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Nowoiwanowka Airbase parking area Landing approach with view on parking area of Nowoiwanowka There are still 4 russian airbases to rework. If the progress is so as i hope, i think i can release a next Beta this weekend, maybe sunday.

Almost completed need to add some more details and then test the model.

And this folks is how it all begins...

Waiting for the next mission.

Luftwaffe pilot's offices

Testing something i suck at, Decals:

Woooooooooowww... how it begins... That is a miracle

In-game

MiG-23ML at Aeroflotskij Airport. In background squadron take off and some parked bombers.

Liberty Wing Fighters on the Hunt...

Looking forward to it mate!

The latest iteration of the Tommo Inc Falcon 4.0 total conversion modification - Benchmark Sims 4.36 U2 - is available for you to enjoy RIGHT NOW! BMS 4.36 U2 requires a legit installation of a Falcon 4.0 (all older and newer versions are accepted alike, i.e. Microprose, Hasbro, GOG, Steam, Retroism). The check is performed both at setup time and every time you start BMS. If no valid installation is found, BMS will exit with a corresponding error message. U2 is an incremental update on top of 4.36 base + U1, so you need to have the BMS 4.36 Full Installer package and Update 1 available on your PC. You can both update your existing 4.36 base + U1 installation as well as perform a fresh 4.36 base + U1 + U2 installation from scratch, as you like. See the installation instructions below for details. This mod may not be used for any commercial purposes. Any such use may constitute a violation of the intellectual property of Tommo Inc and the non-commercial Terms and Conditions under which Benchmark Sims make this mod available to you. Change log https://www.falcon-bms.com/changelogs/falcon-bms-4-36-update-2/

this ones been quite a while. guess i better go medium rather than heavy weight

It is the Alaska, Bering Strait (1955-2018) remake I had made. You can also tell by the snowy runway textures made by luk1978. @Wrench Just FYI, I had released a scratch made version of the Hawaii terrain, which is in full Real World scale and with all possible airports and cities/towns of the archipelago. I think it's often overlooked.

accidental idek what caused it but now i have a retro retro flight sim lol

aaaaaaaaaand my time wit hthe Reserves is done

mind you, the original skin was good. just on the wrong model.

looks like baltikas full scale iceland mandatory screenieee say hi to 2LT Alfred Lane lmao

up and awaiting approval. more to follow, as i try to make sure all the kinks are out of the summer's work

The summer is ending, just like our Battle of Normandy release preparations. Two variations of the Normandy and Southern England map (before and after the invasion) are ready, Career mode is ready, Quick Missions and Advanced Quick Missions are ready - today we're starting the release candidate testing. This time we want to spend more time and resources on the testing and debugging. The beta-testing of the 5.001 update is going for two weeks already and we plan to test the release candidate for two more at least. There's a reason for that - it will include not only the Battle of Normandy, but a number of global improvements as well. The main global change is the long promised revision of the aircraft Damage Model. This time we have attempted to make more fundamental changes and not just "adjust the airframe durability to meet player expectations", but reverse-engineer the system in search of potential issues in many of its parts. During this process we have found a number of calculation passes which could be improved or tuned. These changes are already in the beta and beta-testers have responded that the damage received by aircraft in various combat situations looks significantly more adequate and realistic. We understand that this is a touchy subject, so the final changes will be explained in detail in the release notes of the 5.001 update. Speaking of the finishing of the new map and Career mode, we want to say that for each new project we have set more and more ambitious goals for ourselves, even if it wasn't clear in the beginning how it would work out and what the final answer to these challenges would be. Once again, many parameters have surpassed their previous records in the series. For instance, the length of the coastline is 990 km on the French coast and 1060 km on the English coast. 490 major cities and towns, not counting the minor ones, were recreated while keeping in mind their overall historical boundaries and main layout features. 100 airfields are waiting for your flight - and not one of them is 'default' or cloned, they all have historical layouts reconstructed using documents and air photos. Moreover, a new set of the airfield surface types was created: 1. Grass 2. CON (Concrete) 3. WC (Wood Chippings) - concrete covered by wood chippings and tar 4. TAR (Tarmac) - asphalt 5. ETH (Compressed Earth) 6. PBS (Prefabricated Bituminous Surface) - canvas saturated with tar 7. ST (Sommerfeld Track) - steel wire mesh reinforced with steel bars 8. SMT (Square-Mesh Track) - square mesh 9. PSP (Pierced Steel Planking) - stamped steel plates. As we have mentioned, there are two map variations created - before and after the invasion. Pre-invasion map lacks newly constructed airfields and constructions erected after D-Day on the Normandy shore. Career mode development required detailed information on symbols, tour of duty, bases, armament and assigned tasks for 285 squadrons acting in this project - players can join 102 of them and others are populated by AI pilots. This is another record for the Great Battles series. 9 new mission types were designed for the Normandy Career concentrating on the D-Day events and V-1 intercepts. Pilot's Career in the Battle of Normandy timeframe contains 5 phases and 17 front line states that change along the progression of time. As always, all the scenarios generated in the Career mode are unique even if you fly to the same target again - the generated combat situation will be different, while the weather will correspond to the real weather on that day. All in all, we're hoping that Battle of Normandy will be the most significant release in the IL-2 Great Battles series and all of you who have supported us all these years will enjoy another virtual, but to a great extent historically accurate reconstruction of a major air battle, that was created with love and respect to our common history.

