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Current and Finished Projects => Profiles and Pixels => Topic started by: Glanini on March 07, 2012, 04:21:48 AM

Title: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on March 07, 2012, 04:21:48 AM
Finally I found where all the friends were.....

So to honour this wonderful new Forum, here are some new profiles......

Syria Su34

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/SyriaSukhoiSu34Fullback2012.png)

China Su34

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ChinaSukhoiSu34Fullback2012.png)

Iranian Su34

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/IranSukhoiSu34Fullback2012.png)

Ciao
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on March 07, 2012, 05:00:17 AM
Great to have you here, Glanini!  Welcome!  It wouldn't be the same without you here.

China Su34

([url]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ChinaSukhoiSu34Fullback2012.png[/url])


That is one downside of the white background.  With some schemes, your profile can end up looking like Wonder Woman's invisible plane!

(http://img.engadget.com/common/images/4575937614869136.JPG?0.8624495567024028)

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Doom! on March 07, 2012, 06:10:41 AM
Glad ya made it!  :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: tsrjoe on March 07, 2012, 06:18:12 AM
Good to see you here, welcome aboard  8)

Best wishes and happy modelling, Joe
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on March 07, 2012, 03:52:33 PM
Welcome aboard mate.  Great first posts.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: jorel62 on March 07, 2012, 06:36:36 PM
Outstanding work...... Glad your here.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on March 12, 2012, 08:51:18 PM
.... working on Alternate 60s History, here is a Fiat S/VTOL G95

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ItalyFiatG951967.png)

Something similar has been drafted by MC72 on the secret projects forum

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on March 13, 2012, 02:27:17 AM
Brilliant!!!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Flitzer on March 13, 2012, 03:06:19 AM
Beautiful clean work. in a word stunning.

P :D
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Brian da Basher on March 13, 2012, 05:07:16 AM
It's a treat to see your work again, Glanini!

Brian da Basher
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: nebnoswal on March 13, 2012, 06:38:09 PM
great to see you here Glanini.  Looking fwd to more of your great work.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Doom! on March 13, 2012, 11:03:00 PM
The Centauro is very easy on the eyes.  :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Empty Handed on March 13, 2012, 11:18:23 PM
Love the G.95!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on March 14, 2012, 02:12:31 PM
Thanks for the support, here is the attack version of the G95

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ItalyFiatG95A1968.png)

an Australian TSR.2

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/AustraliaBACTSR21968.png)

and a RAF one as well

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UKBACTSR21968.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: lauhof52 on March 14, 2012, 04:15:26 PM
The G.95 is very good!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Brian da Basher on March 15, 2012, 05:02:23 AM
Simply outstanding!

Brian da Basher
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on March 15, 2012, 06:24:57 AM
Some of my favorite airplanes decorations are ANGs in the early 50s, so I thought why not have USSR ANG airplanes, after all USSR was the union od fifferent Soviet Republic that could have their Air Force in the same guise of the ANG..... here is an Ukraine Socialist Soviet Republic La15

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSRUkraineLavochkinLa151958.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Brian da Basher on March 15, 2012, 07:30:35 AM
That's a really great idea, Glanini! Looks like it could fool a lot of people!

Brian da Basher
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: M.A.D on March 15, 2012, 07:10:22 PM
Hey fantastic 'Fantail' Glanini!!

A design much lost to history with the notoriety of the MiG-15

M.A.D
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: JP Vieira on March 17, 2012, 05:40:37 PM
Very good.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on April 12, 2012, 01:24:11 PM
...some of the profiles that you might find in my 60s alt history

Regards

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSRUkraineLavochkinLa151956.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/AustriaMesserschmittSchwalbe1956.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Doom! on April 12, 2012, 10:54:59 PM
Very nice, I've always admired your metal finishes.  :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on April 21, 2012, 05:58:17 PM
A Spanish FW190 used in Morocco in 1957 (see my Alternate History)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/EspanaFockeWulfFW1901957.png)

And some cold war (turned hot ???) RAF F16

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UKGeneralDynamicsF161982.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UKGeneralDynamicsF161978.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UKGeneralDynamicsF161979.png)

Enjoy
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: apophenia on April 22, 2012, 07:16:42 AM
Love the Austrian Schwalbe!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Brian da Basher on April 25, 2012, 04:39:55 AM
Love the Austrian Schwalbe!

Concur! Stunning!

Brian da Basher
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: ChernayaAkula on April 25, 2012, 06:14:48 AM
Spanish Fw 190! Me gusta!  :-*
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: arc3371 on April 26, 2012, 03:22:54 AM
Stunning indeed
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on April 27, 2012, 12:17:37 AM
A Yugo Tunnan

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/YugoslaviaSaabTunnan1958.png)


and a Belgian Mystere

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/BelgiumDassaultSuperMystere1958-1.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Empty Handed on April 27, 2012, 03:10:03 AM
Those last two are awesome ideas!!!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Brian da Basher on April 27, 2012, 04:12:29 AM
Those last two are awesome ideas!!!

Agreed! The Belgian Mystere is absolutely crackerjack!

Brian da Basher
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 17, 2012, 12:02:49 AM
Quite a long time I do not post a Profile, but I have been working to complete my 80's Alternative History (I am almost there and it is more than 100 pages and more to come) and more than 230 relative profiles. So there will be a lot to see once I finish the story. Anyway here is just an anticipation

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/AustraliaBACTSR21983.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ArgentinaSepecatJaguar1979.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/JapanMcDonnellDouglasP4APegasus1986.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/FranceDassaultMirage40001982.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/RomaniaMilMi24Hind1989.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: AXOR on September 17, 2012, 12:40:11 AM
Hi Glanini,welcome back and thanks for Romanian Hind  :)
Lovely profiles as usual!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Scooterman on September 17, 2012, 07:55:47 AM
Oh a hard nosed Jag in Argie colors no less.  WANT!  :-*
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on September 17, 2012, 09:55:48 AM
He's back!  I love these!  They're great!  I can't wait to see the whole alternate story.

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on September 17, 2012, 10:19:02 AM
Beautiful work!!  Just a thought for your alternate history, Hawker-Siddley had a NATO consortium set up, ready to go, if NATO had bought the P.1154.  I could see a similar consortium working for a NATO Harrier buy (Breguet in France and Northrop in the US are knowns, I believe Dornier in Germany and AerMacchi in Italy were also to be partners) which could lead to some interesting and colorful markings and national variations/derivatives as needs diverged.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Doom! on September 18, 2012, 12:05:48 AM
Some real beauties!  :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 22, 2012, 04:12:36 PM
.... making the final review of the history in the meanwhile

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/CanadaMcDonnellF4E1989_zps8126604b.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ZaireAerospatialegazelle1978_zps1abfe552.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/IranAleniaF104SStarfighter1978_zps7e1b7d20.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/NATOBoeing757Awacs1989_zps1884ebc6.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/NorthKoreaMiG23Flogger1987_zps25193c8d.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USANorthropA9Warthog1983_zpsb58a84fe.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on September 22, 2012, 11:19:45 PM
Very nice, glanini!  Can't wait to see them all!  Canadian F-4s is something that I always thought should have been.

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: ChernayaAkula on September 23, 2012, 01:23:01 AM
Iranian Starfighter!  :-* Very, very nice! The operational A-9 Warthog ain't half bad either.  :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Spey Phantom on September 23, 2012, 04:43:17 AM
fantastic profiles, and shame on me for missing that gorgious Belgian SMB-2  8)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: finsrin on September 23, 2012, 03:15:59 PM
Most favorite --- P4A and A9
Good work all.....
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: The Big Gimper on September 23, 2012, 08:37:37 PM
Love the P4A and the CAF F-4E.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on September 23, 2012, 11:44:21 PM
That A-9 is outstanding!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Empty Handed on September 24, 2012, 12:58:28 AM
The A-9 & E-4 are great!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on September 24, 2012, 05:54:16 AM
I hate to be a nit-picker, but at what point in time does your timeline diverge?  If it's after 1970, that E-4 has to be at least an E-6 because the E-4 AANCP and E-5, a modified Windecker Eagle for further reduced observables, had already been designated by then.

That aside, though, utterly gorgeous work and I love the operational A-9.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Doom! on September 24, 2012, 08:51:09 AM
Another lovely batch....really like the canadian Phantom quite a bit!  :-*
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 29, 2012, 05:34:58 PM
Here is another batch for preview

A Noriega's Warrior

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/PanamaSiaiSF2601989.png)

UCON's gave the inspiration for this one

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/IraqIlyushinA50Mainstay1988.png)

A Danish Viggen

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/DenmarkSaabJa37Viggen1982.png)

Australian Hawk

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/AustraliaBAEHawk1980.png)

A Forger in Russian Navy Service

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSRYak38Forger1985.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: phoenix54 on September 29, 2012, 11:44:38 PM
Australian Hawk

([url]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/AustraliaBAEHawk1980.png[/url])


Great variation on the 'fanta can'!  ;)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on September 30, 2012, 04:01:34 AM
That RAAF Hawk needs to be built!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on October 06, 2012, 03:10:35 PM
Final correction of the history at 20%. Here is some other profile in the meanwhile

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/RhodesiaBAEHarrierGR31981.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/PakistanMcDonnellF4E1981.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/JapanMcDonnellFA181985.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ArgentinaIAIKfir1979.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSRMilMi28Havoc1984.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: finsrin on October 06, 2012, 04:00:44 PM
Mi28A camo does mess with your eyes, hampering with quick ID or aiming.  Is good  :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Scooterman on October 07, 2012, 07:11:36 AM
Pak Phantom.  That's awesome, and gives me an idea!  8)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on October 07, 2012, 10:49:30 AM
Would love to see another JASDF F/A-18...maybe in the blues scheme of their F-2s?  Hint, hint...
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on October 13, 2012, 03:37:53 PM
Another batch ..........

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/IranMcDonnellF151978.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/BelgiumSepecatJaguar1978.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/NewZealandNorthropF5ETigerII1985.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ElSalvadorNorthropF5ETigerII1980.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/GDRSukhoiSu27SFlanker1985.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on October 14, 2012, 03:07:35 AM
The RNZAF F-5 is already on the to build list! :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Empty Handed on October 20, 2012, 07:09:36 PM
That Mainstay is genius!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Spey Phantom on October 21, 2012, 02:21:59 AM
ver nice, love the Belgian Jaguar (BTW, that almost became Reality, if Dassault hadnt pushed us towards the Mirage 5)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on October 21, 2012, 04:47:35 PM
.... while slowing progressing on my alt history (after all is still 120 pages long and we are building wings at 5 a Month) .............

in the meanwhile

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/LebanonAerospatialegazelle1983.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/GrenadaMilMi24Hind1983.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/FranceSepecatJaguarM1981.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/AustraliaMcDonnellFA181984.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USAPanaviaTornado1983.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on October 22, 2012, 01:59:12 AM
Interesting...
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on November 03, 2012, 01:42:38 AM
The latest batch has not encountered a big success, let' see this one

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/PRCSukhoiSu20Fitter1978.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/NetherlandsMcDonnellF4J1985.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/IraqYakYa38Forger1988.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/FDRBellCobra1983.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/CroatiaMiG23Flogger1987.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on November 03, 2012, 01:50:51 AM
Those all look lovely, Glanini.  I very much like them all.  The Cobra and Phantom are particularly fetching.  That MiG-23 looks like it would look great with North Korean markings in that scheme.

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: lauhof52 on November 03, 2012, 03:10:29 AM
Very good ones! Nice dutch phantom. 8)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: ChernayaAkula on November 03, 2012, 06:32:26 AM
The Heer Cobra is particularly nice!  :) If anyone did a decent 1/72 AH-1G , I'd build it in a heartbeat!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: The Big Gimper on November 03, 2012, 07:37:04 AM
The Heer Cobra is particularly nice!  :) If anyone did a decent 1/72 AH-1G , I'd build it in a heartbeat!

About 6-8 months I saw the on the Cybermodeler Kit Release table a AH-1G from Hobby Boss I believe. But its gone now.   :icon_crap:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on November 03, 2012, 02:54:33 PM
 :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: dy031101 on November 04, 2012, 12:05:24 AM
That PLAAF Su-20 is like Dale Brown's dream come true......  ;D
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on November 11, 2012, 04:55:20 PM
...... some addition

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/AngolaMiG29Fulcrum1988.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ChileIlyushinBeagle1979.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/IndiaBAEHarrierGR31986.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/JapanMcDonnellF4J1980.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/SwedenMcDonnellHarrierAV8B1983.png)


and something different I am working on, those early seventies car were marvelous

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Lotus72.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Ferrari321B1970.png)

anyway cars are more difficult to draw

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on November 11, 2012, 06:12:56 PM
 :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Doom! on November 12, 2012, 01:48:04 AM
Love the Chilean Beagle and the Ferrari!  :)  The others are very nice as well.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on November 12, 2012, 06:51:48 AM
I'm partial to the Swedish one, myself.  Very nice, glanini!

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on December 01, 2012, 10:40:17 PM
Gentlemen

Preview is finished, the release of my "Cold War turned hot in the 80s" has started in the Alternative History Section, here I will publish the related Airplan profiles as the history develops.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/SpainSepecatJaguar1978.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ItalyFiatG951978.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ItalyAleniaF104GStarfighter1978.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/FinlandSaabJa37Viggen1978.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/FDRPanaviaPA100Tornado1978.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/BelgiumSepecatJaguar1978-1.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on December 02, 2012, 01:36:58 AM
Lovely as always, Glanini!

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on December 02, 2012, 03:52:00 AM
Love the G.95!!!! :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on December 02, 2012, 06:18:29 AM
Especially love the G.95 and the Tornado P-100.  I'm thinking that if you stretched the fuselage, like the Tornado F.2 and F.3, you could probably fit a bubble canopy to the P-100.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on December 02, 2012, 06:38:32 AM
Missed the P.100 "Panther?".   Also like the Finnish Viggen
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: arc3371 on December 02, 2012, 10:04:35 AM
Love the G.95!!!! :)

Me too
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on December 02, 2012, 04:14:56 PM
..... additional airplanes from 1978

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/EgyptMilMi24Hind1978.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ZaireAerospatialegazelle1978.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on December 04, 2012, 02:11:36 AM
.... other 1978 Profiles

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/SouthVietnamLockheedF104GStarfighter1978.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/PRCSukhoiSu20Fitter1978-1.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/IranMcDonnellF151978-1.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/IranAleniaF104SStarfighter1978.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on December 04, 2012, 02:42:57 AM
 :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on December 04, 2012, 06:14:40 AM
([url]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/IranMcDonnellF151978-1.png[/url])


  :-*

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: dy031101 on December 04, 2012, 11:18:10 AM
Actually looking through this thread, I am starting to get interested in what carriers the IJN flew those Phantoms and Hornets from......
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: finsrin on December 04, 2012, 02:53:11 PM
Like the Fitter camo  :)
Don't know about it being effective. Though looks fine here at BTS.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on December 05, 2012, 05:27:10 AM
....let's move to 1979

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USANorthropF17Cobra1979.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UKGeneralDynamicsF161979-1.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ItalyAeritaliaSparviero1979.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/IsraelDassaultMirageF11979.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ChileMiG23Flogger1979.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ChileIlyushinBeagle1979-1.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ArgentinaSepecatJaguar1979-1.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ArgentinaIAIKfir1979-1.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ArgentinaAeritaliaG91R1979.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/AlbaniaMiG21PFM1979.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on December 05, 2012, 04:29:51 PM
Love that F-17 and Jaguar. :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Cliffy B on December 05, 2012, 11:28:23 PM
The Chilean MiG and Beagle are just... :-*
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Doom! on December 06, 2012, 02:46:12 AM
Great stuff...relly like your G91  :-*
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on December 08, 2012, 12:28:25 AM
.... other 1979 Profiles

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the detail of the story can be found in the alternative history section

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on December 09, 2012, 11:42:41 PM
Let's go with 1980

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on December 10, 2012, 02:38:45 AM
Those are all great, Glanini.  There's something about the Iraqi Jaguar that I like in particular.

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on December 10, 2012, 05:35:07 AM
So much goodness...
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on December 10, 2012, 06:51:23 AM
Beautiful!!  There's no especially noticeable difference from the side, but wouldn't those Freedom Fighters more likely be F-5E's rather than F-5A's?  Though, I'll grant you, an argument could be made either way depending on how "new" they were at the moment depicted (F-5E replaced F-5A in production in the mid-1970's).
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on December 10, 2012, 07:41:56 PM
Not necessarily.  I give you this from SecretProjects:

Air Marshal Sir Frederick Scherger, RAAF chief in 1957-1961, said in an ANZUS meeting in 1958 that "We are willing to build it (Northrop F-5), we are willing to operate it, and we are very willing to supply it, if we can manufacture it, to the whole SEATO area, if they can afford to buy it and if arrangements can be made for them to get them and use them."

[url]http://www.history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v16/d19[/url] ([url]http://www.history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v16/d19[/url])

Minister Casey: Have you come to the end of the military?

Secretary Dulles: I thought we were approaching the end of that.

Minister Casey: I wonder if we would have Air Marshal Scherger have a word on that?

Air Marshal Sir Frederick Scherger:10 Perhaps I should stand to make myself seen and heard, sir.

One of our most pressing problems is to find airplanes with which we can replace our present operation infantry. If we want them and buy them in small numbers, we buy them from the manufacturing country, as we have with transports. We have bought the C–130, as with maritime antisubmarine we have bought the P2V5, and I hope we will have some P2V7. But our real difficulty is with the airplane which is now designed as the technical [tactical?] fighter. The Tactical Air Command here use extremely big airplanes; they are complex, they are sophisticated, and they are tremendously expensive both in cost and in the ground environment you need from which to operate them effectively. Both the airfield’s length and the strength of the airfield is such that in the Southeast Asian theater there are about five airfields from which they can operate. And if you add Admiral Felt’s four carriers, that makes nine. But it still leaves the opponent with a fairly easy problem, and we have been desperately seeking a small, versatile airplane which can range over the whole area and which can operate from the thousand and one 6000-foot strips left over from the last war and which still are there and from which commercial airplanes are still operating.

We believe we have found the airplane in a project which has been raised and was having a little difficulty here, the Northrop–156, which is a development of the T–38 supersonic trainer. It is a light airplane and can have a lot of sophistication in it, but we don’t want a lot of sophistication. We want it in a fairly cheap and uncomplicated form. It is the kind of thing we can build and build relatively cheaply, and it is the kind of airplane which could be used right throughout that area, where we ourselves are perhaps the most capable in the use of modern equipment. But we know that the Filipinos and Thais and the Pakistanis are having more than a little trouble in operating the F–86’s. They can fly them all right, but even they require a fairly good airfield, and their ferry range isn’t all that much. We want an airplane that can go across Australia and from the top end of Australia, across the Philippines, up to Singapore.

I found the philosophy in airplanes here is to build a single-seater airplane which costs over two million dollars a copy, which demands, if you are going to make it mobile, in-air refueling capabilities, which we can’t afford, and which requires an eight-to-eleven thousand foot runway. That kind of airplane is beyond our capabilities.

We find ourselves approaching now the time when it looks as though we are going to be priced out of being able to buy airplanes with which we can suitably arm ourselves. It is a fairly disturbing proposition, sir. And it is one which I thought perhaps, and Mr. Casey agreed, should be aired here, because it is the kind of military problem which I believe ANZUS could solve and I believe should solve. We are willing to build it, we are willing to operate it, and we are very willing to supply it, if we can manufacture it, to the whole SEATO area, if they can afford to buy it and if arrangements can be made for them to get them and use them. That is our problem, sir: How to get the airplane and where to get it—where to get it, rather than how to get it. Europe has nothing. The small NATO fighter which has been proposed to me, the F–91, is just like the Australian boomerang. It is never out of sight. It won’t go far enough. You have these F–105 airplanes, which are over $2,000,000 a copy. Even if we could afford them or build them in sufficient numbers, we couldn’t afford to operate them.

The same applies to the naval tactical fighter, the thing that carries ordinary, or shall I call them conventional bombs. I don’t know why these airplanes are so complex and so sophisticated unless perhaps it is that they are all designed around a nuclear capacity, which of course we don’t possess. We have to base whatever we have on a conventional capacity. I think that is it.

Secretary Dulles: Do you want a reply?

Mr. Irwin: Marshal Scherger brings up a very difficult type of air operation which has been under consideration by the Pentagon for some time in connection with the Northrop F–156 aircraft. I am not completely up to date as to what the current status of the studies are on it, Air Marshal. We had thought of it at one time in connection with NATO and the European countries as well as in the Far East and the Pacific. From the point of view of assisting and financing the manufacture and sale of the planes, the question really revolved around finding a market for it after you had gone all through the expense of development and production in large enough quantities to justify the expense. It was thought at one time that Germany might be interested in the N–156, and possibly Japan. Japan has decided against it and went to Grumman, I believe. Germany also appeared to have rejected it, although I am not sure whether that is completely final or not. So the problem is, if it were available, it is still on the drafting board or has not even been produced in prototype. The question really is, by the time you produce it, is it an adequate airplane for the period of 1961–1962, the period that it is coming in? There is question about it in Europe, and I think there is also considerable question, at least as far as Japan and that part of the Far East area goes. There is undoubtedly a need for a less-sophisticated aircraft that can meet the problem. Of course, you run into the question, then, as to the control of the air. It would be useless in an area when you are facing a MIG–17 or MIG–19, although obviously you aren’t going to have a big MIG–17 or MIG–19 everywhere you are going to need another airplane. It poses a great problem of financing as well as the tactical application of it. I think the Air Marshal is coming over to the Pentagon tomorrow, I understand.

Air Marshal Sir Fredrick Scherger: That is right; yes.

Ambassador Beale: Mr. Secretary, could I supplement what Air Marshal Scherger said. This is quite a serious problem for Australia. We have got a first-class aircraft industry in the country. We have a profound political and military necessity for maintaining that aircraft industry in Australia. It is in danger of languishing because we just haven’t got aircraft to make and we can’t plan ahead. A year or two ago we made a decision to buy and probably also to build to sell the F–104, but when a mission came over here,11 we were, I think, very rightly told, “Don’t be silly. Don’t build that one. It is far too sophisticated for you. If that type of aircraft has to be used in a war which you are planning to participate in, we in the United States will be there with that aircraft.” And quite rightly we would have made a great mistake to build the F–104. And we were also told at the same time, ”Why not have a look at the Northrop and one or two others?” This was on the technical level.

The minister in charge of aircraft at the time we were agonizing over this agreed. Now we are told by our air force advisers that this is the type of plane which will suit Australia’s needs. It is not yet, as you say, Mr. Irwin, quite off the drawing board. I think something like one dozen prototypes ought to be made and flown and tested before anybody can say for sure that it is the aircraft. Now what I think the Air Marshal has said is, will the United States give some consideration to making the funds available to take that airplane up to that stage, because if it proves itself I think it is pretty likely, I think it is certain that the Air Force would be advising the Australian Cabinet that “This is the airplane we want and this is the airplane we should build in Australia.” I think New Zealand might become interested in the same sort of aircraft, because it has a characteristic to suit our particular needs. And if we can’t get that one or something very like it, we just have nowhere else to turn for another one to build. We were told to build the Sabres for another year or two or three more. But in the meantime we have a real fight, we have a real professional difficulty in making up our mind as to what type of aircraft it should be.

Mr. Irwin: We have maintained at least to date going ahead on the N–156, trying to resolve this question or problem, but in large measure, it comes down to the financial problem with us, because it is financed by military assistance funds. The question is whether or not if you finance it through the ultimate to have enough prototypes to decide whether it is worth going ahead, are you going to have enough customers to justify the research and development and production of it when you have diminishing military assistance side to keep it up. [sic] They cut the program three hundred million dollars this past year, and we anticipate this next year it will be more difficult.

We have a great many calls on the program throughout the world. We are going to have the situation with Taiwan, and Taiwan has eaten into the program a great deal more than the normal expectancy would have been if there had not been the Taiwan crisis, because equipment had to go to the Chinese Nationalists because of the ammunition situation, etc. So you have a choice of not only do you have a question as to the people that actually would buy this airplane in the time frame of the early 1960’s but you have also the question of priority of the use of the military assistance funds over these few years until there would be production. So it presents a grave complication that the enthusiasm for the airplane itself has to date not been sufficient to justify final decision to go ahead with it.

Minister Casey: So far as the United States is concerned.

Mr. Irwin: The most likely customers had seemed to be Japan and Germany.

Minister Casey: If these aircraft were brought to the prototype stage, isn’t it likely that you would have potential customers in the Asian-SEATO partners in the smaller countries, and it would suit Australia and New Zealand, and there would be more generalized use than your highly-specialized aircraft now.

Mr. Irwin: That seems to be a possibility.

Minister Casey: I think the Air Marshal is seeing Mr. Quarles and Mr. Douglas tomorrow.

Mr. Irwin: I would suggest he also speak to our MAP people.

