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Mi-24P Hind

Livery Competition
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Design your own custom livery for the DCS: Mi-24P Hind and if your entry stands out, it could be officially added to DCS! All liveries must be based on a paint scheme prior to 2018. Good luck!

Prizes:

  • 1st Place: $100 DCS ED Miles + 1 Free Eagle Dynamics Module + Livery added to the module.
  • 2nd Place: $50 DCS ED Miles + Livery added to the module.
  • 3rd Place: $25 DCS ED Miles + Livery added to the module.

How to Participate:

  1. Create Your Livery: 
  1. Submit Your Entry:
    • Entries should be submitted as a ZIP file containing your livery textures and a readme.txt file with your callsign, DCS username, and email address.
    • Submit your livery via the competition submission page by simply replying to the thread. You can use an external link if the ZIP file size is too large.
  1. Submission Format:
    • Format: .PSD or DDS
    • Include a minimum of three screenshots: front, side, and top views of your livery on the DCS: Mi-24P Hind.
    • Maximum of three liveries per participant.
  1. Voting and Judging:
    • Entries will be judged on creativity, quality, and in-sim applicability.
    • Finalists will be showcased on our forums for community viewing.
    • Special attention to Soviet - Afghan era liveries will be made.

Rules and Guidelines:

  • Original Work: 
    • The submitted liveries must be your original creation. Plagiarized designs will be disqualified.
  • No Political Themes: 
    • To ensure that our competition remains a positive and inclusive event, liveries must not include any political symbols, flags, emblems, or themes. This includes national flags, political parties, slogans, or any imagery that may be interpreted as divisive or controversial. All entries must be based on a paint scheme prior to 2018.
  • Cultural Respect:
    • Avoid using offensive, inappropriate, or culturally insensitive imagery. We want this competition to celebrate creativity and the global DCS community in a positive and respectful manner.
  • In-sim Usability: 
    • Liveries should be practical and functional for in-sim use. Entries should complement the realistic nature of DCS and liveries that are too outlandish or impractical may not be considered.
  • Submission Deadline: 
    • All entries must be submitted by the 29th of November 2024 at 23:59 GMT. Late submissions will not be considered.
  • Legal Notice: 
    • By submitting your livery, you grant Eagle Dynamics the right to use, modify, and feature your design in DCS, promotional materials, and official media channels.

Announcement of Winners:

The winners will be contacted and announced in the newsletter so stay tuned! We’re excited to see how you envision the Mi-24P Hind’s look on the battlefield! Good luck, and may the most creative and detailed design win!

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For any questions or clarifications, please visit our forums or contact us.

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Ми-24П

Конкурс ливрей

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Создайте своими руками ливрею для модуля DCS: Ми-24П и, если она займет одно из призовых мест, то официально войдет в комплект DCS World! Все варианты ливрей должны отталкиваться от реальных окрасок прототипов, использовавшихся до 2018 года. Удачи!

Призовой фонд:

  • 1-е место: $100 в ED Милях + плюс один модуль DCS по вашему выбору + официальное включение ливреи в комплект DCS.
  • 2-е место: $50 в ED Милях + официальное включение ливреи в комплект DCS.
  • 3-е место: $25 в ED Милях + официальное включение ливреи в комплект DCS.

Порядок участия:

  1. Создайте свою уникальную ливрею для DCS: Ми-24П на базе официального шаблона.
  2. Разместите заявку:
    • Заявки должны содержать ZIP файл, содержащий саму ливрею и файл описания: readme.txt, в котором указать свой позывной (или желаемое имя), имя пользователя на форуме DCS, и email адрес для связи.
    • Разместите заявку в этой ветке форума. Если размер файла окажется слишком велик, вы можете разместить его на внешнем хостинге и дать ссылку на него.
  3. Общий формат и требования:
    • Работы принимаются в форматах .PSD, либо .DDS
    • Дополнительно, помимо readme.txt включите в zip минимум три скриншота видов спереди, сбоку и сверху.
    • Допускается не более трех работ от одного заявленного участника конкурса.
  4. Порядок определения победителей:
    • Заявки будут оцениваться по уровню креативности (творческому мастерству), качеству и применимости в симуляторе.
    • Финалисты будут объявлены официально, а работы продемонстрированы публично. 
    • Особое внимание будет уделено работам по теме Афганской войны.

