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Kuwait Scooters - A-4KU/TA-4KU for SF2 - v1.0
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*** any SF2I that has the KfirC1_77 for the cockpit and DLC005 required for the A-4K model ***
This mods represents the A-4KU and TA-4KU Skyhawks used by Kuwait between 1977 and 1992.
In the 1970s Kuwait purchased 36 Skyhawks (30 single-seater + 6 two-seater). These planes were based upon A-4M, that were delivered to the USMC at that time. So they got the same engine, the larger canopy, the brakechute and the squared off fintip. Equipment needed to deliver nuclear weapons, aswell as Shrike- and Walleye were deleted. The TA-4KU were unique in having the same engine as the single-seater, aswell as the avionics hump. Apart from some aerials their appearance is similar to that of the OA-4M.
When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, many of the pilots flew with their planes to Saudi Arabia. They were included in the Royal Saudi Air Force and flew 1361 sorties with the loss of only 1 plane.
With the end of the Gulf War they were placed in storage and replaced by F/A-18 Hornets. After failed attempts to sell the surviving 23 planes to Bosnia and the Phillipines, they were finally sold to Brazil in 1997 to serve aboard the Aircraft Carrier Minas Gerais as AF-1 and AF-1A.
Infos
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- cockpit used is the modified KfirC1_77 cockpit, that is already used for my A-4M-mod. I only made small modifications to fit it the A-4KU.
- Pilotmodel is a stand-in, until someone comes up with a Kuwaiti Pilot :)
- Fakepilot-stuff like hump and the antennas are made with MUEs new Blender-exporter - as I already said and always will: Thank you, great job, mue!
- Skin resolution is 4096x4096
- Skins are set up for "No9SQN" as I only found the general info, that planes were used by "No. 9 and No. 25 squadrons" and both squadrons didn't
use any special markings it seems.
Sources
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- Scooter! The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk Story, Crécy 2011
- A-4 Skyhawk Association, http://a4skyhawk.org/
- Airliners.net
- Joe Baughers Site
- Google in general
Installation
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1. unzip to a temporary folder
2. open "Put_Content_In_Your_MOD_Folder" and do as you were told, if asked to overwrite, say 'yes' :P
3. enjoy!
If the Squadron is missing in the loadout screen, you should add the following lines in the squadronlist.ini ("<mod>\pilotdata"-folder) with XXX changed to the next free numbers:
[SquadronXXX]
Name=Kuwait_No9SQN
DisplayName=No. 9 Squadron
Nation=Kuwait
Credits
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- Thirdwire and TK for a great game, models and the cockpit-parts I used.
- Fracture - TA-4 model
- Alejandro - Escapac seat
- FastCargo - FakePilot
- Sounds - ???
- dtmdragons - A-4KU-update-pack, this is loosly based on
- myself - all other work, including 3D-models (tanks, pylons, addons)
Thanks
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- Crusader for valuable information regarding weaponsstations-arrangement, I found in the forum.
- mue for his great LODViewer and Blender-Exporter, which made this possible!
- cocas for help learning 3D-stuff!
P.S.
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If you have any problems with this skin or have suggestions and hints, feel free to PM me.
Disclaimer
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This mod or parts of it may not be used for payware of any kind. Also if you use something, give proper credit.
18_03_2018
By Nyghtfall250 0 -
Hawker Hunter FGA.9 - RAF Far East Air Force
This is a simple mod of the stock Third Wire Hunter FGA.9 to place it in service with the RAF's Far East Air Force in the 1961-1970 timeline. That really did happen but not with the Hunter wearing 'SEAC' national markings! New decals are included including 26 new tail serials and 26 new underwing serials.
BACKSTORY
The growing threat to Thailand, Cambodia and South Vietnam from nearby Communist states saw the deployment of the Hawker Hunter FGA.9's of No. 20 Squadron to the Far East Air Force in September 1961 followed by No.28 Squadron in July 1962. The Borneo Confrontation of 1963 saw this ground-attack wing deployed to Kuching and Labuan to commence offensive operations against Indonesian forces seeking to infiltrate across the Malaysia/Indonesia border on the island of Borneo. The Commander of the Far East Air Force, Air Marshal Sir Hector McGregor, ordered the re-introduction of the wartime 'SEAC' markings to avoid any potential confusion with the Indonesian Air Force's red and white national markings. Both squadrons were successful in helping to repel the border incursions by the Indonesians, despite the difficult terrain, and stayed in theatre until the Borneo Confrontation was declared over in August 1966 eventually departing in January 1967 when No.28 Squadron was disbanded and No.20 Squadron returned to Tengah.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the HunterFGA9S folder into your Aircraft folder.