Minister Casey: I think that is worth raising.

Secretary Dulles: Yes.

[Here follows discussion of unrelated subjects.]
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on December 16, 2012, 05:46:30 PM
1981

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on December 17, 2012, 01:16:07 AM
Another great batch.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Empty Handed on December 17, 2012, 06:59:06 AM
The Hawk and Pegasus rock!  :icon_music:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: apophenia on December 17, 2012, 08:28:34 AM
Yes, that USAF Hawk is especially sharp!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: JP Vieira on December 18, 2012, 03:17:48 AM
The Portuguese F-5 is great; and almost a non what-if... ;)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on December 22, 2012, 07:51:40 PM
Trying to make the link easier between Story and Profiles

1982

News

March 26, 1982 : News -A ground-breaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is finally held in Washington, DC.

May 8, 1982 : News –Ferrari’s French-Canadian racing driver Gilles Villeneuve survives a major crash  during qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix but he would skip the next two races.

June 13-July 11, 1982: News - 1982 FIFA World Cup is played in Spain and won by Italy who beats West Germany in the final 3-1.

September 25, 1982: News -   In Las Vegas, Gilles Villeneuve in Ferrari wins the Formula 1 World Championship and announces his retirement from racing.

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November 3, 1982: News - The severe early 1980s recession ends. The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges 43.41 points, or 4.25%, to close at 1,065.49, its first all-time high in more than 9 years. It last hit a record on January 11, 1973 when the average closed at 1,051.70. The points gain is the biggest ever up to this point.

November 30, 1982: News – Singer Michael Jackson releases “Thriller”, the biggest-selling album of all time in the Uited States.

December 26, 1982 : News -  Time Magazine's Man of the Year is given for the first time to a non-human, the computer.


Central Front/Europe

January 28, 1982: Central Front/Europe- A team of NOCS (a special operations unit of the Italian police) successfully carry out the rescue of James Dozier from an apartment in Padua, without firing a shot, capturing the entire terrorist cell.

February 10, 1982: Central Front/Europe- Australia, Canada, Italy, Netherlands, Greece and Norway sign a contract with the United States Government for the acquisition of the Northrop F20 Tigershark with the aircraft to be built also in Canada by Canadair.

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April 10, 1982: Central Front/Europe- Leonid Brezhnev,  Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, dies after a long illness.

May 23, 1982: Central Front/Europe- KGB head Yuri Andropov is appointed to the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

May 30, 1982: Central Front/Europe- Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the 1st nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.

June 4, 1982: Central Front/Europe- Yuri Andropov gives the go-ahead to a secret plan to detonate a tactical nuclear bomb close to Bayswater RAF base to show that NATO has not followed the agreement on Nuclear Weapons Ban at the same time create havoc and riots in the UK. The codename of the operation is “Protocol 4”.


June 8, 1982: Central Front/Europe- Soviet spy Kim Philby, a former MI-5 defected agent dies in a car crash in Moscow, actually it was a KGB homicide in order to avoid any conscience crisis on the mission “Protocol 4”.

September 1, 1982: Central Front/Europe- At a Politburo Meeting Yuri Andropov, shows KGB reports describing that USRR economy is coming to pieces and that the only way to make it survive is to take over the whole Germany. “He also states that he needs to involve more the Warpact countries.  Moscow had built up a military that consumed as much as 25 percent of the Soviet Union's gross national product at the expense of consumer goods and investment in civilian sectors. Soviet spending on the arms race and other Central Front/Europe commitments both caused and exacerbated deep-seated structural problems in the Soviet system, which saw at least a decade of economic stagnation during the late Leonid Brezhnev years. Soviet investment in the defense sector was not driven by military necessity, but in large part by the interests of massive party and state bureaucracies dependent on the sector for their own power and privileges. The Soviet Armed Forces became the largest in the world in terms of the numbers and types of weapons they possessed, in the number of troops in their ranks, and in the sheer size of their military–industrial base. However, the quantitative advantages held by the Soviet military often concealed areas where the Eastern Bloc dramatically lagged behind the West. Furthermore After Reagan's military buildup, the Soviet Union did not respond by further building its military because the enormous military expenses, along with inefficient planned manufacturing and collectivized agriculture, were already a heavy burden for the Soviet economy.  At the same time, Reagan persuaded Saudi Arabia to increase oil production, even as other non-OPEC nations were increasing production. These developments contributed to the 1980s oil glut, which affected the Soviet Union, as oil was the main source of Soviet export revenues. Issues with command economics,  oil prices decreases and large military expenditures gradually brought the Soviet economy to stagnation.”.

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September 15, 1982: Central Front/Europe-  At a Warsaw Pact meeting, Andropov illustrate the plan for the attack on West Germany and the details of all Warsaw Pact Nations involvement adding that major arms supply will be provided to them. When the offensive will start terrorists acts against NATO headquarters will be performed by Red Brigades and RAF in Italy and FDR respectively with support of STASI and KGB agents already part of “Sleeper Cells” in those countries. He adds that to increase pressure in the US and drain resource from Central Europe all proxy wars (Central America, Southern Africa, Northern Africa) shall continue and countries like Nicaragua, El Salvador, Angola and Libya will be supplied with new military equipment and instructors.

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October 1, 1982: Central Front/Europe- Helmut Kohl of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) replaces the Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.

October 8, 1982 : Central Front/Europe- In Poland, the Communist Government bans Solidarity after having suspended it on 13 December 1981.

November 1, 1982: Central Front/Europe-The final details for the attack in West Germany are defined; the date of the attack is an important date for the Communist regime May 1st 1983, that is also a holiday in almost all Western Europe.

November 13, 1982: Central Front/Europe- The first United States cruise missiles arrive at Greenham Common Airbase in England amid protests from peace campaigners.

November 14, 1982: Central Front/Europe- The leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, Lech Wałęsa, is released from 11 months of internment near the Soviet border.

December 12, 1982: Central Front/Europe- Women's peace protest at Greenham Common: 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km (9 mi) perimeter fence.

December 15, 1982: Central Front/Europe- British Mi-5 seize three KGB agents in an house 5 miles outside of Bayswater RAF base, material for a Nuclear bomb was found there.

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December 22, 1982: Central Front/Europe- English newspaper “The Independent” publish the story of the Soviet “Protocol 4” mission.


Middle East

January 30, 1982: Middle East- US Secretary of State, Alexander Haig files a report with US President Ronald Reagan  reveales Secretary Haig's fear that Israel might, at the slightest provocation, start a war against Lebanon.

April 21, 1982: Middle East- After a landmine kills an Israeli officer while he was visiting a South Lebanese Army gun emplacement in Taibe, Lebanon, the Israeli Air Force attacks the Palestinian-controlled coastal town of Damour, killing 23 people.

April 25, 1982: Middle East- Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula in accordance with the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty.

May 9, 1982: Middle East-Israeli aircraft again attack targets in Lebanon. Later that same day, UNIFIL observes the firing of rockets from Palestinian positions in the Tyre region into northern Israel, but none of the projectiles hit an Israeli settlement.

June 6, 1982: Middle East- Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov is shot and seriously wounded in London by terrorists belonging to the Iraqi-backed Abu Nidal terrorist organization. The organization is the longtime rival of PLO.  The PLO denies complicity in the attack, but Israel retaliates with punishing air and artillery strikes against Palestinian targets in Lebanon, including the PLO camps. Sabra and Shatila refugee camps are bombed for four hours. The PLO hit back firing rockets at northern Israel causing considerable damage and some loss of life.

June 6, 1982: Middle East-  The 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," Israel's publicly stated objective was to push PLO forces back 40 kilometres (25 mi) to the north. Israeli forces pushes in from Southern Lebanon in a three-pronged offensive.

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June 6, 1982: Middle East- The United Nations Security Council votes to demand that Israel withdraw its troops from Lebanon.

June 9, 1982 : Middle East- With the advance of IDF forces north, the IDF/AF could no longer ignore the massive array of SAM and AAA systems the Syrians deployed in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley a year earlier. The IDF/AF set out to destroy the ninenteen SAM batteries and their support network in a major operation consisting of several waves, each made up of dozens of attack aircraft employing a variety of guided and un-guided air-to-ground ammunition, backed by some ground launched Shrike anti-radar missiles, as well as a massive screen of ECM and decoys. More than sixty Syrian interceptors (all different versions of MiG-21 and -23s) – which was slightly more than the Israelis expected – are scrambled to defend the air defense network, clashing with dozens of Israeli fighters to produce what could very well be the biggest jet dogfight in history. The SyAAF suffers considerable losses (estimated attwenyfive aircraft) at the hands of IDF/AF F-15s and F-16s, tasked exclusively with air-to-air missions.

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June 10-11, 1982 : Middle East- More clashes follows when the SyAAF not only attempts to challenge the Israeli control of the skies over Lebanon, but also to strike advancing Israeli units on the ground. IDF/AF ends the days  with more than eighty victories

June 11, 1982: Middle East- Israel and Syrian Governments agree on a ceasefire to start at noon that would not apply to PLO, before it a final air battle would cost Syrian Air Force further eighteen aircraft.

June 13, 1982: Middle East-The ring around Beirut is closed, seven days after the start of Israeli invasion to Lebanon. PLO and part of Syrian forces are isolated in the city.

July 1, 1982 : Middle East-Full scale siege of Beirut start by Israeli forces where 14’000 PLO and 2’000 Mourabitim militiamen are well dug.

July 14- 16, 1982 : Middle East- Ariel Sharon and chief of staff Rafael Eitan obtains Prime Minister Begin's support for large scale operation for conquering of West Beirut in order to achieve the eviction of PLO. But the plan is rejected two days later by full Israeli cabinet, out of concern for heavy loss of life.

August 1, 1982: Middle East- Beirut International Airport is take, after fierce fightings, by the Golani Brigade of the IDF.

August 4, 1982: Middle East- The United Nations Security Council votes to censure Israel because its troops are still in Lebanon, meanwhile IDF make its drive into the city of Beirut cutting off PLO camps from PLO Headquarters.

August 10, 1982: Middle East- As American envoy Philip Habib submitts a draft agreement to Israel, defense minister Sharon, probably impatient with what he regarded American meddling, orders a saturation bombing of Beirut, during which at least three hundred people die. That bombing is followed by the protest to the Israeli government by President Ronald Reagan.

August 14, 1982: Middle East- the Israeli cabinet strip Ariel Sharon of most of his powers, he is not allowed to order the use of air force, armored force and artillery without agreement of cabinet or prime-minister.

August 18, 1982 : Middle East- Israel, Lebanon, and the PLO finally agree, with US mediation, on a peace deal.

August 20, 1982: Middle East- Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon. 350 French paratroopers arrive in Beirut, followed by 800 US Marines and Italian Bersaglieri plus additional international peacekeepers (for a total force of 2,130) to supervise the removal of the PLO, first by ship and then overland, to Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan, and Syria. Altogether 8500 PLO men are evacuated to Tunisia, and 2500 by land to other Arab countries.

September 14, 1982: Middle East- Lebanese President-elect Bachir Gemayel is assassinated in Beirut as a bomb was detonated at the Phalangists headquarters.

September 18, 1982: Middle East- The Lebanese Christian Militia (the Phalange) kill thousands of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps with the overlooking of Israeli troops in West Beirut. The massacre is in retaliation for the assassination of pro-Israel president-elect, Bachir Gemayel, as well as several Palestinian massacres against Lebanese Christians.

September 23, 1982: Middle East- Amin Gemayel, brother of Bachir, is elected president of Lebanon.

September 25, 1982: Middle East-  In Israel, 400,000 marchers demand the resignation of Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

November 11, 1982: Middle East- Suicide attack on the IDF headquarters in Tyre. 76 Israeli soldiers and 27 Lebanese are killed in the blast.


Central America

January 4, 1982: Central America- After Reagan has signed the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), CIA proceeds and provides support the contras with $19 million in military aid. The effort to support the contras is one component of the Reagan Doctrine, which calls for providing military support to movements opposing Soviet-supported, communist governments.

March 3, 1982: Central America- Communist rebels with Nicaraguan Aides takes control of Santa Ana region in northern El Salvador

April, 1982: Central America-  Edén Pastora (Comandante Cero), one of the heroes in the fight against Somoza, organizes the Sandinista Revolutionary Front (FRS) – embedded in the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE) – and declares war on the Sandinista government. Himself a former Sandinista who has held several high posts in the government, he has resigned apruptly in 1981 and defected, believing that the newly found power have corrupted the Sandinista's original ideas

May-August, 1982: Central America- Mexico starts receiving MiG23 and T72 Tank that are deployed in the northern area of Mexico, close to the US border. This move forces the United States to re-deploy two Army Corps from Italy to Texas.

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June 7, 1982: Central America- FLMN enters in San Salvador while El Salvador president Napoleon Duarte flees in Honduras.

July 22, 1982: Central America- In Guatemala General Efraín Ríos Montt is named President of the military junta, continuing the bloody campaign of torture, forced disappearances, and "scorched earth" warfare.

August, 1982: Central America- United States hold a joint exercise with the Hondurans, “Big Pine” , in the meantime, they continued to develop
facilities in Honduras, including a radar complex outside Tegucigalpa, and another – manned by US Marines – on Tiger Island, in the Gulf of Fonseca.

September, 8 1982: Central America-  ARDE (The contras Air Arm)  executes it best-known operation, two T-28s approach Managua flying at a very low level. The first drops a bomb near the home of Foreign Minister,  the second Trojan attack Managua’s Augusto César Sandino Airport. The Nicaraguan soldiers open fire with AAA and personal weapons, hitting the plane as it was underway along the runway: the T-28 burst into flames and smash into the airport control tower, killing the crew of two. Documents found in the wreckage attest that the aircraft took off from Tobías Bolanos airfield, near Costa Rican capital of San José.

September 23, 1982: Central America-  3.200 US troops are airlifted to Honduras in Lockheed C-141 StarLifter, C-5A Galaxy and C-130 Hercules transports

October-December, 1982: Central America- Honduras receives military equipment from the US, among them a Squadron of F20 Tigershark, manned by USAF pilots of Honduran ancestry and supported by USAF specialists.

December, 1982: Central America- In Guatemala the four guerrilla groups, EGP, ORPA, FAR and PGT, merge and forme the URNG, influenced by the Salvadoran guerrilla FMLN, the Nicaraguan FSLN and Cuba's government, in order to become stronger. As a result of the Army's "scorched earth" tactics in the countryside, more than 45,000 Guatemalans flew across the border to Mexico. The Mexican government placed the refugees in camps in Chiapas and Tabasco and secretly starts training them for insurrection.


Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on December 23, 2012, 06:10:25 PM
South America

January 16, 1982: South America– Falklands War- An Intelligence report signal to the British Government the willingness of Argentina to take actions against the Falklands Islands. As a consequence it is ordered to accelerate the activities on HMS Ark Royal that is currently scheduled to entry into service in October 1982.

February 28, 1982: South America– Falklands War- Fuerza Aerea Argentina receives sixteen Dassault Mirage F1 from Israel.

March , 1982: South America –  Falklands War- A ship of the Argentine navy, ARA Francisco de Gurruchaga, anchored at the Deceit island, de facto under Chilean sovereignty since 1881, and refused to abandon the bay despite Chilean demands

March 18, 1982: South America –  Falklands War- An Argentine scrap metal dealer raises the Argentine flag in South Georgia.

April 2, 1982 : South America – Falklands War- The Falklands War begins: Argentina invades and occupies the Falkland Islands. Argentine forces mount amphibious landings of the Falkland Islands, before the Falklands War began. The invasion meet a nominal defence organised by the Falkland Islands' Governor Sir Rex Hunt, giving command to Major Mike Norman of the Royal Marines.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1982/ArgentinaAerospatialegazelle1982.png)

April 3, 1982: South America –  Falklands War- Argentina's Invasion of South Georgia. Argentine naval forces seize control of the east coast of South Georgia after overpowering a small group of Royal Marines at Grytviken.

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April 6, 1982: South America –  Falklands War-  The British Government set up a War Cabinet to provide day-to-day political oversight of the campaign. This is the critical instrument of crisis management for the British with its remit being to "keep under review political and military developments relating to the South Atlantic, and to report as necessary to the Defence and Overseas Policy Committee."

April 8, 1982: South America –  Falklands War-  Argentina refuses  U.S. peace overtures, U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig announced that the United States would prohibit arms sales to Argentina and provide material support for British operations. Both Houses of the U.S. Congress pass resolutions supporting the U.S. action siding with the United Kingdom. The U.S. provided the United Kingdom with military equipment ranging from submarine detectors to the latest missiles. France provides dissimilar aircraft training so Harrier pilots could train against the French aircraft used by Argentina. French and British intelligence also worked to prevent Argentina from obtaining more Exocet missiles on the international market.

April 13, 1982: South America –  Falklands War- British Government struck a secret deal with Chile to have access to air base and airspace for secret recce missions over Argentina. Chile accepts in change for spares and upgrades on Hunters and Canberras support that were under UN embargo and would provide also technical information on the Soviet equipment previously acquired by the Allende’s Government.

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April 16, 1982: South America –  Falklands War- Peru openly sends "Mirages, pilots and missiles" to Argentina during the war. Through Libya, under Muammar Gaddafi, Argentina received twenty launchers and sixty SA-7 missiles, as well as machine guns, mortars and mines, all in all, the load of four trips of two Boeing 707 of the AAF, refuelled in Recife with the knowledge and consent of the Brazilian government.

April 21, 1982: South America –  Falklands War- British retake South Georgia during Operation Paraquet. The first landings of SAS troops took place on 21 April.

April 25, 1982: South America –  Falklands War- After resupplying the Argentine garrison in South Georgia, the submarine ARA Santa Fe is spotted on the surface by a Westland Wessex HAS Mk 3 helicopter from HMS Antrim, which attacks the Argentine submarine with depth charges. HMS Plymouth launches a Westland Wasp HAS.Mk.1 helicopter, and HMS Brilliant launches a Westland Lynx HAS Mk 2. Santa Fe is damaged badly enough to prevent her from diving. The crew abandon the submarine at the jetty at King Edward Point on South Georgia. With the Tidespring now far out to sea and the Argentine forces augmented by the submarine's crew, Major Sheridan decide to gather the seventysix men he has and make a direct assault that day. After a short forced march by the British troops and a naval bombardment demonstration by two Royal Navy vessels (Antrim and Plymouth), the Argentine forces surrender without resistance.

April 28, 1982: South America –  Falklands War- Royal Navy deploys HMS Ark Royal on its first operative mission, after overhaul, to the Falklands.

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May 2, 1982 : South America – Falklands War- Royal Air Force operations on the Falklands open with the "Black Buck 1" attack (of a series of five) on the airfield at Stanley. A BAC TSR.2 Storm bomber from Ascension fly on an 8,000-nautical-mile (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) round trip dropping conventional bombs across the runway at Stanley and back to Ascension. The mission requires repeated refuelling, and several Victor tanker aircraft operating in concert, including tanker to tanker refuelling

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May 2, 1982 : South America – Falklands War- The first naval loss is the World War II-vintage Argentine light cruiser ARA General Belgrano. The nuclear-powered submarine HMS Conqueror sink the Belgrano. Three hundred and twenty-three members of Belgrano's crew die in the incident. Over seven hundred men are rescued from the open ocean despite cold seas and stormy weather.

May 4, 1982: South America –  Falklands War- HMS Sheffield is hit by an Exocet missile strike from the Argentine 2nd Naval Air Fighter/Attack Squadron, and burns out of control; twenty sailors are killed. The ship sinks on May 10. 

May 14, 1982: South America –  Falklands War- The SAS carry out the raid on Pebble Island at the Falklands, where the Argentine Navy has taken over a grass airstrip for MB339K Veltros and Aeritalia G91  light ground attack aircraft and T-34 Mentors. The raid destroy the aircraft there.

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May 21, 1982 : South America – Falklands War- British landings spark the Battle of San Carlos. The amphibious landing on beaches around San Carlos Water, on the northwestern coast of East Falkland facing onto Falkland Sound. The bay, known as Bomb Alley by British forces, is the scene of repeated air attacks by low-flying Argentine jets.

May 22, 1982 : South America – Falklands War- HMS Ardent is sunk by Argentine aircraft, killing twentytwo sailors.

May 25, 1982: South America –  Falklands War- British ships HMS Coventry and Atlantic Conveyor are sunk during the Falklands War. The loss of all but one of the Chinook helicopters being carried by the Atlantic Conveyor is a severe blow from a logistics perspective.

May 27-28, 1982: South America –  Falklands War- From early on 27 May until 28 May 2 Para, (approximately 500 men) with artillery support from 8 (Alma) Commando Battery, Royal Artillery, approaches and attacks Darwin and Goose Green, which is held by the Argentine 12th Infantry Regiment. After a tough struggle that last all night and into the next day, the British win the battle; in all, seventeen British and fortyseven Argentine soldiers are killed. In total almost one thousand Argentine troops (including two hundred Argentine Air Force personnel of the Condor airfield) are taken prisoners.

June 1, 1982 : South America – Falklands War- with the arrival of a further 5,000 British troops of the 5th Infantry Brigade, the new British divisional commander, Major General Jeremy Moore RM, has sufficient force to start planning an offensive against Stanley.

June 8, 1982 : South America – Falklands War- British RFA Sir Galahad is destroyed during the Bluff Cove Air Attacks by three Sepecat Jaguar from Argentine Air Force.

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June 11, 1982 : South America – Falklands War- After several days of painstaking reconnaissance and logistic build-up, British forces launch a brigade-sized night attack against the heavily defended ring of high ground surrounding Stanley. Units of 3 Commando Brigade, supported by naval gunfire from several Royal Navy ships, simultaneously assault in the Battle of Mount Harriet, Battle of Two Sisters, and Battle of Mount Longdon.

June 13, 1982 : South America – Falklands War- The night of 13 June see the start of the second phase of attacks, in which the momentum of the initial assault is maintained. 2 Para with CVRT support from The Blues and Royals, capture Wireless Ridge at the Battle of Wireless Ridge, at a loss of three British and twentyfive Argentine dead, and the 2nd battalion, Scots Guards captured Mount Tumbledown at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, which cost ten British and thirty Argentine lives. With the last natural defence line at Mount Tumbledown breached, the Argentine town defences of Stanley begin to falter.

June 14, 1982 : South America – Falklands War- The Falklands War ends: Formal surrender of Argentine forces.  A cease fire is declared and the commander of the Argentine garrison in Stanley, Brigade General Mario Menéndez surrender to Major General Jeremy Moore the same day.

June 18, 1982 : South America – Falklands War- Argentine military dictator Leopoldo Galtieri resigns, in the wake of his country's defeat in the Falklands War.

June 20, 1982 : South America – Falklands War- The British retake the South Sandwich Islands, (which involve accepting the surrender of the Southern Thule Garrison at the Corbeta Uruguay base) and declare hostilities to be over. Argentina had established Corbeta Uruguay in 1976, but prior to 1982 the United Kingdom has contested the existence of the Argentine base only through diplomatic channels.

July 21, 1982: South America-HMS Hermes, the Royal Navy flagship during the Falklands War, returns home to Portsmouth to a hero's welcome.

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Southern Africa

January-April, 1982: Southern Africa-  SAAF participate in operations by UNITA, which gains more and more control of south-eastern Angola. The attacks by far exceed the previous hit and -run operations and are aimed primarily at the Benguela Railway.

March 1982: Southern Africa- South African aircraft maker Atlas, starts building the Cheetah, a slightly modified version of the IAI Kfir, with Israeli support.

June-September, 1982: Southern Africa-  Cubans get Increasingly involved in the fighting, either because they had garrisons in the embattled area or because they come to the rescue of FAPLA units under attack. The UNITA insurgency and South African attacks have a crippling effect on the Angolan economy, especially agriculture and infrastructure, and the hostilities create hundreds of thousands of refugees.


Afghanistan


January-February, 1982: Afghanistan-Urban fightings in Herat and Kandahar.

May, 1982: Afghanistan- Panjseher V- The first major offensive is carried out by a force of 12,000 soldiers supported by more than one hunderd helicopters and twentysix airplanes. The main assault begin on the night of May 16. While motorized rifle battalions, preceded by reconnaissance units, attack the dominating features at the entrance of the valley, airborne units are airlifted by helicopter behind the main Mujahideen defenses. In all, 4,200 troops are airlifted into the valley to capture strategic points, right up to the Pakistani border, in an effort to cut the Mujahideen supply lines.

June, 1982: Afghanistan- Panjseher V- Massoud, who expected an attack similar to the previous ones, has disposed his defenses close to the entrance of the valley, and is thus unable to prevent the Soviets from gaining footholds in the Panjshir. They establish three main bases at Rukha, Bazarak and Anava. Most of the Mujahideen have survived the attack and Massoud divides them into small, mobile groups that fight the Soviets all down the valley.

