DCS Aircraft Skins

This scheme is an adaptation of an EA-18G VAQ-129 scheme for the Centennial of Naval Aviation observance. To install simply copy and paste the Livery folder in DCSWorld/CoreMods/aircraft/L-39/Liveries folder, select USA and in the Payload Editor select “Fictional CoNA Scheme” and go fly.

This scheme is a simple “Winter” scheme that I made based on the previous European 1 scheme, with some modifications. To install simply copy and paste the Livery folder in DCSWorld/CoreMods/aircraft/L-39/Liveries folder, select Czech Republic and in the Payload Editor select “Fictional Czech Winter Scheme” and go fly.

This scheme is a simple “Aggressor” scheme that is based on the basic European 1 scheme found on early A-10s. To install simply copy and paste the Livery folder in DCSWorld/CoreMods/aircraft/L-39/Liveries folder, select USA and in the Payload Editor select “Fictional European 1” and go fly.

This scheme is a simple “Aggressor” scheme that is based on an F-16 scheme. To install simply copy and paste the Livery folder in DCSWorld/CoreMods/aircraft/L-39/Liveries folder, select USA and in the Payload Editor select “Fictional Arctic Scheme” and go fly.

This scheme is a simple “Aggressor” scheme that I felt like doing for fun. To install simply copy and paste the Livery folder in DCSWorld/CoreMods/aircraft/L-39/Liveries folder, select USA and in the Payload Editor select “Fictional Venezuelan Aggressor” and go fly.

This scheme is a simple “blank” scheme that I felt like doing for fun. To install simply copy and paste the Livery folder in DCSWorld/CoreMods/aircraft/L-39/Liveries folder, select USA and in the Payload Editor select “Fictional SEA Scheme” and go fly.

Based on a Heather Ferris F-15C scheme, this represents a fictional skin for the new L-39 Module. To install simply copy and paste the Livery folder in DCSWorld/CoreMods/aircraft/L-39/Liveries folder, select Russia and in the Payload Editor select “Fictional Ferris Splinter No.3” and go fly.

Based on a Prototype MIG-29 SMT scheme, this represents a fictional skin for the new L-39 Module. To install simply copy and paste the Livery folder in DCSWorld/CoreMods/aircraft/L-39/Liveries folder, select Russia and in the Payload Editor select “Fictional Russian White Splinter” and go fly.

Based on an MIG-29 Prototype SMT scheme, this represents a fictional skin for the new L-39 Module. To install simply copy and paste the Livery folder in DCSWorld/CoreMods/aircraft/L-39/Liveries folder, select Russia and in the Payload Editor select “Fictional Russian Desert Splinter” and go fly

L-39C Fictional Ukrainian Splinter


 

Based on the Su-27 scheme, this represents a fictional skin for the new L-39 Module. To install simply copy and paste the Livery folder in DCSWorld/CoreMods/aircraft/L-39/Liveries folder, select Ukraine and in the Payload Editor select “Fictional Ukrainian Splinter” and go fly

Modeled on the F/A-18C, this livery from the USMC VMFA-312 is one of the more unique schemes devised based on Heather Ferris’s work. To use for the AI simply copy and paste the “Fights On” folder into the fa-18c folder, and let the AI go fly (or until the DCS: Hornet module comes out).

A-10 Ferris Splinter [Fictional]


This is a basic Splinter scheme based on an F-15C design modified for the A-10 airframe, and also some artistic liberties as well. While the A-10C is shown, this can also be used on the A-10A, simply copy and paste the folder into the Bazar\Liveries\A-10A or A-10C and select “Ferris Splinter No.1” in the Payload Menu and go fly.

Fictional HMLA-167 Ka-50 Black Shark


 
 
 

This is s a simple modification of an original Black Shark skin I did years ago, adapted for the newer DCS engine.


 
 
 

Installation: Simply cut and paste the folder into the DCS World\Bazar\Liveries\Ka-50 folder and go fly. And in the Mission Editor simply choose “HMLA-167” in the Paint Schemes drop down menu.


 
 
 

Pilot Textures courtesy of Home Fries as well as some help with the description.lua

Su-25T “Ferris Scheme 4”



This is a completely fictional scheme that uses the same FT markings from my previous European 1 scheme. It’s loosely based off an F-15C scheme that was developed by Heather Ferris during the 1980s when researching various schemes to confuse enemy opponents for future camouflage use.

This was a request and he said it was okay to make it public. Nothing too special as the aircraft is all white with some weathering to break up the color. Other than that it's fairly simple, and with the Su-25 select "Su-25 UN" in the drop down menu for the Paint scheme.

