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Douglas A-4E(UK) Skyhawk FG.2

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Douglas Skyhawk FG.2 - 899 Naval Air Squadron, Royal Navy, 1982

RNSKYHAWKFG201.jpg

 

RNSKYHAWKFG203.jpg

 

RNSKYHAWKFG204.jpg

 

RNSKYHAWKFG205.jpg

 

Base skin by Dan (dtmdragon) with some Royal Navy decals by me.

 

Edit: Spelling mistake

Edited by Spinners

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Now THAT would have been a very interesting scenario back in '82 in the South Atlantic :blink:

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Looks great! "FG.2" suggests there was an FG.1 ? :grin:

 

Spinners, would you care to making a German Marineflieger version of the Echo in Norm 76?

Would kinda look like this Tony: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Tornado_MFG1_landing_RAF_Mildenhall_1984.JPEG

 

Or this Zip: http://www.aviation4u.de/gallery/Mixed/fremd/M.Klaver22%2B95.jpg :cool:

 

MFG 1-insignia: http://www.firesan-seg.de/F-104/mfg-1a.gif

Edited by Toryu

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Spinners, would you care to making a German Marineflieger version of the Echo in Norm 76?

 

 

AKAIK there is not a decent template available. I've had a good look at the 5122 template in the SF1 section but it is mapped a bit differently to the SF2 version, the 'lines' layer is blurry when scaled up to 10242 and it mixes black and white on the same layer.

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which is why, unfortunately, we have to upscale to at minium, 2048, and redraw every-frakking-thing!!

 

Like I've done recently for the A-7 and A-6 (and the Netz) ... it takes about 5-6 hours per skin map, depending on detail (and most importantly!!) skill levels!! :grin:

of course, one of the cheats I use, is duplicate and invert the background layer. And a LOT of edumacted guesswork!

 

EDIT:

forgot, I have a full template set for the A-4F; had to make one to do the new Kuwaiti Scooter skin

Edited by Wrench

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Is the Foxtrott-template different to the Echo?

 

Haven't skinned much in SF yet - in IL-2, differences between subversions were usually pretty minor on the templates.

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very small differences ... wings, body and iirc, tail are identical. might be some differences on the nose map ... I haven't studied the E maps too much (although I've done the tail on B/C -- those are mapped the same)

 

best way to check, pull the 5 skins for each, and compare side-by-side

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