July, 1982: Afghanistan- Panjseher V- During this offensive, the Soviets manage to occupy a large part of the Panjshir and scored some successes however, most of the rebels have escaped capture, and this was not the decisive victory the Soviets have been hoping for. Also, their heavily fortified bases only give them control over the valley floor, while the surrounding heights are still held by the Mujahideen. For this reason they decide to launch a sixth offensive.

August, 1982: Afghanistan- Panjseher VI- The sixth offensive consists of a series of sweeps conducted by motorised units and by airborne Spetsnaz units, launched from their bases in the Panjshir, to find and destroy the Mujahideen hideouts. It is accompanied by a heavy aerial bombardment of villages suspected of harbouring rebel groups, notably carried out by Tu-16 bombers flying from inside the Soviet Union. Heliborne troops carry out search and destroy missions, encircling Massoud's mobile units and destroying some of them. However, as a rule attrition among the Mujahideen is low, and the brunt of the attacks fell on the civilian population, who suffers heavily, many of them preferring to flee the valley.

September, 1982: Afghanistan- Panjseher VI- Once the height of the offensive has passed, many areas captured by the Soviet forces are handed over to Afghan army units, who suffer from low morale and high desertion rates. They are the targets for Massoud's counterattacks.

October, 1982: Afghanistan- Panjseher VI- In a series of surprise attacks, several government outposts fall to the rebels. The government post at Birjaman fall soon after, and the Mujahideen are able to recapture some areas in this way. These operations, along with the continued harassment of Soviet garrisons and resupply convoys, prove that the Mujahideen are far from defeated, and convince the Soviets that they must negotiate a truce with Massoud. Despite bitter fighting, the Soviets are unable to eradicate the Mujahideen, and the battle soon develop into a stalemate. During the 5th and 6th offensives the Soviets suffer up to 3,000 casualties, and 1,000 Afghan Army soldiers defect to the Mujahideen



Iran-Iraq

March, 1982  : Iran-Iraq- Iran take the offensive and the Iraqi military is forced to retreat.

May 18, 1982: Iran-Iraq- Iranian Army finalizes the  Liberation of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis. The Iranians attack, with some seventy thousand fighters in the Ahvaz-Susangerd area. The Iraqi forces in the area withdrew, and planned to mount a defence at Khorramshahr.

May 20, 1982: Iran-Iraq- The Iraqis launch a counter-offensive. However, despite its scale, the Iranians are able to repulse the attack.

May 22, 1982: Iran-Iraq- The Iranians Liberated Khorramshahr; the vitally strategically important Iranian city whose capture by Iraq have been the low-point of Iranian fortunes in the early days of the war. The Iraqis are ordered to retreat, although many have done when Khorramshar has fallen, back into Iraq. The Iranians capture 12,000 Iraqi troops and a substantial amount of Iraqi military hardware.

June, 1982: Iran-Iraq- an Iranian counter-offensive has recovered the areas lost to Iraq earlier in the war.

June 20-21, 1982: Iran-Iraq- Saddam announces that he was prepared to accept a ceasefire on the basis of the pre-war status quo, the day after Khomeini rejected the Iraqi peace offer in a speech and proclaimed that Iran would invade Iraq and would not stop until the Ba'ath regime is replaced by an Islamic Shia republic.

July 13, 1982: Iran-Iraq- Iranian units crossed the border in force, aiming towards the city of Basra, the second most important city in Iraq. However, the enemy they encounter have entrenched itself in formidable defenses.

October 1, 1982: Iran-Iraq- Iran launches the The Muslim-ibn-aqil offensive, with small IRGC units in high spirits attacking Iraqi positions high on the hills, followed by mechanised Army units in the morning. Due to  a lack of co-ordination between the IRIAS and the IRGC units and so the battle soon developed into a bloody struggle for every hill.

October 7, 1982 : Iran-Iraq- the Iranians have lost their positions overlooking Mandali; but, they hold off the other Iraqi counterattacks and also claim seven Iraqi fighter-bombers as shot down, in addition liberating 150km2 of their own soil.

November 2, 1982 : Iran-Iraq- Iran launches the The MOHARRAM offensive. By the dawn of 2 November, the IrAF, the IrAAC, the IRIAF and the IRIAA has thrown everything they have into the battle, with the Iraqis trying to block a further Iranian advance towards the west, and the Iranians trying to suppress Iraqi armour, which is constantly inflicting losses on their infantry. The IRIAF Tomcats intercept numerous Iraqi formations, claiming seven MiGs, Sukhois, and helicopters as shot down. The Iraqis have fiercely denied suffering such losses, but in event the IRIAF establishes local air superiority, enabling TFB.3 Phantoms to bomb Iraqis with BL.755 CBUs, destroying scores of tanks and other vehicles. Then the IRIAA Cobras and the Gendarmerie O-2As appears over the battlefield and start rolling the Iraqi tanks back.

November 6-7, 1982 : Iran-Iraq- the Iranian forces have reached the strategic Sharahani-Zobeidat road, cutting the most important Iraqi logistical route in the area. The town is captured, but hold only very briefly, as the Iraqis are swift to react with a major counteroffensive of their elite Republican Guards units, which deploys their brand-new T-72 tanks, recently delivered from the USSR, driving them directly from Baghdad. By the 7 November, both sides suffer extensive losses, and are very tired of constant battles, so they settle to stabilise their new positions, or to improve them through local counterattacks.

November 20, 1982 : Iran-Iraq- the Iraqi troops in the Moharram, on the front between Eyn-e Khosh and Musiyan, are in a critical condition. The Iranians have managed to capture several important oilfields, and cut the main communication lines into the area; the IrAF is prevented from intervening by the IRIAF interceptors and SAMs; and the intervention efforts of the IrAAC ends with its helicopters either being shot down by Iranian fighters and Cobras, or being hampered in their operations by strong winds and bad weather.


Far East/Oceania

April- May 22, 1982: Far East- A company-size clash between PLA and PAVN units occur in the Luojiaping Mountain in Yunnan Province and last for fiftyseven days.

September 20, 1982: Far East- China- For the first time, China launches three satellites into orbit, on a rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The feat lead some observers to speculate that China has gained the ability to launch multiple nuclear warheads or that it has set up an early warning system against missile attacks.

November 27, 1982: Far East- Yasuhiro Nakasone of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan is elected to the rank  of Prime Minister

December 4, 1982 : Far East- China-  The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.


Mediterrean / North Africa

January, 1982: Mediterrean / North Africa- In Chad Oum Hadjer fall, at only one hundred miles from Ati, the last relevant town before the capital. The GUNT is saved for the moment by Armee de l’Aire, the only credible military force confronting Habré, that prevented the FAN from taking Ati.

January, 1982: Mediterrean / North Africa -  Over one hundred thirty United States military advisors work with the FAR, several of them seen in Western Sahara, Moroccan Forces Armees Royales (FAR) begin to go on the offensive.

March 10, 1982: Mediterrean / North Africa -  The United States places an embargo on Libyan oil imports, alleging Libyan support for terrorist groups.

June 5-7, 1982: Mediterrean / North Africa-The GUNT forces attempt to make a last stand at Massaguet, fifty miles north of capital on the Abéché-N'Djamena road, but are defeated by the FAN  after a hard battle. Two days later Habré enters unopposed in N'Djamena, making him the de facto source of national government in Chad, while Goukouni flee the country seeking sanctuary in Cameroon.

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December, 1982: Mediterrean / North Africa-Before Gaddafi could throw his full weight behind Goukouni, Habré attack the GUNT in the Tibesti, but is repelled.


Sub Saharian Africa


April, 1982 : Sub-Saharian Africa- In Ethiopia,  the Operation "Red Star" hit the EPLF (Eritrean People Liberation Front) strongholds at Naqfa and Helhal, where the rebels are subjected to unprecedented bombing raids, in which phosphorous and napalm bombs are used extensively. Nevertheless, supported by the attacks of Ethiopian rebels against government supply bases, the Eritreans hold out and hit back, in turn flaring-up also another uprising in the Ogaden, which distract and stretch Ethiopian resources. In the end, "Red Star" fails, with the Ethiopian Army and the Cubans suffering as many as one hundred thousand casualties.

August 1, 1982 : Sub-Saharian Africa- An attempted coup against government of Daniel Arap Moi in Kenya organized by Air Force officers fails.



Northern Ireland

July 20, 1982: Northern Ireland - Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings – eleven British soldiers and seven military horses die in PIRA bomb attacks during military ceremonies in Regent's Park and Hyde Park, London. Many spectators are badly injured.

December 6, 1982: Northern Ireland - Droppin Well bombing – eleven British soldiers and six civilians are killed by an INLA time bomb at the Droppin’ Well Bar in Ballykelly, County Londonderry.

Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: JP Vieira on December 24, 2012, 05:16:36 AM
Really enjoying this alt history
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Vuk on December 24, 2012, 07:21:46 PM
Nice work.

But I simply must to tell the not so known fact about yugo MiG-23. Back in late 80's, Iraq send some MiG-21 and MiG-23 to Yugoslavia for overhauling. Due to situation in both countries, those aircraft were never returned to Iraq. Officially, MiG-23 was used for evaluation only. Unofficially, they were used in operation in Yugoslav wars in 90's, but there is no available data... yet. Maybe this was known to some of you, guys, but nevertheless, I have to reply. So, in this case, MiG-23 is almost what-if  ;)

There is a photo and one of them today is in front of Yugoslav Aeronautical Museum. Greetings!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on December 29, 2012, 01:36:19 AM
1983

News

January 26, 1983: News -  Lotus 1-2-3 is released for IBM-PC compatible computers.

June 18, 1983 : News -  STS-7: Regardless of the war in Europe the NASA Space program proceed and Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, on the Space Shuttle Challenger.

July 16, 1983 : News - The 1984 Winter Olympics to be held in Sarajevo,Yugoslavia are cancelled by IOC, respecting the tradition that the games cannot be held.

December 31, 1983: News -  In the U.S., inflation is down to an annual rate of 3.22 percent. Paul Volcker has lowered interest rates to 9 percent, and this is encouraging more lending, investment and home buying.

December, 1983: News -  N.1 on the charts in the UK is “Dancing with tears in my eyes” of the Ultravox. No.1 in the US is “Eve of Destruction” by Bob Dylan, cover of the sixties classic of Barry McGuire.


Central Front / Europe

February 1, 1983: Central Front/Europe- The new Soviet fighter, the Sukhoi Su27 enters in servive with Soviet VVS his NATO codename is “Flanker”. It is far more advanced than its western counterpart the F15 “Eagle”.

March 4, 1983 : Central Front/Europe- The Socialist Bettino Craxi is elected PM of Italy. He will lead a five party coalition Socialist, Social-Democrat, Republican, Liberal, Democratic-Christian and external support of the Communist Party.

March 8, 1983: Central Front/Europe- In the West German federal elections of March 1983, Kohl win a smashing victory. The CDU/CSU win 48.8%, while the FDP win 7.0%.

March 15, 1983: Central Front/Europe- In USA the new AWACS, the Boeing E4 “Sentinel”, based on the Boeing 757 passenger airplane enters in service with USAF.

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March 23, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI): United States President Ronald Reagan makes his initial public proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. The media dub this plan "Star Wars".

March 31, 1983 : Central Front/Europe- Korean Air Flight 007 takes off from Anchorage, Alaska, heading for Seoul, South Korea. It veers slightly off course, flies over the southern tips of Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin Island, Soviet territory, and is shot down by a Soviet Sukhoi Su15 aircraft. All 269 on board are killed.

April 1, 1983 : Central Front/Europe- NATO Intelligence Report start to notify massive troops movement in all Warsaw Pact countries. All the Units of  Soviet Group of Forces in Germany are at maximum strength and are deployed in this order: In Northern East Germany is the 2nd Guards Tank Army, in the Central Area are stationed the 3rd Shock Army and 8th Guards Army, facing Bavaria there is 1st Guards Tank Army with  20th Guards Army in the rearguard while Czechoslovakia is given to the responsibility of Soviet Central Group of Forces.

April 4, 1983 : Central Front/Europe- Warsaw Pact announces that a major exercise, involving all members of the Pact, will be going on in East Germany for more than a month.

April 7-14, 1983: Central Front/Europe- NATO troops are alerted, the front is divided as follows: The Northern Front is assigned to the 8th West Germany Mechanized Division,  Northern Army Group is composed by the 1st West German Corp , 1st Netherland Corp, 1st British Corp, 1st Belgian Corp,   with UK Mobile force and US III Corps as reinforcement, Central Army Group is composed by  West Germany II Corp, US VII Corp, the West Germany II Corp with France II Corp,  Canadian Brigade and France 1st Army as reinforcement.

April 21, 1983: Central Front/Europe- NATO Secret Services are providing conflicting reports about the Warsaw Pact troops movements, with the majority of them, in particular the ones coming from West Germany Intelligence, are conferming that Warsaw Pact is just doing an Exercise.

April 30, 1983: Central Front/Europe- NATO publishes an update of its Order of Battles and Warsaw Pact and other Communist states as well.


WarPact & Allies

Albania
20 -Chengdu F7A Fishbed
36 -Shenyang F6 Farmer
36 -Shenyang F2 Midget
48 -Nanchang A5 Fantan
36 -MiG21 PFM Fishbed
8 -Ilyushin Il28 Beagle
36 -Mil Mi24 Hind

Bulgaria
80 -MiG 21PFM Fishbed
32 -MiG 23BM Flogger
36 -MiG 19 PF Farmer
60 -MiG 17 Fresco
24 -MiG 29 Fulcrum (on order)
36 -Sukhoi Su25 Frogfoot (48 In Delivery)

Czechoslovakia
300 -MiG 21PFM Fishbed
40 -MiG 21R Fishbed
50 -MiG 23MF Flogger
30 -MiG 23BN Flogger
36 -MiG29 Fulcrum (On Order)
110 -Sukhoi Su20 Fitter
48 -Sukhoi Su25 Frogfoot (On Order)
30 -MiG 17 Fresco
30 -Mil 24 Hind
36 -MiG31 Foxhound

East Germany
250 -MiG 21 PFM Fishbed
50 -MiG 23MF Flogger
100 -Sukhoi Su20 Fitter
30 -Mig 17 Fresco
24 -Mil 24 Hind
36 -Sukhoi Su24 Fencer
24 -MiG 29 Fulcrum (On Order)
72 -MiG31 Foxhound
12 -Sukhoi Su 25 Frogfoot (72 In Delivery)

Hungary
60 -MiG 23 MF Flogger
116 -MiG 21PFM Fishbed
40 -Sukhoi Su20 Fitter
36 -MiG 23BN Flogger
12 -Sukhoi Su25 Frogfoot (36 In Delivery)
24 -MiG 29 Fulcrum (on order)

Jugoslavia
200 -MiG 21PFM Fishbed
200 -Soko J-22 Orao
180 -Soko J-21 Jastreb
24 -Sukhoi Su25 Frogfoot (96 In Delivery)
120 -MiG23 Flogger
84 -Sukhoi Su20 Fitter
12 -MiG 29 Fulcrum (48 In Delivery)
96 -Mil Mi24 Hind

Korea (North)
120 -MiG21 Fishbed
120 -Shenjang F4 Farmer
350 -MiG 17 Fresco
30 -Sukhoi Su 20 Fitter
70 -Ilyushin Il28 Beagle

Poland

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300 -MiG 21 Fishbed
60 -MiG 23 Flogger
100 -MiG17 Fresco
160 -Sukhoi Su20 Fitter
60 -Mil Mi24 Hind
48 -MiG 31 Foxhound
48 -Sukhoi Su25 Frogfoot
4 -MiG 29 Fulcrum (36 In Delivery)
24 -Sukhoi Su 27 Flanker (On Order)

USSR

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/USSRMiG29Fulcrum1983.png)

24 -Tupolev Tu160 Blackjack
100 -Tupolev Tu22 Backfire
120 -Tupolev Tu95 Bear
140 -Tupolev Tu22 Blinder
425 -Tupolev Tu16 Badger
30 -Myaschishev Mya4 Bison
250 -MiG 25 Foxbat
800 -MiG 23 Flogger
750 -Sukhoi Su15 Flagon
90 -Tupolev Tu28P Fiddler
210 -Yakovlev Yak28 Firebar
125 -Sukhoi Su25 Frogfoot
400 -Sukhoi Su24 Fencer
1700 -MiG 23/27 Flogger
150 -MiG 25 Foxhound
1500 -MiG21 Fishbed
600 -Sukhoi Su17 Fitter
200 -MiG 29 Fulcrum (400 In Delivery)
160 -Sukhoi Su 27 Flanker (On Order)
2000 -Mil Mi 24 Hind
800 -Mil Mi 28 Havoc (On Order)


NATO & Allies

Australia
RAAF
24 BAC TSR.2 Storm
75 McDonnell F18 Hornet
64 Northrop F5A Freedom Fighter
96 Northrop F20 Tigershark
20 Lockheed P3C Orion
24 McDonnell P4A Pegasus (On Order)
16 Northrop F20 Tigershark (96 In Delivery)
36 General Dynamics F111C Aardvark

RAN
12 McDonnell A4G Skyhawk
36 McDonnell F4J Phantom
24 Grumman F14A Tomcat
24 McDonnell F18A Hornet (on order)

Austria
32 Saab 105OE
4 Saab Jas 37 Viggen (24 On Order)

Belgium
Force Aerienne Belge
116 General Dynamics F16 Fighting Falcon
36 Lockheed F104 Starfighter
80 Dassault Mirage V
64 Dassault Mirage F1
36 Dassault Mirage 2000 (on order)
80 Sepecat Jaguar A/E
Aviation Legere de la Force Terrestre
36 Aerospatiale SA342 Gazelle

Canada
RCAF


(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/CanadaNorthropF20ATigershark1983.png)

58 Canadair CF116A Freedom Fighter
55 McDonnell F101 Voodoo
92 Canadair CF104 Starfighter
64 McDonnell F4E Phantom
138 Canadair CF18 Hornet
64 British Aerospace Harrier
120 Canadair CF20 Tigershark
64 Panavia Tornado IDS
RCN
36 McDonnell F4J Phantom
24 McDonnell F18 Hornet (On Order)
24 Lockheed P3C Orion

Denmark
60 General Dynamics F16 Fighting Falcon
60 Saab J35 Draken
48 Saab J37 Viggen
32 Lockheed F104 Starfighter

France
AdlA

50 Dassault Mirage IVA
250 Dassault Mirage F1
300 Dassault Mirage III/5
24 Dassault Mirage 2000 (120 In Delivery)
190 Sepecat Jaguar A/E
18 Dassault Mirage 4000 (72 In Delivery)
24 British Aerospace Harrier (On Order)

Aeronavale
70 Breguet SuperEtendard
32 Vought F8A Crusader
30 Breguet Atlantic
48 Sepecat Jaguar M
36 McDonnell F4J Phantom
24 McDonnell F18A Hornet

ALAT
240 Aerospatiale SA342 Gazelle

West Germany
Luftwaffe

60 Panavia Tornado
240 McDonnell F4F Phantom
170 Lockheed F104G Starfighter
24 Norhrop F20 Tigershark (120 In Delivery)
72 British Aerospace Harrier
80 General Dynamics F16 Fighting Falcon
48 McDonnell F15C Eagle
4 Dassault Mirage 2000 (72 In Delivery)

Marineflieger
112 Panavia Tornado
60 Lockheed F104G Starfighter
24 Breguet Atlantic
48 McDonnell F4J Phantom
8 McDonnell Douglas F18A Hornet (36 In Delivery)
24 McDonnell P4A Pegasus (On Order)

Heer
120 Bell AH1G Cobra
64 McDonnell AH64A Apache (On Order)

Great Britain
RAF


(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/UKMcDonnellF151983-1.png)

220 Panavia Tornado IDS
125 McDonnell F4M Phantom
50 English Electric Lightning
150 Sepecat Jaguar GR/T
140 British Aerospace Harrier
65 Hawker Siddeley Buccanners
48 McDonnell F15C Eagle
50 Hawker Nimrod
48 BAC TSR.2 Storm
72 General Dynamics F16A Fighting Falcon
48 Northrop A9 Warthog
64 British Aerospace Mk.T1A
Boeing E4A Sentinel (4 On Order)

FAA
42 British Aerospace Harrier
24 Grumman F14A Tomcat
36 McDonnell Douglas F18A Hornet
24 Sepecat Jaguar M (48 In Delivery)

Army
72 McDonnell AH64A Apache (On Order)

Greece
40 Dassault Mirage F1
64 McDonnell F4E Phantom
72 Northrop F5A Freedom Fighter
50 Lockheed F104G Starfighter
65 Vought A7D Corsair
8 Northrop F20 Tigershark (32 In Delivery)

Italy
AMI


88 Panavia Tornado IDS
200 Lockheed F104S Starfighter
100 Fiat G91
18 Breguet Atlantic
36 Aermacchi MB339K Veltro
72 Northrop F20 Tigershark
72 General Dynamics F16A Fighting Falcon
36 British Aerospace Harrier
18 Aeritalia Sparviero
24 McDonnell P4A Pegasus (On Order)

MM

36 McDonnell Douglas F18A Hornet (On Order)
48 McDonnell F4J Phantom

Aviazione Esercito
48 Bell AH1G Cobra

Japan
IJAF


100 McDonnell F15A Eagle
200 McDonnell F4EJ Phantom
90 Lockheed F104EJ Starfighter
70 Mitsubishi F1
24 Northrop F20 Tigershark (72 In delivery)
72 General Dynamics F16A Fighting Falcon

IJN
36 McDonnell Douglas F18A Hornet (On Order)
48 McDonnell F4J Phantom
48McDonnell P4A Pegasus (On Order)
 72 Lockheed P3C Orion

IJA
72 McDonnell AH64A Apache (On Order)

Korea (South)
36 General Dynamics F16A Fighting Falcon (140 In delivery)
66 McDonnell F4D/E Phantom
146 Northrop F5E Freedom Fighter
36 Northrop F20 Tigershark

Netherlands
124 General Dynamics F16A Fighting Falcon
54 Lockheed F104G Starfighter
70 Northrop F5A Freedom Fighter
12 Lockheed P3C Orion
16 Northrop F20 Tigershark (96 In Delivery)
8 McDonnell AV8A Harrier (48 In Delivery)
36 Panavia Tornado IDS
48 McDonnell F4E Phantom

New Zealand

12 McDonnell A4K Skyhawk
5 Lockheed P3C Orion
24 Northrop F20 Tigershark
24 Northrop F5A Freedom Fighter

Norway
72 General Dynamics F16A Fighting Falcon
60 Northrop F5A Freedom Fighter
8 Lockheed P3C Orion
48 Northrop F20 Tigershark
24 British Aerospace Harrier

Portugal

42 Fiat G91
48 Vought A7 Corsair
24 General Dynamics F16A Fighting Falcon (On Order)

Spain
EdA

72 Dassault Mirage F1
24 Dassault Mirage III
78 Dassault Mirage 2000 (on order)
40 McDonnell F4D Phantom
60 Northrop F5A Freedom Fighter
6 Lockheed P3A Orion
36 Sepecat Jaguar A/E

Marina
24 British Aerospace Harrier

Ejercito
24 Aerospatiale SA342 Gazelle

Sweden

200 Saab Viggen
150 Saab Draken   
36 Saab Lansen
8 McDonnell AV8A Harrier (36 on order)
Saab Jas39 Gripen (200 On Order)

Turkey

210 Lockheed F104S Starfighter
100 McDonnell F4E Phantom
100 North American F100 Super Sabre
100 Northrop F5A Freedom Fighter
Northrop F20 Tigershark (80 on order)
48 Northrop A9 Warthog

USA
USAF


269 Boeing B52 G/H
75 Boeing B52 D
615 Boeing KC135A
56 General Dynamics FB111A
490 General Dynamics F16A Fighting Falcon (1388 In Delivery)
756 McDonnell F15A/C Eagle (1472 In Delivery)
90 Northrop F20 Tigershark (360 In Delivery)
90 Panavia Tornado
733 Northrop A9 Warthog
34 Boeing E3A Sentry
6 Boeing E4A Sentinel (36 In Delivery)
350 Vought A7D Corsair
100 General Dynamics F111A/D
100 McDonnell RF4C Phantom
2000 McDonnell F4E/D Phantom
50 McDonnell F4G Phantom
42 General Dynamics EF111A Raven
42 Grumman OV10A Bronco
27 Lockheed AC130A Spectre

USN
478 Grumman F14A/B Tomcat
408 Mc Donnell F18A Hornet (In Delivery 820)
445 Grumman A6E Intruder
459 Vought A7D Corsair
6 Grumman EA6 Prowlers (24 In Delivery)
48  McDonnell AV8A Harrier (366 In delivery)
260 McDonnell A4M Skyhawk
154  Lockheed P3C Orion
64 McDonnell P4A Pegasus (120 in delivery)



USMC

124 McDonnell F4N Phantom
264  McDonnell AV8A Harrier
120 McDonnell A4M Skyhawk
60 Grumman A6E Intruder

ARMY
4000 Bell UH1H Huey
410 Sikorski UH60A Black Hawk
600 Bell AH-1 Cobra
36 Hughes AH64 Apache (410 on Order)

May 1, 1983: Central Front/Europe- At midnight GDR Luftstreitkräfte and USSR VVS start striking in West Germany with the air cover of MiG 29 Fulcrums. At the same time Soviet T80s Tanks formation cross the IGB (Inner German Border) and pushes towards the Fulda Gap. At the same time Rote Armee Fraktion terrorists detonates bombs on major roads in order to delay the movement of NATO troops and vehicles.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/GDRSukhoiSu24Fencer1983.png)

May 1, 1983: Central Front/Europe- At 12:20 in the afternoon on the east of the West German town of Kielbach a platoon of four M1A2 Abrams Tanks is moved to stop an anticipated Soviet lunge for the junction to the Fulda Gap. By 13:40 the 2nd Battallion of 178th GITR had been destroyed with just two BMP-2s surviving, of the four NATOs M1A2s, two are immediately repaired while a third one suffers major damage. At 14:05 2 flights of RAF 2 (AC) Squadron Tornados flying at extremely low level destroyes other twentyfour Tanks of the 178th.

