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Something different to work on.

After some time with my computer down... Mirage 4000 Demonstrator prototype

Aaaaand after getting my PC back here some screenies of the resumed work, later, in game pics ,)

Hello all! I've been messing around with Julhelm's awesome AFX Shadowcat recently and I've came up with an idea of some new skins for this plane. The first one which I would like to present to you is the 523FS "Crusaders" skin for the USAF land-based variant which I called the F/A-24B (i think the F/A name is more appropriate than A/F-24 because the USAF, USN and USMC use the F/A name instead of A/F). The paint scheme is based on the Polish F-16 two-tone gray. I know that the sides of air intakes would be more appropriate to place the squadron/wing markings on but it causes problems with decals appearing inside the intakes so I decided to move them further to the nose. Currently I am wondering whether to change the colorful insignias to dark grey lo-viz ones (similar to the USAF roundels). Enjoy the pictures and let me know what you think!

Training flight in the Super Skyhawk:

Superbe this Super Mirage !!!! Mandatory screenshot....

Beautifuuuuul! Mandatory pic, Phantom SEAD...

Beautiful (very) update Stephen, many thanks! I have just one question though, where does this leave the alternate “flat-topped fuselage” S.16? In this context, according to my references only a total of 34 S.16’s were built altogether (in no less than 5 variations). I wonder how many of these were of the “flat-topped” variant? Cheers Mike

Mikoyan MiG-29A 'Fulcrum-A' - Turkish Air Force, 1999 The coup d'état in Cyprus on July 15th, 1974 by a combination of the Greek army in Cyprus, the Cypriot National Guard and the Greek military junta ousted President Makarios III and replaced him with a dictatorship led by Nikos Sampson who declared the establishment of the Hellenic Republic of Cyprus. The coup was viewed as being illegal by the United Nations and was of huge concern to Turkey who feared that Sampson's next aim would be the total annexation of Cyprus by Greece. Within days Turkey had invaded Cyprus (without any resistance from the British forces based on the island) to quickly occupy 37% of the northern part of the island and expelling about 142,000 Greek Cypriots living in the north. War between Greece and Turkey seemed imminent but was averted when Sampson's coup d'état collapsed a few days later and Makarios returned to power triggering the collapse of the Greek military junta in Athens which had failed to confront the Turkish invasion. After the events of 1974, the United States imposed an arms embargo on both Turkey and Cyprus leading to sudden tension and mistrust between Turkey and the United States and pushing Turkey towards the Soviet Union leading to a vote in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey to become officially neutral (i.e. non-aligned) with President Fahri Korutürk announcing a huge increase in military spending with France and the Soviet Union gaining the most. In early 1975, the Turkish Air Force (Türk Hava Kuvvetleri) started to receive Dassault Mirage F.1's to replace embargoed Aeritalia F-104S Starfighters and also Sukhoi Su-17M's to supplement the handful of Phantom F-4E's that had escaped the embargo. Whilst still firmly in it's development phase, Turkey became the first international customer of the MiG-29 when the Turkish Air Force placed an order for 80 MiG-29A's in 1980 which entered service in March 1985. Skin Credit: EricJ

Mikoyan MiG-29AP - Aggressor Flight, Parani Air Force, 2007

Meters per second.

It's amazing what a little TLC can do. Don't remember where I got this but it needed a new paint job. 4 hours worth of work and PRESTO!!! Something worth flying.

NZ6202 A-4K Skyhawk No.75 Squadron Ohakea AFB New Zealand 1970

The bellow link is for an M4000C test flight video and its pit during a random fighter sweep mission. Some quality got lost during scale down and format conversion so not everything is as sharp. Birds are in progress, finishing up lower lods for each type and few more skins to go.