Aircraft Skins

TMF Boeing 707-300 Comprehensive Skinpack
This mod will replace the individual skins for the TMF 707 and adds my multi airline skins to it, covering the eras from the early 1960s until the late 1980s and will add some eye candy to your parking ramps or make for interesting intercept and escort targets
    INSTALLATION
This is only a skin pack with some additional items. First you will need the original located here:
then unzip and add this mod as well. allow overwrites.
You can delete the previous skins if you want, as they are represented in the skin pack
IF YOU HAVE YOUR OWN NATIONS.INI, ADD FROM THE GIVEN TEXT FILE. This is for heavily modded installs
    INCLUDED
Decal sets covering most major users from 1959 until 1989
Skins to cover that time period in 9 blocks, with bare metal base skins
Nations and Formations ini for the "Airline" nation
    KNOWN ISSUES
Number 1:  THIS THING IS BIG! the fuselage tgas are 2048x2048 (working with details over an entire fuselage rather than basic colors
and curves) and the biggest sets are representing 32 airlines in their era! So this is not for the small of HDD space
Number 2: Due to quirks in the model, and ease for the modder it is not 100% aligned as in RL. the cabin windows are a little lower (which
allowed the logos to go one easier), and the curves tend to stop short of the radome.
Number 3: this uses the Herc pit to be flyable. I ad it to be able to check the decals, but leave it for those that may want to use it.
The pit is a piss poor match however, both with frames blocking and the higher tech than available even into the 80s for civilian birds
It is meant as eye candy, not operational missions.
Number 4: due to the size of things, some of the lettering is not to legible when you get close to it. Again, eye candy, its meant to be seen
from the runway when taking off or on an intercept. If your that close to see "hey it really is fuzzy" you will probably collide. Besides, the
thing is huge as is at teh current tga size
    UNSOLICTED ADVICE
I am one of those that likes all encompassing mods. If you have a certain era you would rather focus on, by all means delete the other eras
that you don't need. Again this thing is huge, but covers almost every user from 1959 through 1989.

    CREDITS
aircraft model - TMF, BPAo
tga, bare metal skin, ini work - daddyairplanes
original game -TK
test team -allenjb42, Nightshade/PR, yakarov79. they caught a huge tho buried mistake, so many thanks to you guys!

Thank you for downloading this mod and i hope you enjoy
Kevin Unruh (daddyairplanes)
 8 April 2018

Third Wire A-7D Templates
Template set based off of the TW A7E, but geared to the A-7D
includes xcf for GIMP users and psd for Photoshop users
 
Credits
Wrench                      original Thirdwire A-7E templates, I added my work on top of his originals
daddyairplanes        addtional skins, panels and stencils and unit marking lay outs specific to the D model, tga templates used for other markings and bmp patches
 

daddyairplanes
aka Kevin Unruh
24 Jun 2023    

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This is freeware; it CANNOT be distributed unless permissions are granted by myself.
The original readmes, if any, and all other pieces of the package MUST remain intact.
The names of all contributors, modders, suppliers, etc =MUST= be listed in any new readmes.
This package and any part of it may NOT in any way, shape, or form be used in any payware additions.
See the original readme documentation, if any, for further allowances and restrictions
Any persons wishing to make further modifications, contact me first.
Any persons wishing to make further modifications MUST remember to put everyone's name in it.
 
 

This is a rendition of the current VFA-211 line bird scheme with VFA-211.
Drop in your FA-18E_BlkII folder and go fly, and can be found under VFA-211 Line in the skin selection menu.

Since VAQ-129 is the US Navy's Fleet Replacement Squadron there are a variety of numbers that the aircraft uses. I tried to get most of them listed but I'm sure I missed some here and there given the state of my reference photos and resources. It's not designed to be exhaustive, but include the numbers I have seen
The file structure is the same so just unzip and place in your mod folder and it shouldn't need to overwrite.

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Simply extract the file and place in your EA-18G folder. It can be found under VAQ-141 Shadowhawks in the drop down menu.

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Simply drop in your EA-18G folder and go fly. This can be found in  the drop-down menu for the aircraft. Select "VAQ-142 CAG March 2021" and go fly.

This represents the VAQ-134 "Garudas" CAG bird in May 2020. Unzip the file to a folder and then drop in your EA-18G folder and go fly. Select VAQ-134 CAG May 2020 from the drop down list and go fly.

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I named this as "Black Scheme 2" because I was already working on one VFC-12 actual scheme. Anyway, this is a proposed scheme that Fightertown Decals published and thanks to crisisloaner got a hold of the decals for the jet. Simply drop in your FA-18E_BlkII folder and go fly. Can be found under the drop down menu name of "Black Scheme 2"