Gepard

Somewhere over the Rio de la Plata Bay.

Only an idea. Could you make a group of ground crew technicians, for populating airfields?

New version is uploaded. Contains now a green and a brown tileset for seasoned terrain, three new argentinian airbases and the port of Mar del Plata. Hope you enjoy it. Ideas for further improvements: Placing more argentinian towns at the map Adding some industrial areas, ports and naval bases for Argentina Making Urugay to friendly nation and bring one more urugayan airbase on the map.

Port and naval base of Mar del Plata. Some warehouses, some other buildings, 3 cargo ships, e destroyers, some patrolboats and some Flak.

I had a problem with Su-35S, when i let the autopilot landing the plane. After a long mission and fluel low, he flow a long distance parallel and perhaps 5 meters over the runway and landed on the last step of a 2000 m long runway, instead to land immediately.

This one looks funny and the red side need some transport planes urgently. An-72 (military) or An-74 (civil) are more or less the same planes. Its a common transport plane in the Ukraine and Russia.

SitRep: Isla Martin Garcia and the small airport there are finished. Next step will be to finish the port and the Naval Base of Mar del Plata.

At the request of one of our argentinian friends: Isla Martin Garcia Airport. First development stage. New tile is made by Satpicture. Still missing the TOD trees and buildings. The brown water is direct from sat photo, but it looks like a desert. I must change it. Its a very small airfield with a very short runway. After first testing i had to make the runway longer than on the tile. Its reaches now till to the small river in the north of the island. Its still a lot to do.

First step to make a new tile for the Port and the Naval Base of Mar del Plata.

View File Panzerpack for Ukraine Terrain Panzerpack for Ukraine terrain ***************************************************** This mod is made for SF2. ---------------------------------------------------------- I. This package contains some tanks which are, or will be in the next time, in use in Ukraine War. This are: For the Ukraine: Leopard1A4 delivered by Germany Leopard1A5 delivered by Germany Leopard2A4 delivered by Canada, Spain and Norway T-64B original ukrainian tanks, former soviet T-72M1 delivered by Czech Republik and Poland For Russia: T-72B former soviet T-72BV former soviet The T-64B, the T-72 and the Leopard1A4 are repaints of the stock files made by TK. The Leopard1A5 is a repaint of the tank which made Gabilon. The Leopard2A4 is a repaint of the tank made by Kesselbrut. Alle LOD files are low poly, which reduce the workload of the computer. With my new made skins the tanks are looking good enough. The tanks are set for a timeframe from 2022 or 2023 onward. They will not appear earlier in the game. I have adjusted the values of the armour to make it more real. I also devided the hull of the tanks into two parts. The upper part has a better armour protection and the lower part a weaker armour, as it is in reality. Example for calculation of armour thickness: T-72M1 has a frontal hull armour of 3 layers of steel ( 50 mm inner plate, 60 mm outer plate, 30 mm add on plate) and one layer of Textolit (105 mm). Since Textolit has only effect against HEAT i use only the steel value to calculate. The formula is x= nominal thickness / cos(angle of armour plate) so we come to x= 140 / cos (68°) ==> x= 373,73 mm ~ 374 mm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- II. INSTALLATION: -Unzip into your SF2 mod folder ---------------------------------------------------------- III. For remarks, comments, bugs, etc please use the forum or send me a PM. ------------------------------------------------------------- IV. All files are FREEWARE. COMMERCIAL USE IS NOT ALLOWED! ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ Hope you enjoy it. Michael (Gepard) Made in Germany February 2023 Submitter Gepard Submitted 02/05/2023 Category Ground Object Mods  

Dagger short before tochdown at Basa Aerea Militare Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Back to Argentina. SitRep: Parkingpositions of planes at Mar del Plata Airbase are now correct.

Russian T-72BV, repaint of the stock T-72A Its not perfect. The curvy shape of the turret makes it difficult to paint the ERA tiles properly. Its a pity that it is not possible to remove the smoke grenade launchers and the V-shape on the hull front.

I would like to see the An-72 transport plane or the YF-17 fighter.

I took the stock Leopard1A4 tank and gave it a new skin. Its hard to believe, that a little bit paint can change the apperance of a very simple LOD so much. And this is the old Leopard 1A5 LOD made by Gabilon in 2005 with a new skin for the Ukraine terrain:

I did some work on the panzer pack for the Ukraine terrain. I adjusted the armor to more or less correct values, included the lower hull with reduced armor thickness and added the tactical numbers and the white cross. For the T-64B i did dome photoshop to change the wheels from massive T-74 to small T-64. Here the ukrainian T-72M1 and the T-64B

Vietnamese Tiger, 1979 during Boder War with China. One J-6 less!

Small progress. Real life issues. I reworked the airfield file. I hope you like it. Then i changed the color of the "road" objects, which i use to build the target areas. They now fit better with the roads, that are painted on the tiles.

Kaboom!

Would be difficult. It would require a complete new tile. This is the best, i can offer at the moment.

Basa Aerea Mar del Plata second attempt with an other terminal building, which is closer to reality.

As promised Basa Aerea Mar del Plata. Its a first attempt. I'm not happy with the terminal building. It is to big and the shape is wrong. I will check my folders to find a better fitting building. And dont worry about wrong parked planes. This comes later.

Some days ago i found the old Leopard 2A1 made by Kesselbrut on my HD. I thought, why not using this old LOD to make a Leo 2A4, which we will see in the Ukraine in some weeks. So i gave it an other skin. So it looks: But i was not satisfied. Thatswhy today i made an other skin: It's astonishing what a skin can do for such a very simple LOD. I also reworked the data.ini. I changed the armour values to make them more accurate. For this i divided the hull into two parts, because in a real tank the upper frontal armour plate has a different thickness than the lower armour plate. For the Leo 2 A4 i gave the upper plate 300 mm steele and the lower plate 200 mm. Then i made similar changes for the russian T-72B and the ukrainian T-72M1. I will test this panzer pack for the Ukraine for some days and then i will release them. And tomorrow i will go back to Rio de la Plata Bay terrain and will start to build the argentinan air base Mar del Plata.

Tanks for the Ukraine terrain

I have done it yesterday evening. Then i have colored the roofs of some stock buildings, which i use to build the airbases. So it looks now: