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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

for Phantoms at rats ass i would think the tailcodes would be removed for security or it would be Stonewood's as that was a deployment. however the 45th was also stationed in Egypt until the libyan migs were shot down. as for the rwr bump, please hows that line go in the decal ini( he says drooling all over himself..)

flying against the deathstar??? goodnight moon???

excellent book. had it for many years. theres also force of eagles where the survivors go in to rescue the POW's from rats ass, with a strike eagle providing cover.

@ wrench i have been workin on a personal project since afghanistan in 09 to do ALL post vietnam USAF units by using decals to represent the squadrons, tailcodes and fin stripe. by what i have researched while red yellow and blue or green are the common colors they are not the only ones used. a squadron in Hahn 50TFW had a white stripe, the AFRES squadron at Wright Patterson had orange and black chekerboard capped by a black stripe! as to the RHAW bump r/l some painted it some left the tip black, some did their stripe below the RHAW bump! there tended to be a lotta variation. @wrench and Piecemeal.... keep this in mind when working with Phantoms, a book on modeling the F-4 i have states that there was alot of inconsistencies in painting, marking and how the birds corroded and weathered. this helps the modeler(or modder) in covering any slight inaccuracies. back @ wrench in my long running project i have been trying to add squadron/wing patches to the intakes but it always blanks the fuselage out. however something that occurs to me is i have had the skin bmp's at 512x512 for a long time now. might it help to boost it to 1024? i even have national insignia painted on skin now reather than decal.

watchu talkin about? we're gonna be around 70 tommorow in NC:grin: at wrench------ don't eat the yellow snow cones

like i said nice to see America and Britian aint the only ones screwin up. Super Bugs and King Vipers (ala what UAE and India are getting) should be substituted for F-35 and next generation ARMs used for SEAD/DEAD. for air to air i like Super Bug with 12 AIM-9X or Amraam or combo thereof each vs F-35 with .... with.. what its carry? oh yeah it'll see the whole freakin battlefield. o/t next generation Harms has me thinking, B-52H + CALCM with cluster warheads and AGM-88 seeker = big a$$ Weasel!

damn i thought you were talkin this Harvey

welcome back sparkomatic to all coming back after an absence, does this mean your getting the band back together?

huh, woulda thought they would go with Super bugs as they are similar to what they have now and just as capable for most missions F-35 is tasked for as well as MORE capable than Lightning 2 in the air to air interception mission esp at home. nice to see boneheaded defence officials aren't only limited to the US and UK but common amongst all the NATO nations!

central europe spinners. you know fulda gap, czech poland the biggest land battle that never was. prob comes from bein stationed there round the turn of the century. now if tk or anyone else releases a terrain that goes from scotland to at least sicily, Bears (and many other birds) are back in. but for now i dont use much that wouldn't fly conventional strikes over the continent. course theres also always SF Tomcat to consider too! oh and as i said they are a b!t(h to shoot down:rofl:

as i fly mainly over europe i don't use Bears, cause the y wouldn't be in that air environment, they have lotsa countermeasures that throw off my Sparrow, 9 Lima's and even Slammers, yet have gunners who can seemingly shoot the d!(% off a fly at .8 miles! and they are a b!t(# to shoot down:grin:

looks cool, though do you really think the navy would admit the mistake in no gun? at least the air force could say they were correcting a naval screwup.

whats the middle shot's skin? looks like ADC gray almost although only the 57th FIS flew that if i recall, not to mention a lack of unit decals.

no Wrench. you need to take a screen shot from this (imho) for hangar and loading last great aviation flick to use real planes in the filming. also cited as reason why not to use real planes when the main cast was onboard for one of the Forts crashing in England during filming. looking forward to this classic bird Veltro. you know you gotta include the Belle as a skin!

nice first shot i thought was inside a hangar though:good: (saw the models not the edge of the photo!)

i got EXP1 some time after release but before EXP2 and that was my first mission with Spits, green and all. bugged my eyes out to see. @Dave and anyone else interested i got that book i was talking about some time back when folks were talkin bout the 56 campaign. gonna try to talk the wife into lettin me use the scanner to upload some photos from it. should be a mecca for anyone wanting skins for T-33, F-84(G or F) F-86 and F-47! say speakin of F-47D anyone working on a new bubbletop Jug? sorry might wanta tell the title, Before Centuries, USAFE Fighters 1948-1959.

as a Phanatic, i say welcome to the dark side, we have cookies:lol: seriously though the amusing thing is the gun and many other additions to the E were to make for a better dogfighter. it then was used most the rest of its years in the USAF as a strike bird, esp after the ARN101 conversions. at Dave and HrntFxr, so whose piss made it furthest into the wind?

nice Hueys Dave. cue Paint It Black.....

its been there since EXP1 i believe. downloaded ncdicki's RAF Northwest and RDAF Spits and on first fighter sweep mission found myself engaging Soviet Spitfires! and this was back around october or so.