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Offline ValAstur

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ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« on: November 09, 2014, 08:38:55 PM »
Hey folks

I'm new to this forum and my specialty are what-ifs from existing planes I create inside the indie flight-simulator game "Strike Fighters" from ThirdWire Productions.

For all those who don't know this Flight sim system... I'll explain it  :)

Strike Fighters was initially launched in 2002, consisting of a conflict between two fictional countries in the middle-east, the Kingdom of Dhimar and the empire of Paran during the the 1960s and 1970s. The successors were Wings over Vietnam, Wings over Europe and Wings over Israel, representing conflicts in each of the namegiving countries. All those games were compatible for Windows 98 or XP.

Since 2008, all games received a mayor upgrade making them playable on Vista and following OS'. Latest addition on this series was Strike Fighters 2: North Atlantic.

The biggest advantage of this flight sim is its capability to be fully modded with only drag&drop.
All modifying files have only to be dropped into the designated mod folder and the changes take effect instantly. The biggest community of modders for this sim is over at combatace.com.

Strike Fighters 2 Europe Main Menu


Single Mission Selection Screen


Another advantage is the ability to simply create a what-if by only choosing another air force in the Service Dropdown menu... for example a south-korean A-7D

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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2014, 08:40:55 PM »
Vought F-8S Cisne (Swan), Spanish Navy Air Arm, 1977






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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2014, 08:42:59 PM »
Grumman A-6S Pelícano, Spanish Navy Air Arm, 1978






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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2014, 08:45:06 PM »
Douglas A-4FZ Skyhawk, South African Air Force, 1971





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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2014, 08:47:28 PM »
AF-29 (MiG-29K) Fulcrum, Brazilian Navy, 2001







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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2014, 08:49:22 PM »
Vought A-7R Corsair, Argentine Navy, 1983






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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2014, 08:51:34 PM »
Backburn Buccaneer S.2F French Navy, 1984








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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #7 on: November 09, 2014, 08:53:40 PM »
Northrop Grumman YFA-5 Tactical Tiger, US Air Force, 2011







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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #8 on: November 09, 2014, 08:55:13 PM »
GD EF-16 (C-17) Halcón (Falcon), Spanish Air Force, 1984




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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2014, 08:56:24 PM »
Mitsubishi F-2H Viper Zero, Greek Air Force, 2012






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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2014, 08:57:57 PM »
MiG-19G German Farmer, Deutsche Luftwaffe, 1961







More still to come!
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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2014, 09:52:24 PM »
Oh wow!!!!  Could you post a list or some screenshots showing a full list of available aircraft and countries please?  I can see this being a wonderful and fast source for ideas here.  Thanks for sharing!!!  8)
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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #12 on: November 10, 2014, 01:27:03 AM »
Some of the aircraft shown here are not included in the game and are from 3rd party modders such as the F-5 and the Viper Zero.
Almost every nation in the world, that has an air force, is represented in this game.

This is what the standard aircraft folder would look like using a clean installation with all released games from Strike Fighters 2:



Many of the aircraft are not flyable at the beginning such as the MiG-19, but with some easy ini-editing, it can be made flyable.

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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #13 on: November 10, 2014, 03:14:27 AM »
Some great ideas there!
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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #14 on: November 10, 2014, 04:42:36 AM »
Amazing work  ;)

My "job" is only "doodles"....  ;D
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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #15 on: November 10, 2014, 07:50:49 AM »
That's a rather nice list!  I'm going to have to root through it and post some requests later, thanks!  :)
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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #16 on: November 10, 2014, 03:35:55 PM »
Now, that's awesome ValAstur!

Those South African Skyhawks and Brazilian Fulcrums look so natural!... and welcome!
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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #17 on: November 11, 2014, 04:20:07 AM »
Thanks for the welcoming!

I still got lots of examples to post...

How about about some "Kitty" time?


Grumman F-14I "Petten" (Cobra), Israeli Air Force, 1994





This plane was one of my first repaints so please don't mind the slightly erratic camo positions  :)


Grumman F-14S Tomcat, Italy, 1995

Air Force




Navy



Grumman F-14H Tomcat, Greek Air Force, 1994

The greek Tomcats are able to carry AG-armament  :)










Grumman/KAI KF-14A2 Tomcat, South Korean Air Force, 1998






Grumman/Mitsubishi F-14J Tomcat, Japan, 1996

Japanese Tomcats are also AG-capable  ;)

JASDF










JMSDF

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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #18 on: November 11, 2014, 04:25:10 AM »
Hispano-Suiza HS.304 Trueno (Thunder), Spanish Air Force, 1975

At the other forum, there is a thread called "Masquerade" about aircraft, that pretend to be something else. That's where this one has to be placed in.






Just in case somebody wonders, why there are so many spanish aircraft...I'm a spaniard  ;)

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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #19 on: November 11, 2014, 04:27:20 AM »
North American F-100DJ, Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, 1971




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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #20 on: November 11, 2014, 04:28:51 AM »
Dassault Mirage 5S, Italian Air Force, 1976




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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #21 on: November 11, 2014, 04:31:06 AM »
Lockheed Martin F-22J Raptor, Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, 2022




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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #22 on: November 11, 2014, 04:41:50 AM »
Gorgeous work!!  Do you have any Italian F-15s?  Export F-106s?

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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #23 on: November 12, 2014, 02:32:17 AM »
I really like the first Italian F-14. :)
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Re: ValAstur's What-if Hangar
« Reply #24 on: November 12, 2014, 01:46:45 PM »
Almost every nation in the world, that has an air force, is represented in this game.

Due to the quality of the stuff displayed...... is there any ROCAF (Taiwanese) what-if in the line-up you have?  :)
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