Re: Spinners' Strike Fighters Thread

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Supermarine Blaze Mk.I - No.73 Squadron, RAF Fighter Command, 1937


Just seeing the tail hook on the above profile view makes me think that perhaps the Fleet Air Arm would like the Blaze also?

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Supermarine Spitfire VIIIc - No.43 Squadron, RAF Middle East Command, 1944





I don't think this has quite worked but this Spitfire VIIIc has lo-viz RAF roundels (but in WW2 proportions and size!) on a grey skin and with squadron codes and the spinner in the same colour pink. Worth a try!

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English Electric F-112C Lightning - 68th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Air Defense Command, USAF, 1967







I've done ADC Lightnings before (using the Lightning F.3) as the F-112B but this was inspired by a fin marking on Pellson's 'Danish Deuce' in the Current and Finished Projects section.

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Hawker Hunter F.4 - No.600 and No.601 Squadrons, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, 1957









'What If' the RAuxAF were allowed to continue and began to re-equip with hand-me-down Hunter F.4's? I made new 'nose bars' for these two squadrons and did consider using full 'fuselage bars' as well so perhaps I'll do further RAuxAF Hunter squadrons or possibly inflict the Swift on them!

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Hawker Hunter T.7 - No.602 Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, 1960



This is actually a Hunter T.8 3D model (ported over from FSX I believe and given to me to play with) with a few surplus lumps and bumps that can't be removed. I can see that it also has two 30mm cannon whereas most T.7's had just the one or was it just on the Matchbox kit?

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Hawker Hunter F.6 - No.602 Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, 1962






Moving back to the single-seater F.6 and introducing 'fuselage bars' as well as the 'nose bars'.

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Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck - No.2 (Leinster) Squadron, Irish Air Corps, 1961







Wales were well beaten by Ireland today so an Irish Air Corps 'what if' was required and the Canuck fits the bill. I've pasted the national insignia directly onto the skin textures and given my Leinster markings another airing. There's every chance I'll be doing something Scottish next Saturday!

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Supermarine Swift F.6 - No.500 (County of Kent) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, 1958







I love these No.500 Squadron markings and thought I'd give them a whirl on the Swift. The 3D model is supposed to be the FR.5 but I've removed the ventral tank and the undernose scoop.

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Supermarine Spitfire Mk.VIb - 57 GvIAP, Soviet Air Force, 1943








A lovely Spitfire Mk.VIb was released today with standard RAF camo and also desert camo. All I've done here is use a Soviet skin for a Vb which stretches around the extra wing-tip area with no bother at all.

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McDonnell Douglas Phantom FGR.3 - No.6 Squadron, RAF Strike Command, 1970







One I've done before but this revisit is inspired by tc2324's excellent RAF F-4E in the Current and Finished Projects section. So this is an F-4E with the later type of gun but it does have slats which came a couple of years later... but, thank God, we're in whif land! The F-4M skin fits with a couple of adjustments and I've removed the fin-tip RWR.

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Nord Aviation HC-127B Noratlas - United States Coast Guard, 1960









I've previously done an RAF Noratlas and thought I'd try to do a USCG aircraft although Lord knows how many cargo aircraft the US have had past and present that they'd need this one from France! Anyway, thanks to the template, the white skin was the easy part. The time-consuming part was the decals or, to be more precise, the decal positioning as there are no less than 45 decal positions on this - that's a record for me and I've done this for 15 years now! The C-127 was an unbuilt Boeing cargo plane cancelled at a very early stage so I've pinched that designation. I quite like the look of the Noratlas!

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Clunk Miscellany






I've been playing around with the 'Clunk' lately and thought I'd show some piccies of it with the wing-tip rocket pods and with some missiles under it's very broad wings.

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BAC Jet Provost T.5A - No.234 (Reserve) Squadron, No.1 Tactical Weapons Unit, Royal Air Force, 1985




Just playing around with 1980's pale insignia on a grey skin. Not my favourite era for RAF markings but I do like the Jet Provost.

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Makes me wonder about a Jet Provost in desert pink (with pale/subdued markings) as a FAC aircraft during the Ninties Gulf War, as an alternative to the Buccs?

What warload are you envisaging?