Thanks for the info MarkV, much appreciated. In that case it’ll be even lovelier! As I said, no disrespect intended, I was just thinking it would look rather dashing in the red & white scheme.

RAAFVampire- I’ve been having the same trouble. I’ve sifted through the various Sturmovic forums, and it appears that it could be a sound card compatability problem. The latest patch, 4.09m, won’t work on my machine as it has a slightly older generation soundcard. You could try running the 4.08m version of the game and see if that runs. If so, it’s possible to then transfer a file from 4.08m to 4.09m that will make 4.09m run on your machine. Complex eh?

If 4.08m works, go to the Il2 1946 folder in program files and copy the file ‘mg_snd_sse.dll’ to somewhere like Desktop. Then install 4.09m and delete the new ‘mg_snd_sse.dll’, take the old one from desktop and put it in place of the one you just deleted. Make sense? 4.09m should then run with the old 4.08m sound file.

I’ve just installed 4.09m, and now the game won’t run. I’m on Windows XP, and the update was installed in the usual il21946 folder in program files. When I click on the desktop icon to start the game, it comes up on Windows Task Manager as normal for a few seconds, and then disappears.

Any ideas??

Good telly, it’s a shame it only went out in NI. Good job there’s iplayer! Many thanks for the heads up Paul, well worth a watch.

An-225 and the Buran shuttle? 🙂

I agree with all the positive things that have been said about the show, it was a good bit of telly. It was daft perhaps, but it was daft on such a scale as to be worthwhile! I’m sure it’s hooked a few people into the hobby, and that can only be good news. The people I most admired in it all were the blokes at GateGuards, working all hours to try and satisfy fruit-loop May’s requirements! 🙂

As regards the discussion about Airfix kit age and quality etc, there are only a handful of kits that I would class as truly awful and worthy of pulling off the shelves. The fact is that kids want something relatively easy to build, and looks something like the real thing when it’s finished. Whether the rivets look too big, or the tailwheel isn’t to scale etc etc is neither here not there. They were made for the youth market, and as such they mostly do nicely.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that there are alot of modern kits out there that are just as bad as some of the worse Airfix’s, and at twice the price. Italeri’s new 1:48 Re2002 is a disaster in all areas, and Revell’s new 1:48 Mosquito B.XVI has some serious flaws (prop spinners and undercarriage). You can pay alot more and end up with something disappointing, atleast with Airfix you’re paying a fairly decent price for fairly decent quality.

I seem to remember a TV prog a few years back in which there was an interview with a former Blackburn Beverley pilot, who apparently flew several sorties in Vietnam during the war. I can’t remember now exactly why they were there, some sort of re-supply operation. Apparently the best tactic was to fly the Bev at nought feet over the jungle, must’ve been pretty hair-raising!!