[elephant]

First beta of pilot skins dressed and equiped properly for Korean War missions.
Various skins for the USAF and two generic ones proper for NK or Communist Chinese AF
and Soviet under cover allies...(Their uniforms/equipment, were the same)

Installation:
1. Copy the .bmp files to \IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\PaintSchemes\Pilots
2. Copy the .tga file to \IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\Mods\F-86A-5 Sabre\Plane\Textures


Research and Original paintings by:

Thanks to the il2 modding community for their help!
Special thanks to US-GRAND, stu and of cource PeterD
for his incredible Sabre and MiG!


Spyros Tsimas aka elephant.

to be continued...






I'm leaving on a long buisness trip, for the next couple of months...
Enjoy them as I wont be playing till Xmas time... :roll:
I have uploaded at Mission4Today and waiting for aprooval...

DOWNLOAD

http://mission4today.com/index.php?name ... ils&id=366

The correct path to copy the .tga is:

\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\Mods\F-86A-5 Sabre\3DO\Plane\Textures

I was in a hurry to upload, before leaving, that I missed a file... :oops:
in the installation instructions included in the download.

[Boosher]

I've always loved your schemes Elephant! Downloading ASAP!

[GeneralPsycho]

Beautiful

[blilov]

Very good. Thank you!

[walter_solito]

Have a good trip mate!!!

walter

[elephant]

Thanks, guys !

Usefull Trivia:
Communist pilots didn't wore any life-jackets as flying over sea was stricktly prohibited... :roll:
Their flying gear was copied from German WWII examples... :twisted:

[Dudok22]

Great work! thank you

[Ranwers]

Thank you very much !
One thing - Russian & Korea pilots flying in leather jacket.

[Fryslanboy]

Nice work!

[elephant]

Thank you very much !
One thing - Russian & Korea pilots flying in leather jacket.

I did tried to immitate a leather jacket look on them... :roll:
Do you think I've failed? :lol:

[duffys tavern]

Do you think you could do something simular for the Navy pilots?

[elephant]

Of course I could... I have allready gathered the info required...
I can't do anything till Xmas holidays though, as I'm away from home and my computer, on a buisness trip.

[Ranwers]

Thank you very much !
One thing - Russian & Korea pilots flying in leather jacket.

I did tried to immitate a leather jacket look on them... :roll:
Do you think I've failed? :lol:

Ups... My mistake... I saw blue jackets hock: :lol:
It is ok

[Balker]

Here you have a good color photo of a navy pilot:




THX. :wink:

[elephant]

Thanks a lot Balker...
He is in winter dress, The same uniform was worn by the USAF,
(besides the life jacket that is Navy issued).
Dont you worry I have the Toko-Ri Bridges movie myself for reference.
I'm still on the road...As soon as I'll be back to base, (in a couple of weeks),
I'll finish the Korean war project...

Cheers,
elephant