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I must admit to thinking about the F-104 in ADA service and the decals included in the Mirage IIIC DLC make this easier than you might think.

GIMP is free and you'll find tutorials at the Simmers Paint Shop and probably on YouTube. With respect, a tutorial would take someone hours to write so please see what you can find on the web. It's all if you bother to look!

New toy for the ANG.. Dassault-Convair F-114 Mirage - 119th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, New Jersey ANG, 1965

lol - giving the baggage handlers even more time to screw up!

Check mate...

In the stock game it's not a flyable aircraft and therefore wasn't flyable before you patched to June 2011. Unless, of course, you had a flyable 'mod' and therefore the June 2011 patch overwrote your flyable F-104G.

BAe Thunderstorm F.3's - No.19 Squadron, RAF Germany, 1989

British Aerospace Thunderstorm F.3 - No.92 Squadron, RAF Germany, 1987

The Shenyang F-8M Finback masquerading as the... British Aerospace Thunderstorm F.3 - No.92 Squadron, RAF Germany, 1987 Tracing it's ancestry back to the Supermarine Scarab design started in the mid-1950's the Thunderstorm F.3 was the final version of the Scarab/Thunderstorm family of interceptor-fighters and the last all-British combat aircraft. Scramble! Erwin_Hans lovely F-8M 'early'

Good work! Back in the day I thought this one would reach reality.

@ ravenclaw_007 - sensational!

Agreed!

I thought he was one of the Marx brothers...

Nice work Ed. Good to have you back.

Nope. If it's just the flight badge you're after I'll pm you after work.

Supermarine Scarab F.1's - No.74 Squadron 'The Tigers', RAF Fighter Command, 1961.

The Shenyang J-8 'Finback' masquerading as the... Supermarine Scarab F.1 - No.74 Squadron, 'The Tigers', RAF Fighter Command, 1961 During early 1955 the expected transition of the English Electric Lightning from research aircraft to front-line interceptor troubled senior RAF officials who urgently demanded an alternative design as insurance and to also take advantage of the early lessons learned from the P.1A which had first flown during the previous year. Despite the epic failure of their Swift design Supermarine were entrusted with this project as the Air Ministry were aware that they had been designing a supersonic interceptor as a follow-on to their submission to Specification F.4/48 and by March 1955 their Type 557 had evolved into a twin-engined tailed delta with a nose intake and translating shock cone housing a Ferranti AI.23 AIRPASS radar and fire-control system and Operational Requirement OR.333 was drafted around this design. Work on the new design progressed well at the Hursley Park design offices during 1955 and 1956 and soon metal was being cut at the South Marston works leading to a first flight in October 1957 which put the programme only about six months behind the P.1B Lightning. Powered by two Rolls-Royce RA.24R Avon engines rated at 11,250lb thrust dry and 14,500lb with reheat the Type 557 appeared at the 1958 Farnborough airshow where the rather unflattering name 'Scarab' was officially bestowed upon the type. Prototype and pre-production testing went well during 1958 and 1959 and by early 1960 Scarab F.1's were being delivered to Air Fighting Development Squadron before entering operational squadron service in June 1960 with No.74 squadron at Coltishall. This is, of course, the Shenyang J-8 'Finback' by Erwin_Hans in it's early nose intake configuration.

Top tip!

http://www.insky.cn/...47-fpage-4.html Then play around with the decals.ini and the texture.ini

Sukhoi Su-50 - 302nd Hikotai, JASDF

We don't need the LOD's but OUT files would be nice

Tupolev Tu-22IP 'Fullcup' - Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Udara, 1968 The rapid rise of the Communist Party of Indonesia saw a headlong rush towards the Soviet Union and soon Indonesia had become a second-tier client state, indeed, getting Tu-16 'Badger' bombers before any other client state. Confrontation against the Dutch in Papua was quickly followed by action against the Malaysian Federation in a border dispute along Kalimantan which saw British Commonwealth forces mobilised before an uneasy truce descended. However, in 1965 a failed coup attempt led by the 30 September Movement saw Indonesian Communist Forces crush the anti-communist regime led by Major General Suharto and thus solidly establish Communist power in South-East Asia and Oceania. With the United States becoming increasingly involved in Vietnam it was decided that the British Commonwealth would bolster 'Blue' forces in the area and, among other assets, the RAF sent two squadrons of Victor B.1's to RAAF Butterworth in October 1965 along with two Javelin squadrons. To counter the Victors the Indonesian Air Force needed a long-range interceptor and soon received a squadron of Tu-22IP 'Fullcup' aircraft hastily withdrawn from Soviet PVO Strany forces where the type had been developed as an insurance against failure of the Tu-28 'Fiddler'. Armed with the Soviet designed 'Golok' (named after a type of Indonesian machete) semi-active homing missile, four of which could be carried internally, the Tu-22IP's were fast but suffered from poor manoeuverability and hideously low availability - being notoriously maintenance intensive, and by 1970 the 'Fullcup' had been retired. A Libyan camo skin (from the SF1 archives) has been used with my Indonesian markings and stock Soviet red numbers to make this fictional TNI-AU interceptor and a Sa-8 'Gecko' takes the part of the 'Golok' air-to-air missile!

Phantom FGR.3 - No.1417 Flight, RAF Belize, 1975