SF2 WW2 ETO Bristol Blenheim Mk.IV Skin Pak (DAT)
 
-- Something for the WW2 ETO players --
= For SF2 ONLY, Full-5 Merged (Reccomended/Preferred) =
 
This pack contains 2 new skins for the Dev A-Team's Bristol Blenhiem Mk.4.
*Note you MUST have access to the DAT downloads to get the aircraft. If you do not have access, do NOT download this mod, as you'll be unable to make use of it.*
 
New skins, from a (not so fantastic) Home Grown Template �, now give you standard RAF European Day Scheme camo from the 1940-late 41 time frame. The aircraft is finished in the standard Light Earth/Dark Green with Sky Unders.
 
Squadrons represented:
 
No. 105 (code GB)
No. 107 (code OM)
 
Skins remain in their bmp format (and are a bit on the LARGE size -2048x). End users that wish to may convert to jpg or resize as necessary. Decal randomization is set to TRUE. Both skins make use of a 'pool' of plane-in-group letters and serial numbers. Serials ARE historiclly accurate for the Mk.IV, but represent no particular unit.
Also included, never before released Hangar and Loading screens.
 
REMINDER: there is nothing in here but skin maps, decals and their associated inis. You'll need the aircraft itself from the DAT downloads, either the seperate aircraft, or the one in the Wings Over Africa all-inclusive mod.
 
As always, fairly easy to follow, detailed install instructions are included. Please READ them.
 
Good Hunting!!
wrench
kevin stein

Immediately after the liberation of France in 1944, the production of Storch at the Morane-Saulnier factory was continued at the request of the Armée de l'Air and designated MS 500 for the batch of aircraft produced with the remaining stock of Argus engines. Further modification and use of different engines (inline and radial) are known under different type. The use of the aircraft in Indochina highlighted the weakness of the wood in the construction of the airframe; it was then decided to build the wings in metal. Among the modifications, the defensive weapon aiming through the back window was dropped, although some aircraft have then been modified on the field to take a machine gun MAC 34T firing through one of the side windows. 141 aircraft were built before the end of World War II and a total of 925 aircraft were built before the end of the production of all type of Criquet by Morane-Saulnier in 1965.
 
WHAT's IN:
 
- a post war Storch/Criquet made for Indocina War mod, SF-2 ready
 
SKINS:
 
2 Armée de l'Air
2 Aviation Navale
3 NVAF
1 Royal Laos Air Force
1 Royal Khmer Air Force
 
CREDITS:
 
- Raven (model & temps - fantastic job Sir!)
- Wrench (Cockpit)
 
INSTALL:
 
- all in main mod folder
 
Enjoy.
 
@paulopanz

SF2 Vichy French Air Force, Tiger Moth Skin UPgrade    2/25/2020
 -- Something for Fun --
= For SF2 Any and All=
A small upgrade for LloydNB's Vichy French Tigermoth, as used in Indochina in the early 1940s. It is, obviously, for use on RussoUK's DH Tigermoth. The aircraft itself is available at the following URL:
https://combatace.com/files/file/14081-sf2-ww2-dh-tigermoth-by-russouk/
This is a very simple mod; just a quickie repaint to remove the original painted on fuselage number, and the addition of 18 "plane-in-squad" numbers. No historical accuracy is claimed, as I've only found one image of the aircraft, and it had the number 5 on it.
As said above, something just for fun!
Enjoy!
Wrench
Kevin Stein
-with thanks to LloydNB for the original skin!!-

FIRST THING.
 
You will need to have the Essex CV LOD. from Rising Sun over at the Yankee Air Pirates site. This skin and future skins I plan to release will not work with out it.
 
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TO INSTALL:
 
unzip to a temp folder or your desktop or somewhere else that's easy to find
 
In the Essex folder, located in the GroundObject folder, make a copy of the CV9 skin folder and rename it CV9 M32 3A.
 
Then, simply, copy/paste the provided Essex_Camo folder into you new CV9 skin folder.
 
You'll probably be asked "OVERWRITE?", just say Yes.
 
That's it.
 
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Notes:
 
This is the measure 32/3A pattern applied to the following Essex class carriers, Intrepid, Franklin and Handcock.
 
The Colors used were Light Gray 5-L, Ocean Gray 5-0 and Dull Black 82
 
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Credits:
 
Not sure who but thank you this great ship.
 
Sources:
 
Rising Sun from YAP.
 
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If you have any problems, questions, comments, I can be reached thruogh combat ace forums or PM me at The Warrior.
 
Art
 
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Legal BS:
 
This is freeware;(That means you can't make someone pay for it) it CAN be distrubuted if the original readmes and all other pieces of the package remain intact.
 
Remember to add the names of all contributors, modders, suppliers, ect.
 
 
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About the skin.
 
This is a very rough and first attempt at doing skins for ships for me.If you can and want to improve them and add more detail, please do. I have no problem with any one doing that.