2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the HunterFGA9S folder into your Decals folder.
It goes without saying that you'll need the Third Wire Hunter FGA.9 from 'Wings Over Europe' for this to work but if you have 'Wings Over Israel' you can use a substitute 'stock' cockpit as the aircraft LOD's are in that game.
The folder designation FGA.9S is just to avoid conflict with the stock FGA.9 aircraft in 'Wings Over Europe'.
CREDITS
Thanks to TK for a great little game/sim.
And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community.
Regards
Spinners
Version 1 - 18/03/18
By Spinners40 1 -
F-8E Crusader - 1st Escuadrilla Aeronaval de Caza y Ataque, Comando de Aviación Naval Argentina
This is a 'what if' skin for The Mirage Factory F-8E to place it in service with the 1st Escuadrilla Aeronaval de Caza y Ataque, Comando de Aviación Naval Argentina.
INSTRUCTIONS
This is not a complete aircraft so you must have TMF's F-8E. This is just a skin for you to drop in to your F-8E and fly.
1. From the SKIN folder drag and drop the 1e folder into your F-8E folder.
The decals are inside the skin folder - nothing else is required.
CREDITS
Thanks to TK for a great little game/sim.
Special thanks to The Mirage Factory for creating the F-8E and to Column5 for sending me the template 10 years ago!
And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community.
Regards
Spinners
Version 2 - 16/03/18
Version 1 - 10/08/08
By Spinners77 0 -
F-8E Crusader - Comando de Aviación Naval Argentina
This is a simple mod of the stock Third Wire F-8E to place it in service with the Comando de Aviación Naval Argentina with markings for two famous COAN escuadrilla;
2nd Escuadrilla Aeronaval de Caza y Ataque (shark mouth).
3rd Escuadrilla Aeronaval de Caza y Ataque (black nose).
It goes without saying that you'll need the Third Wire F-8E from 'Wings Over Vietnam' for this to work.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the F-8E_COAN folder into your Aircraft folder.
The decals are inside each skin folder - nothing else is required.
CREDITS
Thanks to TK for a great little game/sim.
And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community.
Regards
Spinners
Version 1 - 16/03/18
By Spinners53 0 -
After a request i received, i went ahead with this :)
As per included readme :
CF-188B pack for SF2
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Based on the F/A-18B/D Series made by Dave. (The Hornet Team) that can be found here :
https://combatace.com/files/file/13591-fa-18bd-series-by-the-hornet-team-beta/?_fromLogin=1
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This is the CF-188B as used by the RCAF for the SF2 series of games.
The skins represent the current scheme used by the RCAF on their CF-188B Hornets.
The serial numbers in this skin pack are real one's. (but not squadron specific). I made 12 out of 40 serials the CF have had (or still have) over time.
You will get the following skins in this package :
409 Nighthawks
410 Cougars
425 Alouette
* Note : I did not touched the model, all files comes from the original pack. All i did was to rename some files and creating/modifying some of them. So all credits goes to the persons above.
COMPLETE AIRCRAFT :
Copy the CF-188B Objects/Aircraft folder content to your game Objects/Aircraft folder.
Copy the CF-188B Objects/Decals folder content to your game Objects/Decals folder.
Copy the CF-188B Objects/Pilots folder content to your game Objects/Pilotsfolder.
Copy the CF-188B Objects/Weapons folder content to your game Objects/Weapons folder.
Copy the CF-188B Flight folder content to your game Flight folder.
Copy the CF-188B Sounds folder content to your game Sounds folder.
Copy the CF-188B Effects folder content to your game Effects folder.
Credits (per original files):
The Hornet Team:
Original Model by BPAO and the Mirage Factory, updated by FastCargo.
New pit by Brain32 with Crusader, Brain and CB34 doing the avionics.
Skins by Siddog, Sundowner and EricJ.
Crash test Dummy: Caeser
Seats: Julhelm and Ravenclaw
Weapons by Ravenclaw, wpnssgt and others.