Su-25 European 1 Blank Skin


 

A blank skin for you to modify and at the minimum credit me of my work and that’ll be good for me.


 

To install extract the folder to the DCSWorld\Bazar\Liveries\Su-25 and in the Su-25 Payload Scheme (set for Russia by default) and select “European 1”

Su-25T USAF 74th FS, (FT)


 

While the Su-25T as a whole is a very capable combat jet within its own right, the aircraft will never be as capable as the A-10A or A-10C currently. However it does look good in a splash of European 1 and represents a fictional rendition of the aircraft in the 74th Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Group, the “Flying Tigers”.


 

To install this skin simply cut and paste the folder into the Bazar/Liveries/Su-25T folder and in the Payload Editor, select “USAF 74th FS (FT)” and go fly. And for those with the appropriate mod can use this also for the USA side.

This is a fictional skin, of an Su-25T of the 412th AB, 1st Squadron, Eastern MD, 2015. It is completely fictional and based off of the old USAF “European 1” scheme for the A-10A Warthog, before they switched to the two-tone grey scheme currently applied.


 

To install this skin simply cut and paste the folder into the “DCSWorld\Bazar\Liveries\Su-25T” and go fly. In the Payload Editor this one is named “Aggressor No.1” in the Paint Schemes drop down menu.

As it says it's nothing specific to any unit, just like the "A-10 Grey" skin, a simple blank skin if like me, who loves the European 1 scheme more than the Grey one, then this is for you. I don't mind retextures if you want but please credit me at the minimum, as I don't mind you adding stuff to it. Of if you have a request you know where to find me... Needless to say this works on both the A (preferably due to the lack of the wedge antenna) but of course can work on the C version as well if so desired, as you simply extract the file and select "European 1" in the Paint Schemes menu for the aircraft and go fly.

Ka-50 USMC HMLA-167 Early


 

Just another What If camo pattern for the Ka-50, showing the camouflage pattern used by the USMC in the 1980s prior to the change to the two-tone grey camouflage that is on AH-1W Cobras today.


 

To install this skin simply cut and paste the “us marines 4” folder in your DCSWorld\Bazar\Liveries\Ka-50 folder. In the Payload Editor select “HMLA-167 Early” and go fly.

FT 75-308


 

This skin represents an A-10A from the 75th Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Group (“Flying Tigers”) in an European 1 scheme.


 

To install this skin simply cut and paste the “FT 75-308” folder in your DCSWorld\Bazar\Liveries\A-10A or if preferred, A-10C folder. In the Payload Editor select “23rd FG, 75th FS, Pope AFB” and go fly.


 

Disclaimer: The original supplied artwork was used to trace the outline of the Shark Mouth.

JAWS 75-260


 

This is one of the other schemes of the JAWS (Joint Attack Weapons System) program.


 

For installation simply drop this in your DCSWorld\Bazar\Liveries\A-10A or A-10C folders, open the simulation and in the Payload Window, select “JAWS Skin No.2” and go fly.


 

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A-10A JAWS 75-262


This represents (as close as possible given various sources) the JAWS (Joint Attack Weapons System) A-10A Warthog from the 57th Wing, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
 
Installation: Simply unzip the folder and extract the file into your Bazar\Liveries\A-10A (or optionally the C, though the only oddity noticed is the antenna behind the cockpit, otherwise it’s identical mapping) directory and go into the simulation go to the Payload section and for the Liveries drop down menu select “JAWS Skin No.1” and go fly.

This is a pack of the six single-seater version of the Blue Angels livery, with No. 7 being the F/A-18D and as such since it is not in DCS not done. As such since the texture is based off of the tactical version of the aircraft it’s still good enough to work with when DCS: Hornet is eventually released. Also done is a basic pilot skin and given the mapping and configuration does not represent the actual flight suit that the real pilots wear.


 

To install simply navigate to your DCS World\Bazar\Liveries\fa-18c and copy and paste the folders into that folder, open up DCS World and if you have the appropriate mod, go fly. If not wait until DCS: Hornet comes along. Regardless go into the Payload Options and for Paint Schemes select “Blue Angels No.x” with the “x” representing the number for the appropriate aircraft.

This is a collection of seven skins representing US Marine Corps squadrons and spanning the length of the Vietnam War. The squadrons included are:
VMO-2
VMO-3 (which became HML-367)
VMO-6
HML-167

I have included two versions of HML-367: a 1968 version (when VMO-3 was redesignated as HML-367) and a 1975 version that flew in Operation: Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Saigon. Additionally, HML-167 is represented by modexes TV-29 and TV-30.
 
