Su-27 Fictional Skins: US Navy Fighter Squadrons

[Home Fries]

EDIT: With the release of Volume II of this skin pack, the links for both skin packs are now at the top of this post.

 

Links (Volume I):

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CombatAce

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Links (Volume II):

 

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CombatAce

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Links (Volume III):

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CombatAce

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Volume I is a collection of eight skins representing three US Navy fighter squadrons using historical F-14 Tomcat liveries.

 

The squadrons included are:

 

 

• VF-21 Freelancers (CAG, CO, Line birds)
  
• VF-103 Jolly Rogers (CAG, CO, Line birds)
  
• VF-124 Gunfighters (CO, Line birds)
  

 

The VF-103 skins date from their 2000 deployment with CVW-17 on the USS George Washington. Included as the CO bird is the famous "Santa Cat", which has the jolly roger decked out in Christmas gear.

 

Most markings have been westernized, and the pilots have been given USN flightsuits with Naval Aviator wings and squadron patches. The helmet remains Russian made.

 

These skins were inspired by Clave's Deviant Art gallery:

http://ws-clave.deviantart.com/gallery/6112394?offset=432

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 21, 2017 by Home Fries
Addition of Volume III

[Home Fries]

USN Fighter Squadrons Volume II

 

Volume II of the USN Fantasy skins includes the VF-2 Bounty Hunters, VF-111 Sundowners, and the VF-213 Blacklions (the squadron that retired the Tomcat).

 

 

 

VF-2 CAG Bird:

 

 

and the VF-2 line bird:

 

 

VF-111 CAG Bird "Miss Molly" (my new favorite):

 

 

The shark mouth...

 

 

and the VF-111 line bird (with a low vis shark mouth):

 

 

Finally, the VF-213 Blacklions. We'll start with the CAG Bird:

 

 

the CO bird:

 

 

The line bird:

 

 

Links for Volume II can be found in the original post of this thread.

Edited June 27, 2015 by Home Fries

[Home Fries]

Both skin packs have been re-uploaded with installers that create common texture folders and an autoexec.cfg (if you already have one, you can make manual changes). This coincides with the Su-33 release of the same skin packs, which share some textures.

[Home Fries]

DCS 1.5.5 introduces an issue with the Su-27 and Su-33 skins. This issue is easily addressed. See the solution here in my Su-33 thread (though replace any references to the Su-33 folder with Su-27).

 

Thanks to Winston 60 for the solution, which should hold you all over until the issue is stabilized and I can release an update.

Edited November 14, 2016 by Home Fries

[Winston 60]

Using the solution that worked on the Su-33's did not work on the Su-27's, at least for me. I have just provided Home Fries with some other changes to the Su-27's description.lua that got the skins working for me again. Let's let him have a look at my changes and see if he can finalize a fix for the description.lua files for these great skins.

 

I worked for hours on these US Navy skins by Home Fries to get them working again after upgrading to 1.5.5 on Friday as I could not stand to be without them for my Squadron's flights!

[Home Fries]

Volumes I and II are updated to 1.12. The biggest part of the update is the installer that now allows for a traditional install (i.e. textures in livery folder). The 33 volumes are also updated, and the adversaries should be released shortly (27 only).

[Winston 60]

Home Fries, thanks for the new installer and updating these great skins.

[Home Fries]

Volume III of the USN Skin Pack has been released. Volume III is a collection of 13 skins for the USN and USMC in adversary markings. Commands include, VFC-12, VFC-13, VMFT-401, and NSAWC (home of TOPGUN).

 

Links can be found in the original post in this thread..

 

Here are some screenshots:

USN NSAWC Air Superiority Blue Splinter pattern based on the F-14

 

USMC NSAWC Woodland wraparound pattern

 

USMC VMFT-401 pattern based on the colors used when they flew the Kfir

 

Another VMFT-401 bird, this time in a desert wraparound pattern

 

USN VFC-13 Ghost colors

 

VFC-13 Desert colors

 

VFC-13 "Banana" colors in a splinter pattern

 

USMC Air Superiority Blue wraparound pattern

 

A couple of arctic patterns

 

And the Fullback pattern based on the Su-34 (inspired by a paint job done by VFC-12 this year)

 

As always, the detail extends to the pilots themselves

Edited January 12, 2017 by Home Fries
Released

[Plagi_Arism]

Unfortunately, it seems the paint does not match on the nosecone with the paint behind the nose, front of the canopy. (Vol.1 and Vol.2 skins) Please fix it. (Perhaps you should edit the specular map of the nose.)

 

[Home Fries]

Normally, the nosecone is made of a different material than the aluminum or steel of the aircraft. It's often a fiberglass or resin of some sort - something that won't build up static electricity. It is also painted with a thinner coat to allow the radar to work better (since the dielectric paint can impede the radar). It is true that you don't always see such a mismatch on USN aircraft, but that could also be a difference in construction. Bottom line: I did use the default spec textures in this case, but the mismatch is based in realism.

[NRG-Vampire]

gotcha.

i see your points but i would prefer to use skins where the paint of the nosecone match to paint on the other parts of the nose section, especially because these skins are fictional skins

 

if you release your 1.5 version please make "same paint on nosecone" option for tex07 textures if possible...and for su-33 as well

 

thank you

[Home Fries]

I added gloss to the specular 07 for the ASB skins in my Su-27 Adversary pack, but when I apply those to the standard USN skins it still doesn't improve it. I've also tried matching the green/purple pattern to the 07 spec, but I'm not having a whole lot of success.

 

I'll keep trying, but no promises.

[1stBEAST]

hey, do you still have the templates for the navy fighter volume 2?

my squadron likes the bounty hunter skin very much, especially the HiViz version and we would like to add more numbers. (101,102) to the HiViz

 

 

[Home Fries]

Hi Beast,

 

Sorry for the delay. PM me and we can discuss it.

[Home Fries]

All Su-27 skins were updated to version 1.13. This version updates the Specular files for the ASB Adversary skins and updates the installer for DCS 2.5 and DCS Legacy 1.5.