This is the skin for Sukhoi Su-57 (PAK-FA) T-50-10 in a Two tone pixelated livery. Enjoy.

THIS PACKAGE DOES NOT INCLUDE LOD FILES AND THE COCKPIT FOLDER.
 
THESE FILES CAN BE PURCHASED ON THE YANKEEAIRPIRATE WEBPAGE.
 
YOU SHOULD BUY THIS: http://www.yankeeairpirate.net/FlightSchool.html
IT'S PRETTY GOOD O:-)
 
ALL FILES INCLUDED ARE STILL THE PROPERTY OF THEIR CREATOR AND LEGAL
OWNER, I.E. YANKEEAIRPIRATE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO THESE GUYS.
 
 
CREDITS GO TO :
-YANKEEAIRPIRATE FOR THE MODEL
-TK FOR THE SIM
-Paulopanz for the VPAF pilots
-Lindr2 for the Soviet Ammo
 
MOD BY STUNTMAN. This mod should work in both SF - WOV and SF2
 
 
NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.
 
 
 
Background****************************************
 
From ACIG.org: "Namely, one of the RLAF T-28 pilots at the time – and one described by the US
instructors as the “most aggressive” of all – was Lt. Chert Saibory, a former RTAF-pilot, who
defected to Laos in 1960. Chert initially offered his services to Kong Le, but was turned down.
Remaining in Vientianne, Chert then joined the RLAF - once Gen. Phoumi returned to power - and
flew many combat sorties but was never promoted in rank. For unclear reasons, in September 1963
Chert decided to defect once more and during an airshow that was to be staged over Savannakhet
he flew his T-28 away from the rest of formation – to North Vietnam. Instead of commissioning
him in their air force the North Vietnamese imprisoned Chert: several months later his T-28 was
refurbished and – serialled “963”, in commemoration of the date when it was acquired – became
the first fighter aircraft of the Vietnam People’s Air Force (VPAF)."
 
http://www.acig.info/CMS/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=237&Itemid=47
 
Pilots Nguyen Van Ba and Le Tien Phuoc flew it to shoot down a US C-123 over Laos in 1964.
 
This skin was painted using a single profile as a reference, some artistic license was used for
the rest of the airframe.
This mod features a modded data.ini file, that is using VPAF pilots, and a modded loadout.ini
file, that is using soviet ammo.
 
 
Third-party Necessary Files************************
You will need the following items, to make to mod work properly
- VPAFpilot : get it here ---> http://combatace.com/files/file/14303-true-vpaf-part1-base-files/
- Soviet Ammo : get them here ---> http://combatace.com/files/file/11667-soviet-bombs-pack/
 
Installation***************************************
1) Unzip Content in your mod folder/Objects folder.
 
2) Copy / Paste the file T-28D-03.LOD and the cockpit folder (not included) from your YAP
installation to the T-28D_VPAF folder.
 
3) Fly Safe.
 
 
 
 
S.

Here is a wad of avionics.ini mods for the SF2 F-111s by @FastCargo.  Now granted I recommend @viper63a's F-111 add-ons to graft on top of 'em you can get here: https://combatace.com/files/category/630-f-111/ 
Basically what I've done is add a CCIP or Continuously Calculated Impact Point to the HUD.  The intent is to give you the chance to be a lot more accurate droping Mk 80-series dumb bombs in the F-111.  Especially since  there is no feedback when bombing from the Weapons System Operator/WSO in SF2.  
Now I realize this isn't realistic for the days of the F-111 when there was absolutely NO helmet-mounted display that could project on top of a cockpit like now in 2020 with the Lightning IIs, Flankers, Fulcrums and arguably other front-line jets like the Super Hornet & Typhoon.  Frankly from the research I've done most of the F-111 variants with the exception of the D likely never got a CCIP.  The fact later models got a PAVE TACK to drop laser-guided bombs was a factor and of course, the F-111 had the Lead Computing Optical Sight that one can't program in SF2.  So this copy-paste job of mine could very well be the next best thing with at least a realistic icon big enough to have some decent risk of circular error.
Maybe there is better, hence this being an open beta.  I would also like to incorporate terrain following into a bigger avionics upgrade... ;-).

These are the skins of the F-86H and F-86H5 Sabres available here: http://cplengineeringllc.com/SFP1/
This is a partial list. More are coming in the future.
For the F-86H:
All three squadrons of the 312th FBW: 386th FBS, 387th FBS and 388th FBS
Also the 131st TFS (MASS ANG)
For the F-86H5:
1st FG
All three squadrons from the 474th FBG: 426th FBS, 429th FBS and 430th FBS
3595th Combat Crew Training Wing
Air Force Reserve (2584th Air Reserve Flying Center)
115th TFS (CAL ANG)
142nd TFS (DEL ANG)
104th TFS (MD ANG)
141st TFS (NJ ANG)
138th TFS (NY ANG)
198th TFS (PR ANG)
Open to any comments or questions.
Hope you enjoy...
Pappy