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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.

welcome home Mike.

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

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

Good to hear from you again Mike!

These are being uploaded today.....

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

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

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).

Anyone fancy doing some flightplans for these super releases?

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

Geoff

geoffj wrote: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.

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.

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.

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

mikeblaze wrote: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."

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

They are up. Go get 'em.

Thank you for the Dragons and Ducks Mike.

Chris

Many thanks Mike - stuff of dreams.

DL