SitRep: The ukrainian airfields have now all correct parking positions. Now i'm working on the russian bases. Screenshot: Parking area for large aircrafts at Jewpatoria Airfield. In the background you see the parking positions of some smaler aircrafts.

From a long time ago...I had forgotten I had done this...Pappy

Strike fighters 2 on intel hd 4600 max settings dell latitude e6540

Balad Airbase OIF...457th Fighter Squadron CAS Mission...

Shadow Rhino

Sierra Hotel

easiest method will be to add a black decal to the canopy itself. same method as on the airframe, get your mesh name and location from lodviewer when you do it, you can just use a small 12x12 tga filled to the borders. while usually bad form in making decals, it works when you are coloring a whole part like a ECM blister or maybe a canopy. the color to the edges will bleed and cover the whole mesh. mandatory screenie. not a upcoming project, just something different

Iron Eagle II "Mig-29s" ...if anyone knows how to black out the rear canopy glass only, please let me know! Thanks for the excellent Kurnass pack dtmdragon

421st EFS OEF 09-10 Bagram AB CAS looking for Taliban

bon temps rouler!

one runway strike and one wingman loss later (that airbase was hell)

1980's Royal Navy amphibious battle group landing Royal Marines on NATO reinforcement exercises in Norway...

as asked in the other thread, you need a couple more serials for the B's, or gonna leave em blank like the movie? mandatory screenie, or the other half of Misawa Japan...

allen, you need a couple more serials for the B models? however, i'll leave the rest to you two. crisisloaner; a note: find and download a copy of "USAAF_Stencil" for your tailcodes. will make your USAF planes closer to real, although Iron Eagle wasnt exactly the hieght of accuracy! mandatory screenies, or how to decimate a Soviet Fleet ....... .............and piss off MiGs

Thanks for the Iron Eagle stuff DA. Already putting it to good use with an F-16B..

Funny mustache.

Okay, thanks for the info. Edit: I removed the Krivaks from Sewastopol Harbour. Additionally i added some stock partolboats to the harbour. Lets see wheter they also cause a SEAD problem or not. Edit: Here the location of the target areas at Crimean Peninsula: More will come.

It has uhhh been a while since i posted here ignore the grey/white ground objs in first pic its a png issue i think (hmpf)

recently declassified photos of secret operation over Bilya. Until a few years ago, it was stated that COL Ted Masters had been released from internment by the Bilyans after intense negotiating..... (a request someone has been telling me about for a while now)

ZSU-57-2

Dude, I lost those files when my computer was stolen a couple years ago!

these lil sonsabitches been hard to pin down. still cant find the squadron bird

SWOTL: Battle of Britain Despite having their backs to the wall and operating from bases in Germany itself, the Luftwaffe's wunderwaffen still have the ability to strike back at the allies, and the RAF rises to the challenge once again... Jet combat over the English countryside... Of course it wouldn't be the Battle of Britain without Spitfires taking on the Messerschmitt escort...

Somewhere over South England, September 1940

Nice-looking SWOTL action, and A-26 Invaders. Willi Messerschmitt's sleek killing machine over Spain, 1938: