Flanker562

That was the old one, when VF-31 was on the Forrestal (AJ101 that Ceaser was talking about). Vampyre sent me a few pictures of the 2005-06 Last Cruise on the TR, so I'm slowly working on it (moving about a bit so I have to get settled in) so that's what's in the works. And Typhoid... that was a good start to a weekend

Those are things, you just don't or didn't want to know...

From what I noticed when doing the Blue Angels skins, least with the column5 F/A-18A, is that it's actually part of the model, as well as an ini edit. I've tried that on other aircraft, but it may just be "hardcoded" for the AGM-65E and AGM-88C HARM. BTW Southernap, got any more pics you fee like sharing on Bugs? Or anything current?

lol you know with lobbies come with pundits, and also consultants, so okay fine, tomorrow I'll release what I have done I have some done Blue Angels skins, I've been lazy to finish them, so if you want them, I can let them go as I got other projects to worry about.

I know for the Crimean Air Wars mod for LOMAC there were some "Agressor" schemes developed for the Su-27 (they jigggered it, along with Russian a/c, to be on the USA side) and were done, but still when Marcfighter gets the remapped Su-27 done, I may do a few for the one Falcon161 did.

http://avia.russian.ee/gallery/picture.php?dir=g91&p=10 That's probably the best I can find. There's little information, and what information there is, isn't enough AFAIK. The FS3 has a downloadable (try google?) version with an Army Scheme, so that's probably your best bet.

Yeah that's the correct link, don't know why it's coming up with that stuff...

There's a good topic I found last night (Vampyre can probably tell you) on the Fighter Ops forums that Sundowner from Poland outlines some deficiencies (thrust to weight, speed of course critical) of the SH. I agree to the point that if it had a better speed and longer ranged armament, it could do the job as effective as the Tomcat. But that's pretty much what the SH is good for, bombing the bejeezus (okay, if the detractors are right, reach it) out of somebody, as it's got the space and pylons for it. Given the report from Carlo Kopp it sheds some more light on the subject. And a topic I read on the VNFA website pretty much said that the Navy needed something New NOW. The Tomcat will always be a fond memory, but when you're looking at basically spending alot of money to revamp a 1970s era aircraft to which parts are becoming scarce (factories aren't even producing the parts, at least some of them, and more than likely won't retool, and to update the fire control suite, you had to literally rewire it, and there wasn't any emphasis for that. They got enough money to at least get the LANTIRN pods for it, which I'm sure alot of grunts downrange are glad for), and you have to use scrap from AMARC, which adds to the bill. Instead you got the bean counters saying "Hey this plane, it's not as great as the Tomcat, it saves money and furthermore, it's rolling off the assembly line, and we don't have to search the whole planet for spares." Plus pilots like the reliability, so that's more planes in the air, and etc. etc. About the only mission I would say in somewhat defense of the SH, is that Tomcat never could to airborne refuelling, or at least perform the tanker role which was of course lost when the KA-6D was retired too. Could they have modified Tomcats? Of course, but that didn't happen. Sure the SH needs more fuel, but nobody (not even the Navy bean counters) wanted to improve the Tomcat either, as it itself was a victim of politics. I mean we can always like or hate the SH, and forever love the Tomcat, but whatever we think, the US Navy made it's decision, right or wrong, and we just have to live with their decision.

least it wasn't a porn site!

But given the fact it will be updated, I'll pause this project as well. I got another Tomcat (a couple really) that I need to get busy on, so when Marcfighter uploads his revised Flanker, then I'll continue.

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lol I think squinting in the dark is preferable... And I thought I had alot of time on my hands..

I think so, but the more you sit down and think about it (let't not look at his behaviour.. yet), it just doesn't add up that they are. Sure by some freakish nature they could be (how did Tigh of all people slip through the screening process? Surely Baltar during the trial would have tried to say he was), or it's what Jedi Master said, Baltar didn't see the Final Five but the DNA testing would have proven otherwise. So I think it's a misconception, as the "final five" so far are hooded individuals that we all saw in the season finale, not four indivicuals who think that they are (I mean surely they would have "activated" or whatnot) because they are the only ones to hear the song. But again, Ron Moore has that ability of making one thing seem one way, when it's another. The only way for them to be non-Cylons is some passage in the "scriptures" and of course Starbuck in a clean Viper. Sure it adds up to five, but the thing is, are we sure? No, we have to wait for next season, and that's going to be a minute, so we'll have to wait and see. For all we know, they could be the women that are helping Baltar "to a new life". So many questions....

Well since you bring that up, it has been a minute since I owned it too...

http://www.janes.com/defence/air_forces/ne...01013_1_n.shtml

Ain't that the truth, was kind of a shocker, ol' Tigh a Cylon.... I think Ron Moore & Co. were just cracking up reading the forums on the responses, I know I would be But yeah, that's what makes BSG so good, it's not the FX really, it's the ever changing plot. Once you think you got it nailed, it's a different one.....

Well so far the only thing that's given me issues was around the radome where the fuselage meets it. Other than that it's worked out fine for me. But that's cool to see what happens. Oh yeah the area around the intakes gave me a little annoyance, but still got it working fine

Thanks!

Thanks!

Well generally I tend to get the same results at the outset, which happens anyways. Its when you start to weather it, or adjust the opacity (that may be the issue) to a degree. Another cheap, easy but effective technique is to make another layer, paint bucket it with gray (128,128,128) and then use Noise to make it all pixelated (what you like is up to you, but 1.0 to 2.0 is a resonable value) that gets rid of the smoothness of a texture color. Then set the layer type to "Overlay" and you got a cheap a$$ noise layer that just works. Maybe a screenshot or two and we can see how cartoonish? Adding some generic weathering to the Su-27. Ukrainian Flankers tend to be alot cleaner than most, and the ones from 2004 (latest I could get from Airliners.net) show them dirty, but just that, not DIRTY) aren't that bad off, so mine isn't going to reflect that too much:

Well there was also the "Mig-37 Ferret" that was done AFAIK as a Testors model that I had bought and lost so long ago.

Note that the song was "All along the Watchtower" from Jimi Hendrix (covered by somebody, didn't care too much about the credits after that doozy). I got the old series (packed up, never finished it all) and watched up to... the ice planet, guess I should have pushed through as that part seems interesting. But the thing is to ask, why only them? You could say the Final Five Cylons.. but if that was the case, Baltar would have said something way before. So while on one hand it could be true, on the other hand, with the way the plots go, you never know until they start saying "By your command" or whatever.

There are times when you just don't want to know, and this is one of them