Re: Spinners' Strike Fighters Thread

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Mikoyan-Guryevich-Hawker OKB Falchion F.1 - 5th Fighter Regiment, British Peoples' Republic Air Force, 1951

BPRAFMiG-15FALCHION01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

BPRAFMiG-15FALCHION02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

BPRAFMiG-15FALCHION03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

BPRAFMiG-15FALCHION04 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

I've briefly shown this one before but have done a revamp using the newer Third Wire MiG-15 and downgraded it to the initial MiG-15 instead of the 'bis'.

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Curtiss A-25A Shrike - 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment, VVS, 1944

SOVIETA-25ASHRIKE01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SOVIETA-25ASHRIKE02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SOVIETA-25ASHRIKE03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SOVIETA-25ASHRIKE04 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SOVIETA-25ASHRIKE05 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

A lovely USAAF A-25A Shrike skin for the SB2C Helldiver was released today and with not a lot of time on my hands I thought I'd 'lend-lease' it.

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Fairey Firefly NFMk.5 - Israeli Air Force, 1948

IDFFIREFLY501 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

IDFFIREFLY502 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

IDFFIREFLY503 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

IDFFIREFLY504 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

I was lucky enough to have been given a template for the Firefly V recently and thought I'd do an IDF machine. I'm not too sure if the radar would show up ground targets though!

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Dassault Mirage IIIEI - Irish Air Corps, 1972

IACMIRAGE3OF01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

IACMIRAGE3OF02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

IACMIRAGE3OF03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

IACMIRAGE3OF04 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

The 'Fighting Irish' decal was done as a request (for something else) so I'd show it here on the very nice Third Wire Aussie Mirage IIIO. It's not quite my cup of tea but the Mirage certainly is  . I've previously done the Mirage IIIC in Irish Air Corps markings (search either Irish or Guiness within this thread).

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Supermarine Spitfire LF.IXc - No.23 Escuadrillas Valladolid, Fuerzas Aéreas de la República Española, 1946

SPREPSPITFIRE9C01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPREPSPITFIRE9C02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPREPSPITFIRE9C03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPREPSPITFIRE9C04 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

The Spanish Civil War is not something I know too much about so I thought I'd better make a start as it could be a good topic to dip into and revisit and has a LOT of potential. In the real world, the Spanish Civil War is quite well covered in Strike Fighters by the 'SFP1 Dev A-Team' group of modders including an all-inclusive install for the original Strike Fighters Project 1 which is where the series began back 'at the turn of the century' - lol. Anyway, this Spanish Republican Spitfire uses the stock Soviet skin with a purple spinner (a colour synonymous with the Castilla y León region) and banded Republican markings plus a 'Valladolid' squadron marking on the nose. I'll leave it up to the reader to explain why the Spanish Civil War had continued or, perhaps, re-ignited after WW2...

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Avia S-199E 'Mulo' - 4ª Escuadrilla de Madrid, Fuerzas Aéreas de la República Española, 1949

SPREPS-199MULO01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPREPS-199MULO02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPREPS-199MULO03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPREPS-199MULO04 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPREPS-199MULO05 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

I like this one myself! The Avia S-99 and Avia S-199 'Mule' are 'AI' types and I'm developing a bit of a soft spot for the much-maligned latter. My gut-feeling, based on those rakish early Bf-109's, was to put it into Condor Legion service but as it emanates from a country under Soviet influence I've placed it into Republican hands and allocated it to a fictional 'Madrid' squadron.

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Sud-Aviation Vautour IIA 'Buitre' - Aviación Nacional, 1958

SPNATVAUTOURIIA01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPNATVAUTOURIIA02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPNATVAUTOURIIA03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPNATVAUTOURIIA04 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPNATVAUTOURIIA05 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

This is the stock Vautour 'silver' skin but with the settings screwed down to make it more like a grey and with the most common Nationalist roundels (I had no idea there were so many variations) and the St. Andrews cross on the rudder plus a simple bomb symbol and spurious codes to jazz it up a bit.

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Hawker Hunter F.Mk1 - 4ª Escuadrilla de Madrid, Fuerzas Aéreas de la República Española, 1957

SPREPHUNTER101 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPREPHUNTER102 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPREPHUNTER104 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPREPHUNTER105 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPREPHUNTER106 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

This is the stock RDAF Hunter skin (very useful!) with my Republican markings and some dodgy looking serial numbers!