Loadouts and variant shred out by CrazyhorseB34 who put a lot of effort into researching this part of the package. Its highly recommended you use the loads he made or you will have problems.
- Thirdwire
- All persons involved in the original pack. you guys are great!
- Myself for the ''clean'' skin :)
Happy flights!
Mario C.
Frenchie1977
By 1977Frenchie387 1 -
TW F-15A Variants of Pappy's Excellent F-15A Skins and Blackburn32's Stripes! You need Pappy's F-15A Air Superiority Blue 1.0.0 to get the decals... Here: Just drop the two folder from this mod into your mod F-15A folder...Thats it! Also highly recommend, but not needed for this mod... Pappy's F-15A Hi-Rez with Lo-Viz Stencil
Here: and Pappy's Thirdwire F-15A Eagle Hi-Rez
Here: These are awesome! Thanks Pappy! Please note: All credit for the Invasion Stripes to Bkackburn32! What a cool idea! Thanks All! =V=By Viper63a67 0 -
Boeing B-52K Stratofortress B.1 for STRIKE FIGHTERS 1
This is a 'what if' B-52K in service with Royal Air Force South East Asia Command with markings for No.9 Squadron. I've already done this for SF2 so thought I'd make it available for SF1 with a little change of decals.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the B-52K folder into your Aircraft folder.
2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the B-52K into your Decals folder.
As this is a non-flyable I've included a makeshift cockpit which works best with cockpit toggle off as it leaves you with a fairly decent bombsight.
CREDITS
Thanks to TK for a great little game/sim.
And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community.
Regards
Spinners
Version 1 - 10/03/18
By Spinners162 0 -
SF2 A-4 Skyhawk "Southland Scooters" Skin/Decals Pack 3/2/2018
= For SF2 (Any & All, Full-5 Merged Prefered) =
*Can be used in any install that has access to the A-4C_65 & A-4F*
2 new skins for a couple of the stock 3W Skyhawks. These represent "local" A-4 units from
Southern California; my home turf! :) They are either Reserve Squadron (VA-305) or a Service,
Support, Training Unit (VC-7).
Also included for the A-4F, are a modified Data and loadout inis, correcting/adding to the
Mission tasking loadouts. Several new parts are included that correct and add the missing outer
Sidewinder rails. Both aircraft get the Player operated manual canopy, and landing light.
The skins included are for:
A-4C_65:
VA-305 "Lobos" based at NAS (now JFB) Los Alamitos *-see notes-*
A-4F:
VC-7 "Tallyhoers" (or Redtails) based at NAS Miramar
Skins are brand new, from Nyghtfall's templates, and are in jpg format. Most markings are
decals, excepting certain squadron tags on the tail fin & rudder (VC-7 and/or fuselage bands
(VA-305). These had to be painted on due to number-of-decals-per-mesh restrictions. All BuNums
are historiclly correct for aircraft used by both squardrons; unfortunately, they could not all
be matched to their corresponding Modex. On the Loadout screen's individual aircraft dropdown
listing, those marked with a star (*) are matched.
Also added, via Magical Ini Dancing (tm) are missile rails for the OUTBOARD pylons on the A-4F,
as is correct for all 5-hardpointed Skyhawks. These are added via the loadout ini through
various jiggery-pokery and at great expense. They are only used in the "Air-to-Air" tasking (and
Recon), and will/do not effect any Strike, CAS, Auntie-Ship or other attack missions.
These modification can also be added, using the same data ini edits, to all the A-4E and later
models. With some luck, they will =NOT= interfere with any of the Skyhawks released by
Nyghtfall. If in doubt, back up your original data and loadout inis before installing.
The canopy uses the Standard Animation Keystroke (tm), Shift/0.
When on the Loadout screen, for skin/squadron selection, on the Dropdown menu you'll see
A-4C_65:
VA-305 Lobos (NAS Los Alamitos 70/71)
A-4F:
VC-7 Redtails (NAS Miramar 1973-80)
As always, fairly easy to follow, detailed install instructions are included. So, please read
them .... Also, DO give the Notes section a read as well, for enlightenments, illuminations, and
general ramblings. With MANY thanks to Nyghtfall for his invaluable assistance!!! :)
Happy Landings!
Wrench
Kevin Stein
By Wrench89 0
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