Where the Eagles once roamed

[DaleRFU]

Hi all, I have start a project that will see the USAFE F-15's return to the skies on Weescotty's great new F-15C/D. These images are from Bitburg but also to be included are the F-15's from Soesterberg and Keflavik. I am also building some basic scenery for Bitburg.


Picture85 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr

Picture86 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr

Picture106 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr

Picture92 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr

Picture108 by DaleRFU1, on Flickr

[Chrisb]

Dale,

Where is this beast, Weescotties new F.15C/D? Have I missed it somwhere?

Chris

[John Young]

Dale, the HAS's have no thickness to them and are you sure the doors open like that. Aren't they clamshell doors?

John

[DaleRFU]

John, I have made the HAS have no thickness becuase with there being a lot of objects at Bitburg and me not knowing how to LOD with FSDS I went for the thin layer mainly for performance also coupled with having around 60-70 aircraft it might be more like watching a slide show and I checked and the doors do open like that. Chris, these are new models that have not yet been released

Regards
Dale

[John Young]

You are right Dale, just looked at the Google Earth image and the doors do indeed slide like that.

John

[Weescotty]

Strictly speaking they are not USAF C/D models.
There are a couple of differences.

I am guessing they used a mixture of A, B, C and D.
If really early ones the exhausts would need to be changed.

A quick fix is to replace the port tail pod with the thicker USAF one, and remove the RWR receiver from the rear starboard boom for the A and B. Leave the RWR receiver for later C and D.

Rest would be mainly Sparrows in place of the AIM-120, and if the fins are different an earlier AIM-9.

They are 3rd in line for modding after -
I finish up the E's (currently at 32 load outs with few more to do)
Then the S
Then USAF A B C D

May squeeze in an E with the new GBU-39/B, a quick test wasn't promising though.
A single 'rack' with 4 of them runs around 500 polys, and they can carry up to 7 racks!

[fishlips]

Nothing like a good set of rack's Kev!

[MIKE JG]

I like big racks.

[timbob1]

Me too, trouble is I'm getting to that age where I'm growing my own Nice work Dale BTW