Re: Spinners' Strike Fighters Thread

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North American F-100C - No.26 Squadron, 'The Black Spiders', Pakistan Air Force, 1959

PAFF-100CSUPERSABRE01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

PAFF-100CSUPERSABRE02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

PAFF-100CSUPERSABRE03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

PAFF-100CSUPERSABRE04 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

PAFF-100CSUPERSABRE05 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

PAFF-100CSUPERSABRE06 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

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North American F-100C Super Sabre - Combat Commanders School, Pakistan Air Force, 1971

PAFF-100CSUPERSABRE07 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

PAFF-100CSUPERSABRE08 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

PAFF-100CSUPERSABRE09 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

PAFF-100CSUPERSABRE10 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

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BAC Lightning F.51 - No.9 Squadron, Pakistan Air Force, 1965

From the Wiki Hawker Hunter Page...

During the 1960s, Pakistan investigated the possibility of buying as many as 40 English Electric Lightnings; however, Britain was not enthusiastic about the potential sales opportunity because of the damage it would do to its relations with India, which at the time was still awaiting the delivery of large numbers of ex-RAF Hunters.

PAFLIGHTNINGF201 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

PAFLIGHTNINGF202 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

PAFLIGHTNINGF203 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

PAFLIGHTNINGF204 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

PAFLIGHTNINGF205 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

I was tempted to do a late model Spitfire in PAF markings (like the exported Hawker Fury), then considered a PAF Hunter but after reading the above snippet from the Hawker Hunter Wiki page I decided to do a PAF Lightning Mk.51 (an export F.2 without Firestreak). The yellow bordered markings (made for the PAF Spififire) are just a personal choice as I think they might have petered out by 1965 although many PAF F-104A's had them.

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Supermarine Spitfire F.24 - Pakistan Air Force, 1949

PAFSPITFIREF2401 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

PAFSPITFIREF2402 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

PAFSPITFIREF2403 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

PAFSPITFIREF2404 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

PAFSPITFIREF2405 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

Again, this is a stock Third Wire Spitfire IX skin adapted to fit the Mk.24 (... meaning don't look too close!)

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Supermarine Spitfire F.24 - Iraqi Air Force, 1950

IRAQSPITFIREF2401 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

IRAQSPITFIREF2402 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

IRAQSPITFIREF2403 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

IRAQSPITFIREF2404 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

IRAQSPITFIREF2405 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

IRAQSPITFIREF2406 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

Surprisingly, despite this thread running for over five years now, this is my first Iraqi 'what if'! I quite like these old Iraqi markings and will do some more. What helps is the fact that, between WW2 and the Gulf War, the Iraqi Air Force have operated British, Soviet and French aircraft but never US (except for a few Lockheed JetStars) so I could give them British and French aircraft in the 60's and onward instead of Soviet aircraft or give them US aircraft.

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Supermarine Spitfire XVIIIe - United States Army Air Force, 1945

USAAFSPITFIRE1801 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

USAAFSPITFIRE1802 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

USAAFSPITFIRE1803 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

USAAFSPITFIRE1804 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

USAAFSPITFIRE1805 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

USAAFSPITFIRE1806 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

I'm loving the new Griffon engined Spitfires and the XVIII comes with a lovely silver skin to which I've added some invasion stripes although you'll have to give me some artistic licence as the upperwing stripes shouldn't really be there. Similarly, the codes are totally out of me own 'ed and the fin/rudder stripe is just to match the spinner.

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McDonnell Douglas Phantom FG.1 - No.17 Squadron, RAF South East Asia Command, 1970

RAFSEACPHANTOMFG101 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFSEACPHANTOMFG102 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFSEACPHANTOMFG103 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFSEACPHANTOMFG104 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFSEACPHANTOMFG105 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

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Supermarine Spitfire LF.IXc - 73rd GvIAP, Soviet Air Force, October 1943

SOVIETSPITFIRE9C01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SOVIETSPITFIRE9C02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SOVIETSPITFIRE9C03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

Of course there's nothing unusual about a Soviet Spitfire but I'm just about to read "The White Rose of Stalingrad" by Bill Yenne about Lidiya Vladimirovna Litvyak, the highest scoring female fighter pilot of all time, and wondered "what if" she her Yak-1M hadn't been shot down in the Summer of 1943 and her unit had re-equipped with the Spitfire IX?

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Supermarine Spitfire F24 - Soviet Air Force, 1948

Lidiya Vladimirovna Litvyak's Spitfire Mk.24

SOVIETSPITFIRE2401 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SOVIETSPITFIRE2403 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SOVIETSPITFIRE2404 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SOVIETSPITFIRE2405 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

Although I could have edited out the 303's I've left them on the skin and also added them in to the aircraft's data file. One of the nice things about Strike Fighters is that you can change the cannon/machine guns to something a bit more nation specific so the Hispano V's become 20mm ShVAK's and 303's get uprated to 12.7mm DShK-38 machine guns as there is no direct Soviet equivalent.

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Supermarine Spitfire F.Mk24 - Grupo 6 De Caza, Fuerza Aérea Argentina, 1950

FAASPITFIRE2401 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FAASPITFIRE2402 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FAASPITFIRE2403 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FAASPITFIRE2404 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FAASPITFIRE2405 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

Whisper it quietly but I prefer the wing planform of these late Spitfires 

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Fábrica Militar de Aviones FMA19 Condor - Grupo 1 de Bombardeo, Fuerza Aérea Argentina, 1947

FAAQ1W1LORNA01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FAAQ1W1LORNA02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FAAQ1W1LORNA03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FAAQ1W1LORNA04 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

I've enjoyed doing this one but can you guess what aeroplane is masquerading as the FMA19 Condor?

...And it's not the lovechild of a Ju-88 and a Stirling!

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Bell P-63A Kingcobra - Soviet Air Force, 1945

SOVIETP-63AKINGCOBRA01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SOVIETP-63AKINGCOBRA02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SOVIETP-63AKINGCOBRA03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SOVIETP-63AKINGCOBRA04 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

Of course, the P-63A in Soviet markings is not a 'what if' but shooting down a USAAF Corsair certainly is! I was adding the P-63A to my install and when testing decal positions I found that the 'blue' enemy consisted of my P-48C Corsairs (top of Page 53) so I captured this "Battle of Barking Creek" type moment.

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Sud Aviation Vautour IIA - Grupo 8, Fuerza Aérea de Chile, 1962

FACHVAUTOURIIA01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FACHVAUTOURIIA02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FACHVAUTOURIIA03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FACHVAUTOURIIA04 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FACHVAUTOURIIA05 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FACHVAUTOURIIA06 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FACHVAUTOURIIA07 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

It's been a while since I've done a 'what if' Vautour and the lovely stock Third Wire 3D model of a IIA with a stock silver skin is used here to create a FACH 'Vulture'. I like this one! Perhaps tomorrow I might try the same decals on the early IDF camo scheme.

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Sud Aviation Vautour IIA - Grupo 10, Fuerza Aérea de Chile, 1966

FACHVAUTOURIIA08 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FACHVAUTOURIIA09 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FACHVAUTOURIIA10 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FACHVAUTOURIIA11 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FACHVAUTOURIIA12 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

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Martin-Baker MB.5 Vencedor - Grupo 7, Fuerza Aérea de Chile, 1951

FACHMB501 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FACHMB502 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FACHMB503 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FACHMB504 by Spinners1961, on Flickr