May 1, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Soviet tanks division push into central West Germany aiming at Frankfurt  with an attack from the Thuringian Bulge through the Fulda Gap.  The distance from the Inner German Border to Frankfurt is a mere 100 km. Capturing Frankfurt would effectively cut West Germany in half, and given the importance of north-south lines of communication, would leave NATO’s forces in southern Germany isolated. The main attack is performed by the Soviet 8th Guard Army against the V US Corps.  West Berlin is attacked by the 20th Guards of Soviet Army and by GDR units.

May 2, 1983: Central Front/Europe- All NATO members declares war to Warsaw Pact following article 5 of the NATO statute. Australia and New Zealand joins NATO declarations.

May 2,1983: Central Front/Europe-British Government declares Mandatory Draft for all Citizens with age between 18 and 35.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/UKMcDonnellF151983-2.png)

May 2, 1983: Central Front/Europe- GDR special troops of the 1st Army and part of Soviet 2nd Army Tank Guards pushes into northern West Germany in order to get to Denmark.

May 2, 1983: Central Front/Europe- POMCUS Tank crews are flown from the United States to West Germany to be th crew of tanks divisions already placed in West Germany. At the same time Mission Reforger is activate with additional Army and Marines units deployed to Europe through Lockheed C141 Cargos.

May 2, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Vicious fights are happening in West Berlin with RAF Harriers providing ground support amongst the buildings on fire. West German Polizei, already trained in the use of small arms and mortars joins the fight with the Berlin Brigade of US Army and and Berlin Infantry Brigade of British Army as well against East German 1st Motorized Rifle Division, that has been trained for that specific target for three years.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/UKBAEHarrierGR31983.png)

May 2, 1983: Central Front/Europe- China release an official statement that say “Though PRC understands the actions put in place by the Warsaw Pact to free West Germany, the People of China  will remain neutral and will act in order to help peace to be succesful”.

May 3, 1983: Central Front/Europe- All major European Leaders, Helmuth Kohl, Francois Mitterand, Bettino Craxi and Margaret Tatcher fly to Washington for a summit with Reagan where they evaluate all alternatives to counter the Communist attack, including the utilization of the remaining nuclear arsenal. This one is discarded for the fear of a Soviet reprisal on London and Paris. it is decided to hold the positions and not retreat in Middle East and Central America but to suspend any offensive plan.  United Kingdom will support South Africa and Rhodesia in Southern Africa to drain resources to USSR in the support of Angola.

May 3, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Warsaw Pact, Soviet 120th Guards MRR and 39th Guards Motorized Division are at 30 Kilometers from Hamburg that is evacuated by civilians.

May 3, 1983: Central Front/Europe- In Rome Pope John Paul II call for an immediate stop to all offensive operation and for a return to Peace.

May 4, 1983: Central Front/Europe- In a frantic meeting President Reagan asks Japanese and South Korean PM, that have flown to Washington to show their support, to reinforce their borders but to avoid any attack. The opening of another front might not be sustainable by United States.

May 4, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Soviet Spetsnaz and Yugoslavian Army attack north-eastern Italy. The move is a surprise since Italian Intelligence was reporting a strike of the Hungarian Army through Austria and Italian Army units were deployed on that front. The attack is supported by Soviet and Yugoslav MiG29s and Mil Mi24 Hinds. The city of Gorizia is occupied.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/ItalyAeritaliaG91R1983.png)

May 4-5, 1983: Central Front/Europe-Soviet 2nd Army Tank Guards conquer Kiel and Lubbeck in northern Germany in their push to isolate Denmark.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/FDRMcDonnellF4J1983.png)

May 5, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Soviet troops attacks on the Northern Europe front and occupy the town of Vardo in Norway.

May 5, 1983: Central Front/Europe-Italian Communist Party leader (that has more than 30% of seat in the parliament) in a public speech severs all ties with USSR and East Bloc Communist Parties. It confirms thay even if will not enter in the government it will provide external support. This is a major blow to the communist strategy that was hoping in a Communist insurrection in Italy togheter with terrorists actions by the Red Brigades.

May 6, 1983: Central Front/Europe- GDR forces enters Copenhagen and conquer the whole Denmark that is placed under Soviet Military Government.

May 7, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Soviet Spetsnaz units are infiltrated in West Germany with the task to eliminate RAF and Luftwaffe Harriers that are proving very effective against Warpact armoured divisions.

May 7, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Italian Government has activated the “Gladio” plan. It was a plan set-up in the early fifties in case of a Communist insurgence that foresaw a “Stay Behind” structure with depots hidden in northern Italy as long as former soldiers trained to use them in emergency. At the same time Hungarian Army joins Soviet and Yugoslav Armies on the Italian Front.

May 9-24, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Major tank battle outside of Hamburg, Soviet forces are stopped by massive low level attack by Tornado units from RAF, USAF and Luftwaffe. In detail they apply the FOFA NATO doctrine that foresee to destroy the enemy forces that are coming to the front in a way to stop supplies to the first line troops.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/USANorthropA9Warthog1983.png)

May 10, 1983 : Central Front/Europe- Sweden decide to renounce to its neutrality and support Norway in his fight against USSR. This was a serious and unexepected blow to Soviet strategy in that area. Finland see herself too endangered and would remain neutral.

May 10-31, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Soviet troops continue to advance in Scandinavia and arrive (32Km- 20 Mi) to Hammerfest in Norway.

May 12, 1983: Central Front/Europe- In the Caucasus fighting starts between Turkish and Soviet armies. In the area Soviets have reserve units coming from eastern regions not equipped with the latest vehicles but with old T62 tanks instead.

May 14, 1983: Central Front/Europe- After nine days of vicious fightings the city of Trieste falls in Yugoslav hands, civilians scared by the memories of the 1945 event during Yugoslav occupation leave the town.

May 15, 1983: Central Front/Europe-Warsaw Pact forces complete the occupation of West Berlin. The City is under control of GDR 1st Motorized Rifle Division.

May 16, 1983: Central Front/Europe-French President Mitterand places all French forces under NATO command, the forces are assigned to the Central Front. At the same time ANZACs forces are deployed in Italy, to support Italian Army.

May 18, 1983: Central Front/Europe-United Nations Security Council activities in New York are suspended since the Soviet Union Ambassador is absent. UN General Secretary Javier Perez de Cuellar asks all Nations to stop fightings and start Peace talks.

May 21, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Under American request, Israeli Air Force pilots are sent to Turkey to supplement Turkish Air Force Pilots.

May 24, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Soviet and Yugoslav forces are stopped in Italy in the Friuli region, along the Tagliamento River,  before they would be able to get to the Padania plain. Massive low level attacks from Italian Air Force Tornados have helped by stopping supplies arriving on the front.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/AustriaSaabJa37Viggen1983.png)

May 28, 1983: Central Front/Europe-Using Denmark as a base Soviet units start to attack Sweden, with fighters leaving from bases in Estonia and Lithuania try to gain Air Superiority.

Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on December 29, 2012, 02:46:26 AM
I love the Sentinel and German Phantom!  It reminds me of the B-51 that I did in that scheme.  It makes most planes look good.

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,20962.msg428309.html#msg428309 (http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,20962.msg428309.html#msg428309)

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on December 30, 2012, 05:02:17 PM
Logan Thanks..........

......... thanks that Harrier took me an all day of travel from Bangalore to Jacksonville..........

June, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Soviet forces launch a second major attack in Bavaria, the attack is countered by Canadian Forces but Czech and Soviet units are able to go to the outside of Munich.

June 1, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Skirmishes starts along the Bulgarian – Greek border. Bulgarian and Romanian Army armies are weak, though the lack of co-operation between Greek and Turkish armies does not allow NATO to push forward in the Thrace Region and the front will remain stable through the end of the year.

June 2, 1983: Central Front/Europe- USSR deploys two Divisions in Chukotsky Area and stage an attack along the Bering Strait towards Alaska. The attack is just to probe the US defences in the area, but will keep occupied 3 US divisions and 100 USAF planes until the end of the war.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/USANorthropF20ATigershark1983.png)

June 7, 1983: Central Front/Europe- The training and skill of Swedish Army is too high for the medium level Soviet units sent to attack Sweden and suffer a major defeat in the Malmo area.

June 9, 1983: Central Front/Europe- United Kingdom general election: Conservative Margaret Thatcher wins in a landslide victory over Michael Foot (72% of the popular vote), the most decisive election victory since 1945.

June 12, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Soviet army suffers a defeat in the Scandinavian Mountains from Swedish and Norwegian Armies and starts retreating.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/NorwayBAEHarrierGR31983.png)

June 18-24, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Soviet troops starts a push in the Taurus Region of Turkey from Georgia and Armenia the scope of the Operation is to reach the Euphrates River.

June 20-26, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Yugoslav and Soviet units attempt a joint Heliborne and Sea Landing along the Po river delta. After a week of dramatic fightings the communist forces retreats. In particular Australian SAS have disrupted the Warpact communication lines together with Italian “Stay Behind” commandos.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/YugoslaviaMilMi24Hind1983.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/YugoslaviaSukhoi251983.png)

July 1, 1983: Central Front/Europe- French forces, that were used as reserve units, enters in the fray in Bavaria. They are equipped with AMX30B Tanks.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/NetherlandsBellCobra1983.png)

July 5-20, 1983: Central Front/Europe-Major air battle take place over the Baltic Sea, Flygvapnet units equipped with Viggen fighters are able to keep Soviet bombers far from the main land.

July 15, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Turkish Army stops Soviet advance in the Lake Van Area, but the city of Kars is occupied.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/SwedenMcDonnellHarrierAV8B1983.png)

July 20, 1983: Central Front/Europe- To gain popular support during the war the government of Poland announces the end of martial law and amnesty for political prisoners.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/PolandSukhoiSu24Fencer1983.png)

July 26, 1983: Central Front/Europe- French 2nd Army Corps equipped with AMX30B Tanks wins the battle of Freising, in Bavaria and stops the advance of Czechoslovak and Soviet infantry.

August 10, 1983: Central Front/Europe- In a summit of Warsaw Pact leaders the analysis of the first three months of war is that The Warsaw Pact has a numerical advantage in terms of tanks and manpower, the technological advantage of the NATO forces have helped the stop the attack. In particular Anti-Tank weapons and low-attack airplanes. MiG29s have showed to be superior to NATO counterparts in close combat, but they are detached to few units and have maintenance issues that keep them frequently grounded. A third wave of attack is necessary in September in order to break the front in Germany before the winter.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/CanadaNorthropF20ATigershark1983.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/HungaryMiG23Flogger1983.png)

August 14, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Soviet Tu22 bombs Turkey Capital Ankara, USAF decides to accelerate deliveries of the Northrop F20 Tigershark to Turkish Air Force.

August 22, 1983: Central Front/Europe- USSR leader Yury Andropov suffers a renal failure and enters the Central Clinical Hospital in western Moscow on a permanent basis, where he will spend the remainder of his life. His aides will take turns visiting him in the hospital with important matters and paperwork.

August 28, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Royal Australian Air Force bomber units equipped with BAC TSR2 arrives in Italy at Naples Capodichino Airport.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/AustraliaBACTSR21983.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/ItalyMcDonnellF4E1983.png)

September, 1983: Central Front/Europe- All VVS MiG29 are re-deployed on the Inner German Border area from the Italian and Balkan front.

September-October, 1983: Central Front/Europe- On the Scandinavian theatre there is a Soviet push on the Norway-Soviet border stopped by Swedish and Norway Army.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/PolandMiG31Foxhound1983.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/PolandSukhoi251983.png)

September 10-15, 1983: Central Front/Europe- 3rd wave of Soviet attacks in West Germany. MiG29 tries to gain Air Superiority, fierce air battles take place with initial advantage for VVS units.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/FDRNorthropF20ATigershark1983.png)

September 18, 1983: Central Front/Europe- USAF F15 and RAF/Luftwaffe Tornados got severely beaten by VVS MiG 29s that conquer air supremacy, at the same time US VII Corp and West Germany II Corp tanks lacking air cover suffer massive losses from T80s of Soviet 8th Guards Army.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/FDRBAEHarrierGR31983.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/USAPanaviaTornado1983.png)

September 20, 1983 : Central Front/Europe- The new French fighter, the Dassault Mirage 2000 is pushed in to the battle with AdlA and Luftwaffe.

September 25, 1983 : Central Front/Europe- SAS and US Navy Seals conquer the Soviet Navy Base in Kunda, Estonia, the purpose of the mission, launched from Sweden is to start an insurrection from the Estonian Population against the Russians.

September 26-30, 1983 : Central Front/Europe- Estonian population starts to support SAS and USMC against Soviet forces but of course they are neutralized by KGB border guards.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: finsrin on December 30, 2012, 05:35:37 PM
All are looking good.
Particularly like appearance of AV8A and all F-20s in schemes you used  :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on December 30, 2012, 09:57:09 PM
Boy, this is the best batch yet, Glanini.  The Italian Phantom, both of the Yugoslav birds, the TSR.2, the F-20s, and all of the Harriers are gorgeous.  So much to love about this update.   :-*

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: lauhof52 on December 31, 2012, 04:23:00 PM
Love the F-20's !
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on December 31, 2012, 10:04:19 PM
Thanks...

October 1, 1983 : Central Front/Europe- Soviet 3rd Shock Army enters Hamburg, they found the docks destroyed so they cannot be used in the near term for re-supply the Warsaw Pact armies.

October 3, 1983 : Central Front/Europe- SAS and USMC are extracted from Kunda and return to Sweden, anyway as rumours of the insurrection spread there are many defections from Lithuania, Latvian and Estonian components of  the Soviet Army.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/CanadaBAEHarrierGR31983.png)

October 8, 1983: Central Front/Europe- VVS is forced to deploy Su15 and MiG23 in Combat Air Patrol due to the unavailability of MiG29 plagued by maintenaince issues.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/CzechoslovakiaChinaMiG31Foxhound1983.png)

October 13, 1983: Central Front/Europe- USAF, RAF and Luftwaffe re-gain air superiority,  on the same day VVS and other Warsaw Pact Air Forces loose more than two hundred airplanes, NATO just twentyeight.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/FDRGeneralDynamicsF161983.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/FDRDassaultMirage20001983.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/FranceMcDonnellF4J1983.png)

October 15-23, 1983 : Central Front/Europe- Massive raids from RAF and Luftwaffe Tornados and USAF F111 and A9s annihilate Warsaw Pact forces around Hamburg, West Germany II Corp siege the city.

November 1-7, 1983: Central Front/Europe- In order to avoid  a battle inside Hamburg, NATO forces leave a road open in order to let Soviet 3rd Shock Army get out of Hamburg.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/FranceMcDonnellFA181983.png)

November 12, 1983 : Central Front/Europe- The first winter storm hits Germany, with snow up to two metres covering all North and Central Germany.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/UKBAEHawk1983.png)

November 18, 1983 : Central Front/Europe- An attack in the Jutland from 1st Netherland Corp and 1st British Corp is stopped by GDR Army.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/UKPanaviaTornado1983.png)

December, 1983: Central Front/Europe- Major attacks are stopped on the German front due to the weather conditions. Special forces from both sides make small scale attacks to probe the enemy defences and for intelligence purposes.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/BulgariaSukhoiSu25Frogfoot1983.png)

December 8, 1983 : Central Front/Europe- A second winter storm hits northern Europe, with strong winds and snow storms, halting most of the Air Operation on the front through the rest of the year. The only airplane capable of still performing mission was the Tornado with its capability of flying at low level.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/1983/GreeceNorthropF20ATigershark1983.png)

Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on December 31, 2012, 10:33:38 PM
Lovely as usual, glanini.  I'll never complain about winter schemes.

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Doom! on December 31, 2012, 11:30:24 PM
Beautiful work all the way around, I really love the German mirage  :-*   :) .
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Scooterman on January 01, 2013, 09:39:34 AM
Beautiful work all the way around, I really love the German mirage  :-*   :) .

Let me second.............hell..........third that German M2K.  That looks sooooooo right.  (right click, save as)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on January 02, 2013, 01:25:01 AM
Meanwhile on other side of the world

Middle East

January-June, 1983: Middle East- Lebanon Army receive equipment and training from US and France among them also former IAF Mirage F1.

February 14, 1983: Middle East-The Israeli government decides to transfer Ariel Sharon from his post as Defense Minister, in light of the recommendations of the Kahan Commission report published on 7 February and appoints Moshe Arens as the new Defense Minister.

March 17, 1983: Middle East- Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.

April 18, 1983: Middle East- U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut kills 63 people.

April 28, 1983 Middle East- Israel, Lebanon and US signs a new Peace Accord, Syria refused to comply with the withdrawal and increase pressure on Amin Gemayel through its Druze and Shi’ite proxies.

May 2, 1983 Middle East- As the war is started in Europe, American and French units are ordered to keep their position in Lebanon.

June, 1983: Middle East- With Syrian support a radical PLO faction lead by Abu Mussa surrounds Arafat and his supporters in their stronghold of Tripoly.

August,  1983: Middle East- IDF withdraw from the Shouf Mountains , their place is taken by the new Lebanese army with Western Equipment.

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August 7, 1983: Middle East- Begin himself retires from politics and hands over the reins of the office of Prime Minister to his old friend-in-arms Yitzhak Shamir.

October 23, 1983: Middle East- Simultaneous suicide truck-bombings destroy both the French and the United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians. The explosives for the attacks was provided by KGB.

November 4, 1983: Middle East- The Israeli Army Headquarters in Tyre, Lebanon is destroyed by a suicide truck bombing.

December, 1983: Middle East- Arafat goes into exile in Tunisia.

December 1, 1983: Middle East- Syrian forces fire on US reconnaissance airplane over the Beka’a Valley

December 4, 1983: Middle East- Lt. Bobby Goodman of the United States Navy is shot down over Lebanon and captured by the Syrians as the US responds to the attack of December 1.


Central America

January-March, 1983: Central America- Fueled by covered US Money Contras operations in Nicaragua increase, Cuba sends 500 “advisors” .

March, 1983: Central America- In Haiti widespread discontent begin, when Pope John Paul II visit the Island. The pontiff declares that "Something must change here." He went on to call for a more equitable distribution of income, a more egalitarian social structure, more concern among the elite for the well-being of the masses, and increased popular participation in public life. This message revitalizes both laymen and clergy, and it contributes to increased popular mobilization and to expand political and social activism.

June, 1983: Central America-  The war in Europe has shifted all the attention, Central American strategy for the United States is now stop Communist advance, but reduce offensive actions unless required.

August 8, 1983: Central America-  Cuban Government issues an ultimatum to the United States Government to leave the base of Guantanamo Bay in one week. USAF starts a major airlift.

August 15, 1983: Central America- Water supply to Guantanamo Bay are closed by the Cuban Government.

August 20, 1983: Central America- Cuban Army attacks Guantanamo Bay, but founds the base defended by no more than a hundred troops garrison. Since the airlift was used to move the troops back in the United States.

August 21, 1983: Central America- US Government releases a statement that condemn the occupation of Guantanamo Bay from Cuban troops and consider it to be not legal.

October 7, 1983: Central America-  On the island of Grenada, the Deputy Prime Minister, Bernard Coard, sees Maurice Bishop as too moderate. He has military officers on his side who have been criticized lately. They overthrow Bishop and place Bishop under house arrest

October 19, 1983: Central America-  Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, and forty others are assassinated in a military coup.

October 25, 1983 : Central America- After Presiden Reagan decides that US cannot loose another country to Cuban influence in the Caribbean, United States troops invade Grenada at the behest of Eugenia Charles of Dominica, a member of the Organization of American States.

November 21, 1983: Central America- Fighting in Grenada continues for several days and the total number of U.S. troops reached some 7,000 along with 300 troops from the OECS. The invading forces encountered about 3,500 Grenadian soldiers and about 1,700 Cubans. Also present were 300 advisors from the Soviet Union, North Korea, East Germany, Bulgaria, and Libya.

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November 17, 1983: Central America- The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.

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December 15, 1983: Central America-  After more than a month of fighting, US forces are extracted from Grenada with a major helicopter airlift. The support from Cubans, Russians, North Koreans, Libyans, East Germans, Bulgarians advisors has turned the battle in favour of the Marxists government.


South America

April 15, 1983: South America- In Argentina the military government takes a step toward the return of civilian rule. It restores the rights of ninenteen political and labor leaders to take part in political activity.

October 30, 1983: South America-The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.

December 10, 1983: South America-Military rule ends and democracy is restored in Argentina, with the beginning of Raúl Alfonsín first term as President of Argentina.


Southern Africa

February-June, 1983: Southern Africa- SAAF receives his first batch of Harriers and Jaguars from the United Kingdom.

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May 23, 1983: Southern Africa- A flight of SAAF Harriers bomb Mozambique Army headquarters in Maputo in their effort to support Renamo against the Communits Regime.

December 6, 1983: Southern Africa-South Africa launches its twelfth incursion, Operation Askari, in pursuit of SWAPO units which is also designed to inflict as much damage as possible on FAPLA's increasing military presence in southern Angola.


Afghanistan


January, 1983: Afghanistan- KGB reports that the Soviets incurr high costs for their own foreign interventions. Although Brezhnev was convinced in 1979 that the Soviet war in Afghanistan would be brief, Muslim guerrillas, aided by the US and other countries, waged a fierce resistance against the invasion. The Kremlin sent nearly 100,000 troops to support its puppet regime in Afghanistan, leading many outside observers to dub the war "the Soviets' Vietnam". However, Moscow's quagmire in Afghanistan is far more disastrous for the Soviets than Vietnam has been for the Americans because the conflict coincided with a period of internal decay and domestic crisis in the Soviet system.

January-March, 1983: Afghanistan- A de-facto truce is in place within DRA/Soviet forces and Mujaideen Guerrila in the Panjsher Valley. For the first time a ceasefire is concluded between the Soviets and the Mujahideen, lasting six months, and later extended. Negotiated by Massoud in person with a colonel of the GRU, Anatoly Tkachev, the agreement stipulates that Soviet troops should evacuate the Panjshir, except for a small garrison at Anava, whose access is controlled by the Mujahideen. The area covered by the ceasefire includes the Panjshir valley, but not the Salang pass, where fighting continues. This truce allows Soviet Army to relocate troops to East Germany.

April-June, 1983: Afghanistan- Massoud took advantage of the truce to extend his influence over areas that hav until then been held by hostile factions loyal to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hezb-i-islami party, like in Andarab. More peacefully, he take control of the Khost-Fereng sector, and some areas in southern Takhar, while establishing contacts with other guerilla groups in Baghlan Province, and persuading them to adopt his military organisation. He also orders the strengthening of defenses in five subsidiary valleys as well as in the Panjshir, permitting a defense in depth, and withdraw his headquarters to Shira Mandara, in Takhar province, in anticipation of a renewed assault.

April 10-30, 1983: Afghanistan- Rebels conquer most of the city of Herat, Soviets use heavy bombers to drive them out.

May, 1983: Afghanistan- Soviet units are re-deployed from Afghanistan to the European Central front leaving the main role in counter the Mujiadheen to DRA.

June-September, 1983: Afghanistan- As the war is firing up in Europe, USSR pushes the Afghan government to use DRA units in combat, but those get defeated in the summer in the Patkia and Paktika valleys.

November, 1983: Afghanistan- Soviet offensive in Shomali valley.

December, 1983: Afghanistan- DRA units are sieged in Urgun fort.


