Retro Phantoms

[Garysb]

Terrible, Terrible cant see why anyone would want these at all

Gary

PS the comment is a joke just in case my English humour gets lost in anyone's interpretation

[TonkaRepairMan]

Hello everyone. These look fantastic, I cant wait to add them to my sim. Does anyone know if there are any flightplans kicking around for these ? I have had a quick look and cant seem to find any yet.
@ hawk_sh: I wish I had your talent for painting, Im about as good as a group of colourblind hedgehogs.....in a bag !!!
Keep up the good work, it is very much appreciated

[hawk_sh]

Thanks everyone, I am pleased to read that you like my work.
Regarding flightplans, at the moment I am using the flightplans that came with the MAIW Topgun, Tomcat Sunset, Atsugi Hornets, MCAS Beaufort packages simply replacing the aircraft and a few self-made ones.

[Bone]

Hey, I love your paints of the F-4! I would like to use them in FSX, but the canopy isn't clear and the cockpit interior and pilots are gray. Could you do a fix so it would work in FSX. I'm not a painter, and if I was, I wouldn't be as good as you.
Thanks!

[hawk_sh]

Hey, I love your paints of the F-4! I would like to use them in FSX, but the canopy isn't clear and the cockpit interior and pilots are gray. Could you do a fix so it would work in FSX. I'm not a painter, and if I was, I wouldn't be as good as you.
Thanks!

I do not have FSX and I do not know what is necessary to make the repaints FSX compatible.
But I remember there is a thread by Graham King regarding the Mirage 2000 packages and special textures sets for FSX. Since the Mirage 2000 AI model and the Phantom AI models were made by the same guy, Fernando Martinez, the same trick or whatever is applied to the Mirage textures might also work for the Phantoms. Maybe Graham can help here ?

[hawk_sh]

@Bone and any other FSX users

Please apply the alpha channel in the zip file to one of the repaints using DXTbmp and see whether this solves the canopy issue in FSX.

[Bone]

Thanks guys. I'll give it a shot.

[Bone]

Would anyone be interested in doing a retro Thunderbirds F-4E? There's a clean MAIW version just begging for the paint.

[hawk_sh]

@Bone and any other FSX users

Please apply the alpha channel in the zip file to one of the repaints using DXTbmp and see whether this solves the canopy issue in FSX.

Did anyone test the alpha channel in FSX?

[Bone]

@Bone and any other FSX users

Please apply the alpha channel in the zip file to one of the repaints using DXTbmp and see whether this solves the canopy issue in FSX.

Did anyone test the alpha channel in FSX?

Yeah, that did the trick...thanks! I don't get on the MAIW forum that much, sorry for the delay in feedback.

[hawk_sh]

Thanks Bone,
I will add this alpha channel in future releases.

[hawk_sh]

Does anyone know the callsign that was used by VF-121 Pacemakers?

[hawk_sh]

coming soon...

VF-121 Pacemakers, F-4Js, NAS Miramar, ca. 1975-1977

[Bone]

Very nice.

I just DL'd the VF-1 and VF-2 Tomcat paints you did. Awesome.

[hawk_sh]

Uploaded the VF-121 repaints to AVSIM and flightsim.com
filename: FM_F-4J_Phantom_II_VF-121_1976-78s.zip

[hawk_sh]

coming in the next couple of days...

VF-101 Grim Reapers, F-4Js and F-4Ns, NAS Oceana, NAS Key West, ca. 1975-1977













VAQ-33 Firebirds, F-4B + F-4Js, NAS Oceana, mid 1970s

[Firebird]

Ahhhhhh ... you can never have too many 'Tooms.

[Angry_Anderson]

Phabulous! Phanks phor the phantastic Phantoms. As a phormer Phantom phixer, I phink the Phantom is the most photogenic aircrapht ever to phly. Phear the Phantom! Phantom phixers phorever!

[Pemor2]

nice done.

It would be cool if someone could do some repaints to the freeware release of Alphasims F-4 phantoms.

[Flyin Illini]

awesome hartwig, just awesome!