Правила участия:

  • Исключительная оригинальность и собственная работа от первого до последнего штриха: 
    • Работы с признаками плагиата и использования уже существующих графических наработок будут дисквалифицированы и исключены из дальнейшего рассмотрения.
  • Будьте политкорректны: 
    • Для того, чтобы не допустить нарушения общей позитивной направленности конкурса, ливреи не должны содержать политизированную символику, эмблемы, включая флаги, партийную принадлежность, слоганы и другие элементы, которые могут быть истолкованы как вызывающие вражду и раздоры. Все заявки должны базироваться на окрасках летательных аппаратов, применяемых до 2018 года!
  • Культурный аспект:
    • Избегайте использования оскорбительных, неуместных или культурно-чувствительных образов на разрабатываемых ливреях. Мы искренне желаем того, чтобы DCS объединял людей по всему миру. Будьте уважительны ко всем участникам нашего комьюнити.
  • Применимость в симуляторе: 
    • Ливреи должны расширять ситуативную вариативность использования модуля и стремиться быть полезными на практике. Мы стремимся к реалистичности в поддерживаемых модулях, поэтому излишне неправдоподобные работы могут быть исключены из конкурсного марафона.
  • Сроки представления работ: 
    • Все работы должны быть представлены до 23:59  29-го ноября 2024 года по Гринвичу. Работы не уложившиеся в срок – рассматриваться не будут.
  • Публичное согласие: 
    • Публикуя заявку на участие в конкурсе, вы даёте Eagle Dynamics исключительно право на использование, возможную дальнейшую модификацию и включение ваших работ в поставку DCS, а также в рекламную и иную продукцию, в том числе на публикацию в информационных и других каналах.

Объявление победителей:

Мы свяжемся с победителями, а их имена будут объявлены в новостном письме. Оставайтесь на связи! Мы ждём ваших работ, и вашего представления о том, как может выглядеть Ми-24П в виртуальном небе! Удачи друзья, и пусть победит самый достойный!

Скачайте официальный шаблон текстур Ми-24П для конкурса

Для уточнения деталей, вы всегда можете связаться с нами на форуме или в письме.

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This is my take for MI24P. Even not within your declared special attention, I still think this will stand out as one of the best real design for a Mi24P.

VeticalT theme was used in real life on an airshow.

The attention to detail I've put on this skin was tremendous. Aligning all the shapes at the level that can be seen on screenshots below took me so much time, but the result I think will please you. My preference was to have a factory new look, however if requested I may apply to weathering to it.

The skin can be found for download since some time ago in here: (there is the original VerticalT and a variant I called OrizontalR which themes for Eagle Dynamics)

Mi24 Vertical-T and Orizontal-R (digitalcombatsimulator.com)

 

Note: my .psd files are having an whapping 2GB. Please provide an alternate location for upload, or you may download them from here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mQsBsD796KX4IvUd_rZyc7MCfka-1wWp/view?usp=sharing

Please let me know if anything more is required

 

PS: Please find below the original GIMP templates i've used to create this skin, in case are needed. The above PSDs are generated from GIMP so I have no clue if they are ok:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eIisGFV553XhlrxH7Qa2S80e-36rRQKg/view?usp=drive_link

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Ok, this is my entry. It's a perfect time because the conflicts in Afghanistan, both US and Soviet, are my favorite topic 😉

Travel back to the times of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan 1979-89. This Mi-24P of OSAP repaint based on the real repaints used in this conflict on the Mi-24P, type - "desert clover" used during military operations in Afghanistan. The skin is based on the real schemes used on the Mi-24P in Afghanistan, the so-called "Afghan clover pattern". This camo was created at that time in two variants, greenish (as a background) and sand-colored (as a background). The repaint also has changed interior elements (pilot, gunner, etc.), includes enhanced weathering too and can be used with any side number (with weathering numbers too). I'm adding a few more screenshots than planned. The skin is a part of my "Szatan Arba" campaign dedicated for Mi-24P. Link HERE. 

Skin is already for download: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3335143/.

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Personally I don't work in Photo Shop only in Corel, that's why I have files but CPT. I'll export them to PSD and give links later (although it will be very big content).

Btw. if this skin were to be published, I can adjust it to DCS/ED requirements (in such a case it would probably be necessary to remove the "wolf and hare" symbol and the pictures from the kneeboard, in the free version these things can be still).

