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This one, took me 7 years and is still on the works:

just to show what one can be up against, this the CBI planning map 3 (the largest). BTW, this map is at full real-world (100%) scale. Almost all other maps are 63% real world scale (something to do with km vs miles or some such shit)

Hard life of helo pilot ..

Xi'an JH-7A Flying Leopard

would make a Doordash or UberEats joke about pasta delivery, but evidently your vehicle cant be over 9 years old

TOMCATS! Getting some BDA with the TARPS pod.

P-40Bs from the AVG meet some Ki-43 Oscars

I think it's about completed, I have used a lot from my two previous models (brown navy boats) that I model so that made this one faster. soon the UVs and the data making.

Last Year's Model

View File F-113A Retaliator F-113A Retaliator (What if) v1.1 ***************************************************** This mod is made for SF2NA. It based on Julhelms RA-5C Vigilante. ---------------------------------------------------------- I. History In 1960 the North American company decided to develope a fighter version of the A-5 Vigilante attack plane. The project got the designation NR-349 Retaliator. The NR-349 Retaliator was North American's proposal for a high-performance fighter aircraft for the US military as a variant of the A-5 with three engines. A third General Electric J79 was in the shaft between the other two engines with two narrow air inlets offset backwards above the inlets of the other engines. The aircraft was to be armed with six AIM-54 Phoenix at sub-fuselage stations. The US Air Force was not interested in, but the US Navy. The Retaliator should act as fleet defender, to intercept incoming long range bombers before they could fire their missiles on US carriers. The US Navy demanded to replace the third engine by an increased internal fuel capacity. Four prototypes where built and the decission was made to reduce the number of Phoenix missiles. So the F-113A Retaliator came into serial production in 1965. 1966 the first units of the uS Navy got the new fighter plane. The Retaliator was used for more than 10 years. Then it was replaced by the F-14A Tomcat. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- II. CREDITS: While making F-113A Retaliator i used a lot of files made by other modders. Thanks for this files! The plane filer are made: ~~~~~~~~~~ by Julhelm The flight model is made : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ by Fubar512 & Column5 and modded by me The Cockpit is made ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ by Kesselbrut ---------------------------------------------------------- III. INSTALLATION: -Unzip the folders into your SF2 mod folder ---------------------------------------------------------- IV. For remarks, comments, bugs, etc please use the forum or send me a PM. ------------------------------------------------------------- V. The F-113A Retaliator is FREEWARE. COMMERCIAL USE IS NOT ALLOWED! ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ Hope you enjoy it. Michael (Gepard) Made in Germany February 2021 Submitter Gepard Submitted 02/14/2021 Category What If Hangar  

I see the conversation has moved on to helmet styles? The British "soup-plate" (Brodie) helmet maligned above, was actually very good for its purpose, which was to minimize head wounds for the troops in the trenches in WW1. It was also pretty good at keeping a chap's head and shoulders dry.. I'm rather familiar with it, both from wearing it in an amateur production of RC Sherriff's "Journey's End" in 1970 (see first pic, I'm the Tommy on the left - the scene is set on 20 March 1918 on the Fifth Army front, rather not a good place and time to be.. ), and also because back in 1979, my warrant officer at RAF Lyneham insisted on still wearing his old 1916-style helmet whenever we had a Station tactical evaluation/exercise - "this is what I was issued with in 1944 Sir!". Not even the Station Commander would contradict him :) For most of my RAF career though we used the 1944 pattern "turtle" helmet (second pic). Also very good in the rain. However sometimes some of the less experienced would put it on back-to-front, we thought it made them look like East Germans.. Finally, in the mid-Eighties I was issued with the then-new Mk 6 Kevlar helmet. When I left the Service in 1997 - by then with UN Peacekeeping, after 3 years' Loan Service with UNHQ here in New York ;) - a minor "accounting error" meant that I was left in possession of this helmet. The stores corporal back in Britain was most understanding, when he realized that my helmet wasn't showing on his records, he asked "so do you want all the different covers for it sir?" This came in very useful a few years later, when I was in Bunia, NE DR Congo at a particularly unpleasant time, see third pic. Felt much (much!) happier with a combat-proven British Army helmet*, than with a cheap UN blue Kevlar helmet procured from the lowest bidder on an international contract**. Besides my British helmet had the advantage that if things got really really bad, one could always lie down, pull off the blue cover to reveal the camo cover underneath, and "make a noise like a bush". Cheers Stay Well Mike *..and with a US Army flak jacket, for same reasons. ** not saying where those came from, except - mes excuses mes amis…

Every time you post this pic I think, that's a hell of a map!

It is a "normal" Flanker, but it was stripped down to beat time-to-climb records, which it still holds surprisingly. Everything that wasn't required for safe flight was removed, in fact the Soviets went as far as removing the flaperon, slats, and airbrake actuators. Slowing this thing down from Mach 2+ and 60k ft is a bit of a hassle, I must say. Anyway, to come as close to the real P-42 as possible, a lot of antennas (antennae?) as well as the landing gear mudguard, HUD, IRST, ventral fins and of course the pylons have to be removed. That means a lot of model nodes. The model itself is, well, what it is, but it's not really the proper model to be fair. I'm not planning on releasing it or anything. This is just a small project I wanted to make partly because I'm fascinated by the P-42 and wanted to (kind of) fly it, and partly because this is a great excuse (for me) to dive deep into the inner workings of an aircraft, and learn how everything works in SF2. So thanks for the extra bit of knowledge!

