Some things I've been up to over the last 1.5 years

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[Naki]

Very nice...DCS? If I had the time I would be into DCS as well with MSFS...best of both worlds.
What in you view are the best aircraft for DCS?

[000rick000]

Naki, yes, DCS!

I can't say it enough. The Tomcat is THE BEST module I've ever used in any sim. The details and the full module is extensive and outstanding. Down to an in flight "walkman" tomplay your favorite 80s songs. Complete with play/stop FFWD/RWD sound effects and actual operation! "Jester" the AI RIO has incredible functionality as your RIO. And speaks much more naturally than any other AI voice system I've heard.

3 F-14A LOTS
F-14B
USS Forrestall
AI A-6 Tanker.

[Aharon]

AMAZING

looks like Kodak photos to me!!

Regards,

Aharon

[Charl]

Even before reading your comment on the model fidelity, I gazed long at the F-14 cockpit shot. Wow.
Top Gun factor aside, the Tomcat still looks fresh and super aggressive.
Only Sukhoi make a more menacing warplane.

[000rick000]

Thank you sirs!

Yes agreed. Su-27 family is the last of the heavy fighters where style and design still were a thing.

[Splitpin]

Rick!!! man, do you know how to make a comeback ............

[jankees]

Beautiful shots!

[Naki]

Was meaning to ask you...are all there your repaints? What's the storey behind the jasdf Tomcat scheme?

[Naki]

...and is that a real Tomcat scheme 3rd to bottom?

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Naki, yes, these are all done by me.

Iron Man Tomcat. Because I'm a die hard Iron Man fan. Here's an image of the Pilot's suits to complete the whole motif.






The JASDF Schemes are based on the F-4E Real Life Schemes. However, using the Phantom Decal art work would make no sense so I used this art from the web and recreated it for this repaint using vectors.

There are sister ships and custom Pilots with custom patches.















For the line F-16's I've recreated the correct Fuel cell stiffeners and added missing Hollywood lights and the missing ventral landing light textures. Fully textured using Diffuse, RoughMet and Normals






And here's a what if scheme based on the painting by Peter Van Stigt.