Callsign: YoYo
DCS username: YoYo
E-mail address: PM me
Files: DDS files (eventually CPT files)

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deadghostjt

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My 3 competition entries: 

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Entry 1: Afghan Air Force / Mujahideen captured Hind (lemon scheme):

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3341109/

 

Entry 2: Afghan Air Force / Mujahideen captured Hind (late 1980's orange scheme):

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3341121/

 

Entry 3: Afghan Air Force / Taliban captured Hind (1996 weathered scheme):

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3341791/

 

Includes: historical bright lemon yellow / orange scheme / weathered yellow scheme, metallic exhaust rings, pilots with mustaches, 2 digit numbers and gray exhaust IR suppressors

Countries: Afghanistan, Insurgents

Callsign: deadghostjt
DCS username: deadghostjt
E-mail address: DM me for e-mail address
PSD-files: DM me for original PSD files

 

Because there are no decal changes these will work as Afghan Air Force planes too. Pilots usually just switched sides to whoever was in control when regime got changed or they defected so there is no need to draw long beards for these guys anyway. Idea here is to allow creation of scenarios for both AAF and Insurgents with planes that were historically actually flown or could have been flown by both sides during late 80's war period and 90's.

 

The Mil Mi-24 and Mi-35 (export model) attack helicopters have a long history in Afghanistan. The aircraft was operated extensively during the Soviet-Afghan War, mainly for attacking mujahideen fighters. Early in the war, the only anti-air weapons of the mujahideen were Soviet-made, shoulder-launched, heat-seeking SAMs and American Redeye, which had either been captured from the Soviets or their Afghan allies or were supplied by Western sources. Many of them came from stocks the Israelis had captured during their wars with Soviet client states in the Middle East. Owing to a combination of the limited capabilities of these early types of missiles, poor training and poor material condition of the missiles, they were not particularly effective. Beginning in 1986, the US supplied the mujahideen with its state-of-the-art heat-seeking missile, the FIM-92 Stinger, which the Afghans employed with devastating effect. In the first use of the Stinger in Afghanistan, mujahideen fighters downed three of eight unsuspecting Soviet Mi-24 Hinds as they approached the airfield at Jalalabad on a late September afternoon. Some scholars point to that event in 1986 as the turning point in the war. Moreover, for most of the remainder of the war when Stingers were known to be present, Soviet and Afghan aircraft elected to remain at higher altitudes where they were less vulnerable to the missile, but also less effective in ground attacks. Although employed extensively throughout the war as a ground attack platform, the Hind suffered from a weak tail boom and was found to be underpowered for some missions it was called upon to perform in the mountains of Afghanistan, where high density altitude is especially problematic for rotary-wing aircraft.

Overall, the Hind proved effective and very reliable, earning the respect of both Soviet and Afghan pilots as well as ordinary Afghans throughout the country. The mujahideen nicknamed the Mi-24 the "Devil's Chariot" due to its notorious reputation.

After the Soviet withdrawal and the departure of foreign advisors, the Air Force declined in terms of operational capability. With the collapse of the Najibullah Government in 1992, the Air Force splintered, breaking up amongst the different mujahideen factions in the ongoing civil war. By the end of the 1990s, the Taliban maintained five supersonic MiG-21MF and 10 Sukhoi Su-22 fighter-bombers. They also held six Mil Mi-8 helicopters, five Mi-35s, five L-39Cs, six An-12s, 25 An-26s, a dozen An-24/32s, an IL-18, and a Yakovlev. The Afghan Northern Alliance/United Front operated a small number of helicopters and transports and a few other aircraft for which it depended on assistance from neighboring Tajikistan.

 

Perhaps the most important question many were asking was how the Taliban – a radical movement that had been employing mostly unsophisticated weapons – learned to fly their newly captured mounts. The answer was an easy one, though: as had happened in Afghanistan several times before, in the times of a regime change, part of the Afghan Air Force would simply side with the winning party, which this time happened to be the Taliban.

 

Orange Mujahideen (late 1980's):

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3341121/

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2 digit tail numbers and sand weathering

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Lemon Yellow Mujahideen:

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3341109/

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Weathered Taliban (1996):

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3341791/

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weathering

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mustaches for BOTH pilots

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For evaluation purposes please download the latest versions of the skins.

Any decals or details can be further adjusted, removed or edited if needed to match spesific criterias in final game added skins if selected as one of the winners.

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Awacs_bandog

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I suppose I'll throw my lot into this competition as well. 