Iran-Iraq

January, 1983: Iran-Iraq- An Iraqi-Soviet arms deal was signed in Moscow, which lead to the Soviet Union supplying Iraq with additional T-62 and T-72 tanks; Mig-23 and Mig-25 jets; and SS-21 and Scud-B missiles

February 6, 1983: Iran-Iraq- Iran attack a 40-kilometer stretch near Al Amarah, via marshes and hill ridges. Iran's six-division attack manage to break through with the help of air, artillery, and armor support from the Regular Army. The Iraqis, though outnumbered, respond with two hunderd helicopter sorties per day to support the defenders. The sorties prove so effective that Iraqi tanks are reduced to effective defense roles. Not surprisingly, well over six thousand Iranian troops perishe on the first day of the operation.

February 13, 1983: Iran-Iraq- Iran manage to regain 100 square miles (260 km2) of its own territory. But after a week of stalemate, Iran abandones the operation after making only minimal gains against the Iraqis. Rafsanjani later retractes his earlier boast, saying that the offensive is not the last as expected. As for the Iraqis, this victory helped the poorly trained and shaken ground forces to boost their morale.

April 10, 1983: Iran-Iraq- Iran- Operation Dawn-1 (also known as Operation Valfajr-1) is an Iranian offensive in the Iran–Iraq War. Iran struck Ein Kosh with the immediate objective of Fuka (east of al-Amarah) to capture the Baghdad-Basra Highway. The operation is fought mostly by Pasdaran forces and is one of the three costly human wave offensives of 1983, although despite heavy losses on both sides the operation fails to defeat the Iraqis

June 22, 1983: Iran-Iraq- Iraq foreign minister Tariq Aziz menace to attack Iranian oil installation.

July 22-30, 1983: Iran-Iraq- With Operation Dawn 2, Iran advances nine miles inside Iraq, in Kurdistan. Iranian forces advance from Piranshahr and are highly successful against the Iraqis, effectively seizing Haj Omran in the process. The Iranians and Kurdish guerrillas make use of elevated ridges to launch ambushes on Iraqi positions and convoys. In all, they seized roughly 150 square miles (390 km2) of Iraqi territory. Iraq respond with counteroffensive, launching an airborne assault and employing the use of poison gas for the first time in the entire war. The Iraqis hit Iranian troops on mountain tops near Haj Omran with mustard gas while their troops advance in the slopes. Unfortunately, the Iraqis are unfamiliar with the properties of poison gas and the agent descend back down to the exposed Iraqi troops. At the same time, the rugged terrain hold up Iraqi tanks. The use of helicopter gunships is also hampered, since the Iranian and Kurdish fighters have better cover.

July 30, 1983: Iran-Iraq- Operation Dawn 3 or Operation Valfajr-3 is Iran's worst defeat out of all the Dawn operations. 180,000 Iranian troops participated in this attack but withering Iraqi firepower in support of deeply entrenched troops slaughter the advancing Iranians. The Iraqis struck back by emerging from their trenches to counterattack into Iran and capture Mehran. Although Iranian troops are highly motivated, they are poorly trained and equipped for this battle. For Iran the operation is a disaster

October19-November 15, 1983: Iran-Iraq- Operation Dawn 4 or Operation Valfajr-4 Units of Iraq's First Army Corps spend two months in their trenches waiting for the Iranians to attack. The Iranians and guerillas of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan take 250 square miles of territory. This included a number of Kurdish villages and exert a significant amount of pressure on Penjwin. Saddam Hussein respond with a counterattack, using the Iraqi Republican Guard and poison gas. However, they fail to dislodge the Iranians, who are dug-in and reinforced by Kurdish fighters.

November 2, 1983: Iran-Iraq- Iraq warns merchant vessel to avoid the “War Zone” in the northern area of the Gulf.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on January 03, 2013, 02:13:04 AM
........ the remaninder of 1984 is in the alt history section since it was not linked to profiles

1984

News

January 14, 1984: News - The 1984 Summer Olympics to be held in Los Angeles, California are cancelled by Internationl Olympic Commitee, respecting the tradition that the games cannot be held during war unless those are suspended.

June-December, 1984: News– Major famine hits Ethiopia due to the extremely low rainfalls in the two previous years, in the meanwhile Ethiopian dictator Menghistu raised military expenses to 46% of GDP.

June 4, 1984: News– Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” album is released, though the song may look a patriotic hyms, especially during a war, it was actually a song about a jobless Vietnam War veteran.

July 12, 1984: News - In San Francisco, the Democratic National Convention has nominated Walter Mondale for U.S. President.

July 25, 1984 : News -  Salyut 7: Soviet Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.

November 6, 1984: News - United States presidential election, 1984: Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61% victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota by a mere 3,761 vote margin and the District of Columbia.

November 25, 1984 : News - Band Aid, featuring U2, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Wham, Phil Collins , Sting and Paul McCartney records the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to raise money to help the populations of West Germany, Italy, Austria and Denmark. It is released December 3, 1984


Central Front/Europe

January –March, 1984: Central Front/Europe- Both sides went through a major re-armament process. United States production lines work around the clock and some production are also transferred to Europe. F16s are delivered to RAF, Luftwaffe and AMI, F18 to Royal Navy, Italian Navy and Aeronavale. On the Warsaw Pact side Sukhoi Su27 Flankers are delivered to frontline VVS units.

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January, 1984: Central Front/Europe- A Red Cross reports details the condition of the areas occupied by Warsaw pact and Prisoners as well, while the situation in West Germany and Denmark is fair, the condition in Nortern Italy are dramatic as long as for Italian and Australian soldiers captured by Yugoslav Army that are sent in “Concentration Camps”.

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February, 1984: Central Front/Europe- Soviet Army reserve units equipped with T72 tanks are moved from Central Russia to Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Hungary.

February 9, 1984: Central Front/Europe- After a long illness Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov dies, while sleeping, in his hospital room.

February 14, 1984: Central Front/Europe- Konstantin Chernenko is named General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The nomination is seen by western analysts as a temporary solution due to Chernenko’s age and health condition.

March, 1984: Central Front/Europe-Italian Air Force F16s and F20s get air superiority in Norht-East Italy against Yugoslav MiG23 and MiG21.

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March 6, 1984: Central Front/Europe-Ronald Reagan provides to West Germany Government a report by CIA. The report describes how West Germany intelligence has been widely infiltrated by STASI agents. The CIA investigation started after the Humint failure in anticipating the attack on Western Europe.

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March 6, 1984: Central Front/Europe-West German Bundesnachrichtendienst (Federal Intelligence Service) is shaken up by several arrests and is completely re-organized.

March 15-30, 1984: Central Front/Europe-As the weather starts to improve USAF F111, RAF and Luftwaffe Tornados starts pounding Warsaw Pact supply line in East Germany. Sukhoi Su27 tries to contrast them but suffer availability and maintenaince issues.

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March 18, 1984: Central Front/Europe-Anti-Russian demonstration in Tiblisi are suppressed by KGB special units, but the demonstation will continue and spread in Armenia and in the Caucasus in the following weeks.

April 3, 1984: Central Front/Europe- In order to ease the pressure on the eastern front Italian and Australian units attack Albania and Yugoslavia (Montenegro) with a landing in the Petrovac area.

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April 10, 1984: Central Front/Europe- Italian Marine Division “San Marco” crosses the Tagliamento River and push toward the Italian-Yugoslavian Border.

April 14, 1984: Central Front/Europe- 1st wave of Warsaw Pact attack on Austria from Czechoslovakian Army and Soviet 20th Guards Army. The attack is supported by the new attack helicopter of the Soviet Army Aviation, the Mil Mi28 Havoc.

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April 20, 1984: Central Front/Europe- Vienna is occupied by Soviet forces. Thousand of Austrian citizens leave the country in Italy’s direction.

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April 20, 1984: Central Front/Europe- Austrian Government, now in Innsbruck asks support to Switzerland that refuse the request.

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April 30, 1984: Central Front/Europe-Soviet Troops are pulled out from the Taurus region in Turkey to suppress the revolt in the Caucusus.

May 5, 1984: Central Front/Europe- While the front is on a stalemate in North and Central Germany, Soviet forces occupy Salzburg and cross the Austria-Germany border in Munich direction.

May 10, 1984: Central Front/Europe- Italian Alpini enters in Austria and stops Soviet Invasion on the Kithzbuel-Lienz front.

May 15, 1984: Central Front/Europe- Soviet 20th Guards Army is 15 Kilometres south of Munich while 1st Guards Tank Army is 20 Kilometres East.

May 22, 1984: Central Front/Europe- Italian army enters Tirana and the population welcome them, the Albanian army faces huge defection and surrenders.

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May 24, 1984 : Central Front/Europe- France II Army Corp,  Canadian Brigade and France I Army with huge losses stop the Soviets in the periphery of Munich after a very cruel fight building by building.

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May 30, 1984 : Central Front/Europe-Australian and Italian Army units enter in Trieste.

June 6, 1984 : Central Front/Europe- Turkish Army crosses the Dardanelles Strait and the Bulgarian border after a serious of dramatic attacks from Northrop A9 Warthogs on Soviet and Bulgarian T72 tanks and BMPDs.

June 20, 1984 : Central Front/Europe- Italian and Australian Army units enters Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro. While Greek and New Zealand army units occupies Macedonia.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on January 03, 2013, 02:18:34 AM
Those are all great, glanini.  I especially love the snowy Su-24 and the Italian Harrier.

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on January 05, 2013, 05:46:49 PM
July, 1984 : Central Front/Europe- While French and Canadian forces are held in South Germany to defend Munich the Soviet 8th Guards Army moves west to Stuttgart.

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July 5, 1984 : Central Front/Europe- Nurnberg is occupied after heavy fightings by Soviet 20th Guards Army on his way to Stuttgart.

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July 15-30, 1984: Central Front/Europe- Major battle between US VII Corp and Soviet 8th Guards Army around Augusta in the direction of Stuttgart. Soviet Command and Control centers are bombed at night by a mysterious NATO bomber that Soviet radars are unabe to detect. In reality the US have deployed their stealth bomber F117 to the western Europe theatre.

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July 15-30, 1984: Central Front/Europe- Turkish Army enters Plovdiv, in Southern Bulgaria, while the Greek Army is stopped on the Rodopi Mountains.

August, 1984 : Central Front/Europe- In the Julian Alps Croatian and Slovenian units of the Yugoslavian Army show sign of weaknesses and starts to retreat or surrender in front of advancing Italian and Australian Units without major signs of resistance.

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August 15, 1984 : Central Front/Europe- On a meeting of Warsaw Pact leadership Constantin Chernenko states that Hamburg and Munich must be occupied before the winter. At the same meeting Yugoslavian, Bulgarian and Romanian leadership admit that the population and the army are not engaged as they would have hoped and they fear an uprising.

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August 22-29, 1984 : Central Front/Europe- All reserve VVS units are deployed to Germany, major fightings with NATO air forces to gain air superiority. The technological advantage of NATO with the use of AWACs allows USAF, RAF, Luftwaffe and AdlA fighters to counter Soviet attacks.

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September 1-30, 1984 : Central Front/Europe- Even without air superiority Warsaw Pact forces attack in mass in Munich and Hamburg direction but the T80s and T72 tanks units are piecemealed by USAF F111 and A9s. US Army M1A1 Abrahams and German Heer Leopard II pushes  Soviet back to the East German border.

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September 15, 1984 : Central Front/Europe- The new generation of Command and Control Airplane, Boeing E4 Sentinel enters service with Royal Air Force.

October 5, 1984 : Central Front/Europe- Constantin Chernenko is hospitalized in the Central Clinical Hospital, a heavily guarded facility in west Moscow.

October 10, 1984: Central Front/Europe- In a NATO summit, United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher pushes for an offensive to free Denmark before winter.

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October 12, 1984 : Central Front/Europe- A Warsaw Pact leadership summit is held in Moscow without Chernenko presence. It is decided to stop any major attack and hold the positions along the Inner German Border. Some VVS reserve units are to be re-deployed in Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia and Soviet Caucasus to face the possibility of a civil uprising after what has happened in Albania.

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October 15, 1984: Central Front/Europe- 1st British Corp and 8th West Germany Mechanized Division attack GDR and Soviet units in North West Germany and free Lubeck.

October 16, 1984: Central Front/Europe- Swedish Army units starts an heliborne attack on Denmark in the Zealand, an area that was mainly occupied by GDR units.

October 18, 1984: Central Front/Europe- 1st British Corp of BAOR (British Army of Rhine) with Centurion tanks reaches Kiel and crosses the West Germany-Denmark border.

October 22, 1984: Central Front/Europe- 31. Luftburna bataljonen of Swedish Army enters Copenaghen, where GDR units have left the day before

October 25, 1984: Central Front/Europe- Soviet 2nd Guards Tank Army and the remaining Warsaw Pact Units leave Denmark’s Jutland through a massive Air and Sea operation with Air cover provided by Polish and VVS Su27 Flankers, anyway at least two hundred T80 Tanks are left there.

November 1, 1984: Central Front/Europe- All Denmark is free, after eighteen  months of Soviet occupation, the King and the government return to the country.

November 16, 1984: Central Front/Europe- West Germany Army units complete the advance in Schleswig-Holstein, Warsaw Pact units in Northern Germany are back to the April 1983 borders.

November 20-December 15, 1984 : Central Front/Europe- French and Canadian operations to push Warsaw Pact out of Bavaria are hampered by the weather, Czech and Soviet Units retreat 50 Kilometres from Munich, then the operations are stopped.

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on January 06, 2013, 02:27:27 AM
These are lovely, glanini.  There's something special about that Heer Apache for me, especially.

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: apophenia on January 06, 2013, 11:44:06 AM
Yes, quite a difference from the dark schemes on Heer PAH-1 Bo-105s! That Canadian Tornado would look good in the CF-104's wrap-around green too.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on January 06, 2013, 07:42:06 PM
Here are the remainder of 1984 profiles, the story is published in the dedicated section

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Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on January 07, 2013, 02:31:11 AM
Tomorrow I will be back at work after Xmas Holidays so I am posting the last part of this chapter of the story with related profiles

January-March, 1985: Central Front/Europe- The declining health condition of Chernenko and the not expected turn of the offensive in the 1984 Fall, start an internal conflict in the Soviet Communist Party and the Soviet Army to decide the future leadership of USSR.

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January 8, 1985: Central Front/Europe- Italian, Australian and New Zealand units start operation “Trieste” with an unexpected landing in Istria.

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January, 12-20, 1985: Central Front/Europe- NATO units pushes to Rijeka, in order to avoid to be sieged in the Julian Alps Yugoslavian units retreat into Slovenia.

February, 1985 : Central Front/Europe- Emphysema and the associated lung and heart damage worsened significantly for Chernenko.

February 10, 1985: Central Front/Europe- In a Warsaw Pact military summit. USSR states that units must keep the position but not try to push any further, additional Soviet reserve units are sent in Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia to keep Italian, ANZACs, Turkish and Greek  units from
advancing, even though actually they are sent to take care of any possible civil uprising.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/TurkeyNorthropA9Warthog1985_zps171a7032.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/TurkeyNorthropF20ATigershark1985_zpsd07d4e7d.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSRSukhoiSu27SFlanker1984_zpsa5f3d0ea.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USANorthropA9Warthog1985_zps41b8927c.png)

February  15-28, 1985: Central Front/Europe- In an unexpected attack West German, French and US units push Soviet Army far from Munich and at the end of the month back at border with Czechoslovakia and back into Austria. Major support is given by the newly provided Apache to German Heer and British Army.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UKMcDonnellAH64Apache1985_zpsd52c640c.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/BelgiumAerospatialegazelle1985_zps705d1b8a.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/GDRSukhoiSu27SFlanker1985-1_zpsfab31f00.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/FDRPanaviaTornado1985_zps9e2d12d9.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UKBACTSR21985_zpsd63b9a02.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/RomaniaSukhoi251985_zps8e38a666.png)

March 3, 1985: Central Front/Europe- Following an intelligence reports that is describing Communist reformists taking the upper side in the Politburo, NATO units are orderer to stop their advances at the border of Warsaw Pact nations, very strict orders for air attacks are given to all Air Forces in order to hit only military structures.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UKMcDonnellAH64Apache1985_zpsd52c640c.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USAMcDonnellDouglasP4APegasus1984_zpsb798435e.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/FDRMcDonnellFA181985_zps0d7859ec.png)

March 11, 1985 : Central Front/Europe- In Moscow, Konstantin Chernenko dies. Mikhail Gorbachev, a young reformist, becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union's Communist Party.

March 12-15, 1985: Central Front/Europe- Canadian Army units free Salzburg and Lienz after heavy fightings and finally enter Wien were Soviet Units had already left.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSRMilMi28Havoc1984-1_zpsdb0c0963.png)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/NetherlandsMcDonnellF4J1985-1_zpsa428df24.png)

March 19, 1985: Central Front/Europe- The last Soviet and Czechoslovak units crosses the Czechoslovakia-Austria border near Bratislav.

March 29, 1985: Central Front/Europe- In the first Politburo Summit chaired by Gorbachev he is depicted a dramatic situation. Soviet Economy cannot sustain the war anymore. Almost all Warsaw pact countries are close to an uprising. The existence of USSR itself is in danger, since in many Soviet Republics, like Ukraine and Belarus, reports of the KGBs shows a strong will of independence.

April 8,  1985: Central Front/Europe- Gorbachev announces his first unilateral initiative: a temporary stop of all offensive actions in Europe. He calls NATO to respond with a similar act.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/SpainDassaultMirage20001985_zps8f2838fe.png)

April 10, 1985: Central Front/Europe- Reagan response to Gorbachev iniziative is that NATO will continue its actions and will cross Warsaw Pact borders if West Berlin will not regain its pre-war Status.

April 22, 1985: Central Front/Europe- Gorbachev announces that all Warsaw Pact units will leave West Berlin by May 1 1985.

April 25, 1985: Central Front/Europe- NATO leaders accept Gorbachev position. The war in Europe is ended after almost two years of fightings.

May-June, 1985: Central Front/Europe- Italian and Australian troops leaves Albania and Southern Yugoslavia.

May 1, 1985 : Central Front/Europe- West Berlin is free, American, French and British units are airlifted into Templehof.

May 23, 1985: Central Front/Europe- Thomas Patrick Cavanaugh is sentenced to life in prison for attempting to sell stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.

July 18,  1985 : Central Front/Europe- Secretary of Defense Weinberger, CIA chief William Casey and other hardliners remain in principle opposed to a summit meeting with leaders of the Soviet Union, and, if there has to be one, they prefer Gorbachev coming to Washington - a show of subordination. Encouraged by Secretary of State George Schultz, Reagan accepts a summit meeting at Geneva, Switzerland.

July 25, 1985: Central Front/Europe- The Serbian Democratic Party declares the sovereignity of the Serbs in Croatia and blames Croats and Slovenes for losing the war and permit Yugoslavia invasion. All key positions in JNA (Yugoslav Federal Army) are assigned to Serbs officers.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/CzechoslovakiaSukhoiSu27SFlanker1985_zpsac2a8bc2.png)

November 19, 1985 : Central Front/Europe- In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

November 21, 1985 : Central Front/Europe-  Gorbachev agrees to pay damages to Germany, Denmark, Italy and Austria.

December 9, 1985 : Central Front/Europe- Slobodan Milošević, a staunch Serbian nationalist becomes President of Serbia.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on January 07, 2013, 02:43:05 AM
All the snow camos are fabulous.  Also, the Apache and the F/A-18 are favorites of mine.

By the way, as proof that I really do look at all of your illustrations, that Apache is double posted.   ;)

Great work, glanini!

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: lauhof52 on January 07, 2013, 06:09:48 PM
Love the Dutch Phantom!! :-*
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Empty Handed on January 07, 2013, 09:23:42 PM
German Mirage and Italian Harrier are the stand-outs for me!  :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on January 08, 2013, 02:28:48 AM
Too many to be able to pick out any favourites. :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: ChernayaAkula on January 08, 2013, 09:48:07 AM
^ What he said!  :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: M.A.D on February 03, 2013, 11:17:47 AM
Wow Glanini you have been busy since the last time I viewed your 'outstanding' profiles

Can I put in a request for the following please..........
RAAF & RNZAF McDonnell Douglas P4A Pegasus profiles
RAAF Northrop A-9A Warthog profile in modern Australian Army helicopter camouflage
RAAF Northrop F-20A Tigershark profile with the Aim-7 Sparrow's replaced by Aim-120 AMRAAM's
RAAF Aermacchi  MB 339K Veltros II profile in modern Australian Army helicopter camouflage
USMC & Israeli Air Force Northrop A-9A Warthog profiles


M.A.D
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 09, 2014, 11:50:33 PM
Wow.... More than a year without coming here, but let me show some of my latest profiles that feature possible what if current scenarios, for which I am working on a timeline

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ItalyBellV22Osprey2013_zps39af8d3f.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/ItalyBellV22Osprey2013_zps39af8d3f.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ItalyLockheedF35Lightning2014_zps519b8316.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/ItalyLockheedF35Lightning2014_zps519b8316.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ItalyAermacchiM346Folgore2014_zps031cc589.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/ItalyAermacchiM346Folgore2014_zps031cc589.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/SouthKoreaBoeingEA18GSuperHornet2013_zpsbee05d83.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/SouthKoreaBoeingEA18GSuperHornet2013_zpsbee05d83.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/SouthKoreaBellV22Osprey_zps6ea1e83b.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/SouthKoreaBellV22Osprey_zps6ea1e83b.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/SouthKoreaLockheedF35Lightning2014_zpsaff3fe77.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/SouthKoreaLockheedF35Lightning2014_zpsaff3fe77.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/IsraelBellV22Osprey2014_zps86fe8605.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/IsraelBellV22Osprey2014_zps86fe8605.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/CanadaBoeingEA18GSuperHornet2013_zps851e8640.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/CanadaBoeingEA18GSuperHornet2013_zps851e8640.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/BoeingJapanEA18GSuperHornet2013_zps5fbda146.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/BoeingJapanEA18GSuperHornet2013_zps5fbda146.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/AustraliaLockheedF35Lightning2015_zps2e87f3a7.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/AustraliaLockheedF35Lightning2015_zps2e87f3a7.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on February 10, 2014, 01:45:01 AM
Beautiful.  Given that I work at Bell on the V-22, I love your V-22 ones.  Permission to print and post at work?

Mind you, I find the rest of them most fascinating and beautiful, too.

Might I suggest a single-seat light-strike derivative of the MB.436 as a suitable whif subject?  A straight-forward daylight-only version would have the single cockpit in place of the front seat while one with a more capable avionics fit would have the single cockpit in place of the back seat.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on February 10, 2014, 02:25:16 AM

Might I suggest a single-seat light-strike derivative of the MB.436 as a suitable whif subject? 


A bit like the Yak-131 perhaps?

(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/4181/yak131135.jpg)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on February 10, 2014, 05:37:22 AM
Considering the common heritage between the Yak-130 and M.346, precisely!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 10, 2014, 06:36:43 AM
Elmayerle, permission given and here is the single seater M346 as well as the twin seater

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ItalyAermacchiM346Folgore20121_zps780b7303.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/ItalyAermacchiM346Folgore20121_zps780b7303.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ItalyAermacchiM346Folgore20122_zps35f64441.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/ItalyAermacchiM346Folgore20122_zps35f64441.png.html)

Regards

Title: Inspirational or what ??!!
Post by: uncle les on February 10, 2014, 07:04:41 AM
Sitting here in my office purportedly working hard I thought I'd browse through a few posts on BTS..  ten minutes later after examining this post I'm left with an overwhelming desire to go home and build a Dutch Phantom or an RAAF F20....     bring on five o'clock !!!

Excellent work mate !   :D
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 11, 2014, 05:34:31 PM
Some other current Profiles

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USADassaultRafaleM2010_zpsfb48afe6.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USADassaultRafaleM2010_zpsfb48afe6.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USADassaultRafaleM2009_zps80fd060c.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USADassaultRafaleM2009_zps80fd060c.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UKEurofighterEF2000Typhoon2011_zpsf2aecde9.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/UKEurofighterEF2000Typhoon2011_zpsf2aecde9.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UKLockheedF22Raptor2013_zpse1645934.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/UKLockheedF22Raptor2013_zpse1645934.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/SouthKoreaGeneralAtomicsMQ1Predator2011_zps0498fc5a.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/SouthKoreaGeneralAtomicsMQ1Predator2011_zps0498fc5a.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/SouthKoreaBoeingFA18ESuperHornet2010_zps1202bacb.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/SouthKoreaBoeingFA18ESuperHornet2010_zps1202bacb.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/OmanEurofighterEF2000Typhoon2011_zpsc499fceb.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/OmanEurofighterEF2000Typhoon2011_zpsc499fceb.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/QatarEurofighterEF2000Typhoon2011_zpsa55b8770.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/QatarEurofighterEF2000Typhoon2011_zpsa55b8770.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/SaudiArabiaBoeingFA18ESuperHornet2010_zps4273f6f3.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/SaudiArabiaBoeingFA18ESuperHornet2010_zps4273f6f3.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/JapanGeneralAtomicsMQ1Predator2010_zpsc452d7dc.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/JapanGeneralAtomicsMQ1Predator2010_zpsc452d7dc.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/JapanLockheedF22Raptor2013_zps021b87cf.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/JapanLockheedF22Raptor2013_zps021b87cf.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/JapanBoeingFA18ESuperHornet2010_zps8a54380c.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/JapanBoeingFA18ESuperHornet2010_zps8a54380c.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: finsrin on February 11, 2014, 05:48:33 PM
USN Rafale has the "right look"   :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on February 11, 2014, 11:12:51 PM
As does the Saudi Super Bug.

