Nordic Skins
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Swedish Drakens are done . . moving on to the Finnish and Danish . . . hopefully by the end of the week. Will figure out the best way to post up some updates for DB, skins . . . then post up some links. Want to have a package worth downloading.
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We too!
Big thumbsup to you, Tony.
With best regards,
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Finnish Draken is done (two skins one for early with big roundels and one for later period with small roundels.) Too late last night to hassle with Photobucket . . .will post up something tonight. Next up is the Danish Draken . . .
If anyone has a better way to host pics besides Photobucket please advise, I would appreciate it. I tried IMGUR but seems you have to have some kind of twitter/facebook accounts which I don’t do. I don’t even have a smart phone. I just need a spot where I can upload pics and link to without spending 20 minutes clicking advertisements to get to what I want to do.
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Nice skins.
Btw the aim-4 needs green skin in nordic, not red.
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Thanks - done. - - I am also thinking maybe the R28 missile should also be reskinned – I think it is supposed to be all white (not red and white). Need to research this.
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This seems like correct missiles:
RB24B (Aim-9B)
RB24J (Aim-9J)
RB27
RB28Can anyone confirm that the green color is an active missile and not an inert/training missile? I would feel pretty stupid reskinning missiles for inert/training, hehehe.
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just about finished with the Danish Draken and for a break I took another look at the JAS-39C model and skin. The model still needs some work to clean up the autoshade issues. Before I begin the skinning on both the Gripens - I really need to get the autoshade fixed first - there are just too many areas that will prevent an nice skin from showing well. Also, it seems I have lost my last final PSD files for the JAS-39C . . . so I will have to start from scratch.
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Can anyone confirm that the green color is an active missile and not an inert/training missile?
Green is inert/training missiles.
Green engine and white seeker is training while all green are dummies.Also correct regarding Sidewinder, usually Rb 24 only for the 9B and 24J for the 9J copy (Later on we received 9L as Rb 74).
Silly Level Edit: I’ve touched those very missiles on that picture, am I famous now? Please?
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yes! now you are famous! thanks for the info on these missiles.
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@theOden:
Green is inert/training missiles.
Green engine and white seeker is training while all green are dummies.Also correct regarding Sidewinder, usually Rb 24 only for the 9B and 24J for the 9J copy (Later on we received 9L as Rb 74).
Silly Level Edit: I’ve touched those very missiles on that picture, am I famous now? Please?
Thanks much - I suspected green might be training/inert - also the missiles in Green say “BLIND” and I was thinking that was another clue that missile wasn’t active. I am making some adjustments to the missile skins to reflect the active missiles - we won’t be using any “green stuff.”
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Danish Draken -
I made some adjustments to skins . . . as I did more research and corrected a few mistakes. Also, I added one additional CT for the J-35J Draken for Sweden which is a grey/light grey scheme. Finally, I increased the number of skin sets for the Finnish and Swedish Drakens here is the final talley:
J-35S (Finland) 3 sets;
- Old Style Large Roundels “Kake”
- New Style Small Roundels “Kreivi von Rosen”
- New Style Small Roundels “Kreivi von Rosen” [this is a faded scheme]
J-35F IRST (Sweden) 4 sets which will include:
- F10 - Ängelholm-Barkåkra 1 Jaktflygdivision - “101st - Johan Röd (Ghost)”
- F10 - Ängelholm-Barkåkra 2 Jaktflygdivision - “102nd - Johan Blå (Winged Scull)”
- F10 - Ängelholm-Barkåkra 3 Jaktflygdivision - “103rd - Johan Gul (Swordfish)”
- F16 - Uppsala ? Jaktflygdivision - “16[?] - Petter ? (Mantaray)” [this is another faded scheme]
J-35J IRST (Sweden) 2 sets which will include:
- F10 - Ängelholm-Barkåkra 2 Jaktflygdivision - “102nd - Johan Blå (Winged Scull)”
- F10 - Ängelholm-Barkåkra 3 Jaktflygdivision - “103rd - Johan Gul (Swordfish)”
I wasn’t able to create an acceptable weathered paint scheme for the Danish Draken and will experiment with a few things later on and perhaps try my hand at that one again. So, there is only one scheme for the upgraded Danish version.
In V3 I hope to have issues sorted out with the J-39C enough to proceed with a high-res skin ~~for that model. Also, haven’t forgotten about the J-29 Tunnan - but for now V2 should have enough toys and candy to keep folks happy for a while.
Here is the faded version of the Brown/Blue-Black scheme used by Sweden Finland. This belongs to F16 based in Uppsala, not sure which Jaktflydivision.
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F 16 (Flygflottilj) in Uppsala is “Petter” as you correctly identified.
Each Wing (Flygflottilj) gets a callname based on the index in the alphabet, so #16 is P (and F 10 equals J named Johan in Svennska).
F 16 in Uppsala (op 1943 to 2003) had 4 divisions, Red, Blue, Yellow and Black numbered 161, 162 etc.
They also operated a squadron dedicated for Stockholm airdefence, “Huvudstadsjakten” inherited from F 1 in Västerås (which by this system had their divisions named Adam “color” numbered 11, 12 and 13)You have made a very well done research Ranger
Here is how they are stored in underground bunkers, notice the J 35 Draken behind that gloriuos J 29 Tunnan:
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Just a follow-up - I learned perhaps by accident that the numbers on the fuselage seem to correlate to the F division number so F10 = 10 on the fuselage, F16 = 16 on the fuselage. This wasn’t immediately apparent to me until had collected quite a few pictures. Also, I am not sure but I suspect that some of pictures were edited or retouched because found other photos of same a/c that would show the unit Jaktflygdivision crest and some that didnt. I got lucky with a couple of older photos that gave me the clue on the naming you have outlined as well as the number codes … unfortunately my research wasn’t very successful in turning up a lot of pics. What is in the skins represents a/c that I could positively identify both sides of aircraft, crests, numbers, etc. Perhaps, later on if I get more pics I will add more skins.
Also, the J-29 is on the list of skins to do . . . our model is low poly but I suspect it will look pretty nice in natural metal if done to a similar level of quality as the Draken, Lansen and SK60