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same shit, different war

MiG Killer down south....

that is gorgeous work. between the  paint scheme similar to the Herks to the weathering its just awesome 

6 minutes ago, yakarov79 said:

You know that somewhere there...there is C in making.

Nam birds? im good

PR ANG birds, ala late 70s?  lemme take another look at Cuba OTC....

edit: damn, San Juan is off the map. they might just have to deploy to Key West 

suggestions...

- 2 oz (60ml) of half and half along with a splash of imitation vanilla makes for a cheap and effective French Vanilla creamer substitute

- use a small strainer (with fine mesh) to make perfectly round poached eggs

- freeze foods as flat as possible. leads to faster freezing for storage and thawing for use

oh, wait. Suggestions on the Zippers? i got none man, youre rocking this.  might even have me split up my European installs again 

43 minutes ago, TheShadowPilot said:

By the way anyone knows any map about France, Washington and New York, because I'm planning something interesting 

only part of the US eastern seaboard on a SF2 map im aware of is Florida, being a part of the Cuba_OTC terrain.

mando screenie

join the navy they said. see the world they said......

FRED is dirty, and quite possibly has a leak somewhere

does it crash on the game load screen (one that says SF2 Europe, or SF2 North Atlantic etc) or the mission load screen (TK's old stock Phantom on the runway)

if you can get past the initial load up, check out which graphics the game is using in the options

not much else i can advise. been running SF2 since Win10 was offered as public beta, only had isues once or twice and that was before Win10 was officially released.

only Win11 issues i had were when i updated a native Win10 system. and even then it was mostly that i couldnt run more than 3 missions in a row 

there was the alphasim model collection. cant recall where the thread is about it tho

and yakarov79,  dont forget Blender2.79  as a method to model.  Max2009 is harder to get legitimately than unicorn turds.......

the '86 North African Bomb Comp champs, back in more familiar hunting grounds...

Vega 31 is shot down 27 March 1999 near Budanovci, Serbia

LTC Zelko is recovered by USAF PJs in HH-60 Pave Hawks roughly 8 hours after being shot down on the morning of the 28th

meanwhile Serb forces celebrate what some had considered impossible

Cold Warriors pt 2

this would have made a little more sense if i had posted on time, a few hours after last weeks (19 Mar) Thunder Thursday post

so, when will the post Nam J's come around? you know with the DECM on the intakes but not full up S conversions 

not a J, but from the same final years...

ok, general update on the man

he's alive and posting at his forum on What if Modellers. most recently this week so dont need to worry exactly

Thunder Tiger Thursday 

12 hours ago, Jimbib said:

and YEYEYE did the hind

theres a name not heard in a while. i remember doing skins (ala tga of course) for his 757 way back

7 hours ago, F5TigerIIGuy said:

Sorry I’m out of the loop, did Spinners retire?

remains to be seen. but he hasnt been as prolific post Covid as he was say ten years ago

my mention was also how ValAstur adds a detailed back story to the mods, not just slaps Norm 83 on a jet and says here ya go

well damn, just looked an he hasnt been around in several months

with all else going on hope he's doin okay

need some Vari-ezes parked there 

i swear, no matter what the photo subject, any pic ever of the Osh Kosh air show has one of these parked in frame 

do consider using jpg instead, especially if its not stock (or otherwise very old model)

you can make it larger and still have smaller file size. and  someone once told me: for the same size, using  jpgs in upto a dozen skin folders will still take up less space than doing a universal bmp in the main aircraft folder.  WAY WAY less space if youre putting bmps into individual folders

however as said elsewhere, i have run into situations where i had to use bmp, so its good to know how to play with them too

9 hours ago, F5TigerIIGuy said:

The Beriev 25000 Neptun? I think that was the name? Gonna be honest I completely forgot that was a thing on this site, does it actually work??? Or are you referring to something else.

Also I know there’s working tiltrotors but I probably haven’t played around with proper helos enough (but I know the ones I have tried somewhat work. Have yet to really properly mess around with Yakarov’s helos though, so will definitely do that soon)

not sure if that was it, although what i was talking about was a mega install (couple campaigns, lots of stuff spanning eras). again, dude had alot of sketchy models in there, so it got yanked after a few days

there is a V-22 on site, and like 80% of the helos on here are yakarov's babies. Dels did the Apache, idunno as to the Hips and Hinds

as to the questions, so long as youre learning and its not the same question over and over, you'll be fine

your bar tab starts on the third time you ask why your bmp's dont work

On 3/23/2026 at 9:23 PM, F5TigerIIGuy said:

Ok so, I was thinking, would an Ekranoplan be feasible? 

Also, with helicopters, has anyone considered like giving them invisible VTOL nozzles and TVC so they can hover/fly in weird ways like real choppers?

Ekranoplan, i could swear someone had one set up some time ago. but their release was a mega install with alot of questionable (re: probably pirated) mods so it hasnt gotten too far 

still, i'd think of it more as an AI to target than a player flyable. but thats me...

for helo's talk to yakarov79 and guruu. the masters of SF2 rotary and iirc guruu set up an improved flight model for helos in general for the ODS30AE mod

hell of a shocker after being offline for a day 

hopin you get better soon, and that the road is not too bumpy to recovery

but i am thankful you are able to reach out to us still. and many thank you's to your daughter for helping you keep in touch