Aircraft Skins

Updated October 15, 2012

VF213AJ05 Skin for SF2 Tomcat

By Spiff

This is a repaint of the VF213AJ05 skin from the Tomcat Superpack; it is meant to be a CAG/CO bird, not a line bird as it is in the Superpack. Bmps and jpegs are included but the bmps are kinda large. See the readme, drag and drop installation.

75 downloads

(0 reviews)

0 comments

Submitted October 7, 2012

F-80C, 36th FBS, replacement skin

By Wrench

This is a replacement skin map for the recently Released F-80C.

I'd forgotten to turn on the layer with the nation marking, so this ONE has them!!

to Install:

unzip to your desktop or other place you can find it easly, and then drop the 36thFBS folder DIRECTLY over your existing folder in the /F-80C

I'll get the entire package updated within the next 24 hours.

Sorry about that people!
and special thanks to GearyMcS for catching it!!

wrench
kevin stein

179 downloads

(1 review)

Updated October 6, 2012

F-35A USAF Skin Pack 1

By DoctorWho

USAF Skin Pack 1 for F-35A

Here's my skin pack for the F-35A Lightning II. It contains three skins:
- 58th FS, 33rd FW, Eglin AFB (real one)
- 4th FS, 388th FW, Hill AFB (semi-fictional)
- 71st FS, 1st FW, Langley AFB (semi-fictional)
All necessary decals are included.

Credits:
- Klavs81 for the aircraft and basic skin templates

Installation:
Unzip the contents of this file into your mod folder, overwrite when asked.

Legal stuff:
You are not allowed to use any contents of this mod in any payware. You can use them under Combatace Freeware Licensing Terms and conditions.

More Lightning skin packs will be released soon.

Cheers

DoctorWho
Chris

1st October 2012

288 downloads

f-35
skin
(and 8 more)
Tagged with:
- f-35
- skin
- pack
- 58th
- 4th
- 71st
- fs
- eglin
- hill
- langley

(3 reviews)

0 comments

Submitted October 1, 2012

VFA-101 CAG & Line Bird skins for F-35C

By DoctorWho

VFA-101 CAG and Line Bird skin pack for F-35C

This is my pack containing two semi-fictional skins for the F-35C. There are two of them: CAG version (full hi-viz colors) and Line Bird version (lo-viz). They represent the aircraft of VFA-101 Grim Reapers.

Credits:
Klavs81 - aircraft and basic skin templates

Contents:
-CAG Bird skin
-Line Bird skin
-set of decals
-new fuel tank texture

Installation:
Unzip the contents of this zip file to your mod folder. Overwrite when asked.

Legal stuff:
You are not allowed to use any contents of this mod in any payware. You can use them under Combatace Freeware Licensing Terms and conditions.

Cheers

DoctorWho
Chris

30th Sept 2012

204 downloads

f-35
f-35c
(and 5 more)
Tagged with:
- f-35
- f-35c
- lightning
- navy
- grim
- reapers
- vfa-101

(1 review)

Submitted September 30, 2012

58th FS, 33rd FW F-35A skin

By EricJ

Basic skin I did on request, but felt it was okay to upload for public use.

Drop in your F-35A folder and go fly.

Eric Johnson, 2012

108 downloads

(2 reviews)

0 comments

Submitted September 30, 2012

P-51D Mustang China Double Skin pack

By paulopanz

RoCAF & PLAAF Skins for TW stock Mustang
to celebrate new Jon Formosa Campaign set.

Brother against brother.

Install as usual and happy fly.

@ paulopanz

115 downloads

(1 review)

0 comments

Submitted September 29, 2012

F-4F (80) Norm 81B Camouflage

By PraetorH

History of the Norm 81 camouflage:

Since the mid 70ies German fighter pilots from Jagdgeschwader 71 "Richthofen" and Jagdgeschwader 74 "Mölders" increasingly complained about the old one-fits-all aircraft camouflage of the Luftwaffe called Norm 72 (Standard 72, named after the year of introduction). Its large geometrically arranged areas in olive-green and gray worked well camouflaging an aircraft on the ground and even in low level flight over the equally geometrical fields of Germany. But the dark colours also drew massive attention in high altitude combat. Worse, the oversized Iron Crosses and serial numbers with their high contrast black and white lettering made the aircraft even easier to spot.

In the later 70ies, Luftwaffe command encouraged its fighter pilots to develop new paint schemes. “Richthofen” and “Mölders” in particular were eager in devising trial camouflages. Most of them massively reduced the greens and put stronger emphasis on grays, while shrinking the markings a lot. (I do not know if it was intentional or not, but some resembled WWII Luftwaffe interceptor camouflages.) These were to become the basis for the official Norm 81.

