Robert31178

Oh man Sirius, thank you so much!! I'm gonna chant your name on here for weeks when I see it, I LOVE Zott liveries!!! And thanks for the education. I'm still learning about what makes what a what in Tomcats!! ~Rob

Wooot!!!!

Another nice pic of the color:

Christine, the longest serving Tomcat, served with five different units and served all over the world. I know she went from A to D, but we'll get both soon enough!!! Story: https://theaviationgeekclub.com/story-christine-longest-serving-f-14-tomcat-u-s-navy/

I thought I would post some of the colorful nose arts of the Tomcat so that skin makers would have some subject matter to hopefully take on!! A pair of VF-11 F-14B's, one grey scale one colorful: VF-84 tribute to the VF-11 skin: Muthuh....I don't know if this was a D or a B, but Pukin Dogs "Last Dog On Deck":

As per thread name, be a neat pairing for the stock skins!!

LOL good catch!!!

Also noticed something with the nose after I posted these up. The anti-glare is doing something weird as it drops onto the nosecone. It really stands out in the 2nd pic I posted. Here is one of their planes with similar markings with the anti-glare: Not trying to nitpick this thing to death, I love it!! Just trying to help! ~Rob

I likey so far!! Some suggestions - might be a little too blue, might could weather and/or tone down the red and black. Here are shots of it in a server. Thanks so much for sharing!!!!

Checking it out RIGHT NOW!!!!!! Thanks!

Update to some updates lol..... I just got done doing some extensive testing, here are my findings in multiplayer: - mini door gunners work on spawn. Once you rearm they stop - M60's work fine on rearm, or did for me. - You can't change either fuel or a skin because it does it through the rearm menu, if you do you might as well put on M60's while your at it because you just broke your mini gunners. This was all done on the dedicated server that the 355th runs 24/7. We thought maybe it was a pylon issue, but it seems to be more like it'd be something tied to the rearm/refuel script. I have not tried to refuel then leave real quick so I dunno about that part. C'mon ED, we need these gunners for protection!!!

Well pass along my thanks and compliments to him please sir!! Any chance he'd do Aardvarks? ~Rob

Fits perfectly for that helicopter!!! Love it!

Puh-leeeeeeez when the template comes out can someone skin some Aardvarks??!?!? I know they flew A's and A+'s, but man I love their liveries!! Le Bucket, starring Zott:

Looks good so far though!! I'd wear it! Thanks for tackling this one Porco!!

Send me the skin and I'll see if I can get it working for you. You are probably running into a country naming issue, so if the UK skin you like is only for a UK faction then it won't be available as an option on a multiplayer server that has US as the listed blue air force. All you have to do is open the .lua inside of the folder and add "USA" to the list of countries. I'd happily do it for you if you do not know how, I just need a link to DL it myself. ~Rob

"A shame they never introduced her into service." Not really. The USAF did way better buying the Viper. It could carry more payload farther, the Viper also shared some parts with the Eagle, keeping costs. down. F-20 was designed initially for a Hornet engine, one of the main reasons that the USAF went with Viper over the YF-17. they would have looked like fools asking for money from Congress for the F-20 after having said they wanted the F-16 because of shared engines. I know that it has been written that the F-20 may have been the best fighter never put into production, but from a sales standpoint it was doomed. The Viper could out-everything it, and it was also proven weapons system with sales all over the world. That said, I'd fly it!!!

You can hope, you don't need to ask permission for that :thumbup:

That news was actually tongue in cheek news for ED....fix the damn gunners already!!

No problem!! Thanks for the reply! ~Rob

Hey, I clicked on the link and hit the big "download" drop down option. It downloaded as two packs, kinda fragmenting the skin files. I put them together so that they can be downloaded all together with no mess ups. CVW-8, do you want me to provide a link to the zip file here so that folks can grab the whole enchilada with no issues? ~Rob

I mean, my third time driving a manual went a lot better than the first time lol.... As for the Cat, day one was atrocious, just as it was for me in Huey, Harrier, F-5, etc......yesterday was great, flew three real hops with a live RIO, hit targets, landed without breaking anything. The more time you spend on something the better you are gonna get. My point was that on your second flight you might have subconsciously been recalling some of Tomcats subtle quirks, and ipso facto, having a better feel for the plane, giving the impression that the FM might have changed for the better when it most likely is YOU who changed and flew better. I'll eat crow if HB comes out and says "ya, we changed that shit", but stickin' to my guns for now!

Outer Rim even lol....

That's an older video...you can tell because the AI gunners are working in the Huey......