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Salty Bees '86

mish mash i was kit'n a bash...... the credits on this one will be long and distguinshed. im just piecin the parts together, and slappin on some paint and stickers that aint been seen before and ignore the green tanks. havent adjusted them yet, that stylized nose took up most of the time today......

posted from phone while doing laundry you know, i understand some of the things ducking autocorrect does. but after the latest update my phone loves to swap numbers around, and the forced corrections seem to be getting more arbitrary. but the numbers bit really baffles me

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By the way, today is the 64th anniversary of the Intruders first flight ( 19 April 1960)

had you quoted me, you'd have noticed i said i saw pics of them with rocket pods. rare, non exestant amongst Navy. but Marines were doing short hop CAS missions in Vietnam, so abit more reasonable for them

alt D a couple of times will get rid of the data text in the lower left corner makes for a nicer screenshot then folks can look for whats extra, rather than how fast youre going

i've seen things that said it could, but have never heard of it actually carrying them for that matter, being the fleets heavy striker, you rarely see rocket pod on them (although i have seen pics of that)

pretty sure theres a shot for that lookin good, tho im patiently waiting on teh E TRAM version....

view from the break

Virginia ANG recce.... aint nothin in this world faster than a scar'd Thud on the deck i said nothin Mr Flogger back at home

he beat me too it

well, that would explain the better performance of the "Great White Hope" over Iraq , although this is the first i've ever heard of it (and i've been hearing that "120s got their combat debut the last week of Desert Storm" rumor since the mid 90s

Menvra's Italy/Southern Europe 1993-2006. https://combatace.com/files/file/17924-italy-southern-europe-1993-2006/ no Star Wars canyons, but not flat like iraq or dhimar either. and very very nice to look at while in italy or over the former yugoslavia

"lead, what the hell is on your speed brake?" F-15C 80-0002, also known as Opus https://www.twz.com/38216/an-eagle-named-opus-the-legend-of-the-air-forces-most-notorious-f-15

Whats the 49th State? its

more bosses

i've only been loosely involved there, is it available with the first edition/pack/edit or whatever he's calling the first release of rewritten stuff? if its not, it still may not be a problem

oh i know, and in lodviewer its pretty evident especiall at some distances and angles. in game and in several lighting conditions its pretty hard to tell unless you get very very close. like rivet counting close, not any kind of gameplay close. my last two posts in the main Screenshot thread are from test runs on the first few decals for this creating the decal itself is a little more complicated than the usual. not pick a color and opacity, rather Box with a base color, then black numbers. Make copy from visible and hide the origianl group of layers. Select the base color, then invert selection and delete (eliminates every trace of the black num). Copy that layer. Use bucket fill to change to a lighter color (the color bleeds, but at 200px image size, the bleed adds slight fuzz that eliminates the hard edges and isnt as noticeable as if say a 1024px image). Reduce opacity to ~30%. reduce the dark base copy between 2 and 10% for some variance. Rinse wash and repeat 37 times tonight i wrap up with the unit marked birds. this is wher it'll get a bit more interesting....

back north for a moment so, i am doing serials for PACAF Mod Eagle. where the markings are supposed to be opposite of whatever color theyre on (most of ACC and USAFE ingnored this) but light serials dont do good on dark surfaces so i cut out a box on the mod eagle skin made a box in a decal, and cut the serial number out of the box insert via ini and it dont look too bad

St Louis' finest * * land based, before the Bug and Super Bug fans start chiming in

Gamecocks coming back to roost....

straight from box even for those that recycle great reference for the more stubborn amongst us

Swamp Foxes 2, Fishbeds 0

ok, real world nit pick time most netting like that is plastic, and melts kinda easy. how do i know? 21 years as an Army cook, with many many moons cooking under the stars. to close to any exhaust (even the fans venting the kitchen) and the net gets burnt up and darkened. so it should be higher over the building. which would be a nightmare to put up, and keep up in any kind of wind. but you want to be properly tactical? the competition is way ahead of you on that i've also eaten at a few of these over the years (yes i mean the truck)