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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.

just want to make sure it aint the one that screenies been posted of on here in desert pink. that would suck. big time.

per the photos checkerboards a lil low and there should be a black stripe along the very top of the fin and the rwr fairing(about half the distance from top to your curretn top of checkerboard. can shoot a scan of the photos but prob not sooner than this weekend if my wife can stay outta the hospital. my decal is wrongish too but i'm focusing on the active duty squadrons first then tightening up the AFRES and ANG. finally if ya putting it on there as a skin the squadron CO's bird had a slanted chekerboard on fuselage with sqn in the center. the fin checkerboard should run into tho not onto the rwr fairing. but at least wait til ya put that on Hill 2. with the colors that looked sharp!

you guys know anything bout the RN only release for the Bucc at "that other site"?

hmmph. not fussin you but still alot more damage done by a ballistic round (dont think 23mm blows up just blow thru) than a 3 kg warhead (or 3) detonated and flinging light shrapnel within proximity. screw the golden BB, you were shot by the golden haji!!!!

what freakin MANPAD did that to a Hog!?!?!?!?!?! i've seen rebuilt ones at Pope on open houses that were billed as having been hit with 23mm and bigger dozens of times in one sortie and makin it home. i believe Fayetteville Observer did an article because one of the pilots to suffer such damage over Bagdad was a female. and a MANPAD has less destructive force than say 50 hits by 23 and 57mm AAA. hmmmph. gotta talk to TK bout the shoulder mounted SA-18s:grin: