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Looks good!

That was the difficult one! The other "new" ones are Ulster Defence Force and IRA.

I see it the same way as Shaolin - and the cross looks too much like something to do with the Red Cross. But the Scottish Lion looks dead good - there, I'm hesitating between the Cross of St Andrew and the Lion Rampant as fin flash. Difficult decision! Has anyone identified the other "made-them-up" ones?

What do you think of these? I'm quite proud of them! There are two for Scotland, and two for England - which do you all prefer?

I'm o, Photoshop CS - but PM me with your e-mail address and I'll try and find one that'll go through the post!

Baltika, I'm looking forward to this, I really am! Beautiful scenery. Meanwhile, I'm repainting Russo's Hawk - the original skin textures don't line up at all around the tailfin and rudder, so that needs looking at. As the majority of BAGC aircraft will be Hawks from BAGC Valley (!), then I'd better get them right. I'm wondering about weird tribal paint schemes, such as the Stewart tartan on the Scottish F.3...

You won't get anywhere near it! My flight of ex-RAF BAGC Hawks has just knocked down an incursion by a flight of RAF Typhoons, just to prove the point! Don't ask how, but it works...

Never heard of it. Probably anti-Saffa propaganda.

Yes, he has - but he hasn't answered my PM... They were Reims Cessna 337s with Brownings in pods on the roof!

How's this do you? [Nation203] Name=WALES DisplayName=Byddin Awyr Gweriniaeth Cymru Alignment=ENEMY PilotNameList=NAMESWELSH.LST RankList=RanksRAF.lst CallsignList=CALLSIGNSRAF.LST Formation.Fighter=USFighter Formation.Attack=USFighter Formation.Bomber=USBomber Formation.Transport=USBomber Formation.Tank=USTank Formation.MobileAD=USAD PilotTrainingStandard=EXCELLENT GenderRatio=0 DebriefSuccessMusic=DebriefSuccess.wav DebriefFailMusic=DebriefFail.wav DebriefKilledMusic=DebriefKilled.wav SpeechFile=USAFSpeech.cat SpeechTextFile=USAFSpeechText.str Medals=MedalsRAF.ini MedalTextFile=MedalsRAF.str [Nation204] Name=SCOTLAND DisplayName=Scottish Air Corps Alignment=ENEMY PilotNameList=NamesBritish.lst RankList=RanksRAF.lst CallsignList=CALLSIGNSRAF.LST Formation.Fighter=USFighter Formation.Attack=USFighter Formation.Bomber=USBomber Formation.Transport=USBomber Formation.Tank=USTank Formation.MobileAD=USAD PilotTrainingStandard=EXCELLENT GenderRatio=0 DebriefSuccessMusic=DebriefSuccess.wav DebriefFailMusic=DebriefFail.wav DebriefKilledMusic=DebriefKilled.wav SpeechFile=USAFSpeech.cat SpeechTextFile=USAFSpeechText.str Medals=MedalsRAF.ini MedalTextFile=MedalsRAF.str [Nation205] Name=ULSTER Alignment=FRIENDLY DisplayName=Ulster Defence Force PilotNameList=NamesBritish.lst RankList=RanksRAF.lst CallsignList=CALLSIGNSRAF.LST Formation.Fighter=USFighter Formation.Attack=USFighter Formation.Bomber=USBomber Formation.Transport=USBomber Formation.Tank=USTank Formation.MobileAD=USAD PilotTrainingStandard=EXCELLENT GenderRatio=0 DebriefSuccessMusic=DebriefSuccess.wav DebriefFailMusic=DebriefFail.wav DebriefKilledMusic=DebriefKilled.wav SpeechFile=USAFSpeech.cat SpeechTextFile=USAFSpeechText.str Medals=MedalsRAF.ini MedalTextFile=MedalsRAF.str [Nation206] Name=IRA DisplayName=Irish Republican Army Alignment=ENEMY PilotNameList=NamesBritish.lst RankList=RanksRAF.lst CallsignList=CALLSIGNSRAF.LST Formation.Fighter=USFighter Formation.Attack=USFighter Formation.Bomber=USBomber Formation.Transport=USBomber Formation.Tank=USTank Formation.MobileAD=USAD PilotTrainingStandard=EXCELLENT GenderRatio=0 DebriefSuccessMusic=DebriefSuccess.wav DebriefFailMusic=DebriefFail.wav DebriefKilledMusic=DebriefKilled.wav SpeechFile=USAFSpeech.cat SpeechTextFile=USAFSpeechText.str Medals=MedalsRAF.ini MedalTextFile=MedalsRAF.str [Nation207] Name=EIRE DisplayName=Irish Air Corps Alignment=ENEMY PilotNameList=NamesBritish.lst RankList=RanksRAF.lst CallsignList=CALLSIGNSRAF.LST Formation.Fighter=USFighter Formation.Attack=USFighter Formation.Bomber=USBomber Formation.Transport=USBomber Formation.Tank=USTank Formation.MobileAD=USAD PilotTrainingStandard=EXCELLENT GenderRatio=0 DebriefSuccessMusic=DebriefSuccess.wav DebriefFailMusic=DebriefFail.wav DebriefKilledMusic=DebriefKilled.wav SpeechFile=USAFSpeech.cat SpeechTextFile=USAFSpeechText.str Medals=MedalsRAF.ini MedalTextFile=MedalsRAF.str [Nation208] Name=CORNWALL DisplayName=Cornish Volunteer Force Alignment=ENEMY PilotNameList=NamesBritish.lst RankList=RanksRAF.lst CallsignList=CALLSIGNSRAF.LST Formation.Fighter=USFighter Formation.Attack=USFighter Formation.Bomber=USBomber Formation.Transport=USBomber Formation.Tank=USTank Formation.MobileAD=USAD PilotTrainingStandard=EXCELLENT GenderRatio=0 DebriefSuccessMusic=DebriefSuccess.wav DebriefFailMusic=DebriefFail.wav DebriefKilledMusic=DebriefKilled.wav SpeechFile=USAFSpeech.cat SpeechTextFile=USAFSpeechText.str Medals=MedalsRAF.ini MedalTextFile=MedalsRAF.str Of course, I need to work on names, call-signs, etc, but the basis runs perfectly.

