F-105G Templates

[Sabre1BR]

Hi all,

I am new to this business of creating mods and whatnot, but i was messing around the ArmorDave's F-105G and trying to answer myself "what if those aircraft remained in service long after Vietnam?", and i pretty much got some success on it. Thing is, i really wanted to make use of another paint scheme other than that SEA TO 1-1-4 it always have, but i didn't find and skin/templates for this specific mod.

It may be a tall order asking for, but i really want to go further on this little creation of mine and, maybe, publishing it later on. Could you guys help me on that?

[Geary]

Sabre1BR,

I like the idea of extending the life of the F-015G.  Possibly sold/given to other countries after use in Vietnam.

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a template for this plane here.  Possibly someone made one of their own or has an original from years back stashed somewhere in their computer.

You can of course make your own template if this idea means that much to you.  You will need an art program like Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, Gimp, etc...

Good luck.

 

[+Soulfreak]

There are no templates out for the F-105G.

There are 2 chances you have.

Contact original creator of the Skins (Sundowner), Maybe you are lucky. He still got the temps and share with you Maybe.

or, check the F-105D temps if they are somehow compatible with the "G"

 

[+ravenclaw_007]

or make one of your own based on the Skins you have , it is not such a big deal but it takes time

[Wrench]

ArmorDave's mapping is completly different from the 3W F-105s.

The only solution is to re-template them yourself

 

[Blade]

You don't have to remake the whole thing. Probably it is easier to use Armourdave's F-105D templates and modify them. The images below show the F-105G lod with my unfinished F-105D wrap-around textures. The wings, horizontal stabs, as well as the front and rear fuselage are the same as on the G. The middle part of the fuselage and a few bits on the vertical stab need some work. Compare the available skins and use Mue's lod viewer, you'll see the differences.

 

[charlielima]

Euro or green lizard next ?

CL

[+daddyairplanes]

the links below are not templates but should be useful. the F will have decal location entries for Armourdaves F (similar to the G) and the Hill skins will have the Euro 1, SEA wraparound and a desert scheme as worn by one each aircraft with the 466th TFW at Hill AFB before retirement in 1984.

The Gs were used by the Georgia ANG until around 1983 (this is before coffee as usual: dates not exact). They were commended for making a European training deployment despite at one point having to stand down all the aircraft for maintenence.  They were also in Service at George AFB until 1978 or 79 when the F-4Gs were coming on line.

Hill should have the colors and rough patterns needed.

 

 

Edited March 7, 2019 by daddyairplanes

[Sabre1BR]

Hey guys,

First of all, i can't thank you all enough for the support on this little project of mine, i'll make my best for the effort pay off on this! By the way, quotation time:

On ‎06‎/‎03‎/‎2019 at 7:25 PM, charlielima said:

Euro or green lizard next ?

CL

Well, i was actually going around for either a NM finish or some Desert Camouflage (such as the 3W Phantoms use in the Dhimar-Paran map), but I found out that modifying the original skin would've become very silly and it might not get into what i wanted, so yeah; But either of those greenier camos would be really nice as well!

 

On ‎06‎/‎03‎/‎2019 at 6:28 PM, Blade said:

You don't have to remake the whole thing. Probably it is easier to use Armourdave's F-105D templates and modify them. The images below show the F-105G lod with my unfinished F-105D wrap-around textures. The wings, horizontal stabs, as well as the front and rear fuselage are the same as on the G. The middle part of the fuselage and a few bits on the vertical stab need some work. Compare the available skins and use Mue's lod viewer, you'll see the differences.

 

 

Wow, that looks really great though! That said, i really thought that the wings would look a little off, as the real-life aircraft had those modified, right? Well, guess that's another story. I'll see what i can do with this template, cheers 

For the rest of the people who i didn't get a proper reply, once again I thank for the support, i'll do my best to make sure you all won't be disappointed with it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[charlielima]

Desert lizard ?

CL

[Sabre1BR]

52 minutes ago, charlielima said:

Desert lizard ?

CL

I guess  that would be more of a creative license than an actual thing, but, well, as this is a "what-if" scenario that would be something to consider

[Blade]

5 hours ago, charlielima said:

Desert lizard ?

CL

The Thuds in desert and euro camo look really cool.

Edited March 8, 2019 by Blade

[charlielima]

And what if the THUDs lasted this long ?

[Sabre1BR]

14 hours ago, Blade said:

The Thuds in desert and euro camo look really cool.

They sure do look lovely, i'll see what i can do with it in a bit!
 

 

3 hours ago, charlielima said:

And what if the THUDs lasted this long ?

Which year were these SLUFs serving with this specific ANG paint schemes? they look nice, also the ones on Euro I seems great, looking forward to try and skin them in. Problem is, i ain't really used to skinning aircraft, so they might not look as beautiful as these :P Worth to give a try though

[Sabre1BR]

Good afternoon, folks,

I managed to make a skin from the template you guys got me, there they are:

Also notice that i was messing around with it's data.ini so it can carry AGMs and Guided Bombs (both eletro-optical and laser-guided), although the loadout.ini of it is already set to use TW's default weapons

 

 

Only thing i need to work properly is the decals, but i can't make them appear properly on the aircraft; so, as a placeholder, i'm using the games default F-105 tail numbers.

Can some of you give me a light on this? Would be much appreciated ;)

[+daddyairplanes]

how are they not working properly exactly? not appearing at all, not right size, there are many issues that prevent the decals working right. in ini check filepath (everyone makes simple dumb mistakes on this, myself averaging 3 per project), that the desired file is in the right folder, and the decallevel is correct (=2 for serial numbers)

as to location on plane, locations should roughly match the F that i skinned (see post above), but meshnames may be different from F to G. use mues lodviewer to verify both  you have the stock numbers on, have you considered changing to unit markng decals when you get the issue resolved?

 

Edited March 10, 2019 by daddyairplanes
read before coffee

[Sabre1BR]

5 hours ago, daddyairplanes said:

how are they not working properly exactly? not appearing at all, not right size, there are many issues that prevent the decals working right. in ini check filepath (everyone makes simple dumb mistakes on this, myself averaging 3 per project), that the desired file is in the right folder, and the decallevel is correct (=2 for serial numbers)

as to location on plane, locations should roughly match the F that i skinned (see post above), but meshnames may be different from F to G. use mues lodviewer to verify both  you have the stock numbers on, have you considered changing to unit markng decals when you get the issue resolved?

 

I managed to make it work properly now, it was some sort of compression which rendered them "invisible", here they are now (i still need to get a put them a little bit lower, but so far so good)

 

 

I'm also using 3W's default fuel tanks, since the ones specified to the original F-105G only comes in SEA camouflage, and as I wanted to make other skins from this that's what i've came up with.

 

Edited March 10, 2019 by Sabre1BR

[Sabre1BR]

Hello all,

Sorry for the lack of updates on this project of mine, as graduation and some other stuff did carry me away from this for a while.

I managed to make two more skins for the aircraft - Hill Grey I and II, based around Alabama ANG's F-4D. Those units operated a Pave Spike/Maverick setup by that point, so i figured representing them on a Strike mission would look somewhat fitting.

Still need to work on the decals and fuel tank's textures, but i sense most of the job on skinning is pretty much done.

There they are:

I'll update this thread as soon as I'm able to make those textures and decals look as smooth as possible, so keep na eye out here!