Re: Spinners' Strike Fighters Thread

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Supermarine Syrena F.1 - No.111 'Treble One' Squadron, RAF Fighter Command, 1961

RAFSYRENAF104 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFSYRENAF103 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFSYRENAF102 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFSYRENAF105 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFSYRENAF106 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFSYRENAF107 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

The Fitter Syrena has about the same range as the Lightning - ideal for defending the Isle of Wight!

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Sud-Aviation Vulture B.2 - No.3 Squadron, RAF Germany, 1964

Another forgotten V-bomber the Sud-Aviation Vulture!

RAFVULTUREB201 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFVULTUREB202 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFVULTUREB203 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFVULTUREB204 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFVULTUREB205 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

I'm imagining the Vautour in service with RAF Germany (but in anti-flash white as it carried 'Red Dwarf' tactical nukes) until replaced by Thunderstrike S.1's (TSR.2) in 1971. The Vautour is another stock 'non-flyable' or AI aircraft that works just fine if you use a surrogate pit. Fine aircraft as it was, the RAF Germany 'interdictor' Canberra squadrons (3, 14, 16, 88 and 213) would have had a tough time in the mid-60's to and early 1970's period and it's scandalous that they soldiered on for so long.

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Sud-Aviation Vulture GR.4 - No.16 Squadron, Royal Air Force 'Operation Desert Storm' February 1991

RAFVULTUREB206 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFVULTUREB207 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFVULTUREB208 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFVULTUREB209 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

Stretching things a bit regarding the in service date I know but I do like 'Desert Pink' and I do like bigger pale blue/pale pink roundels and on both wings please!!! Thinking about it, I wonder what unreheated turbofans would have fit in there? Adour too small, Spey too big... we need a pair of Rolls-Royce Goldilocks!

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Sud-Aviation Vulture FGA.3 - No.41 Squadron, No.38 Group, RAF Strike Command, 1983

RAFVULTUREB210 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFVULTUREB211 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFVULTUREB212 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFVULTUREB213 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

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McDonnell Douglas Phantom F-4EY - Yorkshire Air Force

YORKSHIREPHANTOMF701 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

YORKSHIREPHANTOMF702 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

YORKSHIREPHANTOMF703 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

For me, the Yorkshire Flag works well as a fin flash and I thought that an ANG style 'YORKSHIRE' fin band would look especially good with the white rose repeated on the 'nosebar' marking.

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Bristol Stilleto F.1A - No.56 Squadron, RAF Fighter Command, 1961

RAFSTILLETOF101 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFSTILLETOF102 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFSTILLETOF103 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFSTILLETOF104 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

I've previously done a later MiG-21 in RAF service as the BAC Stilleto F.3 (on the current Page 28) but to do an earlier F.1A I needed to decide which BAC founding company to allocate the Stilleto to and thought Bristol would be a good choice.

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Ilyushin IL-28 'Beagle' - Lancashire Air Force, 1963

LANCASHIREBEAGLE01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

LANCASHIREBEAGLE02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

LANCASHIREBEAGLE03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

LANCASHIREBEAGLE04 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

This is a quick conversion of my Fuerza Aérea Argentina Beagle and I think it then steered me to use a 'Communist' star instead of a roundel.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21SJ (Fishbed 'J') - 501st Hikotai, JASDF

JASDFMiG-21SJ01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

JASDFMiG-21SJ02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

JASDFMiG-21SJ04 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

JASDFMiG-21SJ03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21SJ (Fishbed 'J') - 302nd Hikotai, JASDF

JASDFMiG-21SJ05 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

JASDFMiG-21SJ06 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

JASDFMiG-21SJ07 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

JASDFMiG-21SJ08 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

JASDFMiG-21SJ09 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21SJ (Fishbed 'J') - 204th Hikotai, JASDF

JASDFMiG-21SJ10 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

JASDFMiG-21SJ11 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

JASDFMiG-21SJ12 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

JASDFMiG-21SJ13 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

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Mikoyen-Gurevich MiG-21PFMJ (Fishbed 'F') - 302nd Hikotai, JASDF

JASDFMiG-21PFMJ01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

JASDFMiG-21PFMJ02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

JASDFMiG-21PFMJ03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

JASDFMiG-21PFMJ04 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

JASDFMiG-21PFMJ05 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

This is one of two stock VPAF MiG-21 camo schemes in 'Strike Fighters 2:Vietnam' and three out of the five bitmaps needed a bit of work as the canopy frame, pylons and gun-pod were in silver. It definitely has a ZERO look to it so I've used yellow serial numbers but stopped short of adding a vertical yellow band.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21PFMJ (Fishbed 'F') - 204th Hikotai, JASDF

JASDFMiG-21PFMJ06 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

JASDFMiG-21PFMJ07 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

JASDFMiG-21PFMJ08 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

Final JASDF MiG-21 for now and this is the second of the stock VPAF schemes from 'Strike Fighters 2:Vietnam' which required a bit of touching up around the windscreen and canopy area.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19S - HävLLv 31, Finnish Ilmavoimat, 1966

FINLANDMiG19S01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FINLANDMiG19S02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FINLANDMiG19S03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FINLANDMiG19S04 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FINLANDMiG19S05 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

Wow! I like this photoset myself! This is the stock MiG-19S made flyable by using the F-100D pit and using a stock (but rarely seen) Egyptian camo with my well-used Finnish decals including some new 'MG-300' series decals (I'm thinking MG-100 series for MiG-15, MG-200 series for MiG-17, MG-300 series for MiG-19, etc.). What really sets these off is the camo against the snowy backdrop and this is a terrain called 'British Isles' (for it includes Ireland) by a modder called Baltika - it's superb and is basically normal towns and fields but with snowy mountains exactly where the UK has mountains. BTW this terrain would be perfect for some Patchwork World action!

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19S - HävLLv 11, Finnish Ilmavoimat, 1963

FINLANDMiG19S06 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FINLANDMiG19S07 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FINLANDMiG19S08 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19S - HävLLv 21, Finnish Ilmavoimat, 1978

FINLANDMiG19S09 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FINLANDMiG19S09 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

FINLANDMiG19S11 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

Final Finnish 'Farmer' for now. The fin marking uses a bit of artistic licence and utilises the Eagle seen inside a grey triangle with a blue border (the only marking commonly seen for HävLLv 21) and I thought I'd move the serial number to the nose and introduce a simple '21' marking on the fin using blue from the Finnish roundel on a white background.