And I've been trying to understand how a campaign works so I can actually do something useful with it...

That's fine - two is enough, I think, given the handful of aircraft there'll be! Mind you, if I find another one somewhere along the coast, say, facing Ireland, that'd be useful, too.

Baltika, that looks great! But it'll leave Wales a bit short of airfields if all there is is Valley. Are some of the GA fields or airports going to be used for Air Force traffic?

The bomb bay works on the IL-28, doesn't it? Or you could use one of the spare animation keys - if you look at how the canopy is configured in manual mode, it seems logical that you'd be able to do the same thing with bomb doors. I'm only a newbie, and don't do modelling, so this may not work - just an idea. It's The Wrench you want to ask, I think! Your camouflage scheme is getting closer, although the proportions of the colours are a bit out - the green swathes on the left wing are a bit thin still. But it is looking far, far better! Keep at it! What painting program are you using? If you'd like, I can send you one of my CFS3 templates - if it'll go through the mail! - so you can see all the little tricks of weathering and highlighting you can use to give the model a bit more 3D depth.

Kopis n Xiphos, you've got the idea. That's the point - after all these centuries, and don't forget where England would be without the Celts, whether you mean the Welsh at Agincourt or the Scots at Waterloo, or the Irish in the First and Second World Wars - despite the unrest in Ireland itself. England would very possibly not have survived. The Empire itself can largely be traced to Scots merchants who were established in the East before the Army was... And so on. But France beat Wales. I took the week off work sick... I teach in a French engineering school, and I couldn't face the little bastards... They never win but they have to rub it in. There's no "Better luck next time" from that lot, just a lot of rubbing your nose in it. Bastards!

Now if I was REALLY evil, I'd ask you the expressions for "Danger - Jet Intake" and "No Step"... If you're going to do something, you might as well do it right! (I'm enjoying this...)

:bowdown2: :bowdown2: One of those once took our chimney pot off... Beautiful aircraft!

Just for fun, here are a few of mine from CFS3... So keep up the good work - we need lots more Southern African stuff round here! Incidentally, real Hawks/Mohawks are covered with rivets - protuberant ones. Don't hesitate to use white rivets with a touch of shadow behind them, because that really is what they are like. If you need close-ups of a Hawk-75A-1 - basically similar - just yell. I got to play with a real one a year or two ago...