near the end now

After that, I will maker the 2 Kuwaiti Navy fast patrol boats. The P 5702 Istiqlal (German FPB-57) More information and the Al Sanbouk (German TNC-45) and may be the Um Al Maradim (Combattante P37-BRL) I think I like modeling ship lol

Paran's eyes in the sky

Sandbanks Still on the basics...vegetation (due to the TOD files) shows a certain pattern, e.g. boundaries...will be fixed and I already know how

The red prussians.

no. did you not read my post?? =========== Stratos: one day I may even finish it! Most of the problem being, many of the 'theatre specific' aircraft -on both sides- are "Unavailable (tm)" or those we have need major overhauls or replacements (thinking of the Nats' and Oscars)

Quite large terrain... I guess the dimensions are at least 2000x2000 km... I think you should have included a bigger part of Eastern Europe. That thing demands huge effort!

I have a former NVA hemet which was used by one of the parties in the Bosnian Civil War. The former Yugoslavian Ne-44 helmet (which I too have) bares a resemblance to it, probably because it too is styled after the German style Stahlhelm. It is logical, in a sense... The helmet has better protection for the sides of the head and neck, compared to the US M1 and the English 'soup plate'...

almost there

Harrier Campaign became pretty much too impossible to complete, so Instead I am Intruding on enemy territory.

Start of terrainmaking lessons you find here: Link to DEM file you find in this post:

The "Wehrmacht-Style" of the uniforms was an invention of the soviets. When the first military organisation was build up in the early 1950th in East Germany, the uniforms were influenced by the Red Army Style. When the NVA was foundet in 1956 the soviet advisers prefered a more german style of the uniforms. So the uniforms got the typical german style. Only the color was changed from green to stone grey. The new helmet was the Wehrmachtshelm Typ 1944. It was simply renamed to Stahlhelm 1956. The reason for it was, that the soviets had the so called Stalinplan. Their intention it was to create a independend and united Germany which had to be neutral and mostly disarmed. (The same what happend with Austria in 1955.) So a belt of neutral stated would be between the soviet sphere of influence in Europe and the american sphere of influence, starting with Finnland and Sweden, then Germany and Austria and in the south Yugoslavia. so a direct confrontation would have been avoided. BTW. topic: steel helmet. When i visited the museum Wehrtechnische Sammlungen Koblenz (the Bundeswehrmuseum) they had had a collection of all steel helmets which were used in Europe. Interestingly only two helmest got good grades. It were the swedish helmet and the Stahlhelm 1956. The soviet helmet, the british helmet and the US helmet got very bad grading, and this by westgermans. The swedish and east german helmets were light and gave the best protection for the soldiers. Of course the new generation of Keflar helmets are even better. But if you look to the american helmet of today: the shape of this helmet is Wehrmacht-Style.

but will he have time for those Fokkers? i second both those notions

I think you are wrong. Military in germany (east and west) was duty, not volunteer. It was compulsory military service. And in all armies with compulsory military service the recruts think "What the fuck we are doing here!" This has nothing to do with east or west. In east germany the military education started already in the school. The aim was not to learn "how to bring the glorious communism to the poor and suppressed crowds in the west". The aim was to learn how to defend the country. It was easy to believe to be on the right side. They had only to show us the pictures of the devastations in Vietnam. Then they had shown us the ruins of Dresden (some where still there in the 1980th). And they told us, that american bomber planes and missiles are aiming on us. During my military time i have seen a education film with the title "Das ist der Feind!" (Thats the enemy!) It was a film which showed the drill of recruits of the US Marines Corps. No comment, no word. Only the sequences how the recruits were drilled, brainwashed, humilated. Then the film showed what the Marines had done in Vietnam. They showed the war crimes made by USA. And only short before the movie ended the words came: "This is the enemy! A bunch of merciless killers!" This film is not available at YOUTUBE or any other platform.

"Vietnamisation"

found a good blueprint for the boat.

ok, now i'll weigh in

I think it would be nice to have the full riverboat so I am thinking of making the last of these boats the Patrol Craft Fast also known as Swift Boats

The new boat is ready anyone interested in working on the texture please let me know.

Heading to Okinawa

Shit, I've been around so long I remember when we didn't even have season!! Example, the America NorthWest terrain -- we have 4 different full terrains, one for each season, each with they're own (renamed desert) cat file as we hadn't figured out the pathway statement yet. Yes, I'm old

Couldn´t resist, i swear i couldn´t... Hope it is not too much...

posted this on the wrong thread before...old age showing LOL made this bird many years ago. i'm going to give it a face lift

just another SAM taking off, now maybe we can quit sweeping the flightline.....

have the band gather the sheets for "Hail, Columbia" big thanks to USAFE for keeping it mostly simple

Decided to make a mission over North Korea and usually the flak is all around my plane but this time i got hit with pretty severe damage over the DMZ... Lucky enough, plane was still barely controllable and allied airfield was in sight A bit overspeed on approach but that way the plane was less drifting and barely responsive to controls. Put the airbrakes out to slow down at last moment And landed the wounded plane back. Only to see on the debrief screen that my pilot died... He should have sh!t himself out after all :)

In the "Bad Old Days" on a Bear Intercept...I decided it wasn't a smart idea to go up against their MiG-17 escorts. Soooooo..............BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!

Super Jolly Green Giants

Super Mirage 4000