Military AI Works

OK, Phantom lovers here are some previews of the stuff I have been working on in the past months (beside my other major project):

The Phantoms that flew in the colors of the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy.

It started back in April when I had just installed Ian Kirby's Ark Royal scenery and also written some flightplans to use AI aircraft as static scenery objects. So I tried to replace the Phantoms on the flight deck of the Ark Royal scenery with more detailed AI Phantom models made by Fernando Martinez. When browsing the popular file libraries I found a lot of AI Phantom repaints but none for the Royal Navy. At the same time I discovered the paintkit for Fernando Martinez' F-4C Phantom model.So I started my first ever attempt to create a repaint for a FS aircraft.
To cut a long story short I tried to add more and more details and at some point I had the ambition to not only do just one repaint but at least every squadron and finally every aircraft of each unit.

So here is the result:
Almost 150 textures for Fernando Martinez' excellent F-4B, F-4C and Phantom FGR.2 AI models.
Each set contains one texture for the F-4B model (which has folding wings and a suitable carrier FDE) and one texture for the F-4C model (early Phantom FG.1s) or the Phantom FGR.2 model for shore-based operations. There are also different weapon loadouts for each aircraft.


No. 700P Squadron (Intensive Flying Trials Unit)
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established 30 April 1968 at RNAS Yeovilton, disbanded 31 March 1969



6 aircraft, repaints for the F-4B and F-4C models


No. 767 Naval Air Squadron
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established 14 January 1969 at RNAS Yeovilton, disbanded 01 August 1972



10 aircraft, repaints for the F-4B and F-4C models


PPOCU - Phantom Training Flight (Phantom Post-Operational Conversion Unit)
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established 01 September 1972 at RAF Leuchars, disbanded 31 May 1978



5 aircraft, repaints for the F-4B and F-4C models


No. 892 Naval Air Squadron
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established 31 March 1969 at RNAS Yeovilton, transferred to RAF Leuchars on 17 July 1972, disbanded 15 December 1978

early 1970s



12 aircraft, repaints for the F-4B and F-4C models


1976 - White Ensign markings



12 aircraft, repaints for the F-4B and FGR.2 models


1977 - special markings for the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II



13 aircraft + special livery Modex 014 "Red Thistle Flight" , repaints for the F-4B and FGR.2 models


1978 - special 892 NAS markings



12 aircraft + special liveries Modex 001 "Colonial Navy" and 007 "Fly Navy" , repaints for the F-4B and FGR.2 models


The repaints should be available in the following days...

Impressive looking body of work there.

One of my sources was the following site:

http://www.phantomf4k.org/

I just realized there was a major update of their image gallery last month ...

WOW! definately gona get these!! Where will they be available from?
Dave

I will upload them to flightsim.com and probably avsim when their library is online again.

A quick question. Will the package come with flightplans or will we have to make our own?

This package will be textures only.

But I made some simple flightplans and AFCADs for the Ark Royal, mainly to populate the flightdeck with one aircraft taking off and landing every 15 or 20 minutes (similiar to the AI traffic of the Alphasim Enterprise or Kuznetsov).
My "flightplans" for RAF Leuchars will only park them on the flightline (one flight per week in the middle of the night).

If there is enough interest I will put them together in a seperate file.

Right, fair enough seeing how hard you obviously worked on the paints themselves-they look brilliant!

The repaints are now available at flightsim.com.

The file names are:

fm_f-4phantom-fg1royalnavy_700p.zip
fm_f-4phantom-fg1royalnavy_767nas.zip
fm_f-4phantom-fg1royalnavy_892nas_early70s.zip
fm_f-4phantom-fg1royalnavy_892nas_1976.zip
fm_f-4phantom-fg1royalnavy_892nas_1977.zip
fm_f-4phantom-fg1royalnavy_892nas_1978.zip
fm_f-4phantom-fg1royalnavy_ppocu.zip

I also uploaded my flightplans and AFCAD files for the Ark Royal scenery:

royal_navy_ai_traffic_package.zip


Enjoy!

great & job well done!
Dave

excellent work...I like it

Thanks guys, I'm glad you like it.

Hi,

any change of re-uploading "f4b_for_bige.zip" on AVSIM.COM, it's missing sinds the hack.

thanx

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update: thanx "hawk_sh" for the file....got the phantoms flying..

Sorry, but that package is nothing to do with us. As Fernando has left the scene we have to hope that somebody who has the authority will upload it again.

overloaded wrote:Hi,

any change of re-uploading "f4b_for_bige.zip" on AVSIM.COM, it's missing sinds the hack.

thanx

Try looking on flightsim.com, i'm sure it's there to.
Dave

I am afraid Fernando Martinez' F-4B package is not on flightsim.com. I did not find it doing an intensive search.

But I think I was able to download it from AVSIM after the library was online again at the beginning of October. So the file seems to be still there and hopefully will be available again in the future.

In the meantime if anybody wants it, send me a PM.

@voorink, ckeck your PMs please, you got mail.

Can you PM me the file ""f4b_for_bige.zip"", thanks!!!

Fernando Martinez' F-4B package (f4b_for_bige.zip) is now available at AVSIM again.