Wrench

your welcome! it was a nice test of (what little) skill I have in erasing layers !!!

View File SF2 B-57B Canberra, Early SEA Camo Skin Pack SF2 B-57B Canberra, Early SEA Camo Skin Pack 12/21/2023 = For SF2, Any and All = * Full-5 Merged reccomended * This mod is designed to be used with my recently uploaded B-57B Upgrade & Skis set. You can still use it, if you're familiar enough with added/editing inis. If not, you can find the Upgrade Pack at the following URL: https://combatace.com/files/file/18162-sf2-b-57b-canberra-ini-skin-decal-update-pak/ A new Vietnam-era skin for the stock 3rdWire B-57B Canberra. This represents the 8th Bombardment Squadron of the 35th TFW as first deployed to Southeast Asia. The uppers are finished is standard 3-tone camo, with the unders in a 'light grey'. This was an unpopular paint job, and was replaced soon after with the standard Night Black (tm) unders. All markings are decals, and have 24 100% historically correct serials, and their presentation on the tail, for the timeframe represented. Decal randomization is TRUE. As usual, they are marked with the star (*) to show their accuracy. Also included, is a new(ish) Dual HVAR launcher, as requested (along with this skin) by CA member KiwiBiggles. It's a modified, aircraft specific version of the dual rack as used on the F-84 Thunderjet/Thunderstreak. It mounts the STOCK 3W 5" HVAR rockets. It has been edited to it's own name, and will NOT conflict with the T-Jet rack. A new loadout ini is included that pre-loads the Dual Rack for those mission taskings when it would be needed. This skin also includes it's own Hangar Screen. (You may need to edit the main B-57B.ini to add it. If you don't know how, contact me via PM or post in this announcement thread) On the Loadout screen, for skin selection you'll see: 8th BS (Early Grey Unders) On the drop-down menu As always, fairly easy to follow, yet detailed install instructions are included. Please read them! Good Hunting! Wrench Kevin Stein Submitter Wrench Submitted 12/22/2023 Category B-57  

Terrible, terrible news!!! I literally use his for most of my research!! My deepest condolences to his family I know this is going to sound worse than awful ... Does anyone know of a way to get ahold of his serial database, and archive it someplace???

Didn't just release some updated Zippers recently????? 104S "type-ish"

That's a well know pirate site, and not the only one. Hopefully, ModDB will do something about it, but I'm not holding my breath. There's been SO much of this shit going on since forever; the only way to stop it is "eliminate" the purpetrator. Permanently. (but, that's just me -- I'm a black and white kinda guy) Ok people -- you all know what you need to do!!! Get to it!!

Ok, a turret fighter Meteor NF, with wing guns!!! -- Is Wicked Cool!!!!!

Started on the decals last night. I"m calling the skin "8BS_E" for early Truth. What hurts is when running down serials is finding out loses. "crashed on takeoff", "shot down by ground fire", "ditched in ocean off coast". Not just the metal, the flesh. "crew killed" "lost in action". Remembering them, even with something as un-real as a aircraft paint job in a game, it's how I honor them.

and FREE peanuts!!!!

That building is used (read: repurposed) on all the terrains I do. Can't remember which, but one of the middle east terrains has it as a "Falafel Shack"

umm... the weathering is stock. The skin is just one big cheat ... I just worked with layers. The bottom layer is the stock 3W NMF skin, then dropped the SEA 3 tone on top, and just erased the black underside sections. I DO like the weathering on the stock NMF skins. The missing rivet is totally my fault; I'd erased a camo section of the canopy by mistake, when looking for the under-nose antenna. So I just painted over that section. The rivets are too damn large, anways! I'll wait for KiweBiggles to respond to this, to see if he needs any serial or tail code decals, and for which squadron(s). And which style of serial presentation. I've adjusted the (newest) loadout ini (that was uploaded with the recent B-57 Skin & Ini Pack) to take the dual HVARs for CAS/Armed Recon* I'l leaving the internal bay alone (4 M117s); not gonna mess around with rewriting positions for 6 WW2 500 pounders *personally, I prefer loading the wing stations with LAU-3s. LOTS and LOTS of rockets...muuuuuahahahahahahah*