Most reference imagery was taken from http://vietnam-hueys...Corps Hueys.htm
 
 
Skinner's Philosophy:
 
I chose to model the skins as "modern aircraft with nostalgic patterns", as opposed to actual Vietnam era skins. This is because the UH-1H (and not the UH-1E) is modeled, and slso because the 3D models used for the aircrew utilize more modern flight gear. The significance of this is that I have chosen to skin the aircrew in contemporary flight uniforms, including MARPAT body armor for the door gunners. I felt that this was more fitting in a setting that involves modern orders of battle, and is also less of an immersion-killer than seeing Vietnam era "uniforms" on clearly modern equipment.
 
 
A note about the Crew Chief & Door Gunner:
 
Since enlisted US troops don't wear rank/rate insignia on flightsuits, their rank/rate is displayed on their nametag. Since there are no specific nametag textures for the crew chief/door gunner texture, I have added a nametag to the velcro on the chest armor (as is standard practice).
 
In choosing names for the texture, I opted for US servicemembers who received the Medal of Honor. CPL Jason Dunham was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in the Global War on Terror, and with the exception VMO-6 (represented by GySgt Leroy Paulson, who was the actual crew chief), represents the Unites States Marine Corps in these skins. The following is his Medal of Honor citation:
 
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as Rifle Squad Leader, 4th Platoon, Company K, Third Battalion, Seventh Marines (Reinforced), Regimental Combat Team 7, First Marine Division (Reinforced), on 14 April 2004. Corporal Dunham's squad was conducting a reconnaissance mission in the town of Karabilah, Iraq, when they heard rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire erupt approximately two kilometers to the west. Corporal Dunham led his Combined Anti-Armor Team towards the engagement to provide fire support to their Battalion Commander's convoy, which had been ambushed as it was traveling to Camp Husaybah. As Corporal Dunham and his Marines advanced, they quickly began to receive enemy fire. Corporal Dunham ordered his squad to dismount their vehicles and led one of his fire teams on foot several blocks south of the ambushed convoy. Discovering seven Iraqi vehicles in a column attempting to depart, Corporal Dunham and his team stopped the vehicles to search them for weapons. As they approached the vehicles, an insurgent leaped out and attacked Corporal Dunham. Corporal Dunham wrestled the insurgent to the ground and in the ensuing struggle saw the insurgent release a grenade. Corporal Dunham immediately alerted his fellow Marines to the threat. Aware of the imminent danger and without hesitation, Corporal Dunham covered the grenade with his helmet and body, bearing the brunt of the explosion and shielding his Marines from the blast. In an ultimate and selfless act of bravery in which he was mortally wounded, he saved the lives of at least two fellow Marines. By his undaunted courage, intrepid fighting spirit, and unwavering devotion to duty, Corporal Dunham gallantly gave his life for his country, thereby reflecting great credit upon himself and upholding the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.
 
CPL Dunham is also the namesake of the USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109), the Marine Corps Security Force barracks in Kings Bay, GA, and Crucible stations at both MCRD Parris Island and MCRD San Diego.
 
Updating from Version 1.04 or earlier:
 
DCS World 1.2.7 changes the pilot and gunner texture files, so the textures have been updated accordingly in this file. In order to clear out the obsolete files, go to the individual folders and remove the following files:
Gunner_UH1_*.dds
Pilot_UH1_USMC.dds

Installation:
Copy the folders to your Liveries\uh-1h folder (either in DCS World\Bazar or Saved Games\DCS).
 
Optional:
The release of DCS World 1.2.4 added the ability to add texture paths using the file "autoexec.cfg" in your Saved Games\DCS\Config folder. This will allow you to save hard drive space as long as the skin filenames are unique. My skins support this, so any DDS file with the same name will be identical.
 
In order to enable this feature, add the following line to autoexec.cfg (be sure to create the file if it doesn't exist):

table.insert(options.graphics.VFSTexturePaths, "C:/Users/<username>/Saved Games/DCS/Textures")
You can use any path (even a different drive), but you must use forward slashes for your path. Backslashes won't work here.
 
Then, you can move all of the DDS files from each of the skin folders to this new folder you've added to your path. Allowing overwrites is not a problem, as I use unique names for each file. Finally, be sure to go into each description.lua file and change all "false" entries to "true."
 
Special thanks to upuaut for assistance with the more "exotic" material names, as well as the assistance with custom rotor colors.
 
You are free to use any of the textures (e.g. USMC door gunner) in other skins or projects as long as proper credit is provided in the readme file.
 
 
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