You're spot on. Gregair is correct - aircraft were painted in the nearest equivalent to RAF standard colours, or if delivered directly from the US, in ANA or USAAF colours, modified in theatre to RAF standards. SAAF 4-digit serials were not used by operational aircraft, except in the Abyssinia and Somalia campaign, as aircraft were drawn from RAF stocks and therefore carried RAF serials. The Mohawk IVs were SAAF property, so they did have the specific SAAF serials, as yours correctly shows. While aircraft were generally painted up at MUs, the camouflage scheme did largely correspond to the RAF camouflage pattern; this was laid down for each class of aircraft, so your Mohawk's layout of colours is not entirely accurate. You need to find a 3-view showing the scheme for single-engined monoplane fighters, and go from there. You'll have spotted that all the aircraft posted by Gregair have a similar layout of colours, although when the Mohawk was in service, the A scheme and the B scheme were both still in use. Later, most manufacturers used only the A scheme. The two are identical, in fact, except that the B scheme is the mirror image of the A scheme. The problem is that SAAF aircraft in Abyssinia wore the temperate day fighter colours of Dark Earth, Dark Green and Sky, rather than Midstone, Dark Earth and Azure Blue - one of these colours did not actually really exist officially at the time of the Abyssinian Campaign. Midstone appeared in January 1940 for use in the Middle East ONLY, and Azure Blue was approved only in December 1940. That does not mean, of course that it appeared on aircraft overnight! Despite HQ MEF's dislike of the colour Sky, it remained standard well into 1941. That is for RAF aircraft in the Middle East. In practice, if you look at some early Tomahawks used by the RAF in the Middle East, they retained their temperate colours throughout 1941. Others wore a variety of shades - Light Earth (the shadow-shading equivalent of Dark Earth) being used as a substitute for Midstone until supplies became available. Local mixtures such as Iraq Sky (don't ask!) stood in until Azure Blue became available. Back to our Mohawk. This is 3 Sqn SAAF, isn't it? Dark Earth and Dark Green over Sky. The markings are globally correct, but the finflash wants to be taller, placed lower down the fin, and moved back until the blue band is touching the rudder hinges. The best sets of decals I know are here: http://regshanger.com/Groundcrew/homepage/...l%20Website.htm Click on the "Garage Corner" sign, and go from there. I can't get in at the moment, but... Any more info needed, please feel free to ask! This is a field I spend a certain amount of time messing around in... Most of the SAAF aircraft available for CFS3 are mine.

Level 0 is for nationality markings - INSIGNIA and FINFLASH will get you the markings that correspond to the nationality settings, either in the data.ini or the TextureSet.ini. Level 1 is for technical markings such as ejection seat triangles, intake markings, etc.

Byddin Awyr (Gweriniaeth) Cymru it is, then! Bit of a mouthful... !

Actually, I've just been reading the tutorial about campaign writing. It doesn't look that complicated. (Famous last words...)

Bloody hell, I think I'll get back to England where it's safer! This is a little quieter and less Pictish!

Kopis n Xiphos - How'd you say something like "People's Air Force of Wales" in Welsh? I'm Welsh myself - origin anyway - but don't speak a word. Family originates from Ruthin.

What can the Libyans/Syrians get rid of fast? They'd be natural playmates of the IRA! I thought of perhaps one or two captured RAF Tornadoes, but as all there is normally in N.Ireland is choppers... I like the Neo-Noraid idea, and L-39s are dead easy to get. The aircraft wouldn't be US types, because I don't see end-users of US kit getting mixed up in this sort of scenario... And A-4s and things are going to be past the use-by date, too. The Russians have a load of monkey-model MiG-29s for sale, and they're getting uppity enough to send some toys, hence my Welsh Fulcrum. I needed a good excuse to skin that L-39, anyway. Whose is it? I hope he signed the Agreement! Baltika, that map is going to be a monument to Celtic Ethnography! Fantastic! I can hear the screeching of bagpipes from Land's End to John O'Groats as the Celtic and Gaelic peoples unite to throw the Saxon invader from our isles! How can we identify those of Norman extraction, though? They have to return to Scandinavia via Le Havre...