ndicki

LoL! Tell me about it! I'm doing the Mustang MkIV as well - that's even worse. Most sources give three blocks of s/ns, which is correct, but neglect to tell you that the final block (KM744 - KM799) was not fulfilled... All the Spits I've done so far correspond to late-build LF.MkIX aircraft, though as the armament fit wasn't recorded - Universal wings, by that point - I can't guarantee whether they were fitted with C-type or E-type armament. And I haven't checked which squadrons they served with! Sometimes you have to draw the line somewhere, and SF isn't the same as modelling individual aircraft. Uploading just as soon as I can make it comprehensible!

Just off the top of my head, Y2 is No. 442 Sqn RCAF. Later converted to Mustang IVs. Have you jumbled the s/ns and individual letters? One of the most unrealistic and annoying things the SF series does in attribute individual letters, serials, etc, in strict order - 000=A, 001=B, 002=C and so on. So you end up with Red Flight in A, B, C and D, Blue Flight in E, F, G and H, and so forth. Totally unrealistic. But if you start with 000=D, 001=K, 002=B, etc, then it looks better... My two penny's worth, in any case!

(Hello all - Back again after a while!) I've been fiddling with the new SF2I Expansion Pack Spitfire - the stock markings are OK-ish for post-war Spits at a pinch, but to be honest, they still needed work. So I've been busy. As these stand, I've done set-ups for MkIXs in Middle East and Home/NWE colours typical of 1943-45. You get correct RAF markings, serial numbers, individual letters and squadron codes that correspond to mid-late War deployments. If I get very creative, other things may follow... If anyone's interested, I'll try and sort out the bits into some sort of coherent package and upload it over the next few days.

Cheers, Jan - that was what I'd found!

Hi all (back after a break!) I was wondering how you change the end date so that in Single Mission, you can fly after December 1918. FE would make a very good platform for 1920s and 30s air fighting, too... Any ideas? Edit - Flap over. Found it.

Try looking for one of those places that imports ex-Soviet Army vehicles. I know a few in the UK, but none in Canada.

I really wouldn't if I were you - they expect you to drink a glass of water with it. Horrid stuff.

Hi Stan! Long time, no see... True - in the film, he played Howard, while another actor played Capt. Richard Todd of 7 PARA. Odd... Makes a change from today's actors, who would faint and go weak at the knees at the prospect of doing anything remotely dangerous or bellicose. It used to take real men to play real men...

View File Sopwith Camel, No.209 Sqn RAF Sopwith Camel of No.209 Squadron, RAF, France 1918 No.9 Sqn RNAS became No.209 Sqn RAF in 1918. Serial B7270, flown by Captains Arthur Brown (March-April) and Oliver Redgate (April-May) For the updated First Eagles stock Camel 130 only. Nigel "ndicki" Dickinson Submitter ndicki Submitted 11/21/2009 Category Sopwith Skins  

View File Sopwith Camel, No.122 Sqn RFC Sopwith Camel of No.112 Squadron, RFC, Throwley, Kent, August 1918. For the updated First Eagles stock Camel 150 only. The presence of a swastika on the tailfin should not be considered as significant; this is from 1918. Nigel "ndicki" Dickinson Submitter ndicki Submitted 11/20/2009 Category Sopwith Skins  

View File Nieuport 17, Bolshevik Forces Nieuport 17 of Navy school of aerial fighting, Bolshevik Forces, Russian Civil War, 1919-20 Probably this aircraft was served in one of Navy school of aerial fighting in Oranienbaum (near Petrograd). Skin only for MontyCZ's Nieuport 17 Nigel "ndicki" Dickinson Submitter ndicki Submitted 11/20/2009 Category Nieuport Skins  

View File Sopwith Camel, No.139 Sqn RAF Sopwith Camel of No.139 Squadron, RFC, Italy, September 1918 Based on B6313 flown by Major William Barker. I have left the stock identification letter working, although the original aircraft did not carry an individual letter. For the updated First Eagles stock Camel 150 only. Nigel "ndicki" Dickinson Submitter ndicki Submitted 11/20/2009 Category Sopwith Skins  

Hi David! Seem to bump into one another in the oddest places!

I've found a new trick. Le Missionneur does work with SF2, in some ways better than KMD, with which I haven't managed to add vehicles to a mission for example. The problem with LeM was that it couldn't find the terrain maps... So if you make a new folder in your Mods folder, name it "Terrain" as opposed to "Terrains" - SF1-style structure - and copy your extracted GermanyCE/IsraelME/VietnamSEA into it, it works. Having said that, it doesn't like the stock aircraft - unicode files. So write the mission using SF1 aircraft you've imported, and then once the mission has been generated, you can hand-edit it to use the SF2 aircraft if you like. Back to my game...

Thanks, Storm. Good to get us going!

You're going far further than I'd imagined! All I was looking for was a new CALLSIGNSUS.LST (which wouldn't be called CALLSIGNSUS.LST but CALLSIGNSIDF.LST, for example) with new names for the flights. I hadn't even thought of a new set of sound files - that would be fantastic! Got enough Arabs to hand - I live in France! - but a good Israeli accent could be hard to find round here. There are some speech files in the dowloads section, but they just sound American to my ears, without that characteristic Israeli something...

I'm just thinking that the US Vietnam-era call signs are fine for Vietnam-era US flights... But does anybody have any convincing Israeli and Arab ones - transcribed, all the same! - for SF2I or WOI? Just a little thing that grates and reduces immersion.

Ja, since we've now got two versions of SF2 to deal with, it gets a bit confusing... Watch this space - I'm on an all-grey late version soon, as well. Just got the decals to recolour and in two cases, replace; two aircraft from the original batch were lost and replaced. The replacements kept the same tac numbers but had different s/ns.

View File Hunter GA.11, FRADU, Fleet Air Arm HAWKER HUNTER GA.11, Fleet Requirements and Air Direction Unit, Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy, RNAS Yeovilton, 1970s Stand-alone aircraft for SF2 (all variants) only Contrary to popular belief, the Royal Navy fielded a number of squadrons of Hunters, primarily for training and second line duties, although these were also "mission-capable" if the need had arisen. FRADU was the last FAA unit to use the Hunter. Further information and photographs here: http://www.fradu-hunters.co.uk/index.html Credits: Spinners modified the Thirdwire stock Hunter FGA.9 to make it flyable, and fitted the cockpit. He also provided inspiration for decals. Submitter ndicki Submitted 11/01/2009 Category Hunter