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Splinners velly solly! http://www.we7.com/#/song/Max-Boyce/Asso-Asso-Yogoshi-Live-At-Treorchy

Powerful looking brutes aren't they?

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Thanks guys. It was a bit of a rush job as I wanted to watch Chelsea v. Man Utd last night but did anyone notice the pilot's name? (Might be a Brit thing)

Nakajima-Dornier Ki-101 'Heavenly Lion' - Imperial Japanese Army Air Force, 1945 In February 1943 the unfortunate Pilot Officer P. Lonker of No.64 squadron descended through the fog to land his brand-new Spitfire IXc at the Luftwaffe airfield near Brest in the mistaken belief that it was his home base of Hornchurch. Whilst the Spitfire was no secret to the Germans this pristine example of the relatively new IX was gratefully received and sent to the Dornier factory in Altenrhein (Switzerland) where it was studied in detail with production drawings made and tooling fabricated for the proposed production of the Spitfire for the Swiss Air Force. However, during the early Spring of 1944 the decision was made to ship the drawings and tooling to the Nakajima Aircraft Company in Japan for production of the Spitfire for defence against American bombers including the B-29 then just coming into service in forward bases in China and India. Designated Ki-101 production started quickly enough but disaster struck when the Ota factory was bombed (ironically by B-29's) in December 1944 with only a handful of aircraft completed and all without engines as Aichi Atsuta had failed to deliver a single example of the licence-built Daimler-Benz DB605 engine. Miraculously, production restarted in February 1945 with the first Aichi built engines arriving in March allowing the first squadron to re-equip in May 1945. Production records indicate that only 45 Ki-101's were manufactured and there were no recorded incidents of air combat between the 'Heavenly Lion' and allied aircraft. N.B. The tail numbers are from Wrench's 'George' skin from the SF1 download section.

Good news. As you say, in context, it is a tiny ray of sunlight but heartwarming nonetheless.

I thought it was the Tomcat that had the beaver tail?

McDonnell Douglas Eagle F.1 - No.79 Squadron, RAF Germany, 1983

Attacker! (Does exactly what it says on the tin)

Whoa! I think you're getting ndicki's advice and mine mixed up. I replied to "I do not how to modified the model LOD files..."

Supermarine Attacker FB.4 - No.79 Squadron, 2nd Tactical Air Force, RAF Germany, 1951

Love those long-span Earth Pigs! BTW - welcome to Combat Ace!

Probably not but I couldn't resist allocating '1982' to the date on the B.3 pics!

Hi ace888. I'm in work so a quick reply. Download a hex editor (google" hex editor" XV132) and this will allow you to open up a LOD. Copy the LOD and put the copy somewhere safe. Open up the LOD you want to change to .dds and find the reference to the skin texture (e.g. fuselage.bmp). Take extreme care and only change the suffix from .bmp to .dds. Please note that if a texture is called fuselage.bmp you cannot rename it to fuselage1.bmp as the number of letters has to be exactly the same or it will not work.

The Northrop B-49 masquerading as the prototype De Havilland Viking B.1 As always, more photographs (B.1, B.2 and B.3) are at my thread on the 'what if' modellers website - link below. Kudos and thanks to the legend that is "Wrench, The" for passing on the Viking to which I have simply added some decals.

De Havilland Viking B.2 - No.148 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command, 1961

Chortle! (Copyright: The Beano)

LOL I guess the clue is in the name - XFV-12!

Perhaps a move to the SF2 section might kick-start things?

Not too sure about that because of the existence of the YF-12A (the Blackbird based interceptor).

Looking good Ed! Keep at it mate.

Sukhoi Su-3 'Flatfoot' - Berlin Sector, Frontovaya Aviatsiya, Soviet Air Forces, 1949 The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation CA-15B masquerading as the Sukhoi Su-3 high-altitude fighter! More photo's on my 'what if' thread (link below) last page http://www.whatifmod...ic,18821.0.html

CA-15B 'Kangaroo' - No.77 Squadron, RAAF, Korea, 1951

Rockwell F-13A - No.805 Squadron, Royal Australian Navy, 1979 Yes, it'll be nice to show the folks over at the 'what if modelers' website - thank you.