This is based on the Mi-24D used in the Soviet film "Charged with Death", released in 1991. While the United States Coast Guard to the best of my knowledge never flew the Mi-24, the Soviet film makers used a Hind in the movie (likely to simulate the then-new MH-60 used by the USCG)

I figured it met a fun middle ground between a 'What if', and an odd ball historic livery that the aircraft did use at one point in its long Soviet service (never in any 'official' military capacity I can find; however, details on the movie are not easy to find this side of the world outside of IMDB)

Currently its awaiting upload authorization for User-files, so when that occurs I'll update with a download link.
Download Link 
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3341005/

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Volator

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On 10/20/2024 at 11:30 PM, II.JG1_Vonrd said:

I will be extensively re-working this old skin of mine.

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3321686/

Also a post unification Luftwaffe skin which I hadn't published.

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So it will also be a post-unification skin?

 

I hope for somebody creating a German Democratic Republic (GDR) pre-unification skin. Would be neat to have such a skin as an official, included livery with dynamic (three digits) bort numbers.

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II.JG1_Vonrd

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5 hours ago, Volator said:

So it will also be a post-unification skin?

 

I hope for somebody creating a German Democratic Republic (GDR) pre-unification skin. Would be neat to have such a skin as an official, included livery with dynamic (three digits) bort numbers.

I plan on doing the first as East German and the next as the same airframe in post unification markings (the actual camo wasn't changed, just the markings). Later the same airframe was transferred to Hungary, overhauled and repainted and I will probably do that one also. I just wish that I had good color references. I will probably use the template colors for the default Russian colors since I don't think that the East Germans re-painted the camo when they received them. 

The colors on the one shown here I don't think are correct. It is a probably museum repaint. 

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Raffi75

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5 hours ago, II.JG1_Vonrd said:

I plan on doing the first as East German and the next as the same airframe in post unification markings (the actual camo wasn't changed, just the markings). Later the same airframe was transferred to Hungary, overhauled and repainted and I will probably do that one also. I just wish that I had good color references. I will probably use the template colors for the default Russian colors since I don't think that the East Germans re-painted the camo when they received them. 

The colors on the one shown here I don't think are correct. It is a probably museum repaint. 

 

The regiment I served in received several Mi-24D helicopters from the former DDR. I plan to make some skins from that period in a three-color scheme someday.

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Mainstay

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On 10/12/2024 at 11:04 PM, YaNeVor said:

Mi-24P from 262nd separate helicopter squadron in Afghansitan, Bagram 1988 (262-я отдельная вертолётная эскадрилья, Баграм 1988 год)
DCS user files: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3340964/
For PSD, pls dm in forum or discord (yanevor)

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@YaNeVor

Very nice livery! well done

I have a request for a slightly edited version.

Would it possible to make a version without the dragon emblems on the left and right side and without the eyes on the intakes?

That would be awesome and thnx in advance

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II.JG1_Vonrd

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1 hour ago, Raffi75 said:

The regiment I served in received several Mi-24D helicopters from the former DDR. I plan to make some skins from that period in a three-color scheme someday.

Were they the green / tan/ sky blue Russian colors?

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Raffi75

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4 hours ago, II.JG1_Vonrd said:

Were they the green / tan/ sky blue Russian colors?

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They were painted the same as our helicopters: light grey - olive green - blue (bottom).

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Here is one of them

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And here another one, had badly applied paint that quickly rubbed off and the German camouflage started to show and after some time even the markings and side number were visible. That's why I know they were painted in the same colors.  It wasn't the same, it was like in Inowrocław

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II.JG1_Vonrd

II.JG1_Vonrd

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31 minutes ago, Raffi75 said:

They were painted the same as our helicopters: light grey - olive green - blue (bottom).

Would you say those were the colors the East Germans used? The photo I posted above seems to show the lighter color as more tan than gray. But the camera plays tricks. This one is all green shades. 

I wish ED would provide some guidance from their research.

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Raffi75

Raffi75

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59 minutes ago, II.JG1_Vonrd said:

Would you say those were the colors the East Germans used? The photo I posted above seems to show the lighter color as more tan than gray. But the camera plays tricks. This one is all green shades. 

I wish ED would provide some guidance from their research.

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Yes. It could have been like that. The paint scheme I showed was in Pruszcz Gdański, near the sea. The paint scheme you showed was in Inowrocław, they had the Mi-24W version. Instead of grey it was sand (yellow-green?) and olive-green. The bottom was also light blue (I used Humbrol 65 paint when making the model).

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Here is a graphic with both paintings. On top is Pruszcz Gdański, below is Inowrocław.

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Both paint schemes were based on original Russian patterns.

ps. If you look closely, you can actually see the yellow color coming out from under our camouflage on the 156 helicopter.

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