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Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 28 Aug 2010, 11:07
by 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
Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 01 Sep 2010, 12:35
by 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

Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 01 Sep 2010, 17:55
by 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.
Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 01 Sep 2010, 18:30
by 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!
Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 01 Sep 2010, 19:50
by hawk_sh
Bone wrote: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 ?
Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 01 Sep 2010, 22:29
by 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.
Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 03 Sep 2010, 11:43
by Bone
Thanks guys. I'll give it a shot.
Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 06 Sep 2010, 12:12
by Bone
Would anyone be interested in doing a retro Thunderbirds F-4E? There's a clean MAIW version just begging for the paint.
Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 04 Oct 2010, 18:45
by hawk_sh
hawk_sh wrote:@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?
Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 15:11
by Bone
hawk_sh wrote:hawk_sh wrote:@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.
Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 17:50
by hawk_sh
Thanks Bone,
I will add this alpha channel in future releases.
Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 07 Nov 2010, 21:46
by hawk_sh
Does anyone know the callsign that was used by VF-121 Pacemakers?
Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 22 Nov 2010, 20:00
by hawk_sh
Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 27 Nov 2010, 02:58
by Bone
Very nice.
I just DL'd the VF-1 and VF-2 Tomcat paints you did. Awesome.
Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 30 Nov 2010, 22:36
by hawk_sh
Uploaded the VF-121 repaints to AVSIM and flightsim.com
filename: FM_F-4J_Phantom_II_VF-121_1976-78s.zip
Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 15 Mar 2011, 21:28
by hawk_sh
Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 15 Mar 2011, 21:33
by Firebird
Ahhhhhh ... you can never have too many 'Tooms.
Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 15 Mar 2011, 22:12
by 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!
Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 16 Mar 2011, 11:12
by Pemor2
nice done.
It would be cool if someone could do some repaints to the freeware release of Alphasims F-4 phantoms.
Re: Retro Phantoms
Posted: 16 Mar 2011, 14:32
by Flyin Illini
awesome hartwig, just awesome!