Spinners

A Republic of Canada MiG-19S lets fly with rockets during WARPAC Exercise Northern Star, 1966.

Either load each wingman individually or check the loadout.ini and see what's listed as 'default'. Like most peeps I have favourite weapons and it pays to edit the loadout.ini and put those weapons there so that they show up for you and your wingmen. If you are getting stuff out of weapons packs that aren't in the game then your stock aircraft simply won't have those weapons available for your wingmen unless you load each one individually or amend the loadout.ini

Special request for Rambler 1-1...

For a start, have you actually tried it in Series 2? It might just work out of the box! If not, I refer you to my learned colleagues above....

Redbolt

Great work!

MiG-19P of No.2 squadron, Parani Air Force

Paran 1959 - Newly arrived MiG-19P's get the Kurzah Air Show off to a flying start.

View File [Fictional] Lockheed Starfighter F.2 Lockheed Starfighter F.2 for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2:Europe This is a simple mod of the stock Third Wire F-104G to give a 'what if' Starfighter F.2 interceptor-fighter with markings for ten classic 1960's RAF Fighter Command squadrons - mainly real world Lightning squadrons but with No.43 Squadron added in as they were a famous interceptor squadron in the Phantom era. The service dates are confined to 1963 to 1969 but you can easily edit this to suit your tastes. RAF Squadrons covered; 5, 11, 19, 23, 29, 43, 56, 74, 92, 111. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the StarfighterF2 folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the StarfighterF2 folder into your Decals folder. That's it! CREDITS As always, thanks to Third Wire for a great little game/sim. Special thanks to bobrock for the excellent F-104G template used here for the skin and the specular maps. And, finally, thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 2 - February 25th, 2024. Submitter Spinners Submitted 12/30/2009 Category What If Hangar

Dance of the Cobra...

It's great in air-to-air mode too - some fantastic long plumes of fire!

Patrolling the Central Sector...

OK thanks guys.

I'm looking to put camo wing tip-tanks on a Starfighter but they are turning out to be very shiny. Is there a way of turning down the shine?

View File Dhimari Decal Set I thought I'd assemble together my Dhimari decals in one place for folks to try their hand at modding. So far, I've got 13 squadrons listed; 1.The Panthers (White & Green) 2. The Hawks (Black & Green) 3. The Bats (Black & White) 4. The Falcons (Red & Yellow) 5. The Leopards (Black & Yellow) 6. The Eagles (Green & Red) 7. The Rattlesnakes (Yellow & Green) 8. The Scorpions (Black & Red) 9. The Fennec Foxes (Yellow & White) 10. The Golden Jackals (Yellow & Dark Teal) 11. The Rams (Green and Blue) 12. The Ospreys (White & Red) 13. The Antelopes (Black,White & Green) Each squadron has a simple checkerboard roundel marking, a checkerboard fin strip and a squadron badge. It would be great to see what Dhimari aircraft you can come up with! Long live the King! Regards Spinners Version 2 - 25/03/18 Version 1 - 29/12/09 Submitter Spinners Submitted 12/29/2009 Category Skin Templates / Decal Sets

Ho Ho Ho!

View File [Fictional] Lockheed Starfighter F.2A (RAF Germany) Lockheed Starfighter F.2A for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2:Europe This is a simple mod of the stock Third Wire F-104G to give a 'what if' Starfighter F.2A interceptor-fighter with markings for No.19 and No.92 squadrons of RAF Germany as they might have appeared during the 1970's. This mod requires you to have SF2E for the F-104G LODs which are, of course, NOT included here. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the StarfighterF2A folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the StarfighterF2A folder into your Decals folder. That's it! CREDITS As always, thanks to Third Wire for a great little game/sim. Special thanks to bobrock for the excellent F-104G template used here for the skin and the specular maps. And, finally, thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 2 - February 22nd, 2024. Submitter Spinners Submitted 12/29/2009 Category What If Hangar

Lockheed Starfighter F.1A's of No.19 Squadron, July 1964

View File [Fictional] Lockheed Starfighter F.1 Lockheed Starfighter F.1 for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2:Europe This is a simple mod of the stock Third Wire F-104G to give a 'what if' Starfighter F.1 interceptor-fighter with markings for No.56 and No.74 squadrons of RAF Fighter Command as they might have appeared during the mid-1960's through to the mid-1970's. This mod requires you to have SF2E for the F-104G LODs which are, of course, NOT included here. BACKSTORY With no Hunter replacement on the horizon and with the Lightning programme progressing slowly (and being clearly of no use in the tactical fighter role) the RAF suddenly became interested in the F-104-7 (later renamed F-104G) Starfighter programme during 1958 and in April 1959 followed West Germany in ordering the type as the Starfighter F.1 for air defence and the Starfighter FGA.2 as a tactical fighter for both RAF Germany and also for No.38 Group. The F.1 for RAF Fighter Command was the initial production version and these were manufactured by Canadair and were powered by the Orenda-built J79 OEL-9 engine developing 10,500lbs of thrust dry and 16,000lbs of thrust with reheat. Entering service with No.56 Squadron in early 1962 the Starfighter F.1 introduced the Firestreak infra-red homing air-to-air missile and also the Skylance radar-guided air-to-air missile (based on the American Sparrow) carried on underwing pylons. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the StarfighterF1 folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the StarfighterF1 folder into your Decals folder. 3. From the WEAPONS folder drag and drop the two folders into your Weapons folder. That's it! CREDITS As always, thanks to Third Wire for a great little game/sim. Special thanks to bobrock for the excellent F-104G template used here for the skin and the specular maps. Thanks to Russo for the Firestreak air-to-air missile from his superb Lightning F.6 (check it out) included here in case you haven't got access to the Third Wire one. And, finally, thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 2 - February 20th, 2024. Submitter Spinners Submitted 12/29/2009 Category What If Hangar

Regarding your grey FGR.2's have you looked at the Third Wire bitmaps to see where the fin RWR is? A good tip is to set up a simple layered PSD with the bitmap your are trying to copy and your 'work in progress' bitmap and compare the differences either by turning one or the other on/off (visibility) or reducing the opacity of one or the other. Looking at your pictures above then you seem to be using a bitmap using J79 engines as the nozzles are completely different to the Spey-enginned F-4's. Finding the mesh name for a decal should be easy enough using a hex editor such as XV132 and I must try Wrench's 'panel finder' tip myself!