Norm 81 was to be used by fighters and fighter-bombers alike, and applied to Phantoms which were upgraded to Peace Rhine-standard. When they were upgraded to ICE-standard, Norm 81 was replaced by the more modern Norm90J – the first German paint scheme intended for fighters only.

Description of the Norm 81 camouflage:

The aircraft camouflage is dominated by two shades of light gray (Lichtgrau, Steingrau) on the lower surfaces and the sides. Only the upper surfaces of the wings and the topsides of the fuselage along the spine and the engines were painted with three dark shades of gray (Quarzgrau, Basaltgrau, Staubgrau) and one shade of green-gray (Grüngrau). The early schemes deliberately featured soft edges for the colours blending them better into each other. Later this was given up, as weathering did that job rather well, too.

The national markings were reduced in size and number; the Iron Cross was applied top to the left wing and bottom to the right wing, and on both sides of the fuselage. Early in the 80ies, the old Norm 72-warnings continued to be used, until replaced with toned down warnings.

For flight safety some aircraft sported high visibility markings, most notably when transferred to low level fight training in Goose Bay, Canada. These markings could be painted on the top fuselage, under the nose, on the wing tips and on the stabilizers varying in size and colour. Many crews seemed to favour red or yellow, but green or blue was seen often as well. Only few had white or dayglow markings.
Norm 81 was used in two variants, A for geometrical shapes on the wings, tail and the fuselage downside, and B for rounded shapes. B seems to have been the preferred choice by the units.

Advise on the use of the skins in SF2:

The combination of soft colour edges and Norm 72-markings makes these skins suitable for campaigns set in the early and mid 80ies. However in the late 80ies they would look rather out of place.

Skins included:

I included one Norm 81B skin for every German wing equipped with F-4F:
Jagdgeschwader 71 "Richthofen"
Jagdgeschwader 74 "Mölders" (flying 'denamed' as JG 74 today)
Jagdbombergeschwader 35 (flying reorganized as JG 73 “Steinhoff” today)
Jagdbombergeschwader 36 (disbanded today, flew as JG 72 in its last days)

Requirements:

You need the F-4F (80), but the skins should also fit on the F-4F (ICE). Also, F-4F and F-4E may work more or less.

Installation:

Just unzip and drop the folder in your SF2 mod directory, usually it is:
C:\Users\xxx\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 yyy

Credits:

Ravenclaw_007 for his template (based on Sundowner's F-4E template), and his decals which I am using.

258 downloads

phantom
f-4f
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
- phantom
- f-4f
- german
- norm 81

(3 reviews)

0 comments

Submitted September 28, 2012

F-4F (ICE) Norm 12J Pixelated Air Superiority Camouflage

By PraetorH

F-4F (ICE) Norm 12J Pixelated Air Superiority Camouflage

Story:
*** entirely fictional and very unlikely to happen, but fun ***

The time of the F-4F in Luftwaffe service is coming to an end. They are about to be phased out by 2013 and only one fighter wing, JG 71 “Richthofen”, still operates them. However in their last year JG 71-personell decided to give the venerable fighter a last new look and applied a pixilated camouflage based on the colours used in the standard Norm 90J camouflage. As it turned out, the Phantom not only looks phabulous but is also well concealed at high alt and in the clouds. It is soon to be adopted by the other Luftwaffe fighters as Norm 12J.

Requirements:

This is a skin for the F-4F ICE, thus you need the excellent pack of Ravenclaw_007
http://combatace.com...-europe-vers20/

Installation:

It uses the decals of the ICE-pack, so there is no need to install extra decals. You just drop unzip and drop the folder into the F-4F ICE folder in your mod directory, usually it is:
C:\Users\xxx\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 Europe\Objects\Aircraft\F-4F_ICE

Credits:

Ravenclaw_007 for his reworked F-4F template, his decals, and the F-4F ICE
Sundowner for his original F-4E template.
If I have forgotten any contribution, please tell me!

190 downloads

phantom;
what-if;
(and 1 more)
Tagged with:

(1 review)

2 comments

Updated September 23, 2012

Mirage 5F Weathered Skin

Mirage 5F Weathered skin for SF2 full-5 merged(or SF2:E only).

An extremely simple mod just to give the default mirage 5F an overall dirtier and a weathered skin.

Read the provided text file for installation,legal and other BS.

Regards;

Murtaza Akbar

94 downloads

0 comments

Updated August 23, 2012

Mig-23 MLD "Afghan Warrior" Skin

Soviet/Afghan AirForce Mig-23(MLD)'Afghan Warrior' skin for SF2(Any and all).

