Some aircraft profiles
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Some aircraft profiles
These represent real aircraft, painted in realistic color schemes / markings, but the aircraft never actually existed in this form. Kind of a \"what-if\" scenario. Note: unless otherwise noted, I did not draw the line art - just colored/highlighted/shaded/edited/modified/etc.
The A-10B was a two-seat prototype, proposed to the USAF first as a trainer, then as a night/all-weather attack aircraft. Only one was built, but the USAF actually ordered a few, but then cancelled them. Had they been built, they might have looked like this.
81st TFW, RAF Bentwaters, USAF s/n 82-0695, European I camo.
510th FS, 52nd FW, Spangdahlem AB, USAF s/n 82-0700.
Luftwaffe, JaboG 38.
The A-10B was a two-seat prototype, proposed to the USAF first as a trainer, then as a night/all-weather attack aircraft. Only one was built, but the USAF actually ordered a few, but then cancelled them. Had they been built, they might have looked like this.
81st TFW, RAF Bentwaters, USAF s/n 82-0695, European I camo.
510th FS, 52nd FW, Spangdahlem AB, USAF s/n 82-0700.
Luftwaffe, JaboG 38.
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Here ya go, have funOctopus wrote:Looking good!
Hey post the blank one, so that the whole class can play.
Yup, it's been a long time coming, they're also getting new wings. A-10s should be around for quite some time, current planning is until 2028.Duper wrote:I was glad to hear that the warthog got a reprieve and is getting the C upgrades! She'll be with us a While longer it looks like!
(single seater of course)
Força Aérea Brasileira
336th FS, 4th TFW at Seymour Johnson AFB, USAF s/n 82-0705.
Nigerian Air Force
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It can hit womp rats.
yeah they're not much bigger than two meters
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uh.. you ever see a 6 FOOT rat!??!?? that's a small horse or a Subway delivery car!QuestionableChaos wrote:
yeah they're not much bigger than two meters
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Wow, trippyOctopus wrote:Womp hog
A couple Polish hogs:
Wojska Lotnicze i Obrony Powietrznej
Siły Powietrzne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
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Mostly looking at existing aircraft - that last one is based on a Polish F-16, for example.Octopus wrote:Wow! Looking good, man!
So you're looking at fighter jets that these countries have today and using that as reference? Or are you using a Code of Regulations
book to be 100% accurate?
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HehOctopus wrote:oh. Well my images are made using a Code of Regulations.
Well, that's all my A-10B profiles. However, I'm not quite done with the A-10. As you can see by this photo that I took of an A-10 at an airshow earlier this year, it is common to paint "door art" on the inside of the door that covers the cockpit access ladder.
So, I made my own A-10 door art template and created some fictional door art.
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Thanks.Octopus wrote:Nice work! And does that ladder extend out of the plane?
Yes, the ladder extends out of the airplane. See http://fire.prohosting.com/hud607/photo ... page6.html for some more A-10 door art pictures, one of which shows the door open with the ladder retracted.
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That's it for the A-10. Next up I decided to do some fictional profiles of the Curtiss-Wright CW-21B Demon, a late 1930's fighter that was only used in small numbers by the Chinese and Dutch East Indies (basically, cannon fodder to the Japanese).
Supposing some of the aircraft were impounded by the US (which happened with some other aircraft, life the Vultee P-66 and North American P-64), they might have looked like this:
And, if some had found their way to France, they might have looked something like this one in the markings of GC1/5:
Again as with the A-10B profile, I did not draw the line art for this, just colored/highlighted/shaded/edited/modified/etc.
Supposing some of the aircraft were impounded by the US (which happened with some other aircraft, life the Vultee P-66 and North American P-64), they might have looked like this:
And, if some had found their way to France, they might have looked something like this one in the markings of GC1/5:
Again as with the A-10B profile, I did not draw the line art for this, just colored/highlighted/shaded/edited/modified/etc.
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Thanks. Now, coming back to the present (or at least, the recent past) - here is the MiG 1.42 (aka 1.44), which at one point was referred to as the \"MiG-35.\" That designation has since been assigned to a development of the MiG-29M2. I'm keeping the MiG-35 designation for this what-if, and using the NATO reporting name of \"Flatpack.\"
Indian Air Force
(new) Iraqi Air Force
Polish Air Force
Sri Lanka Air Force
Indian Air Force
(new) Iraqi Air Force
Polish Air Force
Sri Lanka Air Force
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They need to go with fiber optic camouflage.
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