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BAC-CASA 'Relámpago' (Lightning F.58) - 1ª Escuadrilla de Castile, Spanish Republican Air Force, 1969

SPREPLIGHTNING101 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPREPLIGHTNING102 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPREPLIGHTNING103 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPREPLIGHTNING104 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPREPLIGHTNING105 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

The 'band' markings are a bit problematic on this aircraft as I don't know the mesh names for the variety of parts that they run across so I've switched to Republican roundels but with a fuselage band as well. It's not perfect but I'm on a real deadline tonight so it'll just have to do  . Anyway, I'm parking up the SCW theme for a short while and will be switching to a slightly colder climate.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17PF - Kommunistinen Ilmavoimat, 1957

KOMFINLANDMIG-17PF01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

KOMFINLANDMIG-17PF02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

KOMFINLANDMIG-17PF03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

KOMFINLANDMIG-17PF04 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

Some time ago TSR Joe floated a suggestion for a 'what if' Communist Finland and at least two 'roundel' designs were discussed, one being the Finnish roundel with the red star superimposed and another with the Finnish roundel at the centre of the red star. The problem with the first idea is that the red star totally covers the inner white circle so after tinkering around with it I simply brought that white circle on top and I think it works well, especially with a black border for use on NMF MiG's... or Sukhoi's  . Perhaps tomorrow, I'll show the other type. BTW after the 'Kommunists' took over I think they would have adopted standard Soviet 'bort' numbers but this has nothing to do with making life easier for me  .

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21SMK - Kommunistinen Ilmavoimat, 1977

KOMFINLANDMIG-21SMK01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

KOMFINLANDMIG-21SMK02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

KOMFINLANDMIG-21SMK03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

Just a quick MiG-21 using the other Communist Finland marking mentioned in the thread started by TSRJoe. I like them both and honestly can't decide.

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Lavochkin La-21 'Molniya' (NATO Codename: 'Frantic-B') - VVS, 1974

SOVIETLIGHTNINGF301 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SOVIETLIGHTNINGF302 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SOVIETLIGHTNINGF303 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SOVIETLIGHTNINGF304 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

This is one of the in-built what if's in 'Strike Fighters' as the Lightning F.3 incorrectly includes the RAFG Green/Silver scheme (not that you'll hear me complaining  ) and a simple edit (about as much typing as you see in this single sentence) allows you to fly a Soviet Lightning! Mind you, you'll soon get bored of being shot down by RAF Phantom FGR.2's...

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ANT-34 - Soviet Air Force, June 1941

Designed by Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev the ANT-34 was an advanced twin-engined monoplane bomber first flown in July 1933. Development was slow however and it did not enter service until November 1937 by which time it's designer had become a victim of Stalin's purges and was arrested on false claims of sabotage, espionage and supporting the Russian Fascist Party. Production was slowed to a trickle and, with initial deliveries being sent to the Spanish Republican Air Force, only 120 ANT-34's were in front-line service at the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 where they became easy prey for Luftwaffe fighters.

SOVIETB-1001 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SOVIETB-1002 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SOVIETB-1003 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

This is the Martin B-10 released by the DAT group of modders and I've used their Netherlands East Indies skin to make a pretty easy Soviet ANT-34. Apparently the real ANT-34 was an unbuilt multi-seat fighter project but I've pinched it for this pre-war Soviet bomber.

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ANT-34 'Maza' - Spanish Republican Air Force, 1938

SPREPB-1001 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPREPB-1002 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPREPB-1003 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

OR it could have been the Martin B-10 supplied by The American Poets & Writers Guild...

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Yakovlev Yak-28P 'Firebar' - Kommunistinen Ilmavoimat, 1967

KOMFINLANDYAK-28PFIREBAR01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

KOMFINLANDYAK-28PFIREBAR02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

KOMFINLANDYAK-28PFIREBAR03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

KOMFINLANDYAK-28PFIREBAR04 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

KOMFINLANDYAK-28PFIREBAR05 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

KOMFINLANDYAK-28PFIREBAR06 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

KOMFINLANDYAK-28PFIREBAR07 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

KOMFINLANDYAK-28PFIREBAR08 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

This photoset shows the two different 'red Finland' markings and I think I'm favouring the star with a roundel inside it.