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File Name: F-51D, Republic of Korea Air Force, 1950s File Submitter: ndicki File Submitted: 07 Jun 2010 File Category: SF2 Series Add On Aircraft F-51D, Republic of Korea Air Force These will add a specific version of the P-51D included in the SF2 Israel Expansion Pack. Includes serial numbers and correct markings for F-51D aircraft of the Republic of Korea Air Force, early 1950s. This will run only in SF2I or a merged install including SF2I and the SF2I Expansion Pack. Click here to download this file

I've got Monty's Avia on my plate at the moment, and that's if I have the time, so don't look at me! at least, not for a while. These multiple-sheet SF templates are a pain...

No probs, just wanted to point it out. No harm done.

Actually, at the risk of upsetting the party, I'd like to point out that the templates used are mine. Admittedly somebody has stuck the technical blurb on them and tweaked them here and there a bit, but that doesn't change the fact that I did most of the work. They were released under the Freeware Agreement, but the terms of that agreement are pretty clear: 1. The work may not be used in payware projects or in projects that will not be freely distributed under these same terms. 2. You must give proper credit in your readme file. 3. If feasible, include the original readme along with your new mod. I'm quite prepared to think it was simply an inadvertent error on somebody's part, but it goes to show that before you release anything that is not 100% your own work, you should check to see where it really did come from, and if you're not sure, say so.

You're right. My (French) reference book that I did a quick check in is not. "Messerschmitt Me109 Volume II" by Dominique Breffort and Andre Jouineau, page 78. Never buy books published by Histoire et Collections. They have so many careless mistakes and unreliable "facts" in that you can't catch all of them. Anyway, with an S-99, you can do a G-6AS, G-10, G-10AS and G-14AS.

Wake up, Kevin! You're a bit slow off the mark... The Avia S-99 is the local redesignation for the Bf109g-14. Then with TK's Spits and Mustangs, there's business to be done!

After that? Well, there might be a market for a nice S-99...

File Name: Mustang MkIV, Royal Air Force, 1944-45 File Submitter: ndicki File Submitted: 08 Jun 2010 File Category: SF2 Series Add On Aircraft Mustang MkIV, Royal Air Force, 1945 These will add a specific version of the P-51D included in the SF2 Israel Expansion Pack. Includes serial numbers and correct markings for Mustang MkIV aircraft of the RAF in early 1945. Admittedly, few RAF Mustangs remained unpainted, but there were some! The squadrons represented served in North-West Europe and in the Mediterranean area. This will run only in SF2I or a merged install including SF2I and the SF2I Expansion Pack. Click here to download this file

Thanks! I'd rather leave the USAF stuff to someone who knows his way around the USAF! I don't really know much about it - you'll see if you look that all my skins are either WW2 German or British and Commonwealth. The USAF is not my field of specialisation. Kevin maybe?

File Name: Mustang MkIV, 5 Sqn SAAF File Submitter: ndicki File Submitted: 07 Jun 2010 File Category: SF2 Series Add On Aircraft Mustang MkIV, No. 5 Squadron, South African Air Force, Italy 1945 These will add a specific version of the P-51D included in the SF2 Israel Expansion Pack. Includes serial numbers and correct markings for Mustang MkIV aircraft of the SAAF in Italy in early 1945. This will run only in SF2I or a merged install including SF2I and the SF2I Expansion Pack. Click here to download this file

This is going to be the aircraft of the year! Monty, you're an ace!

Beautiful work!

Nice work, needed doing. Uploading soon?

Looks brilliant!

We've got loads of beautiful RAF Squadron flashes that are begging to be plastered all over the new Meteors and Vampires! If I say I was glad when I realised they already existed...

OK, thanks! Off to look...I can think of any number of places to use them! Edit - Actually, they ARE the up-to-date ones. (February 2010) But I admit I toned down the colours in the roundels to make them match the ones I was using. Meanwhile, if it's whiffing you want...

I shouldn't worry - most of my CFS3 skins run to 75-80,000KB for a single 2048x2048 sheet... That's about 60+ layers. Now if you bear in mind that TK's models have four or five sheets... Rivets are easy - set your brush to single pixel and then the spacing ("pas" in French - my Photoshop is unfortunately linguistically challenged!) to say 500 or 600, and you just brush them in. I usually do them white with a bit of added shadow, and then tune them down to fit.

File Name: Spitfire MkIXc, 31st FG USAAF, Tunisia File Submitter: ndicki File Submitted: 01 Jun 2010 File Category: SF2 Series Add On Aircraft Spitfire F.MkIXc, early production, USAAF 309th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, Tunisia, May 1943. These will add a USAAF-specific MkIXc version of the Spitfire included in the SF2 Israel Expansion Pack. Includes squadron and individual codes and correct USAAF markings for the period. 31st FG originally flew Spitfire MkIXc aircraft; these were later replaced with the MkVIIIc, before the Group was finally equipped with P-51B/C Mustangs in mid-1944. This will run only in SF2I or a merged install including SF2I and the SF2I Expansion Pack. Click here to download this file

Cheers, Kevin! I thought you might like it. And decals are always welcome!

Grief, don't! That's the main reason why I do very little work for SF compared to CFS3, where everything is on one easy-to-understand sheet... In theory! Meanwhile, Kevin's right about most Mustang IVs being painted, but a few weren't. Anyway, call it artistic licence, or something. I expect somebody will want them!

Seen something, too - the bump intake just below the forward canopy on the starboard side - you can see it clearly with the two pics of the model and a real one - shouldn't be there. Instead there's a sort of circle with a hole in it. The bump is on the port side only. I'm doing a series of 109Gs for CFS3, so I'm looking for details, too! Beautiful model it will be... It already is!

Looking VERY good! Can't wait!