Spinners

If that's true (I'm not overly techie) that's a good tip!

Make them 200 x 200 (from memory use a font size no larger than 48) and then scale them in the decals.ini For RAF aircraft Scale=1.2 for the fuselage is a good start with at least double that for the underwing serials. RN aircraft usually have much smaller fuselage serials.

What size are the tga's? 200 x 200 seems to work for RAF/RN serials. Thinking about it, can't you just make them in GIMP?

MiG-21PFM - Mongolian Air Force, 1981

Mikoyan I-104 - Frontovaya Aviatsiya, 1976 (By Spillone104 and in the SF2 downloads section)

Great news mate.

Su-9 'Fishpot' - PVO Strany, 1965

Grabbed this today - lovely work mate!

Get yourself the Third Wire Strike Fighters 2 CAT File Extractor http://www.thirdwire.com/downloads_tools.htm

Not even a basic aircraft folder with a single .ini ? It probably means you've installed them to the wrong place. Regardless of that you will need to extract the DLC cats to get at all the skins, decals and ini's. I can get at mine using this path (but ymmv); Computer > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files (x86) . Third Wire > Strike Fighters 2 > DLC

P-40N Warhawk - Irish Air Corps, 1949

April 1962 - Lt. Cdr. John Young sets two new World climb to height records in F4H-1 Phantom II (BuAer No 149449) as part of Project High Jump

View File [Fictional] Curtiss P-40N Warhawk 'IDF' Curtiss P-40N 'IDF' for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 This is simple mod of Raven's P-40N20CU to give a fictional P-40N 'Warhawk' as it might have appeared in service with the newly-created Israeli Defence Force Air Force in 1948. BACKSTORY Following the Israeli Declaration of Independence on May 14th, 1948 David Ben-Gurion declared the establishment of a Jewish state to be known as the State of Israel. Within two weeks the Israeli Air Force was formed mainly using foreign volunteer pilots (including many World War II veterans) flying a variety of obsolete and war surplus aircraft sourced by various means. Among these were 36 P-40N Warhawk fighter aircraft delivered in crates from the United States and alongside the Avia S-199's and Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk IX's they formed the backbone of the early Israeli Air Force. Whilst the Warhawks were not ready to help in attempting to halt the Egyptian advance from the South during early June 1948 they were soon in operation in the close support role and also bolstered the air defences around Tel Aviv and were successful in shooting down several Egyptian Air Force DC-3's and Spitfires. The Warhawks were also tasked with escorting the handful of Israeli B-17 bombers but were mainly committed to the support of IDF ground forces. By December 1948 IDF ground forces were ready to commence Operation Assaf to take control of the Western Negev and the Warhawks helped in stopping an Egyptian counterattack and helped prevent another counterattack when a Warhawk flying an aerial reconnaissance sortie revealed Egyptian preparations and the IDF was able to launch a pre-emptive strike. Following the ceasefire the remaining Warhawks were gathered together to re-equip No.101 who operated the type until the end of 1956 playing a minor role in Operation Kadesh by escorting Israeli Air Force DC-3s dropping Israeli paratroopers behind Egyptian lines at the Mitla Pass and Et-Tur. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the P-40N_IDF folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the P-40N_IDF folder into your main Decals folder. 3. From the WEAPONS folder drag and drop the AN-M81 and TANK75_IDF folders into your main Weapons folder. At this point it might be a good idea to change the pilot to whatever you've got in your install suitable for the early post-war period. CREDITS Thanks to Third Wire for the continuous improvement of a great little game/sim. Massive thanks to Raven for creating the superb P-40N20CU 3D model and, indeed, his other P-40 models. Thanks to Raven also for the shark mouth decals - compulsory on this aircraft!! Thanks also to the creator of the AN-M81 260 lb fragmentation bomb used here. It just looks so right. And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 1 - 23/08/13 Submitter Spinners Submitted 08/23/2013 Category What If Hangar

WW2 is the undiscovered country! I must admit to watching the forthcoming IL2 Battle for Stalingrad development videos...

Land reclaimation

Thanks Stary. To be fair, it's Raven's P-40N (from the SF1 section and c/w a NMF skin) with a recoloured spinner and my IDF decals with stock Mustang codes.

Petlykov Pe-2 'Peshka' (aka The Soviet's MRCA)

Merci et regards Coupi.

Me too! Superb.

Curtiss P-40N Warhawk - No.101 Squadron, Israeli Air Force, 1948 Following the Israeli Declaration of Independence on May 14th, 1948 David Ben-Gurion declared the establishment of a Jewish state to be known as the State of Israel. Within two weeks the Israeli Air Force was formed mainly using foreign volunteer pilots (including many World War II veterans) flying a variety of obsolete and war surplus aircraft sourced by various means. Among these were 30 P-40N Warhawk fighter aircraft delivered in crates from the United States and alongside the Avia S-199's and Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk IX's they formed the backbone of the early Israeli Air Force. Whilst the Warhawks were not ready to help in attempting to halt the Egyptian advance from the South during early June 1948 they were soon in operation in the close support role and also bolstered the air defences around Tel Aviv and were successful in shooting down several Egyptian Air Force DC-3's and Spitfires. The Warhawks were also tasked with escorting the handful of Israeli B-17 bombers but were mainly committed to the support of IDF ground forces. By December 1948 IDF ground forces were ready to commence Operation Assaf to take control of the Western Negev and the Warhawks helped in stopping an Egyptian counterattack and helped prevent another counterattack when a Warhawk flying an aerial reconnaissance sortie revealed Egyptian preparations and the IDF was able to launch a pre-emptive strike. Following the ceasefire the remaining Warhawks were gathered together to re-equip No.101 who operated the type until the end of 1956 playing a minor role in Operation Kadesh by escorting Israeli Air Force DC-3s dropping Israeli paratroopers behind Egyptian lines at the Mitla Pass and Et-Tur. (I've loved doing this one!)

Boulton Paul Defiant Mk.I - Eskadrille 726, Royal Danish Air Force, 1940

The Lavochkin La-11 'Fang' masquerading as the Blackburn Firestorm FB.2