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on February 12, 2014, 02:18:02 AM
As does the Saudi Super Bug.

Cheers,

Logan

Agreed
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: apophenia on February 12, 2014, 10:09:45 AM
Love the CF-18G Growler  :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: ChernayaAkula on February 12, 2014, 10:34:04 AM
<--- also partial to the USN Rafales!  :-*
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 17, 2014, 07:16:12 AM
some other stuff

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/GermanyDassaultRafaleB2009_zps88a11dd2.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/GermanyDassaultRafaleB2009_zps88a11dd2.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/IsraelBoeingFA18ESuperHornet2007_zps9f8211b9.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/IsraelBoeingFA18ESuperHornet2007_zps9f8211b9.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/IsraelGeneralAtomicsMQ1Predator2012_zpsaef9a8c5.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/IsraelGeneralAtomicsMQ1Predator2012_zpsaef9a8c5.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/IsraelLockheedF22Raptor2012_zps711fc1a4.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/IsraelLockheedF22Raptor2012_zps711fc1a4.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/AustraliaDassaultRafaleM2012_zpsda0a961e.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/AustraliaDassaultRafaleM2012_zpsda0a961e.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/AustraliaGeneralAtomicsMQ1Predator2007_zps894bfdd5.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/AustraliaGeneralAtomicsMQ1Predator2007_zps894bfdd5.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/AustraliaLockheedF22Raptor2012_zps7adf2ffe.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/AustraliaLockheedF22Raptor2012_zps7adf2ffe.png.html)

Regards

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USANorthropF232008_zps89dd6fc9.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USANorthropF232008_zps89dd6fc9.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/GermanyGeneralAtomicsMQ1Predator2008_zps2f09fae1.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/GermanyGeneralAtomicsMQ1Predator2008_zps2f09fae1.png.html)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on February 17, 2014, 05:46:24 PM
Nice.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on August 08, 2014, 11:34:03 PM
A mix of late 40s early 50s birds and cars

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/BellP59Airacomet1_zpscd1ffac9.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/BellP59Airacomet1_zpscd1ffac9.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/BellP59Airacomet3_zps342e72b1.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/BellP59Airacomet3_zps342e72b1.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/BellP59Airacomet9_zps05ba6027.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/BellP59Airacomet9_zps05ba6027.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/BellP59Airacomet2_zpsebdc1387.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/BellP59Airacomet2_zpsebdc1387.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/BellP59Airacomet6_zps6bd6c104.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/BellP59Airacomet6_zps6bd6c104.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/BellP59Airacomet7_zps1117e51c.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/BellP59Airacomet7_zps1117e51c.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/BellP59Airacomet5_zpse3583d51.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/BellP59Airacomet5_zpse3583d51.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/BellP59Airacomet8_zpsd99454c7.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/BellP59Airacomet8_zpsd99454c7.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/BellP59Airacomet4_zps0cf23789.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/BellP59Airacomet4_zps0cf23789.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/LockheedP80ShootingStar-inwork3_zps42de1cbd.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/LockheedP80ShootingStar-inwork3_zps42de1cbd.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/McDonnellF1HPhantom19492_zpsf9f8d838.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/McDonnellF1HPhantom19492_zpsf9f8d838.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/McDonnellF1HPhantom1950_zps197e56a0.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/McDonnellF1HPhantom1950_zps197e56a0.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/MilleMigliaLanciaD241964_zps0e09a4f8.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/MilleMigliaLanciaD241964_zps0e09a4f8.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/CarreraPanamericanaLanciaD241953_zpsc9dc64cc.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/CarreraPanamericanaLanciaD241953_zpsc9dc64cc.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on August 09, 2014, 03:41:38 AM
 :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: apophenia on August 09, 2014, 10:25:54 AM
Great Airacomet sequence!  :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: lauhof52 on August 09, 2014, 05:31:16 PM
The Airacomet line is TOP! :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on August 29, 2014, 01:30:01 PM
Now let's go to the 80s (late 70s as well)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/CambodiaNanchangA5Fantan1979_zps91ad0d9b.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/CambodiaNanchangA5Fantan1979_zps91ad0d9b.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/NorthKoreaSukhoiSu20Fitter1979_zps1f4ec460.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/NorthKoreaSukhoiSu20Fitter1979_zps1f4ec460.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/EthiopiaSukhoiSu20Fitter1978_zpsd53bc850.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/EthiopiaSukhoiSu20Fitter1978_zpsd53bc850.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/CubaSukhoiSu20Fitter1980_zps009fc644.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/CubaSukhoiSu20Fitter1980_zps009fc644.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/IranGeneralDynamicsF161986_zps421a6df0.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/IranGeneralDynamicsF161986_zps421a6df0.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/PolandSukhoiSu15Flagon1981_zps7692464f.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/PolandSukhoiSu15Flagon1981_zps7692464f.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSRSukhoiSu15Flagon1978_zpsb5e9e7ea.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USSRSukhoiSu15Flagon1978_zpsb5e9e7ea.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/HungarySukhoiSu15Flagon1982_zps28d998e1.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/HungarySukhoiSu15Flagon1982_zps28d998e1.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/CzechoslovakiaSukhoiSu15Flagon1979_zps970e33c0.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/CzechoslovakiaSukhoiSu15Flagon1979_zps970e33c0.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/GDRSukhoiSu15Flagon1980_zps1d54a671.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/GDRSukhoiSu15Flagon1980_zps1d54a671.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on August 29, 2014, 09:42:07 PM
 :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 28, 2015, 10:44:59 PM
Quite sometimes I am missing from here but  something from the 60s

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Syria%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201967_zpskuejxxzo.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Syria%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201967_zpskuejxxzo.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Australia%20Douglas%20A4%20Skyhawk%201965_zpsj91aysaj.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Australia%20Douglas%20A4%20Skyhawk%201965_zpsj91aysaj.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/India%20Ilyushin%20Beagle%201965_zpssvypdknd.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/India%20Ilyushin%20Beagle%201965_zpssvypdknd.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Canada%20Republic%20F84F%201958_zpsm81fxhon.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Canada%20Republic%20F84F%201958_zpsm81fxhon.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Canada%20North%20American%20F86D%20Sabre%201963_zpsbtz1gfef.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Canada%20North%20American%20F86D%20Sabre%201963_zpsbtz1gfef.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Iran%20North%20American%20F86D%20Sabre%201962_zpsj90nbxf3.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Iran%20North%20American%20F86D%20Sabre%201962_zpsj90nbxf3.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20North%20American%20F86D%20Sabre%201959_zpsouv99bxz.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20North%20American%20F86D%20Sabre%201959_zpsouv99bxz.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/New%20Zealand%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201963_zpswoffkowi.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/New%20Zealand%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201963_zpswoffkowi.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Republic%20F84F%201962_zpsurh6iu4v.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Republic%20F84F%201962_zpsurh6iu4v.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Pakistan%20North%20American%20F86D%20Sabre%201965_zpsl4r0wnb5.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Pakistan%20North%20American%20F86D%20Sabre%201965_zpsl4r0wnb5.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Japan%20Republic%20F84F%201962_zpstk7c3xbn.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Japan%20Republic%20F84F%201962_zpstk7c3xbn.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/South%20Korea%20Republic%20F84F%201968_zpsdkd7ens3.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/South%20Korea%20Republic%20F84F%201968_zpsdkd7ens3.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/South%20Vietnam%20Republic%20F84F%201966_zpslfrakjb0.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/South%20Vietnam%20Republic%20F84F%201966_zpslfrakjb0.png.html)

Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on March 01, 2015, 12:25:37 AM
Nice selection though a bit of confusion.  F-86D aircraft did not carry cannon, only an internal unguided rocket pod and what could be carried underwing.  The basic fuselage had to be stretched to replace the retractable rocket pod with the cannons and ammo supply.

I could see most of those countries operating F-86K aircraft, anyway, for a variety of reasons.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on March 01, 2015, 04:23:54 AM
([url]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Syria%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201967_zpskuejxxzo.png[/url])


Anyone got decals that could be applied to Trumpeter's new 1/48 Su-9 kit?
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on March 01, 2015, 10:36:57 AM
I love that RCAF F-84F, especially.

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: lauhof52 on March 01, 2015, 04:26:52 PM
the thunderstreaks are great!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on March 08, 2015, 12:02:37 AM
As some might know I am more prone to soft turn from history than dramatic what if (aka UK going communists) and I prefer to create a story to make my alt profile fit in. Anyway I have to admit that with the MiG21 it has been quite hard, anyway.

Let's start with Albania not siding with PRC and receiving MiG21 and not chinese copies

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Albania%20MiG%2021F%20Fishbed%201963_zpswvynjzfj.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Albania%20MiG%2021F%20Fishbed%201963_zpswvynjzfj.png.html)

..... one of this defects the Italy and is pursued by two other Albanian Fishbeds that are downed by an Italian Navy Crusader

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Vought%20F8%20Crusader%201963_zpslzuiaqjg.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Vought%20F8%20Crusader%201963_zpslzuiaqjg.png.html)

the Albanian Fishbed lands in Ancona and is tested by Italian RSV before being returned to Tirana

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20MiG%2021F%20Fishbed%201963_zpsrcwfnfr5.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20MiG%2021F%20Fishbed%201963_zpsrcwfnfr5.png.html)

In 1963 at the climax of the missile crisis Comrade Fidel decide to recreate FARE and sponsor an insurgency in Spain

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Spain%20MiG%2021F%20Fishbed%201963_zpsojzsskb9.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Spain%20MiG%2021F%20Fishbed%201963_zpsojzsskb9.png.html)

While during the Cultural Revolution in China as the Red Guards attack the USSR Embassy in Peking the tension rise and starts border clashes, here the Soviet Units gets some relief and can start decorate the airplanes with Pin Ups and PLAAF Kill markings.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSR%20MiG%2021F%20Fishbed%201967_zps9eccxude.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USSR%20MiG%2021F%20Fishbed%201967_zps9eccxude.png.html)

For the rest we got some South East Asia and an Italian Thunderflash not in NMF

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/South%20Vietnam%20Republic%20RF84F%201968_zpsj72tz3tn.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/South%20Vietnam%20Republic%20RF84F%201968_zpsj72tz3tn.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/South%20Korea%20Republic%20RF84F%201968_zpsfphzfnlv.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/South%20Korea%20Republic%20RF84F%201968_zpsfphzfnlv.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Republic%20RF84F%201967_zpsviotsy8p.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Republic%20RF84F%201967_zpsviotsy8p.png.html)



Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on March 08, 2015, 03:37:58 AM
I like subtle whiffs...
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Volkodav on March 08, 2015, 10:06:00 PM
Cool I want to know more about what the Italian Crusaders fly off?
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on March 08, 2015, 11:32:52 PM
.... well Italy has to celebrate its 100 years in 1961 and the Olympic Games in 1960 so they receive a Carrier from the US named after Garibaldi and also Skyraiders, Skyhwaks and Crusaders

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Douglas%20A1D%20Skyraider%201960_zpsfefdhdkx.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Douglas%20A1D%20Skyraider%201960_zpsfefdhdkx.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Douglas%20A4%20Skyhawk%201960_zpskrlvraxg.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Douglas%20A4%20Skyhawk%201960_zpskrlvraxg.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Vought%20F8%20Crusader%201960_zpsxqqtdpfk.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Vought%20F8%20Crusader%201960_zpsxqqtdpfk.png.html)

a little bit later the rocks of Aden turns real hot with Egypt supplied Migs to North Yemen

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/North%20Yemen%20MiG%2021F%20Fishbed%201967_zpssepcxmns.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/North%20Yemen%20MiG%2021F%20Fishbed%201967_zpssepcxmns.png.html)

against RAF Hunters

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UK%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201965_zps7vvyi4lc.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/UK%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201965_zps7vvyi4lc.png.html)

that are later turned to South Arabian Air Force

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/South%20Arabia%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201967_zpslunen4i2.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/South%20Arabia%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201967_zpslunen4i2.png.html)

while Saudi Arabia strengthen its Air Force with Canberras

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Saudi%20Arabia%20English%20Electric%20Canberra%201968_zps1x1r3vs4.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Saudi%20Arabia%20English%20Electric%20Canberra%201968_zps1x1r3vs4.png.html)

and I can hear the late great Joe Strummer singing "Shariff don't like it ....... Rock the Casbah......"

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Volkodav on March 08, 2015, 11:54:20 PM
Excellent, nothing like a MAP Essex  ;)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on March 14, 2015, 01:07:24 AM
Here we have a real Italian Macchino

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Macchi%20326%201963_zpsqxjap5ka.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Macchi%20326%201963_zpsqxjap5ka.png.html)

A Libyan one

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Libya%20Macchi%20326%201964_zps0s3j2t6t.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Libya%20Macchi%20326%201964_zps0s3j2t6t.png.html)

while this one was from Greece

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Hellas%20Macchi%20326%201964_zpsdu1m3lbw.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Hellas%20Macchi%20326%201964_zpsdu1m3lbw.png.html)

A couple of Rhodesian Strikemasters

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Rhodesia%20BAC%20167%20Strikemaster%201968-2_zpsqs2mf4uk.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Rhodesia%20BAC%20167%20Strikemaster%201968-2_zpsqs2mf4uk.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Rhodesia%20BAC%20167%20Strikemaster%201968-1_zpsrrafhx0v.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Rhodesia%20BAC%20167%20Strikemaster%201968-1_zpsrrafhx0v.png.html)
A RAF Gnat in the Middle East together with an Omani and a Saudi

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UK%20Folland%20Gnat%201966_zpszmht3qlj.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/UK%20Folland%20Gnat%201966_zpszmht3qlj.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Oman%20Folland%20Gnat%201967_zps10vygppv.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Oman%20Folland%20Gnat%201967_zps10vygppv.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Saudi%20Arabia%20Folland%20Gnat%201968_zpsrj5dqs9p.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Saudi%20Arabia%20Folland%20Gnat%201968_zpsrj5dqs9p.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on March 14, 2015, 04:30:09 AM
Some great ones there. :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on March 15, 2015, 10:27:21 PM
Thanks here some Lansens

A real Swedish one

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Sweden%20Saab%20J32%20Lansen%201958_zpsucxsurhj.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Sweden%20Saab%20J32%20Lansen%201958_zpsucxsurhj.png.html)

a what if in Congo

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Sweden%20Saab%20J32%20Lansen%201962_zpsr4nhr0m6.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Sweden%20Saab%20J32%20Lansen%201962_zpsr4nhr0m6.png.html)

A Danish one

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Denmark%20Saab%20J32%20Lansen%201965_zpsibx4uhhv.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Denmark%20Saab%20J32%20Lansen%201965_zpsibx4uhhv.png.html)

And this one is from Finland

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Finland%20Saab%20J32%20Lansen%201960_zps7zvoyijg.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Finland%20Saab%20J32%20Lansen%201960_zps7zvoyijg.png.html)

Here we have Austria

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Austria%20Saab%20J32%20Lansen%201961_zps42jihao4.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Austria%20Saab%20J32%20Lansen%201961_zps42jihao4.png.html)

And Irish Air Corps

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Eire%20Saab%20J32%20Lansen%201963_zpshmy97blc.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Eire%20Saab%20J32%20Lansen%201963_zpshmy97blc.png.html)

Last but not least India in Congo

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/India%20Saab%20J32%20Lansen%201962_zpswdcrkbh5.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/India%20Saab%20J32%20Lansen%201962_zpswdcrkbh5.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on March 15, 2015, 10:33:51 PM
 :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on March 23, 2015, 12:22:19 AM
Recently I have worked a lot on the Sukhoi Su9 and I am quite satisfied with the result. As a profiler generally you look at how others do and I was very fond of Logan's panel lines and I have developed a technique that make mine looks very close. The only thing about the Fishbot was a general poor availability of sources (e.g. photos) to have a good look of stencils but here you can see the difference for a Su9 I made a coulpe of year ago

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Czechoslovakia%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201968_zpsdyrp3rxj.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Czechoslovakia%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201968_zpsdyrp3rxj.png.html)

and what I have developed now

Some Warpact birds

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Poland%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201961_zps27p8g6ln.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Poland%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201961_zps27p8g6ln.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Hungary%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201964_zpsaikr9di3.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Hungary%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201964_zpsaikr9di3.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Romania%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201965_zpslk43yutz.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Romania%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201965_zpslk43yutz.png.html)

a couple of Soviet ones, the latter in the 1967 War with China

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSR%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201962_zpsnu2zluoh.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USSR%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201962_zpsnu2zluoh.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSR%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201967_zpskgrewshr.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USSR%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201967_zpskgrewshr.png.html)

Cuban's Missile Crisis

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Cuba%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201962_zps2rs5qrpy.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Cuba%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201962_zps2rs5qrpy.png.html)

and Indonesian Konfrontasi
(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Indonesia%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201966_zpsxtz9d0m3.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Indonesia%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201966_zpsxtz9d0m3.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on March 23, 2015, 02:18:57 AM
That Indonesian one is spectacular.  Great work! :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: finsrin on March 23, 2015, 05:34:32 AM
That Indonesian one is spectacular.  Great work! :)

Ditto.......
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Volkodav on March 24, 2015, 11:26:01 AM
Oh yes I could definitely see the Indonesian SU-9 as believable.  Very nice
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on March 24, 2015, 11:57:29 AM
Beautiful Su-9's!  Would the USSR be replacing them with Su-11's and exporting these older fighters?  I could see doing that to fund an upgrade of the PVO-Strany.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on April 25, 2015, 11:46:52 PM
Today, April 25th, is the 70th Anniversary of the Italian Liberation from Nazi-Fascism. Today the National Liberation Committee gave the order of National Insurrection against the Nazis and their Fascist Allies.

We as Italian shall always be thankful to our partisans, the Soldiers of the reborn Italian Army  and all the Americans, British, Commonwealth, French, Polish and Brazilian boys that fought and gave their lives for our freedom.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Republic%20F84F%201960%206%20stormo_zpsquwcrcma.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Republic%20F84F%201960%206%20stormo_zpsquwcrcma.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: lauhof52 on April 26, 2015, 02:56:59 PM
That's a very nice and powerful looking bird!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: finsrin on April 26, 2015, 03:59:40 PM
Thunderstreak.  Profile captures its looks fast standing still design.
How about re-engined with F404, dry or wet ?
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on May 23, 2015, 04:54:48 PM
I just found some inspiration looking at this never completed Saab Project, that was shut down to prioritize the Gripen,

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/b3la1_zpsljk9fx2j.jpg) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/b3la1_zpsljk9fx2j.jpg.html)

It was a trainer-attack aircraft and it should have been ready by 1983, a perfect fit in my alt Cold War, here is the attack version

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Sweden%20Saab%20Sa%2038%201984_zpsaczxsyge.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Sweden%20Saab%20Sa%2038%201984_zpsaczxsyge.png.html)

..... others to come
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on May 23, 2015, 10:47:44 PM
Very nice, Glanini! I really like it.

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on May 24, 2015, 04:32:37 AM
Very nice SAAB B3LA (http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,147.0/all.html).   :)

BTW, anyone wanting to replicate in 3D, Click2Detail produce both 1/72 and 1/48 kits of this (http://www.click2detail.com/store/p135/Saab_B3LA.html).
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: signal on May 28, 2015, 07:54:34 AM
   The Saab SA38 looks like a Scadinavian Frogfoot
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on June 14, 2015, 12:47:29 AM
Here we have the SA38 Trainer Version

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Sweden%20Saab%20Sa%2038%201983_zpsgtkrmvs8.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Sweden%20Saab%20Sa%2038%201983_zpsgtkrmvs8.png.html)

A Japanese F1 during the War with USSR

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Japan%20Mitsubishi%20F1%201984_zpsbajnx4nz.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Japan%20Mitsubishi%20F1%201984_zpsbajnx4nz.png.html)

The same airplane operating with the Japanese units in the Gulf War

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Japan%20Mitsubishi%20F1%201991_zpsj2hibqio.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Japan%20Mitsubishi%20F1%201991_zpsj2hibqio.png.html)

And an Italian Phantom in the same scenario

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20McDonnell%20F4E%201991_zpsch1g3jja.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20McDonnell%20F4E%201991_zpsch1g3jja.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: lauhof52 on June 14, 2015, 02:36:22 AM
That F1 is splendid! :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on August 25, 2015, 01:37:20 AM
Well, with more than 280 alt history profiles on the 80s I almost run out of inspiration but as I keep digging in my story I found something more

Here is a Provisional Ira Bell 205, and the background story is that three US servicemen and VietNam Veterans join IRA, they are able to modify and fly a smuggled Bell 205 and attack some British Army Post

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Eire%20Bell%20205%20Pira%201981_zpsvnytdgqz.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Eire%20Bell%20205%20Pira%201981_zpsvnytdgqz.png.html)

The other one is a Panamian Hind after Noriega turns to Lybia and Cuba facing US pressure

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Panama%20Mil%20Mi24%20Hind%201988_zpsk0tj6xyr.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Panama%20Mil%20Mi24%20Hind%201988_zpsk0tj6xyr.png.html)

.... and finally a Force 14 (The Palestinian Air Force) MiG 21 training in Iraq

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Palestina%20MiG%2021%20MF%201984_zpswolbzz2d.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Palestina%20MiG%2021%20MF%201984_zpswolbzz2d.png.html)

..... more to come
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on August 28, 2015, 02:02:28 AM
Some Cuban Fishbeds in Nicaraguan and Salvadorean Markings

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Nicaragua%20MiG%2021%20MF%201982_zpsno48u45e.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Nicaragua%20MiG%2021%20MF%201982_zpsno48u45e.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/El%20Salvador%20MiG%2021%20MF%201984_zpsstsk36le.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/El%20Salvador%20MiG%2021%20MF%201984_zpsstsk36le.png.html)

A Chinese Fishbed J

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/PRC%20MiG%2021%20MF%201981_zpslv8uz18b.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/PRC%20MiG%2021%20MF%201981_zpslv8uz18b.png.html)

A Palestinian Hind

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Palestine%20Mil%20Mi24%20Hind%201988_zpsi80pwdwo.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Palestine%20Mil%20Mi24%20Hind%201988_zpsi80pwdwo.png.html)

A Soviet MiG29K based on the MiG29A

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSR%20MiG%2029K%20Fulcrum%201984_zpsejo9ekx3.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USSR%20MiG%2029K%20Fulcrum%201984_zpsejo9ekx3.png.html)

A Philippines Tigershark

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Philippines%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%201987_zpsnjsh0kj8.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Philippines%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%201987_zpsnjsh0kj8.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on August 28, 2015, 03:12:51 AM
Oooohhhhh...love the F-20 :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on August 30, 2015, 03:48:23 AM
..... Since we are talking Central and Southern America

Grenada Fishbed

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Grenada%20MiG%2021%20MF%201984_zpsv3obf39h.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Grenada%20MiG%2021%20MF%201984_zpsv3obf39h.png.html)

Somozan's F5

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Nicaragua%20Northrop%20F5A%20Freedom%20Fighter%201978_zpskkbxfgwu.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Nicaragua%20Northrop%20F5A%20Freedom%20Fighter%201978_zpskkbxfgwu.png.html)

and Sandinista's F5

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Nicaragua%20Northrop%20F5A%20Freedom%20Fighter%201980_zps0yq6rydo.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Nicaragua%20Northrop%20F5A%20Freedom%20Fighter%201980_zps0yq6rydo.png.html)

Allende Chilean Fishbed (in my story the coup happens in 1979)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Chile%20MiG%2021%20MF%201978_zps7kgipd28.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Chile%20MiG%2021%20MF%201978_zps7kgipd28.png.html)

Peruvian Fishbed

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Peru%20MiG%2021%20MF%201986_zpsruxgtuaa.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Peru%20MiG%2021%20MF%201986_zpsruxgtuaa.png.html)

.... and since I have started with terrorists group or unrecognized government here is an Hind provided by Algeria to the Polisario Front

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Morocco%20-%20Polisario%20Mil%20Mi24%20Hind%201989_zps4nkfgkrl.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Morocco%20-%20Polisario%20Mil%20Mi24%20Hind%201989_zps4nkfgkrl.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on August 30, 2015, 11:50:38 PM
Oooohhhhh...love the F-20 :)
Second on that!!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Volkodav on August 31, 2015, 06:34:46 PM
Oooohhhhh...love the F-20 :)
Second on that!!

