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some of the studies on the then ATF back in the mid 80's showed a fighter that looked just like that. definite what if land there....... course also sounds a bit like the Dreamstar from dale browns Day of the Cheetah. just who is flyin that plane:grin: ................

oooooooh me likes. don't forget the 57 FWS det with the logo for the International F-16 (team/unit?) there. (demanding lil bastard ain't i )

been takin my wife to the ER or the docs bout everyother day for almost two weeks now. bronchitis that thanks to military doc blowoff's has progressed into pnuemonia. anyhow, i took her to the city ER instead of the base one last night and took the girls home instead of stayin in the waiting room for hours late at night. my current house is right below the flightpath for heavies coming into Pope AFB to land and they have been doin some training involving formations of 130's and -17's. but what i had never seen before was 3 C-17s in the pattern with their slime lights on! keep in mind they are generally about 500-1000 feet above my house depending on weather and it was clearing up from the winter "storm" we had earlier(typical fayetteville 3 flakes to show but the local flakes all paniced and opened everything late) so they were on the lower end of the ceiling. was loading girls to get mom but still would have made a great photo. they were low enough to silouhette without any assist yet also lit up with everything. quite different from my previous close ups with em in Kandahar or scorchin Ali Al Saleem. for those about to ask bout my wife she is somewhat better got to see her doc finally instead of a green suit one and get proper meds instead of being told it was "viral". military docs are great for patchin up lifethreating injuries, but i swear they shouldnt be allowed within a mile of a sick family member!

HUH?

again wow. i cheat my ass off and change stock tga's or d/l images and turn them into tga's. if i tried by hand, it would look like a bad Far Side strip.

sounds cool. bit simpler for ya on the SEA wrap. on the regular SEA the numbers appear to be segmented(check the book it shows better than i can describe) but it never made it into Euro 1 transitioned to Vipers instead. your skins (all items on skin) are freakin awesome. i am still pluggin away at my decal based mod, less HD space intensive and simpler to use for to lower end simple folks out there(like me:grin: ) wrench just pointed me in a good direction for adding squadron and wing decals to the intakes soo heeere weee gooo agaaainn.

history note on both 401 tfw in torrejon spain started as a F-4E operator then devolved to a C operator before moving up at the end of the 70s to D's then Vipers in the 80's. 49th was part of the scramble to get outta France in 67, relocated to Holloman with a secondary assinged based in USAFE (europe tasking) operated the D, transitioned to the Eagle late 70s. another interesting unit was the 474th TFW, wrapped up with F-111s after vietnam, operated D's for a while til the transition in the early 80's to the Viper. was responsible for "training aircrews and mainting a ready force for contigencies". hmmmmmm.....

sounds like an old deep thought by jack handy............. when in the middle of a war i might throw a little pumpkin instead of a grenade. then everyone would stop and wonder about how senseless it all is. then while they are standing around and wondering. i would throw the real grenade..... yep back from when SNL was semi good

very nice though Greek agean ghost seems outta place on a FGR2. not bad outta place. does Sundowner or anyone else on the other side of the pond (or ours for that matter) have a skin for Black Mike, the demo bird for 111 Sqns last year in Phantoms? look in the osprey book on modeling Phantoms for some good pics of it it is truly sweet!

examples of both in what i sent ya earlier

told ya that Hill 2 looks sharp. great work Dave!

ah was hoping you said direct on skin. have a decal ini that places it on there and would have felt like a douche if you'd spent all that time movin a decal around hmm interesting update check ya PM

yep looks better. though i still insist there is a black stripe there in euro 1. did you use a decal or plant the checkers on the skin direct?

yes and if i recall they rode in airships(read that zepplins) not airplanes as we know them. he's whiffing the whiff!!!!! Dave some of his stuff is decent, my favorite being the In the Balance series where the aliens invade in the middle of WW2. since the aliens were expecting knights on horses, they sure got a rude suprise!!!!!!!

Royal States of America? Splintered F-111's? Swedish Phantoms??????? Dave i would suggest that CA now conduct urinalysis drug testing. of course there will be no reason to suspect anyone of abusing substances, individuals will be selected at random. next list features Spinners Spinners Spinners Daddyairplanes (damn how do i always come up for these whiz quizzes??) :lol:

what would need to be done? not much reconstruction went on between '44 and say um.....1948. if its just a matter of puttin new (to the game) buildings in ang changing the ini tolook for them instead of stock, i do have a deployment and plenty of time coming up end of year. then all we would need is my C-54 and Daves pony.

Wrench question about the mod requirements esp. for the upcoming mods. what besides the desert terrain does SF2 have that Vietnam Europe and Isreal don't have? and if the desert terrain is the only issue won't we be able to ini edit the CAT pointer line in the {terrain}.ini? like for older terrains such as snowy norway?

and for the shocking secret at the end...... it was his father! :lol: :lol:

welcome back!

bwild... hellified timing and great advice. saw your post right after i put mine up there. it works! thank very much sir. now i dont hafta feel left behind:drinks:

Dave thanks for the heads up. EricJ Gimp and window Paint are my photoshoppin programs on me Compaq. think the dxtbmp might be better off fer me specially if its that magic price.....free!

whew. the wait continues. tho i do have access i have my own negative opinion reached by my own experiences. there are a few items there (part propeller Red Air) that cant be found here but used in my mods as AI targets. anyone does a new seperate IL-10, -2, Pe2 and or ealier Meteors and NF Meteors please let me know. they are better for populating 1948-1959 than an overabundance of Spitfire LFIXe.

ok SEA Wrap no black stripe tho the ends of rwr fairing are black(front and back tip) Euro1 there is either a black stripe and fairing or the light catches it in a really wierd way throughout the book.didnt look in the book last night cause of back and forth to ER, caught you on a waitin period. lookin in C& M Vol 4, colors and marking's of the F-4D post vietnam, bert kinzey. 89th TFS is the featured squadron for that book so about 6 pages dedicated to it rather than 2 -4. if i can get my wife to get healthy enough to tell me how to work the scanner feature on the printer i'll shoot some photos over this weekend. might be lil late for this production but i told ya there was a wicked wing king bird in that squadron as well all that USAFE before century series book i've been yappin bout. good stuff in that for KAW birds after release (howabout F-80 and F-86 Skyblazers?!?!?) oh and 32nd TFS was one of them assigned attached squadrons to 36th TFW until the late 80's when they became their own Group. i hafta look up the exact why but the CR both fit in the individual squadron coding of the immediate time created and reflects the fact that the squadron was under the operational control of the Dutch (hence the Crown). the stripe was orange although gained green pinstripestop and bottom towards the end of the Phantom years and endured thru the Eagle era to disbandment. these were the colors of the Dutch royalty, The House of Orange.

what software do you need to view/work with dds? noticed it first in ravenclaw's Recce Phantoms but cant view dds with gimp or anything in windows. liked how such a detailed skin didnt kill framerates totally though.

JediMaster whatcha think they are gonna do? actually treat the ones who work decent? sparkomatic i think everyone but the Marines is gonna be that way. one of the things i told my soldiers before i left active service was to make sure their sh!t was straight cause with the wars winding down(full opinion on that a matter for another topic) the army would downsize and re-up would not be something they try to get you to do, it will become a privelege to fight for. the Army is already going back to enforcing standards(hieght wieght criminal record!) that were absolute gospel in the clinton years. my joes chuckled and said yea ok. one told me beginning of the year there was no more reup bonuses, just sign for the needs of the army for anyone not on first term of enlistment................................................. only reason I say the Marines wont go that way is they all ways have high turn over, gotta keep young blood in to do what they do.