Re: Spinners' Strike Fighters Thread

SPINNERS · January 22, 2011, 10:38:53 AM

McDonnell Douglas Phantom FGR.5 - No.29 Squadron, RAF Middle East Command, 1989

RAFPHANTOMFGR501 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFPHANTOMFGR502 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFPHANTOMFGR503 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPINNERS · January 23, 2011, 10:31:00 AM

Sud Aviation Condor IIN - EC4/11 Jura, Armée de l'Air, 1963

Even before the Vautour's first flight in 1952 Sud-Ouest engineers were planning a supersonic follow-up with swept wings and afterburning Atar engines. Development moved slowly but the 1957 merger of Sud-Ouest and Sud-Est to form Sud Aviation saw the project leap forward and the prototype Condor IIN first flew in 1959 entering service with EC4/11 'Jura' in 1961. Initially armed with the poor Matra R-511 semi-active homing missile the Condor squadrons began to receive the Matra R-530 in infra-red and semi-active radar forms from late 1962. The only export customer was Israel who received 30 Condor IIN's in 1963 and used them to good effect in the 1967 Six-Day war before replacing them with Phantom F-4E's in 1974.

ADLAFIREBAR01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

ADLAFIREBAR02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

ADLAFIREBAR03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

ADLAFIREBAR04 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPINNERS · January 25, 2011, 01:33:48 PM

Breguet Atlantic MR.1 - No.120 Squadron, RAF Coastal Command, 1968

RAFATLANTICMR101 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFATLANTICMR102 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFATLANTICMR103 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFATLANTICMR104 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

The 'Atlantique' was released recently by the prolific Veltro2K and comes in West German Marineflieger markings but, crucially, comes with a template that has allowed me to create a Nimrod type scheme. Perhaps in the swinging sixties this became an early Anglo-French project with Bristol getting the production licence?

SPINNERS · January 28, 2011, 11:42:48 AM

Breguet Atlantic - United States Coast Guard, 1975

USCGATLANTIC01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

USCGATLANTIC02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

USCGATLANTIC03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

BTW I'm well aware that the USCG have their starbar on the fin but I just can't bring myself to do that!

SPINNERS · January 29, 2011, 10:06:06 AM

Handley-Page Helena C.1 - No.30 Squadron, RAF Air Support Command, 1968

RAFCUBC101 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFCUBC102 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFCUBC103 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

I've previously done the 'Cub' in RAF service but thought I'd re-visit it for No.30 Squadron.

SPINNERS · January 30, 2011, 12:04:52 AM

McDonnell Douglas Phantom FG.1 - 800 Naval Air Squadron, Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm, 1968

ROYALNAVYPHANTOMFG101 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

ROYALNAVYPHANTOMFG102 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

ROYALNAVYPHANTOMFG103 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

ROYALNAVYPHANTOMFG104 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

ROYALNAVYPHANTOMFG105 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

I wondered what 800NAS markings would look like on the Rhino so knocked-up this simple mod with the stock 'M' wearing the USN skin of the 'J'' but with the Spey engines of the 'M' spliced back in -if that makes sense!

SPINNERS · January 30, 2011, 10:36:37 AM

McDonnell Douglas Phantom FG.1 - 800 Naval Air Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, 1969

ROYALNAVYPHANTOMFG106 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

ROYALNAVYPHANTOMFG107 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

ROYALNAVYPHANTOMFG108 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

ROYALNAVYPHANTOMFG109 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPINNERS · January 31, 2011, 02:52:05 PM

McDonnell Douglas Hornet GR.4 - No.31 'Goldstar' Squadron, RAF Middle East Command, 2009

RAFHORNETGR401 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFHORNETGR402 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFHORNETGR403 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

Two different Superbugs exist as third-party add-on aircraft and this is the second to be released and it comes in 'E', 'F' and 'G' (Growler) flavours. Even better, a cracking templates exists allowing ham-fisted amateurs^TM like me to create this 'Desert Pink' RAF Superbug. It's not quite finished as I've missed the paint on the wingtip missile rails but I'm quite pleased with my weathering on this.

SPINNERS · February 01, 2011, 02:41:30 PM

McDonnell Douglas Phantom FG.1 - 'Joint Force Phantom' (No.31 Sqd RAF & 800 NAS) 1976

RAFPHANTOMFG101 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFPHANTOMFG102 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFPHANTOMFG103 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFPHANTOMFG104 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFPHANTOMFG105 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

The Osprey book on the F-4K and F-4M reveals an interesting 'what if' scenario;

...the initial F-4M specification of 1965, a modification of the USN/RN SD-531, called for carrier capability. The Defence White Paper of February 1965 suggested that the RAF Phantom's carrier capability would increase the Phantom force's flexibility and might mean less would be needed.

By early 1966 such thoughts had been abandoned. But, in creating an overall EDSG scheme, I thought I'd use my recently created 800NAS and No.31 Squadron markings to create the two constituant units of 'Joint Force Phantom' created in 1974 and embarked upon HMS Ark Royal (leaving No.767 squadron aboard the refurbished HMS Eagle with a Buccaneer squadron). BTW I did mean to use slightly different red/blue ratios on the 800NAS Phantoms but forgot.

SPINNERS · February 02, 2011, 02:29:18 PM

Handley-Page Helena C.3 - No.32 Squadron, Royal Air Force, 1990

RAFCUBC104 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFCUBC105 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFCUBC106 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFCUBC107 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

No.32 squadron are now the RAF's 'VIP' transport unit but have a more warlike past and, thankfully, they had colourful inter-war and post-war markings . I'll do something that takes advantage of their colourful markings tomorrow but for now here is a toned-down 'Cub' pretending to be the Handley-Page Helena C.3.

SPINNERS · February 03, 2011, 11:01:08 AM

Supermarine Scimitar FG.2 - No.32 Squadron, RAF Fighter Command, 1966

RAFSCIMITARFG209 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFSCIMITARFG210 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFSCIMITARFG211 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPINNERS · February 05, 2011, 02:08:43 PM

Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.3 - No.33 Squadron, RAF South East Asia Command, 1975

RAFHARRIERGR302 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFHARRIERGR301 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFHARRIERGR303 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

SPINNERS · February 11, 2011, 11:29:19 AM

BAC Lightning F-112B - No.57 Squadron, Royal United States Air Force, 1971

RUSAFLIGHTNING01 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RUSAFLIGHTNING02 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RUSAFLIGHTNING03 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RUSAFLIGHTNING04 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

The United States 'Eagle' Roundel and Flag (similar to Australia's 'Roo' and New Zealand's 'Kiwi') are from MAKO69 at Combat Ace whilst I've used my 57th FIS markings with some additional fuselage bars.

SPINNERS · February 12, 2011, 06:21:37 AM

MBB-BAe Firefly GR.1 - No.33 Squadron, Royal Air Force, 1992

RAFFIREFLYGR101 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFFIREFLYGR102 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFFIREFLYGR103 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFFIREFLYGR104 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

RAFFIREFLYGR105 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

This 3D model is by my fellow South Walian Russouk2004 who also very kindly released a template for it.

SPINNERS · February 12, 2011, 12:28:43 PM

IAI KF-2 [insert name here] - No.69 Squadron, 'The Hammers', Heyl HaAvir, 2007

IDFKF201 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

IDFKF202 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

IDFKF203 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

IDFKF204 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

IDFKF205 by Spinners1961, on Flickr

dk1257's KF2 'Hammer' comes with this IDF scheme but without decals so I've decaled it up using No.69 IDF 'The Hammers' markings. I must admit that it is really rather good!