Thirded!  There is just something so science fictiony and cool about the look of it.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: CiTrus90 on August 31, 2015, 09:31:18 PM
So much goodness in here :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 01, 2015, 12:16:48 AM
...... well ..... thanks for the support

...... following the destruction of Ugandan Air Force from IDF in Entebbe in 1976, Gaddafi provides to his friend "The King of Scotland" some of his MiG23

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Uganda%20MiG%2023%20Flogger%201979_zpsb6hoiapm.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Uganda%20MiG%2023%20Flogger%201979_zpsb6hoiapm.png.html)

...... but they are all destroyed by Tanzanian Air Force at the beginning of 1979

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Tanzania%20Nanchang%20A5%20Fantan%201979_zpsraxe8pbe.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Tanzania%20Nanchang%20A5%20Fantan%201979_zpsraxe8pbe.png.html)

....... at the end of the decade he provides the same type to the new Islamist Government in Sudan .........

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Sudan%20MiG%2023%20Flogger%201989_zpscsujysko.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Sudan%20MiG%2023%20Flogger%201989_zpscsujysko.png.html)

....... while in 1984 USSR gives to Ethiopia some Fulcrums to gain control over the horn of Africa

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Ethiopia%20MiG%2029%20Fulcrum%201984_zps3fcs8rdg.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Ethiopia%20MiG%2029%20Fulcrum%201984_zps3fcs8rdg.png.html)


...... meanwhile on the other side of the world a war is raging over the control of South China Sea

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Thailand%20Mitsubishi%20F1%201987_zpslpn201au.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Thailand%20Mitsubishi%20F1%201987_zpslpn201au.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on September 01, 2015, 12:25:24 AM
I love that F1, glanini! Glad to see you back!

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on September 01, 2015, 03:23:12 AM
Liking that Thai F1 :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 03, 2015, 03:25:34 AM
..... A Malaysian Jaguar in the South China Sea War

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Malaysia%20Sepecat%20Jaguar%201986_zpsopycyhje.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Malaysia%20Sepecat%20Jaguar%201986_zpsopycyhje.png.html)

.... A Vietnamese Fulcrum to counter Chinese Expansionism

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/VietNam%20MiG%2029%20Fulcrum%201986_zpsc0kictuq.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/VietNam%20MiG%2029%20Fulcrum%201986_zpsc0kictuq.png.html)

..... An Israeli Mirage G8 in the 1982 War in Lebanon

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Israel%20Dassault%20Mirage%20G8%201982_zpskrt8zlf3.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Israel%20Dassault%20Mirage%20G8%201982_zpskrt8zlf3.png.html)


..... and finally thanks an Honduran Kfir

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Honduras%20IAI%20Kfir%201982_zpsuayltbik.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Honduras%20IAI%20Kfir%201982_zpsuayltbik.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on September 03, 2015, 03:28:27 AM
More goodness!  I like the RMAF Jag. :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 05, 2015, 01:30:24 AM
..... An after Coup Chilean Kfir since Israel did not care about sanctions

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Chile%20IAI%20Kfir%201985_zpsfu2t6h5o.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Chile%20IAI%20Kfir%201985_zpsfu2t6h5o.png.html)

.... for the same reason a Rhodesian Kfir, this one looks real mean

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Rhodesia%20IAI%20Kfir%201984_zpsr79sigbk.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Rhodesia%20IAI%20Kfir%201984_zpsr79sigbk.png.html)

...... while Kenya gets compensated for its support during Operation Thunderbolt

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Kenya%20IAI%20Kfir%201979_zpsvwib0fzf.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Kenya%20IAI%20Kfir%201979_zpsvwib0fzf.png.html)

A Swiss Trainer

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Suisse%20Saab%20Sa%2038%201989_zpsjypmzp6g.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Suisse%20Saab%20Sa%2038%201989_zpsjypmzp6g.png.html)

..... and finally a flight 1417 Jaguar in Belize

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UK%20Sepecat%20Jaguar%201982_zpsmpjjkafw.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/UK%20Sepecat%20Jaguar%201982_zpsmpjjkafw.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on September 05, 2015, 04:56:51 AM
Oh, I do like the Swiss SA38
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 09, 2015, 12:10:59 AM
... Well, these South Yemenite Frogfoot and Hind are supposed not to be a What If since several sources suggest they have been used during the 1986 Civil War but AFAIK no pictures or profiles available, so this is my guess

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/South%20Yemen%20Sukhoi%20Su%2025%20Frogfoot%201986_zpsirwmv5kt.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/South%20Yemen%20Sukhoi%20Su%2025%20Frogfoot%201986_zpsirwmv5kt.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/South%20Yemen%20Mil%20Mi24%20Hind%201985_zpss9eiwfz6.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/South%20Yemen%20Mil%20Mi24%20Hind%201985_zpss9eiwfz6.png.html)

.... while since I have "retooled" my Su25 blank, here is an updated Syrian one

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Syria%20Sukhoi%20Su%2025%20Frogfoot%201989_zps4hqxmwpt.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Syria%20Sukhoi%20Su%2025%20Frogfoot%201989_zps4hqxmwpt.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Volkodav on September 09, 2015, 08:04:30 PM
Love them all, but particularly the Israeli G8, Rhodesian Kfir and Malaysian Jag.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 10, 2015, 11:41:44 PM
...... now in my story the balkan wars happen in the late 80s, while the Slovenian Mig 21 and the Bosnian Hinds are taken fron JNA defectors, the Croatian Frogfoot is one of the airplanes taken from NATO armies following Warpact retreat from FDR in the spring of 85, and later supplied from West Germany to Croatia for Operation Storm

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Slovenia%20MiG%2021%20MF%201986_zpsf0czxcwf.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Slovenia%20MiG%2021%20MF%201986_zpsf0czxcwf.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Bosnia%20Mil%20Mi24%20Hind%201989_zps8dneejn6.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Bosnia%20Mil%20Mi24%20Hind%201989_zps8dneejn6.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Croatia%20Sukhoi%20Su%2025%20Frogfoot%201989_zpsmuew1ykh.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Croatia%20Sukhoi%20Su%2025%20Frogfoot%201989_zpsmuew1ykh.png.html)

in addition an Indonesian F20

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Indonesia%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%201988_zps57mzuhzh.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Indonesia%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%201988_zps57mzuhzh.png.html)

and an Algerian Su25

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Algeria%20Sukhoi%20Su%2025%20Frogfoot%201989_zpsmhjkfpbp.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Algeria%20Sukhoi%20Su%2025%20Frogfoot%201989_zpsmhjkfpbp.png.html)

as always suggestions are welcome

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Volkodav on September 11, 2015, 07:57:30 PM
And my new favourite is the Indonesian F-20
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 12, 2015, 11:41:10 PM
.. .... a former Portuguese G91 now in Guinea Bissau use

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Guinea%20Bissau%20Aeritalia%20G91R%201978_zpsawfcsytz.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Guinea%20Bissau%20Aeritalia%20G91R%201978_zpsawfcsytz.png.html)

.... a Venezuelean MiG23

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Venezuela%20MiG%2023%20Flogger%201989_zpsxjqsnnxv.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Venezuela%20MiG%2023%20Flogger%201989_zpsxjqsnnxv.png.html)


.... and my 10 years old son first Whif, a New York City State F18

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/bub1_zpszdxvijww.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/bub1_zpszdxvijww.png.html)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Tophe on September 13, 2015, 01:08:22 AM
Congratulations and thanks to your son, inventing a new silhouette coming from his own imagination, I love this! :-*
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: M.A.D on September 15, 2015, 07:14:07 PM
Great to have you here, Glanini!  Welcome!  It wouldn't be the same without you here.

China Su34

([url]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/ChinaSukhoiSu34Fullback2012.png[/url])


That is one downside of the white background.  With some schemes, your profile can end up looking like Wonder Woman's invisible plane!

([url]http://img.engadget.com/common/images/4575937614869136.JPG?0.8624495567024028[/url])

Cheers,

Logan


I'm sorry Logan, but I still can't seem to see through Lynda Carter costume!!  >:D

M.A.D
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 15, 2015, 08:16:54 PM
I found that the Tigershark is a hit so .....

A promised Finnish (dedicated to Kimi)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Finland%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%201989_zpsepdegsdm.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Finland%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%201989_zpsepdegsdm.png.html)

A USN Aggressor

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USA%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%201987_zpsbjdhmpac.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USA%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%201987_zpsbjdhmpac.png.html)

... I think NM ANG had a magnificent look in the 50s so....

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USAF%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%20NM%201987_zpsmz4thm0u.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USAF%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%20NM%201987_zpsmz4thm0u.png.html)

..... this one for my daughter born in Charleston SC

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USAF%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%20SC%201989_zpsiau5qtdd.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USAF%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%20SC%201989_zpsiau5qtdd.png.html)

.... and for my son born in my favourite state WA

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USAF%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%20WA%201988_zpsfbwmfyg4.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USAF%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%20WA%201988_zpsfbwmfyg4.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on September 15, 2015, 09:07:00 PM
There is something about that Finnish F-20. Very neat, glanini.

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Volkodav on September 16, 2015, 11:57:42 AM
Sweet, thanks for the extra F-20s.  I've got an incomplete one in my stash that I intend to finish one day (assuming it hasn't been damaged or parts lost in a move), so really appreciate all these great profiles.  What I was thinking was a notional late 80s Australian Army Aviation example in Foliage Green, or perhaps the current army scheme, although a very simple RAAF reserve example in grey.  All very parochial I know, but I can't help myself.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 18, 2015, 01:25:56 AM
.... now as the four wizards of Liverpool used to sing "Back in the USSR"...... where Mr. Gorbachev reforms after the war lost in 1985 are making a change, but still the Republics are looking at more concessions, so National Guards are created..... and also Glasnost is giving an opportunity to put some Pin Ups on the planes like this MiG21 coming back from Afghanistan where it has shoot down to Pakistani F16

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSR%20MiG%2021%20MF%20Rossya%201988_zpsebhi482r.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USSR%20MiG%2021%20MF%20Rossya%201988_zpsebhi482r.png.html)

we have also a Byelorussian

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSR%20MiG%2021%20MF%20Belarus%201988_zpsntzmy5ku.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USSR%20MiG%2021%20MF%20Belarus%201988_zpsntzmy5ku.png.html)

... an Ukrainian

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSR%20MiG%2021%20MF%20Ukraine%201988_zpsvacnodax.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USSR%20MiG%2021%20MF%20Ukraine%201988_zpsvacnodax.png.html)

. and a Georgian Su25

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSR%20Sukhoi%20Su%2025%20Frogfoot%20Georgia%201988_zpsm7j6semc.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USSR%20Sukhoi%20Su%2025%20Frogfoot%20Georgia%201988_zpsm7j6semc.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on September 18, 2015, 03:00:02 AM
Love that first one - it is really worth clicking on and doing the zoom to see the full details.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 19, 2015, 04:16:16 PM
... I was expecting the USSR guards not being a hit, but I am working hard on the MiG21 to add details.... in the meanwhile

Portugal gets Mirage V from France to support the colonial wars in the early 70s.......

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Portugal%20Dassault%20Mirage%20V%201978_zpsgmussnqk.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Portugal%20Dassault%20Mirage%20V%201978_zpsgmussnqk.png.html)

..... some of them were written off by FAP in Angola but Angolan technician were able to put them back into service

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Angola%20Dassault%20Mirage%20V%201978_zpstlmef9zm.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Angola%20Dassault%20Mirage%20V%201978_zpstlmef9zm.png.html)

....... while SAS use this Dornier 31 in the Falklands

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UK%20Dornier%20Do31%201982_zpskbpxragh.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/UK%20Dornier%20Do31%201982_zpskbpxragh.png.html)

...... same airplane used by US in the Gulf War

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USA%20Dornier%20Do31%201991_zpspuuggxul.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USA%20Dornier%20Do31%201991_zpspuuggxul.png.html)

..... and finally a Texas ANG Tigershark

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USA%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%20TX%201987_zpsfgctmbmv.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USA%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%20TX%201987_zpsfgctmbmv.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on September 19, 2015, 11:05:56 PM
Beautiful!!  I'm especially loving your F-20's.  Any chance of seeing one or two in 111th FIS markings?  They are out of Ellington Field, near Houston and I'd love to see a F-20 done up as their 90th anniversary aircraft instead of an F-16.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on September 20, 2015, 12:13:22 PM
Mmmmm.....Do31s :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 24, 2015, 10:55:19 PM
I have taken some time to work on the details so.........

An FAA Kfir in the Falklands with kill markings for two Harriers

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Argentina%20IAI%20Kfir%202%201982_zps47z2xc50.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Argentina%20IAI%20Kfir%202%201982_zps47z2xc50.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Argentina%20IAI%20Kfir%202%201982%20Nose_zps0mht9vaj.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Argentina%20IAI%20Kfir%202%201982%20Nose_zps0mht9vaj.png.html)

A French Mirage G8

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/France%20Dassault%20Mirage%20G8%201979_zpswtli3mis.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/France%20Dassault%20Mirage%20G8%201979_zpswtli3mis.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/France%20Dassault%20Mirage%20G8%201979%20Nose_zpse3xs7xbq.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/France%20Dassault%20Mirage%20G8%201979%20Nose_zpse3xs7xbq.png.html)

A Soviet MiG21 dedicated to "Comrade Alina" with 2 F16 and 1 F4 Pakistani Kill Markings

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSR%20MiG%2021%20MF%20Rossya-2%201988_zpsx3wtq4kg.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USSR%20MiG%2021%20MF%20Rossya-2%201988_zpsx3wtq4kg.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSR%20MiG%2021%20MF%20Rossya-2%201988%20Nose_zps0nardzka.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USSR%20MiG%2021%20MF%20Rossya-2%201988%20Nose_zps0nardzka.png.html)

A SAAF Mirage G8 with two Cubans Kill Markings

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/South%20Africa%20Dassault%20Mirage%20G8%201981_zpsqrozrclp.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/South%20Africa%20Dassault%20Mirage%20G8%201981_zpsqrozrclp.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/South%20Africa%20Dassault%20Mirage%20G8%201981%20Nose_zpsrtfjhi0b.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/South%20Africa%20Dassault%20Mirage%20G8%201981%20Nose_zpsrtfjhi0b.png.html)

 And finally a Cuban MiG21 Celebrating Cuito Cuanavale's Victory

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Cuba%20MiG%2021%20MF%201989_zpswj4xsehx.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Cuba%20MiG%2021%20MF%201989_zpswj4xsehx.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Cuba%20MiG%2021%20MF%201989%20Tail_zps8pcbr21p.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Cuba%20MiG%2021%20MF%201989%20Tail_zps8pcbr21p.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on September 25, 2015, 04:19:52 AM
 :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on September 25, 2015, 08:07:48 AM
Beautiful and I love the close-ups you're adding.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on September 26, 2015, 06:09:14 AM
Beautiful and I love the close-ups you're adding.


Close ups are available on all - just click on the image and then select the zoom function in the new window.  For example, here's one from a few pages back:

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Philippines%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%201987_zpsnjsh0kj8.png~original)

Moreover, if you click on the above image you will see an even higher rez version.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: KiwiZac on October 01, 2015, 07:12:05 AM
Beautiful work, G-man! I've had to save half-a-dozen profiles from this thread so I can build them!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: ReccePhreak on October 04, 2015, 01:17:35 AM
...... well ..... thanks for the support

...... meanwhile on the other side of the world a war is raging over the control of South China Sea

([url]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Thailand%20Mitsubishi%20F1%201987_zpslpn201au.png[/url]) ([url]http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Thailand%20Mitsubishi%20F1%201987_zpslpn201au.png.html[/url])

Regards

I only build 2 types of aircraft models, reconnaissance aircraft & Thai aircraft.
I just LOVE your RTAF Mitsubishi F1!!  :-*
Now I have to go buy a kit of it, so I can build one.

Larry
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on October 09, 2015, 12:09:16 AM
Lately there have been a lot of rumours in Italy about Italian Tornados now involved in Recce mission to be turned to attack. Here is a Sand-Spinach Tornado in Somalia attacking Al-Shabab and based in Djibouti

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Panavia%20Tornado%202016_zpsmqqqvy3y.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Panavia%20Tornado%202016_zpsmqqqvy3y.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Panavia%20Tornado%202016%20Nose_zpshos3ini2.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Panavia%20Tornado%202016%20Nose_zpshos3ini2.png.html)

This one was posted some months ago and I have revised it

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Vought%20F8%20Crusader%201963%20Gabriella_zpsklncfhpj.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Vought%20F8%20Crusader%201963%20Gabriella_zpsklncfhpj.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Vought%20F8%20Crusader%201963%20Gabriella%20Nose_zpskrcaybgt.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Vought%20F8%20Crusader%201963%20Gabriella%20Nose_zpskrcaybgt.png.html)

Here a revised SAAF Mirage 2000 (Originally posted more than 5 years ago)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/South%20Africa%20Dassault%20Mirage%202000_zpsrvl4ub9h.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/South%20Africa%20Dassault%20Mirage%202000_zpsrvl4ub9h.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/South%20Africa%20Dassault%20Mirage%202000%20Nose_zpsw6n8e1wp.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/South%20Africa%20Dassault%20Mirage%202000%20Nose_zpsw6n8e1wp.png.html)

... and Finally the Texas ANG F20 operating in Serbia

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USAF%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%201989_zpsqiktj86a.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USAF%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%201989_zpsqiktj86a.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USAF%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%20Nose%201989_zpsgyv6hsev.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USAF%20Northrop%20F20A%20Tigershark%20Nose%201989_zpsgyv6hsev.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on November 01, 2015, 01:26:31 AM
.... I have completed the upgrade of the MiG21, the reason of all this fixation with this airplane in VVS markings is this: when I was a teenager I had the opportunity to visit the USSR, Gorbachev had risen to power just two weeks before the trip so we were still in the stagnation era, coming back home, it was a Sunday Morning and on this Moscow-Rome Aeroflot flight, I was able to see from my window, some thousand feet below, a VVS MiG21 flying, it was very emotional. So here you could see ""Maria" coming back home after the "Victorious Retreat" from Afghanistan, when the reformed Soviet Army defeated Mujaideen and mainly Pakistan Army......

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSR%20MiG%2021%20MF%201988%20Marya_zpsvqj4oqv3.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USSR%20MiG%2021%20MF%201988%20Marya_zpsvqj4oqv3.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSR%20MiG%2021%20MF%201988%20Marya%20Nose_zpsjyexldte.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USSR%20MiG%2021%20MF%201988%20Marya%20Nose_zpsjyexldte.png.html)

In additon with got this Italian F104G involved in the skirmishes with Yugoslavia....

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Lockheed%20F104S%20Starfighter%201964%20Barbara_zpshn3tkeur.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Lockheed%20F104S%20Starfighter%201964%20Barbara_zpshn3tkeur.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Lockheed%20F104S%20Starfighter%201964%20Barbara%20Nose_zpsorzdk8uh.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Lockheed%20F104S%20Starfighter%201964%20Barbara%20Nose_zpsorzdk8uh.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: M.A.D on November 01, 2015, 05:49:51 PM
Amazing detail with your forward fuselage profiles Glanini!! :P

M.A.D
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on November 05, 2015, 11:20:33 PM
... now going back in time, as somebody might remember in my alt WWII, Von Stauffenberg succeed in killing Hitler, Rommel become President of Germany and sign Peace with UK and USA but still fight against USSR, as part of this story

a USAAF Bell P59 named "Louise" in Overlord

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USA%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%201944%20Louise_zpsulcklj2c.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USA%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%201944%20Louise_zpsulcklj2c.png.html)

.... a Luftwaffe Schwalbe named "Liebe Anne" on the Eastern Front

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Germany%20Messerschmitt%20Me%20262%20Schwalbe%201946%20Liebe%20Anne_zpsde1ag331.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Germany%20Messerschmitt%20Me%20262%20Schwalbe%201946%20Liebe%20Anne_zpsde1ag331.png.html)

... and some year later a SEAC RAF Meteor after "Suzie Wong" in Korea

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UK%20Gloster%20Meteor%20F8%201950%20Suzy%20Wong_zps6owhefg7.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/UK%20Gloster%20Meteor%20F8%201950%20Suzy%20Wong_zps6owhefg7.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: M.A.D on November 06, 2015, 09:37:46 AM
... now going back in time, as somebody might remember in my alt WWII, Von Stauffenberg succeed in killing Hitler, Rommel become President of Germany and sign Peace with UK and USA but still fight against USSR, as part of this story

a USAAF Bell P59 named "Louise" in Overlord

([url]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USA%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%201944%20Louise_zpsulcklj2c.png[/url]) ([url]http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USA%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%201944%20Louise_zpsulcklj2c.png.html[/url])

Very nice

.... a Luftwaffe Schwalbe named "Liebe Anne" on the Eastern Front

([url]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Germany%20Messerschmitt%20Me%20262%20Schwalbe%201946%20Liebe%20Anne_zpsde1ag331.png[/url]) ([url]http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Germany%20Messerschmitt%20Me%20262%20Schwalbe%201946%20Liebe%20Anne_zpsde1ag331.png.html[/url])

... and some year later a SEAC RAF Meteor after "Suzie Wong" in Korea

([url]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UK%20Gloster%20Meteor%20F8%201950%20Suzy%20Wong_zps6owhefg7.png[/url]) ([url]http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/UK%20Gloster%20Meteor%20F8%201950%20Suzy%20Wong_zps6owhefg7.png.html[/url])

Regards


Very nice Glanini!
 
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: finsrin on November 06, 2015, 02:12:05 PM
All three of those great looking :) twin jets are candidates to be re-engined with versatile J85.
Whether ones as found in A-37 up to F-5E version.  Call it aviation hotrodding.
How about Me-262 with J85-GE-21B engines serving Luftwaffe in 60s thru 80 ?
Serving USAF in SEA or Desert Storm ?
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on November 13, 2015, 11:28:15 PM
.... now let's image the Bell P59 was a succesful bird,

 here we have an Israeli during the Independence War

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Israel%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%201949_zpsibwmovp1.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Israel%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%201949_zpsibwmovp1.png.html)

and as Mao pushed KMG forces US recreate the AVGm only this time against Communist forces

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USA%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%20Adam%20and%20Eve%20%201948_zps4pqulsxl.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USA%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%20Adam%20and%20Eve%20%201948_zps4pqulsxl.png.html)

....... A South Korean one

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/South%20Korea%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%201950_zpskecou8ow.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/South%20Korea%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%201950_zpskecou8ow.png.html)

... and a Couple of National Guard birds

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USA%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%20SC%20NG%201950_zpsfd7zolob.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USA%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%20SC%20NG%201950_zpsfd7zolob.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USA%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%20WN%20NG%201950_zpsul8bqvnv.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USA%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%20WN%20NG%201950_zpsul8bqvnv.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on November 13, 2015, 11:42:43 PM
That Israeli Airacomet looks very "right". Can't be worse than the S-199!

Cheers,

Logan
Title: GLanini Profiles For Paris
Post by: Glanini on November 14, 2015, 05:39:11 PM
(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/France%20Dassault%20Rafale%20C%202015_zpsqipgtzdz.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/France%20Dassault%20Rafale%20C%202015_zpsqipgtzdz.png.html)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on November 25, 2015, 04:22:18 AM
..... I continue with my tribute to France with a

Bell P59

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/France%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%201949_zpssrkxvh3r.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/France%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%201949_zpssrkxvh3r.png.html)

.. A Mirage 5

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/France%20Dassault%20Mirage%20V%201975_zpsdq41gehc.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/France%20Dassault%20Mirage%20V%201975_zpsdq41gehc.png.html)

.... and a Rafale for which current events gave me a double inspiration, the Russian-French "alliance" against Daesh made me think about the "Normandie-Niemen" Squadron, while the probable use of RAF Akrotiri brought me back memories of "Operation Musketeer"

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/France%20Dassault%20Rafale%20C-2015_zpso1syffzd.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/France%20Dassault%20Rafale%20C-2015_zpso1syffzd.png.html)

... we got also a "retooled" Phantom I dedicated to "Nurse Pam"

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USA%20McDonnell%20F1H%20Phantom%20Nurse%20Pam%201950_zpsagca8wbu.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USA%20McDonnell%20F1H%20Phantom%20Nurse%20Pam%201950_zpsagca8wbu.png.html)

... and finally a real "What if" the infamous Reggiane 2007, that it is suspected to be "created" after the war by Reggiane Chief Designer Ing. Roberto Longhi, to have credit amongst the allies.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Reggiane%20Re.2007%201943_zps9ualgj0q.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Reggiane%20Re.2007%201943_zps9ualgj0q.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: CiTrus90 on November 26, 2015, 05:00:10 PM
Nice!

