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JA.37 cockpit proposal from the TW F-15A one...

For his outstanding work in moving the Strike Fighters community forward, and his contributions in modding, advice, skinning and general all-around good guy, has been awarded the title of Modder Congrats, brother! Welcome to the faternity! and, as always, the first round is on YOU!!

WIP. New tiles for the japanese island of my Kuril Islands terrain. Intercept mission over Kunashir island. And again one Japonsky down!

Operation Combat Fox/ Operation Formation Star: On 23 January 1968 North Korean patrol boats supported by MiG-21 fighters captured the USS Pueblo northeast of the North Korean island of Ung-do. The seizure of the Pueblo led to President Lyndon Johnson ordering a show of force with a massive deployment of U.S. air and navy assets to Korea. The airlift and deployment of 200+ aircraft was code named Operation Combat Fox and the deployment of six aircraft carriers plus support vessels was code named Operation Formation Star. After further considering an appropriate response to the incident (including a nuclear strike), on Febuary 1, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson orders an aerial bombardment campaign against North Korean Military targets. The campaign has three objectives: 1) demonstrate U.S. resolve in the face of communist aggression; 2) weaken the Military infrastructure of North Korea and its future ability to threaten South Korea; 3) deliver a message to North Korea that the United States will respond to any aggression on the peninsula with massive force. In response to US air strikes North Korean forces have attacked across the DMZ, The Korean peninsula is once again actively at war.

The F-15C Cockpit in the mega pack is bit dated. It was a pit created long time ago and revamped partially at some point, also long time ago. I decided to repaint it and give the old pit some correction. After 8 hours worth of work, here it is. Find in download section when approved.

The Turnip Termites

Hey guys, sorry for being late to the party, but as some of you know, I'm moving my living place half across Germany. On workdays I do my job and on weekends I have to get things done in the old flat 500km away. Just came home from a very busy weekend again. If all goes well, I'm finally done at the end of this month and I hope to get back to modding and skinning after that. The last weeks and months I hardly did anything useful regarding SF2, but few things that are on the way: - Update to the TA-4F-FastFACs - highres skins and some fakepilot-addons - Foreign TA-4 Skyhawks (Australia, Israel (with and without extended exhaust tube), New Zealand, Indonesia,...) - all Vietnam Skyhawks units and deployements (long term project) - early AD Skyraider templates - new TA-4 SKyhawk-model from scratch - since it's my first project (and done in Blender), I don't know if it ever leads to something useful, but we'll see. The fuselage is done at the moment. Thank you for this honor, my friends! And now Cheers!

Coming along...still have a ways to go though

Red alert!!!

Crawford: Thanks for the shot. One reason new aircraft take so long, is the extensive research and development necessary. Thought you guys might enjoy reading some of our correspondence: VonS: Have now test flown the latest iteration of the Nieu. 17 c.1 and it flies well, also looks great. I also made some tweaks and created a separate DUX variant for the 17 c.1, slightly lower ceiling and stiffer control input/reaction on that one (attached below). Geezer: Your thorough attention to detail is commendable. I love it! Looks like the DUX N17 should be a separate release? Along those lines, what are your thoughts concerning Lewis gun armed N17s, as they were not the production standard but were a depot/field mod, primarily by the British. I dug out my definitive reference - Early Aircraft Armament (Woodman) - and it paints a rather complex picture about French and British aircraft armament. When war began, the French did not produce/use either the Vickers or Lewis gun and vainly attempted to use their Hotchkiss gun for aircraft use, but failed as it was too heavy and gas-operated. Because of its light weight, Britain and France then preferred the Lewis for aircraft use, and ignored the fact it's gas operation was not suitable for synchronization; they wasted months trying to develop a practical system. The most practical Lewis gear was developed by Sergent-Mecanicien Alkan in early 1916, but it suffered from a low rate of fire resulting from synchronizing engine rpm with a gas-operated gun. The British subsequently developed several synchronizer systems for the Vickers, all of which had minor flaws but were used operationally as nothing better was available. In mid-1917, the Constaninesco gear was introduced and was so successful it continued in use by the RAF until the introduction of monoplanes in the 1930s; it supplemented but never replaced the other gears at the front in WW1. Sergent-Mecanicien Alkan, cooperating with Ingenieur du Maritime Hamy, developed a copy of the Fokker gear and it became the standard French synchronizer for rotary engines. Marc Birkigt simultaneously developed a different gear for inline engines, sometimes called the "SPAD gear." The Alkan-Hamy synchronizer was standardized as the Systeme de Synchroization pour Vickers Type 1 (moteurs rotatifs) and was offset slightly starboard of center line because of the configuration of the cam follower, which transferred mechanical pulses from the spinning rotary engine. Eventually, France had to place large orders with British and American factories for Vickers and Lewis guns, resulting in shortages as the factories were already working at max capacity. Due to these shortages, it was not unusual for French, and sometimes British, aircraft to be delivered without armament. The two air forces then played "catch up" by installing armament at depot level, and sometimes at squadron level. This resulted in the many different installations on rotary-powered aircraft, primarily Nieuports and Sopwiths. There were seldom enough Vickers guns or Alkan synchronizers to equip all rotary powered aircraft built by France.

