Combat Mission...if I can figure out how to reinstall Battle for Normandy

I've left my CM2 Normandy for the time being installed on its own ancient computer far, far away. But this weekend probably mostly World of Warships.

Ubercat · March 23, 2018, 07:56:38 PM

Quote from: DoctorQuest on March 23, 2018, 11:40:41 AM
I'm going to try to dig into Steam and Iron this weekend. I need to get in some study time for my FAA written test as well.

Which test are you taking?

Kushan · March 23, 2018, 08:27:55 PM

EUIV and Prepar3d will take up most of my gaming time, maybe with some Elite and CMANO thrown in somewhere.

Cyrano · March 23, 2018, 09:49:39 PM

@JH: Very different than I expected, but not in a bad way. Brutal difficulty and the run-and-gun of "Smash TV", &c., will get you killed really, really quickly.

Fun "pile of guns" factor and more tactically involved than we anticipated.

Liking it so far O0.

Sir Slash · March 23, 2018, 10:11:56 PM

I am trying to fall in love all over again with Empire Total War using the Total Realism Mod and a little Pillars of Eternity thrown in for mindless monster killing. Along with the March Madness goings on. Have a good one Grogs.