Swordsman422

I don't hate making new decals. It just makes me want to beat my own head in. This will appear to be a shameless plug but http://combatace.com...-stock-turkeys/ There should be enough decals in there to get you by. Mostly mods of stock ones, but you can use this pack to fill in the missing spaces.

JSF_Aggie, I can't wait for the SoCal Terrain. This jet belongs there! Base paint scheme is based on a combination of the two most photographed airplanes in the movie, 160665 and 160694. Both planes wore the mid-80's experimental TPS; medium grey upper surfaces, light ghost grey lower surfaces, and canopy and anti-glare in dark ghost grey. The F-14s in the movie were also heavily spot painted and suffered from a typical issue of Navy jets during the 80's; bad dye batches in the paint which made certain areas supposedly painted the same color appear more blue or more ashen than the base coat. I decided to let 665 have the distinctive gull grey spine panel even though it was on 694. 665 also featured the retreating firebird on the starboard tail. Here, 665 is seen ready for launch beside the CAG jet. And the CAG jet. There will be 13 aircraft featured in this skin. Since only 5 BuNos are known (160665, 160681, 160685, 160694, 160695) the remaining 7 aircraft included use BuNos of famous or important F-14As. 160390, 159437, 159461, and 160403 all make cameos. The CAG bird, 161615, made some of the first strikes of OEF with VF-41.

A 13 Days, and Kevin Costner's Boston-Irish-Catholic-Nebraskan accent. "Wait a minit! Dis idna pahmishun slip! This is ya repohrt cahd! Honey, have you seen 'eez grades?!" At least Bruce Greenwood and Stephen Culp make up for it. And short as it is, the scenes with the Crusader are pretty cool. Bring it on! We've been needing this one!

Tell you what, I'll send you something this evening when I get home from work that might help with that.

The best way to improve your skills as a graphic artist is to just keep practicing. Here's kind of a public secret that doesn't hurt either. A lot of us skinners are also avid modelers and we use scans from our own decal collections in order to get the graphics we need. I am not ashamed to say that several of my decal graphics come right from the pages of my physical decal collections and are then modified in Photoshop. I would not be able to create some of the more complicated graphics otherwise. At any rate, I absolutely look forward to your efforts. That VF-11 set looks awesome! Keep it up!

Snake eyes.

It's just a ball of dust... Underneath my feet... It rolls around the sun... Doesn't mean that much to me!