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a new A-6 family would be massively appreciated by many here. hell, i think TK woulld have made 20x the money he hoped to make with a SF2 Win10 had he made pits for his intruders as DLCs

i have skinned several for v2k from black with wireframe (well his version of such, which is pastel blobs over the major pieces). so yes, if im doing something established, i greatly appreciate an excellent base to start on. it takes more skill to do it from scratch, and must have been an extreme pain in the pre LODviewer days (i only got started a year or two prior to that tool). it take skill and experience to make a 5 star dinner, but when you've worked in the kitchen along time you learn to appreciate any prep or short cuts if you dont have to be totally showing off scratch skills. i like to make skins based on a units appearance and make up over a given timeframe. so im going to make it for myself regardless, and i tend to like topics that arent present right now (like mid 90s). since im making it anyhow, why keep it just for myself? somebody else might be interested in units that rotated through for the Balkans, or in Desert Storm, or in SAC in the 1980s. as for recent credits, i had been using Eagles from viper63s packs, and updated with templates they provided. so to best of my knowledge it was layering over his work. he credits you and wpnssgt for general textures, and a few others for specific ones. do you want me to credit you for original textures in recent Eagle releases and have ODS team credit you there? there is no sarcasm or ill intent in my question. as to how to feel, thats totally on you. i was talking with someone else about markings. they mentioned to me that 90% of end users dont know the difference and dont care. for my particular bits, i know and care. for yours you knew and cared when you made them. but it was pointed out to me that most folks say "ooh shiny" and dont look that closely. so 90% think its good enough even all these years later. 5% think its pretty good, and think they have something to add to it. 5% are unhappy with it but would probably be unhappy with a golden ticket to the Wonka factory too. but it is confusing seeing your posts of the last few months as many do come across as you pissed about how things are going at least initially final bit in response to your specific note to me: it is no where near as extensive as the collaboration you and Volker have had, but i did get the Viper templates i used straight from him and he made several of the two seater versions of the various F-16 blocks as well as a new ADF. the skin work he left to me since i was the one more interested in the topic (mid 90s USAF and Air National Guard Vipers). i try to ask before every major project if the person is availble to ask and collaborate as much as i can with original modellers. but alot of folks have stepped out over the years as well, so then i do my best to credit the original folks that worked it.

Sentry '04...

for you, this is a semi interesting shot on an airfield. for me, it was Wednesday...

unfortunatley thats true best i can say is to get comfortable here https://www.google.com/ image hunts, site searches, contacts with museums in those countries if youre comfortable (and theyre cooperative) and check your list. Iran would be correct, but i think Saudi was leaning more to Britain in the early 70s, and UAE having moe a mix of British and French gear until the 1980s. but do your own homework, i only spent 5 mins on my search of the two countries and, being not my cup of tea it, wasnt a deep search at that

the original work is quite good as the basis. i did the improvements i could. i very much think my bare metal areas are better esp on that wierdly mapped piece on the right side, and ive got the feeling (sure i'll be corrected if wrong) that color picker feature off a photo was used years ago rather than hunting down the hex or RGB values for the listed Federal Standard paint numbers. and "3 rivets and a serial " feels kind of personal. i do 4 rivets and historically accurate serials in all seriousness, my main thing bringing to the table is the research. all the really good modders here spend dozens if not hundreds of hours on their projects. i just spend alot of my time hunting down the serials that were assigned or the proper unit markings rather than a "such and such Fighter Squadron" back in the Tactical Fighter Squadron era. theres a chunk of it in the old ODS and its been a big part of why i do my mods the way i do do i use the same templates as before? yes. why not if its out there. do i copy and paste from joe baughers site? no, because often its not the right info. thats just my little quirk (for the most part) problem there is that the old stuff is still quite good. there are few current modelers on BPAOs level or skinners on ravenclaw007s level. the ones that are active dont feel the need to reinvent that wheel at this time, they have their own wheels they're inventing. my biggest pet peeve is all the stuff that was done in 2006-2009, is in the markings of either that time or the 1970s, and with a grab bag of 100 serials for a unit of 24. maybe the reference materials are better in the last decade than when these were all made. maybe i have more time on my hands than they did. but theres alot of good work out there with minor flaws that scream to those that do pay attention to those details. call it number counting rather than rivet counting.

those skins were made with viper63s templates, i would give him credit for 50% of how mine are. there were some corrections, and some improvements over the original but the permission's out there if he wants to touch his up. as a modder i will understand perfectly if he choses to maintain what he did (i often do the same with my own mods vs somebody else's of the same thing)

uh huh. as the song book says, FLY NAVY! But not at night.......

Well it is the closest to a new game and full dev team without an actual new game and full dev team you can get The WOFF/CFS3 comparison just dawned on me this morning though

Posting here instead of in dev forums due to being on phone. But thought you'd enjoy seeing it @Menrva https://www.facebook.com/share/v/Z25nNTo885dnwota/?mibextid=oEMz7o

late to the party, but still made it

Magnum

the future, and the soon to be past of Weasling. 1993

check names of the textures inside aircraft skin folder, and that they are all the same (name001, name002) and same format.

beats counting trees in Siberian winter The USAF did a bit better than the Soviet Air Force on the "treat its people good" front. hell, i think the USMC even beat the Soviets on that

BUT MAKE NO MISTAKES AND SWITCH UP MY CHANNEL I'M BUDDY RICH WHEN I FLY OFF THE HANDLE WHAT COULD IT BE? IT'S A MIRAGE "Captain Masters, what have I told you about that DAMN WALKMAN?!!?!"

did Warpac ever have hangars that large? i dont ever recall seeing a pic of a large Soviet bomber or cargo bird being worked on in a hangar

done and done

@Menrva you following this for ODS? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ @yakarov79 can you show this cat some notes on how helos should operate? you are still the rotary expert last i checked am massively looking forward to seeing this helo.....

check this out tga formatted, althoughim sure you can put them on a jpg if needed. i made them because alot of tgas at the time were showing "FS" instead of "TFS".

52 in '94...

"...F-16 to Vietnam to counter China." i like the pic, i like the idea of VPAF Vipers cant say i like your reasoning why im afraid (and its not politics exactly, i think both parties are different cheeks on the same ass)

and more pieces come together aaaaand i gotta tweak that Viper up just a little more......

seek, attack, destroy