Skin to represent an example of the Mig-23(ML?) flown by the Soviet Air Force in Afghanistan during the invasion.The skin is based on a very old picture I found in an aircraft reference book.Since the photo is in Black and White and with a very high contrast,the aircrafts camo colours and serial numbers are based on speculation and every attempt has been made to make them look as close to the real world example,as possible.Historically,it has been speculated that a lot of Soviet Floggers and ground attack machines were painted with the shark mouth.A similar aircraft was rumored to have been shot down by a Pakistani F-16A Block 15.But,the wreckage as usual,fell inside Afghan territory and was never recovered hence,not giving much credibility to the claim.

This skin can only be used with the Mig-23 model made by TMF and only the sharp nosed one.For the model,I would suggest looking in the SFP1 section at many of Lindr2's mods(from which the base textures came).For starters,I would suggest this:http://combatace.com/files/file/11544-mig-23p-late/ (Though the cockpit may be a little advanced for the 80s).

NOTE:All the textures are in the BMP format and are of the 2048x2048 size.Users with slower machines may want to resize to half for optimal or even acceptable performance.

Installation:
After unzipping Af_Vet,place the Folder inside the skins folder into the aircraft folder of your Mig-23.Note:If you do not know anything about the mod folder,the immediately stop the installation,go to the COmbatACE Forums,Go to the Strike Fighters 2 Knowledge Base and take a look at the thread explaining the Strike Fighters 2 mod folder mechanism.

IMPORTANT:
I HEREBY CLAIM NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY OF THE CHANGES THIS MOD MAY RENDER TO YOUR GAME(Even though it doesn't).IF THIS MOD IS INSTALLED,THEN IT IS DONE ONLY BY THE WILL OF THE USER AND I CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS.INSTALL AT YOUR OWN RISK.(The mod is perfectly safe,but I still claim no responsibility just to be safe!)

You have permission to modify these textures for your own mod(s) as long as I(lazarus1177) am acknowledged as the original author.THIS MOD IS RELEASED AS FREEWARE AND MUST BE USED,DISTRIBUTED AND TREATED AS SUCH.

I you have any questions or queries about any of my Mod(s),then I can be contacted at the Combatace forum.

Credits:
Model:TMF
Base Skin:Came from one of Lindr2's Mig-23 packs.
New Skin and Shark mouth graphic:Me
Default decals:TW(Third Wire)

Regards;

Murtaza Akbar

164 downloads

3 comments

Submitted August 23, 2012

A-10 Garuda AC6

A-10 Garuda AC6

For Strike Fighters 2 Europe A-10

Ready to use, just place the folder intro the aircraft folder

70 downloads

(1 review)

0 comments

Updated August 16, 2012

A-10 Warwolf AC AH

A-10 Warwolf AC AH

For Strike Fighters 2 Europe A-10

Ready to use, just place the folder intro the aircraft folder

51 downloads

(1 review)

0 comments

Updated August 16, 2012

Mirage 5 PA2 Skin Pack

PAF Mirage 5 PA2 Skin Pack for SF2 Full-5 merged(or at minimum SF2 and/or SF2:E,I)

This mod contains 3 accurate skins to represent the Mirage 5 PA2 aircraft currently in service with the Pakistan Air Force.These skins are NOT edited versions of the stock Mirage 5F camo skin but,are completely rebuilt by me with accurate camo patterns.The following variants are represented:

-CCS Early camo
-CCS DACT Markings
-No.25 OCU

This mod is meant to be used only with the Mirage 5 PA mod by Spinners which can be found here:http://combatace.com/files/file/10700-dassault-mirage-5pa-pakistan-air-force/
Note:This mod is REQUIRED for the correct serial numbers to show up on your jet.

Installation:
After unzipping M5PA2_Pak,place the objects folder inside your basic SF2 mods folder.You must at least know about the SF2 mods folder.
Note:If you do not know anything about the mod folder,the immediately stop the installation,go to the COmbatACE Forums,Go to the Strike Fighters 2 Knowledge Base and take a look at the thread explaining the Strike Fighters 2 mod folder mechanism.

IMPORTANT:
I HEREBY CLAIM NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY OF THE CHANGES THIS MOD MAY RENDER TO YOUR GAME(Even though it doesn't).IF THIS MOD IS INSTALLED,THEN IT IS DONE ONLY BY THE WILL OF THE USER AND I CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS.INSTALL AT YOUR OWN RISK.(The mod is perfectly safe,but I still claim no responsibility just to be safe!)

You have permission to modify these textures for your own mod(s) as long as I(lazarus1177) am acknowledged as the original author.

If you have any questions or queries about any of my Mod(s),then I can be contacted at the Combatace forum.

