"Official" F-4E Livery Discussion

[Volator]

1 hour ago, II.JG1_Vonrd said:

What are your thoughts about the HB Default skins? It looks like only 37+83_n81a_jg74 has orange 

Yeah, that is a pity actually, it is in fact not historically correct. All GAF skins for the 70s and 80s should have the orange-red flightsuits. In the late 1980s the GAF started to issue dark-grey flightsuits, but that didn‘t happen over night, you could still see some pilots using the red ones until 1990.

I don‘t know the exact year when the GAF (and German Army and German Navy too, before that they all had their own colors, army=olive green, navy=dark/navy-blue) started using the common all-branches green flight suits, it might as well have been in the early to mid 2010s, and same thing, the change did not happen over night, you could see the dark-grey flightsuits suits along with the green for quite some time until all personell were equipped with the new green flight suits, and the miltary uniform regulations even today still mention the old flight suits (along with the classic grey aviator leather jacket that was a standard issue since the mid-to late 1960s) as a regular uniform alternative to the green flightsuit and green fabric aviator jacket.

Edited October 7, 2024 by Volator

[Volator]

2 hours ago, II.JG1_Vonrd said:

Would you happen to know which year?

I found this video which was posted 14 years ago, so 2010, and it shows the student pilots wearing the dark-grey Luftwaffe 1990s-2010s flightsuits, the dark-blue German Navy 1990s-2010s flightsuits and the green all-services 2010s-today flightsuits all at the same time, so I think it’s safe to say that the greens were introduced around 2009 to 2010.

[II.JG1_Vonrd]

Three new Luftwaffe RF-4E Phantoms. ("GHOST" is a fictional by request for the Tactical DCS Group for use in their online campaign). RF-4E 35+26_AKG-52_Tiger Meet 1991 35+10_AKG-52_standard "Lizard" colors Fictional Luftwaffe RF-4E “GHOST”of AG52

Links:

RF-4E 35+26_AKG-52_Tiger Meet 1991
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3341003/

35+10_AKG-52_standard "Lizard" colors
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3341062/

Fictional Luftwaffe RF-4E “GHOST”of AG52
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3341063/

[Volator]

On 10/20/2024 at 11:15 PM, II.JG1_Vonrd said:

RF-4E 35+26_AKG-52_Tiger Meet 1991 35+10_AKG-52_standard "Lizard" colors

Fantastic skins, thank you!

[Xtorris]

Darkened pit

[Qcumber]

Anyone fancy making this livery?

 

[Oesau]

On 11/19/2024 at 6:24 PM, Qcumber said:

Anyone fancy making this livery?

 

See this thread - https://forum.dcs.world/topic/363124-livery-request-turaf-50th-year/#comment-5556027

[Iaincoe]

has anyone made a livery for treble one Sqn or 43 fighting cocks RAF leuchars, would love that as watching them led me to getting my pilots license  

[Gözcü]

On 19.11.2024 at 10:24, Qcumber said:

Bu tasarımı yaptırmak isteyen var mı?

 

 

LİNK- https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3342249/

 

[Qcumber]

18 minutes ago, Gözcü said:

 

LİNK- https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3342249/

 

Looks amazing! 

[Gözcü]

F-4E 50th Anniversary Special Turkish Air Force 

[Oban]

When can we expect to have the textures template?

[Zabuzard]

3 hours ago, Oban said:

When can we expect to have the textures template?

Sorry, no ETA.

[badger7966]

Whats the issue with that , can it really be that much of an issue ?

Once its released can you just imagine what the livery Guru's will get up too !!!

[DragonSoulkin]

At this point I'm less interested in having a livery paint-kit for the Phantom, and would much rather have dynamic board numbers for the Tomcat and Phantom. It's a pain in the arse for those of us that make liveries for squadron/s and takes up a ridiculous amount of storage space having to manually paint the numbers on for every individual modex, on each separate template that has the location/s of where the numbers would be placed (nose l/r, wing l/r, and tail l/r). Quadrupling the size of the livery files they would be if we just had dynamic board numbers and just had to worry about painting the names on the canopy rail.

[badger7966]

[II.JG1_Vonrd]

Luftwaffe F-4F-53-MC, 37+22, SN 72-1132, CN 3722 of JG71 (formerly JG72) in painted in NORM 81B camouflage circa 1992.

Link: digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3342755/

[badger7966]

yes....I SAW THEM AND HAVE THEM DOWNLOADED....REALLY NICE SKINS,THANK YOU.

[II.JG1_Vonrd]

This will be the next depiction of 37+22 in Norm90J and ACE configuration. Looks like they worked these aircraft really hard.

[Devil 505]

Looking for some talented Livery designers looking for free work. LOL. The boys and I are in desperate need for some USMC Phantom liveries to go in our Vietnam experience in the video below.  We created a section for the USMC out of Andersen with A-4 and will populate with Crusaders and Intruders when they release.  I was hoping to be able to put client F-4E's along with some statics on deck until a proper USMC variant is released by Heatblur.  I was wondering if anyone would be willing to make some USMC skins for Heatblurs F-4.  Not to interested in the VSN mod. Below are a few examples of what we would be looking for but open to suggestions.  You can see where I will be placing the F-4's in the video.

 

 

 

[II.JG1_Vonrd]

I could probably help but not for a while since I have a line of projects waiting. You should post your request at the DCS: Livery Art Group Discord: https://discord.com/channels/547961984658833408/929137570359697409

[Devil 505]

6 hours ago, II.JG1_Vonrd said:

I could probably help but not for a while since I have a line of projects waiting. You should post your request at the DCS: Livery Art Group Discord: https://discord.com/channels/547961984658833408/929137570359697409

Absolute rockstar man! Appreciate the heads up.  I will go do that now. 

Just got back from Discord.  When I launch the discord app and click on the link above, it does not take me there. Just a blank screen on discord. 

Edited January 14 by Devil 505

[II.JG1_Vonrd]

You probably have to join the main Livery Art Group server first: https://discord.gg/mhYUj35A

[badger7966]

I'm kinda disapointed at the lack of authentic livery's for this beast...I do believe it has to do with HB not releasing the template...so why not ?

I do believe that when the template is released the livery's will be insane!

What's the issue HB please ?

[Zabuzard]

I'm kinda disapointed at the lack of authentic livery's for this beast...I do believe it has to do with HB not releasing the template...so why not ?
I do believe that when the template is released the livery's will be insane!
What's the issue HB please ?

It needs to be created first, that takes time. Way more time than what people think. Cobra explained it a bit on reddit a few months ago.
Either case, it will be made available once it's ready.