Dragons and Ducks

[mikeblaze]

These first three packages went to AVSIM tonight, BTW....... I am hard at work this weekend on the Swedish aircraft, they will probably be broken up into two parts.

[f4nutter]

welcome home Mike.

[halcon501]

Welcome mate and with very good news...your work is outstanding as always

[Sluffer77]

Welcome back Mike. A nice 'Hi Honey I'm Home' present you've brought us too lol

[Makadocias]

Good to hear from you again Mike!

[mikeblaze]

These are being uploaded today.....

[mikeblaze]

Between the two Flygvapnet packages, a total of 30 model variants and 192 repaints.... this completes the FS9 Draken project for now.

[Manschy]

Outstanding work, mate. Thank you very much for this packages!

[RKE]

FWIW, the 725Esk used Lisbon as their callsign, while 729Esk used Hawkeye (Ashcake while they flew F-84's, later taken over by the Naval Air Squadron).

[Stewart Pearson]

Anyone fancy doing some flightplans for these super releases?

[geoffj]

See Dan's Bits and Bobs in the "Your Projects to keep it real" forum - Austria and Finland available, Denmark & Sweden to come!

Geoff

[Stewart Pearson]

See Dan's Bits and Bobs in the "Your Projects to keep it real" forum - Austria and Finland available, Denmark & Sweden to come!

Geoff

Thanks Geoff - that'll teach me to use the search function.

[mikeblaze]

There will be one more Draken package, the USAF test pilot school aircraft and the Swedish Historic Flight, but I will probably roll that one up as a bonus add to my last Viggen package when it comes (to also include the Historic flight Viggen, to be sure). I will be releasing paint kits for these aircraft as well, if anybody wants to do full serial repaints for the Flygvapnet.

The Swedes use a 'modex' convention for numbering aircraft per wing (like the AME, USMC, USN, and Russia), so the serials are not totally researched, but they make sense where I could not find too many pictures. The only pitfall on the Viggen is that they were used in mixed-squadron wings, utilizing both AJ and JA, with a sprinkling of SF and a token few SH airframes here and there. The last SH were all consolidated to one wing, as were the JAs. So, I am being careful not to number, say, a JA, in a serial which was used in an AJ squadron in the same wing. Tricky, but I am sorting it out.

Lastly, I am still learning something new on every new project, however small the skill is. I learned how to do rotational texturing on parts, where I do a polygonal texturing, and rotate the part, and re-apply the same texture, and so forth. This is how I did a much more crisp six-tube Borfors-350 rocket launcher than my old rocket launchers from previous projects. I am really happy to learn this, and you will see the results soon enough.

[mikeblaze]

Not quite by Labor Day weekend, but very nearly there. This is the early-use package (part 1) which will have the AJ-37, JA-37, SF-37, and SH-37, all in the older "fields and meadows" splinter camo. Part 2 will have the upgraded later models, with quite a bit of current grey schemes painted. I want to release both at once, but we'll see in the next day or so. The first part is ready to post, and I will do it if I can't get the second part done by the weekend.

[merlin101]

They look great Mike! My Swedish scenery on standby!!
Dave

[Mirage4FS]

This is two things. It is a near-finished Draken beta model, and this is an FSX-native model compilation. You might see some flight test pictures from both sims from now on.

Nice to see that you are softening a bit regarding FSX.

"Come to the Dark Side. We have cookies."

[mikeblaze]

Here ya go, should be on AVSIM by tomorrow......

[Firebird]

They are up. Go get 'em.

[Chrisb]

Thank you for the Dragons and Ducks Mike.

Chris

[delta_lima]

Many thanks Mike - stuff of dreams.

DL