Credits:
Original Textures:TW
New Textures:Me
Required base mod:Spinners

Regards;

Murtaza Akbar

105 downloads

0 comments

Submitted August 15, 2012

UPEO J-14

By RogerSmith

Just a simple UPEO skin I made
Get the jet here:

http://combatace.com/files/file/12707-fictional-chengdu-j-14-stealth-fighter/

The Squad:
(No history)

The Pilot:
(N/A)

Edited from Jimmybib's skin

81 downloads

j-14 upeo ace combat 3

(0 reviews)

0 comments

Submitted August 14, 2012

F-14A Garuda AC6

F-14A Garuda AC6

For Strike Fighters 2 North Atlantic F-14A

Ready to use, just place the folder intro the aircraft folder

67 downloads

(1 review)

0 comments

Updated August 14, 2012

F-14A Warwolf AC AH

F-14A Warwolf AC AH

For Strike Fighters 2 North Atlantic F-14A

Ready to use, just place the folder intro the aircraft folder

71 downloads

(1 review)

0 comments

Updated August 14, 2012

F-15A Warwolf AC AH

F-15A Warwolf AC AH

For Strike Fighters 2 Europe F-15A

Ready to use, just place the folder intro the aircraft folder

57 downloads

(1 review)

0 comments

Updated August 14, 2012

P-47N-15.Template.7z

By russouk2004

New templates for the new model,V-2.0 as the new version has major changes,hence this new template.
have fun skinning.

77 downloads

(0 reviews)

0 comments

Submitted August 10, 2012

Spanish Air Force Fenrir skin

By tonipm99

This is my Fenrir Spanish Air Force skin. Background:
In 2020, the Spanish Air Force and Navy saw that they needed a new fronline fighter for
replace the Eurofighter and the Harrier. And then the Fenrir appeared, a multirole fronline
fighter made by an uknown country for sell it to every country of the world with the exeption
of USA, Russia, India and China because they already had a 5th Generation fighter (USA had
two, and Russia had a bomber). It only had the cost of 25.000.000$, so it was a very low-cost
fighter. Spain sell almost every fighter of the Air Force and Navy, and they bought 100 Fenrirs
for the Air Force and 100 more for the Navy, with the cost of only 5000000000$. It went to
almost all of the Alas (wings or fighter wings) of the Air Force and the Navy.
Read README for installation.
Special thanks to cadeteBRA for making the plane.
Please report any bug.
Thanks for download!

41 downloads

(0 reviews)

0 comments

Updated August 9, 2012

PAF Dakotas

PAF/RPAF C-47A Dakota For SF2 Full-5 merged(or at minimum SF2:I with Expansion pack1)

Overview:
These Dakotas were gained by the air arms of India and Pakistan after the partition of the Indo-Pak Subcontinent in 1947.Their primary roles were transport and sometimes resupply to ground troops.They were in service from 1947 to at least 1970.There has been speculation that some aircraft were modified as recon planes during the 1971 war.However,due to an almost complete lack of photos and technical reference,the history of these airframes cannot be traced.

The mod:
Presented in this mod are two skins to represent two different airframes of the Pakistan Air Force.Again,due to very little reference available for these aircraft,the skins are provided without tail numbers.
Two skins are provided:

-PAF Grey
-PAF Green

The Grey scheme is meant to represent the aircraft which transported Mohammed Ali Jinnah(the founder of Pakistan and the man behind the partition of the Indo-Pak Subcontinent).This aircraft was at that time in service with the Royal Pakistan Air Force for which accurate decals are provided.The Green scheme represents a few airframes in service with the Air Force in East Pakistan(now Bangladesh).These aircrafts were thought to be used as Recon platforms.

Installation:
After unzipping PAF Dakotas V1.0,paste the aircraft folder inside the objects folder inside your SF2 mod folder.Do the same for decals.When asked to overwrite,click yes.Note:If you do not know anything about the mod folder,the immediately stop the installation,go to the CombatACE Forums,Go to the Strike Fighters 2 Knowledge Base and take a look at the thread explaining the Strike Fighters 2 mod folder mechanism.

You have my full permission to modify and use these textures as well as the decals for your own mod(s) as long as I(Lazarus1177) am acknowledged as the original Author.

IMPORTANT:
I HEREBY CLAIM NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY OF THE CHANGES THIS MOD MAY RENDER TO YOUR GAME(Even though it doesn't).IF THIS MOD IS INSTALLED,THEN IT IS DONE ONLY BY THE WILL OF THE USER AND I CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS.INSTALL AT YOUR OWN RISK.(The mod is perfectly safe,but I still claim no responsibility just to be safe!)

These files are hereby released as freeware and MUST NOT be used as payware.
These files are only to be uploaded at Combatace.com.

If you have any Questions or maybe a bit of constructive criticism to offer,then PM me at Combatace.com.

Credits:
Aircraft Model:Third Wire
Texturing:Me
Decals:Me

Regards;

Lazarus

93 downloads

(0 reviews)

0 comments

Submitted July 28, 2012

VFA-14 90th Anniversary Skin

By EricJ

Drop in the FA-18E folder and go fly.

Eric Johnson, 2012

75 downloads

(0 reviews)