WW2 Aircraft Skins

SBD-5 Dauntless
No.25 Squadron
Royal New Zealand Air Force 1944
 
This is a set of decals and a repaint of the SBD-5 based on a skin for CFS2 by Henry Williams.

Fourth skin in the series for the Battle of Britain Me-109e. This is 2/JG26, overpainted with sponges, another common technique. All other information is in the readme.
 
Hope you enjoy,
 
Heck

Third skin in the series for the Battle of Britain Me-109e. This skin uses a different overpainting technique. The standard 71/02/65 scheme has been hastily overpainted on the sides in RLM 71 using a paintbrush. Two bitmaps are included in this skin; one with overpainting, the other a standard 71/02/65. You could use this standard paint scheme for any of your Me-109e skins, just rename 109ETexA.BMP by removing the A after renaming your original bitmap. Also enclosed is a complete readme.
 
My thanks go out to Russo, Wrench, and Gocad for the use of their files, and their help and ideas. Any questions or problems, pm me.
 
Hope you enjoy,
 
Heck

These files update the decals for my Me109e skins. I inadvertantly uploaded files with miskeyed decal levels for the kill markings that would prevent them from showing. I also uploaded an old version of the JG3 decal folder that lacked the kill marking decals. My apologies.
 
Just unzip these to a temporary directory and copy and paste the enclosed decal.ini and D folder into the proper skins folders. These have been tested and do work.
 
Learning the hard way....
Heck

Second skin in a series for Russo's Me109e. This skin represents 8/JG2 during the summer of 1940 and uses the speckling technique of overpainting common to aircraft of this Geshwader. The base scheme is a standard RLM 71/02 upper surface with lower surfaces in RLM 65. Nose and tail overpainted in RLM 04. All colors in this series are based on the standard values found at SimmersPaintShop, but are interpreted by me as far as fading goes, so they will appear different from other skins, or profiles, you might have seen. Also, my aircraft numbers appear in a more random order, because this is how I feel aircraft were flown in the field.
 
All skins in this series borrow heavily from Russouk2004's .psd. I am indebted to him, and to Wrench, for their help. A full readme file is enclosed. If you want to mod this, feel free, I believe in the Freeware agreement I signed on to, just give credit where credit is due.
 
Hope you like it.
 
Heck

This skin represents 2/JG3 during the late Battle of Britain period. The scheme is the later RLM 74/75 Gray upper surfaces with RLM 65 lower surfaces. The nose and tail have been overpainted in RLM 04 yellow for ease of recognition. Lots of information is presented in the readme, please read it.
 
This skin, and all from this series I'm going to present, makes extensive use of Russouk2004's .psd file. All the detail work; panel lines, rivets, weathering, etc., is Russo's. I am indebted to him for allowing me to use these parts of his file without restriction. I painted the underlying camouflage and created the decals, which include numbers for 16 aircraft and kill markings up to thirty kills. Hopefully, someday, I will possess one third of Russo's skill at creating detail work, until then, I'm grateful he's allowed me to use his, so I can at least get a start in skinning.
 
I hope you enjoy this, and the others to come....
 
Heck

This is the Swedish J-26 P-51 B Mustang, located at F16 and used during and after ww2 in the Swedish Air Force 1945-1954.
 
read more about them here:
http://www.avrosys.nu/aircraft/Jakt/114J26.htm
(in english)
 
http://www.silvervingar.se/silvervingar_frs-45_gfsu_f16.html
http://www.silvervingar.se/Kungl%20Uppland..._Mustangen.html
(in swedish)
 
credits goes to WOLF257 for creating the models
Wrench for the original skin.
 
Thanks to Wolf257 for re-releasing all his WW2 aircraft.
 
GREETINGS AND THANKS TO THE SFP1/WoV/WoE-COMMUNITY AND IT'S MEMBERS.

This is the Swedish J-26 P-51 D Mustang, located at F16 and used during and after ww2 in the Swedish Air Force 1945-1954.
 
read more about them here:
http://www.avrosys.nu/aircraft/Jakt/114J26.htm
(in english)
 
http://www.silvervingar.se/silvervingar_frs-45_gfsu_f16.html
http://www.silvervingar.se/Kungl%20Uppland..._Mustangen.html
(in swedish)
 
credits goes to WOLF257 for creating the models
Wrench for the original skin.
 
Thanks to Wolf257 for re-releasing all his WW2 aircraft.
 
GREETINGS AND THANKS TO THE SFP1/WoV/WoE-COMMUNITY AND IT'S MEMBERS.

With the very kind permission of Russouk2004, I'm uploading his psd template of the Me109e. I hope everyone will add their thanks to mine to Russ for allowing us all access to this file, even novices like myself. You're the best, Russo.
 
Heck

Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat, Skin and Ini Pak for SF/WoV/WoE WW2: PTO Installs
 
This package contains a new skin, and some minor data & cockpit ini mods for Pasko's F4F-4 "Wildcat".
 
The skin represents VMF-223 "Bulldogs", as the squadron appeared in August, 1942, upon their arrival at Guadalcanal. They were the first US fighters to land, and be based at, what became known as Henderson Field.
The skin is based off the originals, and was created from a new template, with completly redrawn panel, rivet lines, wear, tear and various scuffs, scrapes, dings, dents and general dirtiness associated with the SoWesPac. Decals for 36 'plane in group numbers' have been included, as has the aircraft type ID, and BuNums. (100% historical accuracy is NOT claimed for the BuNums, as I could only positively confirm the one used on aircraft #13; rest assured, the others ARE actual serial numbers used on F4F-4s, but I'm unable to pin down if any were actually used by the Bulldogs on their aircraft, other then the aforementioned)
 
The data ini mods include corrected positions and the additions of, running, recognition, formation and landing lights. I've also tweeked the canopy to it opens to it's full extent; swaped out the pilot for a more US looking WW2 guy, and gave him a seat to "park it" on. -NO OTHER CHANGES HAVE BEEN EFFECTD-I!! Flight modeling remains just 'as issued'. Enhanced AI sections have been added, including the "StrafeAI" from post-patch WoI. The engine sound has also been changed (wav included!). Also, it is now fully carrier-qualified, so mission and campaign builders can use it from the CVs.
 
The cockpit ini has a new WW2 N-3 gunsight tga.
 
An experimental sound tweek has also been added, creating the ratcheting sound of the landing gear mechanism.
 
-= NOTE: You MUST have the Bunyap Weapons Pak of 6/06 to get the WW2 weapons and guns and such =-
-== This aircraft has been tested in SF/WoV/WoE and post-patch WoI (8/29/08). There still are some 'issues' with prop-plane flight models, but there has been a MARKED improvement!! You use it in WoI at YOUR own risk ==-
 
As you'd expect, there's a nice readme enclosed with detailed, step-by-step install instructions. The Commandant of the Corps requires you to do so. The usual "Notes,Comments and General BS" section might make for interestering reading too!
Feedback is requested on the new gear sound, so do let me know how it goes for you?
 
Good Hunting!
Wrench
Kevin Stein
 
ps: in case anyone is wondering WHY all these birds for use in the general Solomons area are coming out is, I'm nearly done with an upgrade for the Solomons map. I'm just awaiting the new trees and such from the Original Master of Maps Hisself.
W