Cosmoseed, please do as Menrva mentioned - create a new water rendering technique, textures, and shader - let us know what you can offer to help, thanks!

More... France obtained many Vickers guns from Britain, but most of France's guns were built by Colt or Marlin-Rockwell in the US. French Ministry of Munitions records show France had received 696 Lewis guns from Britain by December of 1916, 3,650 guns in 1917, and 3,300 in 1918. As this was inadequate for wartime expansion, large orders for Lewis guns were placed with Savage Arms in the US. The Savage Arms logo, an American Indian, was the inspiration for the Lafayette Escadrille squadron insignia. French factories were already working at capacity, so the French firm of Regis Darne, a cottage industry manufacturer of sporting rifles, was persuaded to produce Lewis guns - by 1916, they were producing five guns per week. The Darne version featured a wooden sheath around the gun barrel and gas actuation tube. Darne, profiting from others' mistakes, designed an inexpensive gas-operated gun suitable for synchronization, but the war ended before the new gun entered service. The US firm of Marlin also produced a gas-operated gun suitable for synchronization - Marlin guns were entering service when the war ended. Developed from the pre-war Colt Potato Digger gun, it was an excellent design, but the new Browning .30 gun was even better so the Marlin was withdrawn from post-war service in favor of the Browning.

hijack, ON Indeed, (using the original decals only) It just takes time for those few of us still actually active to get all of Mytai's stuff converted hijack, OFF

It has only delayed by other projects my friends! we have the main files. Time is the keyword now if you catch the drift...

As some you know, I've been slowly working on converting Mytai's F-4B skins to newer, better SF2 standards. Mostly through using Sundowner's hi-rez template. Some of which was covered in this thread: But several questions have arisen. One, obviously answered with these sentences: But the primary one remains, as to "year operations". Since we have the ability to turn on skins at a certain date (the SF2 date switch in the texture set ini), do I 1) use the date date switch, which forces the game to use that as the primary skin from the start year selected, of 2) not use the date switch, and let the End User (tm) select the skin -and have to also select for all wingmen in the flights. Also, if anyone else is working on converting these 70-odd skins, DO LET ME KNOW! So work won't be duplicated and cause a waste of time!! So, let's hear what you all think...

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Trying to add numbers to skin. If anyone has info on numbers and placement...sure would welcome the help.. Thanks, Pappy

If you like the Be2 variants, I also recommend trying out the Be12, an attempt to transform the Be2 types into a single-seat fighter (with mixed results). It does well against other lumbering types, but also frequently takes a beating. Von S

man, I just LOVE reading the historical stuff!! you all are doing a great job!

Thanks guys! I still don't know why I like this old bird that much. Is so slow and underpowered lol Need to find If we have the forward firing rifle version, so I can try to shoot down something. I like it even more with the new pilot. Geezer, do you have better gunners too somewhere?

