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Tinker was actually SH, TX was outta Bergstrom. the TH ("texas humpbacks") at carswell flew the Thunderstick 2 F-105's before the LORAN Phantoms and arnie E's after wards.

Dave the yellow is the 81st TFS outta Spang, 480th was red dang im slow tho i think he meant 81 not 52( the squadron not the wing)

also most units had a mix of the paint jobs as they went thru maintenance. 163rd TFS at Fort Wayne Indiana had mostly Hill 2, some Euro 1 and two SEA Wraparound F-4Es on hand according to dr doyo and his readme. (photos are out there to support though), fer example. as for the 704th TFS i have pics (in b+w) of some of their birds where one side of the tail was nuetral gray with gunship gray markings (like normal) and the other side reversed light markings on dark tail! of course there is the cow pattern used by the 924 too...... so many options with Phantoms! as to users, according to USAF Phantoms 37th TFW also used Arnies with their Weasels to reduce hours on the airframes and also in hunter killer mode like 3rd TFW and 52d TFW did, pairing thru the squadrons instead one type in each squadron. (mod that into the game!) 4th at Seymour Johnson was primarily strike tasked, with previously mentioned book citing them using dumb bombs and compensating for the CEP gained with DMAS upgrade by using M117s to ensure target destruction! also remember Wrench has good idea with limiting PGMs in his Warbirds mod as they were not as prevelant in the 80's as they are today. they were the special rounds used on the most heavily defended targets, not what we dropped on the guy shooting at troops in a toyota! well just a few thoughts on the matter anywho.

well it does fall on super bowl sunday, and is the real reason i requested the day of from drill(yea yea really:grin: ) no oddly my anniversary is getting easier to remember than my birthday. maybe cause im home more often then than on my birthday!

Twelve years ago today i married my wife Shellcy. twelve years, 3 deployments, many moves and three girls later she's still puttin up with my a$$. to her i say thank you babe! and as i have been having to explain for twelve years, yes i spelled her name right!

bit further off for me this is 2nd drill after 14 years active. mob'ing later this year so that'll take a bite outta time and points. between 45th TFW and 480th TFS does this mean a skin pack for the arnies? if so i can do a quickish search for Arnie operators vs plain 'E' operators circa 1988.

do they all qualify for the dole?

SPinners have you been using household products in a manner inconsistent with intended use and federal law?!?!?!?!?

thanks Dave. nice treat getting back from reserve drill!

nice dave last is me favorite

thank you. unfortuneatly due to focus on my other two skins and prep for mobilizing, it will be ready on the 5th of octember:grin:

love the Arnie's Dave. even though its a TMF product, has anyone thought of doing a decal pack so there is more than Spang and 334th TFS birds represented? gustav nice Phantoms.............. and INTAKE PATCHES!!!! sorry. been tryin to get them on mine as decals for the longest now.

wrench might wanna trim the black area on the nose abit of your Hill 2 skin. ignore the codes, i havent messed with the decal ini since afghanistan in dec 09. waiting to finish Euro 1 and SEA wrap before i do so i can just turn that whole decal folder gray. the gun muzzle on mine should be a bit darker also but mor gunmetal than black

well mine is based off of TK's. however i have changed the color to black for the applicable skins, then some gimp editing to create new tailcodes. gray will follow the black codes, and i am working on using the appropriate markings off of some skins(happy hooligans, blue and gold indiana from Fort Wayne) to cover ANG units eventually. sheesh, that readme will read like an actor accepting an Oscar. all the same i use the same rough logic that TK uses for stock, mine just look in a different folder. "The tailcode when the 45th was based in Egypt was AX and SW for Stonewood." ooh ooh wheres Dave? told ya so told ya so nah nah:rofl:

and F-35 is more mature? (said the guy using emoticons!)

cool sword Ceasar!

it works it works! now for dancing with the ini's. first prize will be to line up the patterns so that striped or checkered fins will match up. still thank you Wrench and Sundowner

yes and if you read the whole post i said the author mentioned SW is Shaw but he used it for Stonewood since it was his world in book. he also discussed that there was no RAF Stonewood and several other book-v-r/l discrepencies. if i remember the foreword correctly that is, my copy is still packed away from the last move. sheesh and you AF guys say we Soldiers cant read:lol:

yes sir i have that copy of it as well the ole silver C or D model flyin by. gotta dig it out of hiding, could swear something was mentioned in the book about SW being Shaw's tailcode but he was usin it for Stonewood. also believe it was in gray cause in the next book Jack Locke is transitioning to MudHens and he gets a ride in 512 since he got the kills she wears. they talk about the immaculate grey paint job maintained by the guard crewchiefs. but my copy is still packed so im goin offa memory from 3-4 years ago when i last read it. at least Euro 1 tho, mid 80s no one flew SEA with white letters. (oh god i've become a rivet counter!!!!)

candyland (kandahar) in 09, bagram in 12 i've found out. with iraq "winding down", it the main show in town now. btw, as of 8 EST i cant see any video.

that is freakin awesome mppd! unfrotuneatly probably a bit too high end for my system (compaq presario C700 laptop, still on vista) but looks freakin sweet. am workin on makin the towelbar a fake pilot item. will post with a Spangdahlem skin if i get it to work and directions to mppds skins for nam era birds. not even two weeks for me though, more like don't hold yer breath:dntknw:

hell i'll give it a try i just suck turning the lod, skin and data.ini from gen1 to gen2. but i do have a rough understanding of fake pilot. hmmm something to do at drill this weekend...... btw wrench please check yer pm

i appreciate it but i tried that already. the big thing is to get the ARN-92 towel bar on there. hell if we could get it turned into a weapon that shows i could place it and be good to hook. makin Gen2 weapons outta Gen1 items is a very poor point of performance for me though. thank you for your advice still though

cant remember if i asked before but has anyone tried converting mppd's F-4D Loran to SF2? i tried to convert ala KB instructions and the readmes instruction to rename the F-4D LOD's(in this case _67) as F4Loran LOD's but all i get is the frozen weapons in formation effect. i dont think it was that stealthy. just wondering if someone with better skill than me has tried this bird yet as it would be rather cool to pop it into 52d TFW or 457th TFS colors, esp a nice Hill 2 in texas.

:clapping: :clapping: thank you sir i shall test after dinner. 3 sick kids and i'm makin chicken soup from scratch