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10 April 1994: At the request of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR), two USAFE F-16s strike Bosnian Serb miltary targets outside of designated safe area of Gorazde. While the UNPROFOR reuest targeted tanks in the area, the F-16s were unable to engage those but destroy a command post and several military vehicles. While contemporary news accounts state US or USAFE F-16s in the action, they most likely were F-16C Block 40s of the 526th Fighter Squadron, 86th Wing like the pair shown here

well, if you aint cheatin, you aint tryin! mandatory screenie, from this day 29 years ago

not bad at all. and i dont really like the pre war/early WW2 stuff generic advice for bare metal.... you got a good start with the panels. but every one will be at least slightly different due to weathering. first off, put your panel lines at the very top of the layer stack find a pic or two of metal online that you like and that matches the plane. then, start making layers. use portions of the metal from online, and have diffent layers for different segments. you dont have to have 200 layers for 200 panels, have 3-5 layers for 3-5 shades of metal across those 200 panels then, depending on the metal used , apply a blueish or brownish tinting above each of the layers you made. reduce opacity by anywhere from 80-95%. but most of all, play with it. experiment, see what you like. as a few instructors once told me, we're to show you A way not THE way. if you figure something else out that works better for you, do it!

i only saw three total, one in Gen2 and two in Gen1, although the Gen2 is an upgrade of one of those sorry, didnt think to grab links at the time

thats true, but how many are serial number accurate? and got nose arts? i got the the feeling he's gonna go that far with this. seems rather familiar

dammit, when i saw the title and who posted i started to get excited thinking you had some new pics i'll tell you my general search strategy, seeing as i like doing birds without dedicated sites like F-16.net - of course Google. if youre really up for a slog, hit Joe Baughers site, save the serials to a .txt, then go thru each serial that survived to the time frame youre working and image search that sn - Facebook. theres lots of fans of (aircraft) pages, a few historic ANG pages and sometimes even going to unit pages can be helpful. even doing a search on FB for say "Texas ANG F-51" may bring up a few results that dont pop on Google - if you got a few bucks to spare, look on ebay. again, never know what you'll find and if you get a magazine or book on all ANG not just F-51s then youll learn other interesting stuff too. - ask here at CA (oh yeah you did. that one might be for the readers at home). someone might have a book or mag and send you some scans granted, your search will be much more fun than my current pair, (F-16A/B ANG, TAC and A-7D/K ANG) given its much further in the past and theres many more aircraft to hunt down

you set the pivot (rotation) point of each item in your modeling software, then create an animation of the rotation. pretty much you do everything on the model you want it to do. then you import it into the game and link what key you want to control the animations, or if its linked to the operation of the gear or engines im taking a class on modelling, although with maya not max. this class wont get into animations, its just the basics of creating models. but to change up the appearance, im about to have fun with pivots myself. all the joints are getting moved around before its turned in in this case everwhere theres a blue disc get a seperate pivot point. plus the two discs that the arms are on

not to put you down, but a simple geometric shape can be easily manipulated in PS or GIMP. for the said roundel, do a layer with the roundel, duplicate layer, fill in the layer to the yellow you want, move layer below original, then expand out to size you want the border to be. there's more if you really want to fine tune it, but that would get you your roundel. and it took me three times as long to write this as it would to make it. i suck at original creation too. i consider what i do much more as image manipulation, although over the years i have gotten decent at tracing and fine tuning patches and artwork for which there isnt any really good (ie: head on view, large resolution, easy to transfer) images. all it takes is a first step and practice

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pics if your gonna comment on the screenshot threads are the norm generally, if your not posting a pic as the original intent then you make your comment, then post a mandatory screenie as so mandatory screenie

"The bugle sounds as the charge begins, but on this battlefield no one wins The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath, as you plunge into a certain death" "Oh oh oh Oh oh oh "

i was in the tester group for Win 10, so im having to search the memory banks having played with it since 2013? 2012?. however... software wise it wasnt an issue except for having to reload some things straight from site again. 7zip stuff like that. but it was kinda rare that i had to SF2, i only had an issue with one of the early builds. otherwise worked just fine (and why folks looked at TK wierd for the Win10 version he crowd funded) keep in mind, im running SF2 on a Win11 system too, so you shouldnt have much issue in 10 biggest problem you'll probably have is where things are located. i dont remember as much with 7 to 10. but its my biggest issue going between my Win 11 laptop and my Win 10 desktop again, this is just my experience other user experiences may vary

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some shots tonight

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this is why we love you man. i mean really, how many out there really knew about and used that feature?

wrong i'll throw you a bone

again...... sometimes you just gotta make yer own stuff On Defense 1995 Watchman, 95 Oh! Hardluck. you guess the year

ok, im putting this out there for airliners, since i wont have the time to assist myself if this goes forward anyone wants to use my airliner tgas as a basis to skin up static airliners, you have it. it would take some time adjusting, as you would have to make a copy of the tga over it, line up front and back halves where necessary. but its a metric shit ton of research thats already done. converting the images to a usable format will take a lot less time. especially for the period pieces like any 707 or Dc-8 in the 60s and 70s call it a research credit rather than a skin credit

patience. lots of patience since i dont have that i tend to make my own

that lufthansa bird hurts my feelings. and that A310 looks familiar, although i dont recall florian having a Swissair skin for the original. allen's work?

ok, so heres an idea, at least for scripted missions set the object as NavalObject=True rather than False. talking with someone else that had some work, some not. they found that the nots all had NavalObject as false. regular number list as wtih the regular aircraft still worked. this could be really good for airliners, given some dude went and did tga skins for many of the airliners on here, even by decades for the 707, DC-8 and -9

uh huh...