A long time ago, while I was still in High School, some good friends and I were discussing the best burgers on the Westside (of Los Angeles). One, Eric said Howard's Big Burgers, on Venice near Sepulveda (and they're still there, BTW). "When you bite into in, and the juice runs down your hand, you know it's good". I've always kept to that. That is a RIGHTEOUS looking food truck!!!

well, it's not perfect .... the unders could be a little more of that 'cream gray' you see on Phantoms and Thuds....but without a real template I made due with what I gots to work with. I mean, hell, not bad for 8 hours of work ..!!!

Now I'm gonna have THAT image in my head all night!!!!

well, I got the 2-pack to work. I forgot that it dosne't have a LOD, so it looks a bit funny....I'll try and move the lower rocket up closer to the top OTH, can I interest you, FOR NO ADDITIONAL COST!!!!! (however, YOU must supply your own rockets ...) a 3 pack rack!!! Act now! Supplies are limited!!! unless Ravenclaw's got one floating around someplace ...

Ok, I checked Dave's pack, and it does NOT have SEA 3 tone with gray belly. Let me PM Sundowner, and see if he still has the templates archived someplace. With that it's a simple matter. I could give you one with a 'gray NMF' bellly by layering the NMF and SEA camo, then erasing the black unders. But, it wouldn't be quite right. Also, to the let you know, that rocket rack will fire "as it wants to", so it may shoot all the upper first, or in proper sequence

Since I"m only a pilot is a sim, does that make me a fake pilot too??? ----- I'll show myself out .....

AWESOME!!! (that Florida decal vaguely familiar!!!)

<cough> <cough> Salvage Ops <cough> --- OTH, the YAP one, other than needing a new flight model, also has the dreaded/cursed shadow ropes, too. I have it. It's really not quite worth the effort to bring it up to date; its' doable, but.... Besides even though the Revamp Works are giving the mod away, it's still unclear on CA policy for "what was once payware, but is now abandonware". For a better stand in, you can take the F-100D_66, "recreate" it as a F-100_WW, and load it out accordingly. Backdate the ini to the start of the project, load it with cluster bombs and rocket pods. When the Shrikes arrive, use the loadout date switch. About 1/2 hours worth of work. (of course, this dosen't take into account decaling with accurate serials and such) == Looking good Steve!!!

I have that same book, and a bunch of others... needed them for that recent B-57 mod i did. we have a HVAR 2-rack used for the F-84s that should be usable with some tweeking (personally, I pefer LAU-3s) as for the skin, have you looking in USAFMTL (Dave') B57 skin pack??

it DOES need some work to fully make SF2 ready

Thank you for the WW2 era F.3!!! Now, we few WW2 players don't have to go begging for one!!

look sharp!!

just a quick status report: Taiwan Straits terrain revamp nearly done. I should be able to release it over the weekend North Cape revamp has to be gone over again, as I forgot where I left off with it's rebuild! (oh, dopey me!) ArmourDave's F-105 Thunderchiefs nearly done; just trying to run down some more nose art images The F3D/EF-10 Skyknight has all it's skins, decals and ini work completed, I'm just awaiting to see if I get a new LOD with certain mesh fixes before release. If I don't have it before the end of they year, I"ll release it "as is" calling it a "provisional Beta" after Jan 1 next year. It'll be spllit into the F3D-2 and EF-10 as I've used 2 different cockpits for it's intended use in the Fleet (night fighter - F3D, Escort Jammer - EF-10)

caption this: to warm up a cold winter night 'you light up my life' get your sunscreen ready (spf10000) just a ray of sunshine ...