View File MiG-21BISB Finland Air Force This is a modified version of a MiG-21MF camo skin from "Marcfighters", I hope it will be useful in the new mod "Scandinavia". Good hunting, I wish you ! Submitter strahi Submitted 01/07/2018 Category MiG-21  

View File MiG-21F-13 Finland Air Force This is a modified version a MiG-21MF camo skin from "Marcfighters", I hope it will be useful in the new mod "Scandinavia". Good hunting, I wish you ! Submitter strahi Submitted 01/07/2018 Category MiG-21  

Fixed Flanders! And installed the Be2c. The Geezer new pilots are so brave that they defy even the more elementary safety rules lol

View File de Havilland Sea Venom FAW.53 Sea Venom FAW.53 - Australian designation for the Sea Venom FAW.21. Thirty-nine Sea Venom FAW.53s saw service with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), replacing the Hawker Sea Fury. The Sea Venom entered service in 1956 and, during its service with the RAN, operated off the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne. It was taken out of first-line service in 1967, replaced by the American McDonnell Douglas A-4G Skyhawk. WHAT's IN: 1 new plane 6 skins decals, weapons, pilots CREDITS: - Veltro2k model - Baffmeister FM - Spillone104 sound, inis tweakings, testings - Stary pit - Wrench original templates, hangar templates - paulopanz skins, decals, screens INSTALL: - put all in your mod folder OPTIONAL: - hangars 1024 x 726 Enjoy @paulopanz Submitter paulopanz Submitted 01/06/2018 Category Other  

Another day, another sortie...

More shots from the epic battle over the Alps. A couple of buddies said they look like something Howard Hughes might have filmed when making Hell's Angels. A key component of the immersion is gterl's excellent Italian map, with some tweaks by Quack74 and VonS.

Thank you sir! This is a photo of the Nieuport-17 Replica. This aircraft was restored to the 100th anniversary of the Russian Air Force in 2012. http://vikond65.livejournal.com/2605.html

Congratulations, Rene. It seems you have more modding ability than you thought.

Congratulations

Heh, it often takes us an evening of screwing around to get the pilots and cockpits right.

Congratulations! Well deserved!

Congratulion!

I'll drink to that.

Everyone, it is released! Here is the link:

Sorta/kinda realistic artwork takes a long time. Progress shots below.

View File SF2 NAA F2J-1B Super Fury Pack (What If...) by Cocas & Co. SF2 NAA F2J-1B Super Fury Pack (What If...) by Cocas & Co. 12/9/2017 = For SF2 (Full-4/5 Merged Reccomended) = *Note: you =MUST= have, as stated above have, at minimum, a Full-4 merged install, as this mod makes use of many stock items, most importantly, the cockpit from the F-100 Super Sabre.* The is the release of a new "What If..." aircraft for US Navy, the F2J-1B Super Fury. This is a 2 seat version of the F2J-1 released recently in the "F2J Super Fury What If Pack. There are 2 complete skin & decal sets in this package, representing aircraft in Fleet Service, and those in later service with Training squadrons: USN Grey/White: VF-53 "Iron Angles" (at NAS Alameda, and aboard USS RANGER, WESPAC) USN Overall White/Orange VT-9 "Tigers" (as based at NAS Meridian) Please note, that the skins will automatically change in 1964, when they were removed from "combat duty" and used as advanced trainers. The skins are in jpg format, and damage textures are DDS. All other parts (pilots, seats) are supplied. Each skin has it own specific hangar screen. All markings, excepting the International Oranage markings on the VT-9 skin are decals. Decal randomization is TRUE. Modex numbers are the correct series for both skins, in the time frame represented. The Standard Animation Keystrokes (tm) is used for the Wingfold (Shift/9) and Canopy (Shift/0). The aircraft is carrier certified, and has been tested in the Full-5 and SF2NA envrionments. As always, fairly easy to follow, detailed install instructions are included. So, please read them. Happy Landings! Wrench Kevin Stein -- for Cocas Aircraft Factory -- Submitter Wrench Submitted 01/04/2018 Category What If Hangar  

It won't be silent night ....

WIP

Finally made it up the priority scale, so it's underway...and plan to also do a new cockpit for it. If you are interested in collaborating or participating in the project, all support is welcomed and encouraged - just drop me a PM!

"Switch Box"

Another uninvited visit to Cairo... Revealing another capability of the Mirage 5D ... Target: Western bridge ramp Firing ..................................................................................................................................... missile failed! So time for #2 to attack... And lead made a 2nd run over the tgt to capture the result Fin.