If i can point out a little mistake though...the text for the Reggiane 2007 says Fiat Centauro G.55 ;)

Regards.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on March 28, 2016, 10:37:43 PM
..... quite busy lately, but I read an article on Tibet before being a part of PRC and so I guessed what if the US in 1949 seeing that Komintang was losing the war starts sending some airplanes and volunteers to the Tibetan Army ...........

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Tibet%20Republic%20P47D%20Thunderbolt%201949_zpsu2joqjwy.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Tibet%20Republic%20P47D%20Thunderbolt%201949_zpsu2joqjwy.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Tibet%20North%20American%20P51D%20Mustang%201949_zps3wrkpija.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Tibet%20North%20American%20P51D%20Mustang%201949_zps3wrkpija.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Tibet%20Douglas%20C47%201949_zpso1qtvkuj.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Tibet%20Douglas%20C47%201949_zpso1qtvkuj.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on March 29, 2016, 03:02:00 AM
Different. :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on April 03, 2016, 06:36:38 PM
.... since I was working on rare roundels here are a couple of Manchukuo birds

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Manchkuo%20Manshu%20Ki.98%201945_zpshlywbwnd.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Manchkuo%20Manshu%20Ki.98%201945_zpshlywbwnd.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Manchkuo%20Kawasaki%20Ki.61%201944_zpseiolglc9.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Manchkuo%20Kawasaki%20Ki.61%201944_zpseiolglc9.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Tophe on April 03, 2016, 11:49:45 PM
The Ki-98 is especially nice, will you paint a push-pull derivative or should I do it crediting you for the source?
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on April 04, 2016, 01:06:55 AM
Tophe, I am a little bit busy these days so I just re-edit old profiles with new camo and roundels, you are free to use my Ki-98, if you wan I can send you a blank one

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Tophe on April 04, 2016, 02:18:04 AM
Thanks! Here is it:
(http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Ki98Kai_.jpg)
No need to send a blank bitmap source, while - if you have a vector source - I may play a lot more with it... :D
EDIT: the cooling air-intakes and exhausts seem to prove this push-pull has no nose engine, but it is possible as the Canton-Unné 1910: a big double rear-engine drives a pusher propeller and a nose propeller through a shaft... (to prevent torque)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on April 04, 2016, 11:48:17 AM
Perhaps two twin-row radials mounted back-to-back to drive both propellers and sharing a common accessory section et al.?  It does look quite attractive.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Tophe on April 05, 2016, 01:28:28 AM
Thanks engineer for this possibility confirmed... ;)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on April 11, 2016, 01:22:19 AM
..... well someday I should redraw the Su 27, in the meanwhile looking at the current events

an Armenian one in the current fightings with Azerbaijan

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Armenia%20Sukhoi%20Su%2027S%20Flanker%202016_zpsdxmxzwvl.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Armenia%20Sukhoi%20Su%2027S%20Flanker%202016_zpsdxmxzwvl.png.html)

 and one of Novorossya against Ukraine

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Novorossya%20Sukhoi%20Su%2027S%20Flanker%202014_zps6v0xlght.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Novorossya%20Sukhoi%20Su%2027S%20Flanker%202014_zps6v0xlght.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on April 17, 2016, 03:29:22 AM
..... some birds from the 60s

An Afghan Fishbed

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Afghanistan%20MiG%2021F%20Fishbed%201968_zpska1gllgr.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Afghanistan%20MiG%2021F%20Fishbed%201968_zpska1gllgr.png.html)

an Italian SuperSabre

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20North%20American%20F100%20Super%20Sabre%201967_zpsoq6vb7ls.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20North%20American%20F100%20Super%20Sabre%201967_zpsoq6vb7ls.png.html)

.... finally a RAF Thud in VietNam

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/United%20Kindgom%20Republic%20F105%201967_zpsy0vjhynh.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/United%20Kindgom%20Republic%20F105%201967_zpsy0vjhynh.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on April 17, 2016, 03:34:32 AM
I like that RAF Thud; I wonder if they'd operate a two-seat Thud in Northern Europe?  I could see one with a T-Stick II spine repurposed for other things (Martels or something similar, perhaps?).  I wonder if they would keep the J75 or go with the Olympus-powered proposal that Republic made to them?  Be even more amusing if they bought in with the Canadians on an Iroquois-powered version, which was also pitched (to the Canadians).
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on April 17, 2016, 05:33:08 AM
I like the Italian SuperSabre :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: finsrin on April 17, 2016, 01:44:11 PM
I like the Italian SuperSabre :)

Me too.......
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on April 18, 2016, 11:19:21 PM
...... Australian RF101C in Nam

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Australia%20McDonnell%20RF101C%201968_zpsf6geedsq.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Australia%20McDonnell%20RF101C%201968_zpsf6geedsq.png.html)

Israeli F105

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Israel%20Republic%20F105%201967_zpszvvkivbg.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Israel%20Republic%20F105%201967_zpszvvkivbg.png.html)

South Arabian Gnat

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/South%20Arabia%20Folland%20Gnat%201967_zpsgemmzeg7.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/South%20Arabia%20Folland%20Gnat%201967_zpsgemmzeg7.png.html)

and a former Rhodesian Spitfire now in Biafran markings

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Biafra%20Supermarine%20Spitfire%20Mk.24%201968_zpsrq3fxo2b.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Biafra%20Supermarine%20Spitfire%20Mk.24%201968_zpsrq3fxo2b.png.html)

finally a Nigerian Fishbed in the same conflict

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Nigeria%20MiG%2021F%20Fishbed%201968_zpswvgpbe6z.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Nigeria%20MiG%2021F%20Fishbed%201968_zpswvgpbe6z.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: ChernayaAkula on April 19, 2016, 01:39:21 AM
Lovin' the Aussie Voodoo and the Biafran Spit!  :-*
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on April 19, 2016, 02:13:40 AM
Lovin' the Aussie Voodoo

Oh, yeah!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on April 21, 2016, 02:23:59 AM
......... quite i a 60s mood

Argentina's Ha 300

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Argentina%20Helwan%20Ha-300%201964_zpsjodcblwb.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Argentina%20Helwan%20Ha-300%201964_zpsjodcblwb.png.html)

Egyptian Ha300 in preparation of 6 days war

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Egypt%20Helwan%20Ha-300%201967_zpskt0sut8g.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Egypt%20Helwan%20Ha-300%201967_zpskt0sut8g.png.html)

Spain Ha300 in the homeland

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Espana%20Helwan%20Ha-300%201963_zpsbyel8qmv.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Espana%20Helwan%20Ha-300%201963_zpsbyel8qmv.png.html)

Spain Ha300 in Morocco

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Espana%20Helwan%20Ha-300%201964_zpsama53qmx.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Espana%20Helwan%20Ha-300%201964_zpsama53qmx.png.html)

Ethiopian Hunter

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Ethiopia%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201962_zpsud1hhwhx.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Ethiopia%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201962_zpsud1hhwhx.png.html)

Ethiopian Lansen

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Ethiopia%20Saab%20J32%20Lansen%201962_zpsv9fent62.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Ethiopia%20Saab%20J32%20Lansen%201962_zpsv9fent62.png.html)

Indian Ha300 in the 1965 War

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/India%20Helwan%20Ha-300%201965_zpscoaoga7m.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/India%20Helwan%20Ha-300%201965_zpscoaoga7m.png.html)

Former Italian SuperSabre used by Portugal in Colonial Wars

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Portugal%20North%20American%20F100%20Super%20Sabre%201967_zps7pboqavz.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Portugal%20North%20American%20F100%20Super%20Sabre%201967_zps7pboqavz.png.html)

Rhodesian Gnat

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Rhodesia%20Folland%20Gnat%201965_zps6oksx5mu.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Rhodesia%20Folland%20Gnat%201965_zps6oksx5mu.png.html)

Soviet Su9 during Czechoslovakia Invasion

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSR%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201968_zpsge9zhxc7.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USSR%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201968_zpsge9zhxc7.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on April 21, 2016, 02:56:50 AM
Liking those Ha-300s and the Rhodesian Gnat
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on April 23, 2016, 05:00:03 PM
.... I have upgraded my Hawker Hunter so here are some re-editing

A No.4 Squadron RAF Hunter in different scenarions

Europe Central Front

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UK%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201965_zpsni9ogotz.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/UK%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201965_zpsni9ogotz.png.html)

The Barren Rocks of Aden

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UK%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201967_zpsgvels8py.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/UK%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201967_zpsgvels8py.png.html)

and VietNam

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UK%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%20FEA%201966_zpscqdgv547.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/UK%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%20FEA%201966_zpscqdgv547.png.html)

where it is used also by USAF

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/US%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201967_zpszbnwwfxi.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/US%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201967_zpszbnwwfxi.png.html)

in the meanwhile PAF uses it in Guinea

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Portugal%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201965_zpsj8gp5tvx.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Portugal%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201965_zpsj8gp5tvx.png.html)

a Phil Skyraider

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Philippines%20Douglas%20A1D%20Skyraider%201968_zpsuaa0o3ou.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Philippines%20Douglas%20A1D%20Skyraider%201968_zpsuaa0o3ou.png.html)


finally a Luftwaffe Super Sabre

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/FDR%20North%20American%20F100%20Super%20Sabre%201963_zpszbwzsgfj.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/FDR%20North%20American%20F100%20Super%20Sabre%201963_zpszbwzsgfj.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Volkodav on April 23, 2016, 05:19:53 PM
That Luftwaffe F-100 is superb!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on April 24, 2016, 04:39:58 AM
The Philippine Skyraider looks a natural.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Jeffry Fontaine on April 25, 2016, 01:21:12 AM
The Philippine Skyraider looks a natural.
^ definitely does look quite right.  A very good what-if/might have been.  :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: DFZ on April 28, 2016, 08:42:06 PM
Great stuff!  :) Those PoAF profiles would fit perfectly in the alternative PoAF i'm building! Too bad i don't have any F-100 but i do have a Hunter in the stash... >:D
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Cliffy B on April 28, 2016, 10:02:38 PM
The Israeli Thud looks perfect!!!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on April 29, 2016, 10:25:12 AM
The Israeli Thud looks perfect!!!
Agreed, though they may have to take off on a North-South axis, I'm not sure the country is wide enough for their takeoff run. ;D

Seriously, I've thought about doing one, possibly an advanced variant, in USAF middle-east camo scheme and giving it the tail codes of a squadron that could be based at Wheelus AFB, assuming the US did allow Quadaffi to take it over when he rose to power.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on April 30, 2016, 12:19:07 AM
Well a German Hunter

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/FDR%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201963_zpsfafxmwzx.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/FDR%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201963_zpsfafxmwzx.png.html)

... and a couple of RN BAC.1154, the first in the North Atlantic

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UK%20BAC%20P.1154%201967_zps4ojs6fwj.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/UK%20BAC%20P.1154%201967_zps4ojs6fwj.png.html)

the second in VietNam

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UK%20BAC%20P.1154%201968_zpsg5xoxfxr.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/UK%20BAC%20P.1154%201968_zpsg5xoxfxr.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on April 30, 2016, 12:55:09 AM
Nice ones, all of them.  That Hunter especially looks good in those markings.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on April 30, 2016, 04:10:11 AM
How about a West German Hunter in JG.71 scheme with the famous "Black Tulip" nose markings, ala below:

(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSVX7DEN5sukM88DWdiI-d2qqBJ3Rf1c7CXq-Ij5zQ1iLIR6MbQ)
(http://i877.photobucket.com/albums/ab340/ACpilot1/ACpilot1001/Your%20Bucket%20TWO/image.jpg1_zpsn3npwfia.jpg)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on May 01, 2016, 09:01:30 PM
.... promise I will complete the Hunter in the meanwhile here a RAF Kestrel

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UK%20BAC%20P.1154%20RAF%201968_zps6zphuorw.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/UK%20BAC%20P.1154%20RAF%201968_zps6zphuorw.png.html)

and a USMC as well

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USA%20BAC%20P.1154%20USMC%201968_zpspq4hf5el.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USA%20BAC%20P.1154%20USMC%201968_zpspq4hf5el.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on May 05, 2016, 11:08:09 PM
...... keep moving in the 60s

North Korean Su9

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/North%20Korea%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201964_zpsit9z7hev.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/North%20Korea%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201964_zpsit9z7hev.png.html)

Yugoslav Su9

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Yugoslavia%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201966_zpsmgf1jl7o.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Yugoslavia%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201966_zpsmgf1jl7o.png.html)

Yugoslav Aerobatic Team Su9

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Yugoslavia%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201962_zpsjyxzs6nk.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Yugoslavia%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201962_zpsjyxzs6nk.png.html)

FDR Hunter

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/FDR%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201961_zpszcptn4za.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/FDR%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201961_zpszcptn4za.png.html)

New Zealand Hunter

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/New%20Zealand%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201963_zps6vs0rc2m.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/New%20Zealand%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201963_zps6vs0rc2m.png.html)

Italian C47 in Congo

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Douglas%20C47%20Dakota%201961_zpswtwxk6mn.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Douglas%20C47%20Dakota%201961_zpswtwxk6mn.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on May 05, 2016, 11:12:29 PM
That German Hunter looks very natural. Well done!

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on May 06, 2016, 03:10:12 AM
Both Hunters are great..as are the SU-9s
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on May 28, 2016, 05:01:06 PM
".......... the other I was cleaning my garage and I found out an old dusty aviation magazine where I discovered some old untold stories togheter with some intersting profiles, this is what I found out ........

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Aeritalia%20G91R%201960_zpsyv1mea9q.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Aeritalia%20G91R%201960_zpsyv1mea9q.png.html)"



..... beside the jokes, I have decided to move ahead in my profiling, add more details, Landing gear, weapons, etc..... and also write the background story ..... I have also changed the general lay-out

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on May 28, 2016, 07:34:27 PM
Nice profiling and backstory.  Just a thought for some possible profiles, NBMR.3 is revised early on to reflect operational reality and not require supersonic performance, as a result, a P.1127 variant is declared the winner and is built by a consortium of Hawker-Siddeley, Breguet, Northrop, Aermacchi, and Dornier for NATO-wide use, seeing use with all members (though I could see France going their own way, determinedly, with use of the very similar MD.610 Cavalier despite Breguet's membership in the consortium).
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on June 02, 2016, 03:26:54 PM
Here an additional profile I found in that ole' magazine, it is about Royal Navy use of Hueys in the Konfrontasi

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Bell%20UH1B%201966_zpscpmkrv90.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Bell%20UH1B%201966_zpscpmkrv90.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on June 04, 2016, 03:41:43 AM
...... in the magazine there was also an interesting profile of an Italian G91 in Congo .......

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Aeritalia%20G91R%201961_zpsmztsiemi.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Aeritalia%20G91R%201961_zpsmztsiemi.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on June 04, 2016, 03:43:12 AM
Oh, that last one is tasty and would make an attractive model.  Bravo!!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on June 11, 2016, 12:16:58 AM
In that ole magazine I found there were a couple of Thunderstreaks in the 1961 Berlin Wall Crisis armed with Mark 12 Nuclear Bombs

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Republic%20F84F%201961_zpspfvxirwp.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Republic%20F84F%201961_zpspfvxirwp.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Deutschland%20Republic%20F84F%201961_zpsao4bk8fs.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Deutschland%20Republic%20F84F%201961_zpsao4bk8fs.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Geist on June 13, 2016, 07:35:20 AM
Nice stuff!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Empty Handed on June 14, 2016, 04:16:01 PM
Lots of eye candy here but I must say that SEAC Thud is REALLY something!!!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on August 09, 2016, 02:22:03 AM
Some years ago I did some SuperCobras (terrible looking them now) I have started from blank sheet and now I have for you ......

An Aussie one in VietNam

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Australia%20Bell%20AH1G%20Cobra%201967_zps0w8ubhgv.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Australia%20Bell%20AH1G%20Cobra%201967_zps0w8ubhgv.png.html)

.... and those who enjoy r'n'r will enjoy the nose art

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Bell%20AH1G%20Cobra%20test%204%20Nose_zpslwd7qgnm.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Bell%20AH1G%20Cobra%20test%204%20Nose_zpslwd7qgnm.png.html)

..... then an Italian one in WWIII

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Bell%20AH1G%20Cobra%201984_zpsob8smyoo.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Bell%20AH1G%20Cobra%201984_zpsob8smyoo.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Jeffry Fontaine on August 09, 2016, 03:50:11 AM
Really like your AH-1 Cobras but the G-91 Gina is still my favorite.  An olive drab green Gina in U.S. Army markings is still on my list of projects. 
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on August 25, 2016, 01:37:06 AM
.... another couple of Cobras

Italian Army in Somalia

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Bell%20AH1G%20Cobra%201993-4_zpsnerck8ki.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Bell%20AH1G%20Cobra%201993-4_zpsnerck8ki.png.html)

And West German in WWIII

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/FDR%20Bell%20AH1G%20Cobra%201983-1_zpskq6wdpca.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/FDR%20Bell%20AH1G%20Cobra%201983-1_zpskq6wdpca.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on August 25, 2016, 02:35:40 AM
 :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: AXOR on August 25, 2016, 04:06:39 AM
Love the West German one  :-*
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on August 26, 2016, 01:01:11 AM
Another couple of Cobras (the last ones for the time being)

A West German in Winter Camo

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/FDR%20Bell%20AH1G%20Cobra%201984_zpsfni0ehzc.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/FDR%20Bell%20AH1G%20Cobra%201984_zpsfni0ehzc.png.html)

and an Honduran one against the Sandistas

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Honduras%20Bell%20AH1G%20Cobra%201982_zpsojoyu7gl.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Honduras%20Bell%20AH1G%20Cobra%201982_zpsojoyu7gl.png.html)

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on August 26, 2016, 01:07:19 AM
Oooh, that winter one was pretty.

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on August 26, 2016, 11:06:28 AM
Oooh, that winter one was pretty.
Quite pretty and very tempting to model.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on August 27, 2016, 04:36:02 AM
Well Bell did propose the AH-1 to Germany:

(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p110/GTX_Christmas/Bell_Modell_249_PAH2_3Dview_Interavia_Germany_May_1982_page509_1280x970-2.png)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 04, 2016, 10:30:53 PM
..... other profiles

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/China%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%20AVG%201946_zpsngeltcdm.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/China%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%20AVG%201946_zpsngeltcdm.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/URSS%20MiG%2021%20MF%201988_zpss7vxqjgx.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/URSS%20MiG%2021%20MF%201988_zpss7vxqjgx.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201993_zpsmqc5lhrw.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201993_zpsmqc5lhrw.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201989_zpsn7bjzdhh.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201989_zpsn7bjzdhh.png.html)

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: AXOR on September 05, 2016, 02:03:08 AM
Love the Airacomet  :-*,great work
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on September 05, 2016, 03:23:59 AM
Love the Airacomet  :-*,great work

Ditto
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on September 05, 2016, 10:02:00 AM
All four are beautiful.  I like the idea of more operational "Folgore II" aircraft.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 10, 2016, 02:51:22 AM
Well I have worked quite a bit on the Airacomet and here is its an USAAF during Operation Overlord. I have added a pilot that not drawn by myself but taken from here

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/tumblr_nz9zeoWKy21sndzdgo1_500h_zps4gsu3bff.jpg) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/tumblr_nz9zeoWKy21sndzdgo1_500h_zps4gsu3bff.jpg.html)

But I think it adds a lot to the profile

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USA%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%201944_zpsalsojgqc.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USA%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%201944_zpsalsojgqc.png.html)

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: AXOR on September 11, 2016, 04:18:04 AM
But I think it adds a lot to the profile
Certainly improves the profile,I like it. :)
Usually don't make requests for profiles,but I'd like to see a Romanian subject from you...someday  :))

Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 11, 2016, 04:45:11 PM

[/quote]
Usually don't make requests for profiles,but I'd like to see a Romanian subject from you...someday  :))
[/quote]

Here is what I have done so far over the years, I have the idea of doing something more with the hind during the 89 revolution, give me a couple of days

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Romania%20Sukhoi%2025%201985_zpsftsfcyr9.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Romania%20Sukhoi%2025%201985_zpsftsfcyr9.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Romania%20Mil%20Mi24%20Hind%201984_zpsybxmcfg3.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Romania%20Mil%20Mi24%20Hind%201984_zpsybxmcfg3.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Romania%20Mil%20Mi24%20Hind%201989_zps1lks8nje.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Romania%20Mil%20Mi24%20Hind%201989_zps1lks8nje.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Romania%20MiG%2029%20Fulcrum%201984_zps7t9jykdi.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Romania%20MiG%2029%20Fulcrum%201984_zps7t9jykdi.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Romania%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201965_zpsitj3tcus.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Romania%20Sukhoi%20Su9%20Fishpot%201965_zpsitj3tcus.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Romania%20Lavochkin%20La15%201953_zpsomltxpi2.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Romania%20Lavochkin%20La15%201953_zpsomltxpi2.png.html)

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: AXOR on September 12, 2016, 03:00:48 AM
I'm so dumb...how could I forget them ??  :-[  Jeez
Take your time with that Hind,it's no rush.
Thanks  :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: M.A.D on September 12, 2016, 06:27:40 PM
Very much like your new profile format Glanini

M.A.D
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 15, 2016, 01:05:59 AM
I am really enjoying adding some details so on this Israeli Airacomet I started from this RAF pilots and ground crew, thinking that many of IAF members in 1948-49 came from there

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/415d36b06706baae65a0500063e05ad1_zpst4l2efmu.jpg) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/415d36b06706baae65a0500063e05ad1_zpst4l2efmu.jpg.html)

and then adding them to this

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Israel%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%201948_zpsna2gnhvc.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Israel%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%201948_zpsna2gnhvc.png.html)

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on September 15, 2016, 05:44:02 AM
 :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 24, 2016, 03:28:29 AM
I have "retooled" also my Arsenal VG33, here is a Spanish Republican

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Espana%20Arsenal%20VG33%201941_zpsaizalfqh.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Espana%20Arsenal%20VG33%201941_zpsaizalfqh.png.html)

a French one with its pilot

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/France%20Arsenal%20VG33%201940_zpsz9g4wikm.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/France%20Arsenal%20VG33%201940_zpsz9g4wikm.png.html)

and my beloved Airacomet in SC ANG livery

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USA%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%201950%20SCANG_zps4lk6quvi.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USA%20Bell%20P59%20Airacomet%201950%20SCANG_zps4lk6quvi.png.html)

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: ptdockyard on September 26, 2016, 09:50:19 AM
Nice Arsenals!

I have always thought they would have gone good in Free French colors.

Dave
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on September 28, 2016, 12:43:50 AM
For sure I will add an Arsenal in Free France livery, in the meanwhile

Here an Italian Centauro

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Fiat%20G.55%20Centauro%201943_zpsrrwaypks.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Fiat%20G.55%20Centauro%201943_zpsrrwaypks.png.html)

A USN Phantom I in Korea

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USA%20McDonnell%20F1H%20Phantom%201950_zpsfmnjxubk.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USA%20McDonnell%20F1H%20Phantom%201950_zpsfmnjxubk.png.html)

and a RAF Meteor in SEA Markings same scenario

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UK%20Gloster%20Meteor%20F8%201951_zpseucuujpm.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/UK%20Gloster%20Meteor%20F8%201951_zpseucuujpm.png.html)

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on September 28, 2016, 11:58:50 AM
Love the G.55!  Then again, I love all the 5-Series fighters and their derivatives.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on October 05, 2016, 02:28:12 AM
A Soviet MiG21MF

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSR%20MiG%2021%20MF%201988_zpsr6k5e5ju.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USSR%20MiG%2021%20MF%201988_zpsr6k5e5ju.png.html)

A post Wermacht coup Germany FW190

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Germany%20FockeWulf%20FW190%201944_zpsjgezylib.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Germany%20FockeWulf%20FW190%201944_zpsjgezylib.png.html)

And a Spanish FW190

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Spain%20FockeWulf%20FW190%201946_zpscznw2jzx.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Spain%20FockeWulf%20FW190%201946_zpscznw2jzx.png.html)

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: AXOR on October 05, 2016, 05:36:25 AM
Wow,those Wurgers.... :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on October 15, 2016, 02:41:13 AM
Here we have other two profiles, the main story for the F104 is 90% true (the airplanes were stationed in Trapani not in Malta)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Alenia%20F104S%20Starfighter%201980_zpsenpc6jus.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Alenia%20F104S%20Starfighter%201980_zpsenpc6jus.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UK%20Gloster%20Meteor%20F8%201947_zps6novfnge.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/UK%20Gloster%20Meteor%20F8%201947_zps6novfnge.png.html)

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: taiidantomcat on October 16, 2016, 03:54:04 AM
I love the people and the layout of your profiles! Just great all around  :-*
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on October 18, 2016, 02:39:05 AM
... well always loved the Meteor

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/South%20Africa%20Gloster%20Meteor%20F8%201950_zpstcmquvsy.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/South%20Africa%20Gloster%20Meteor%20F8%201950_zpstcmquvsy.png.html)

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on October 23, 2016, 10:58:04 PM
Thanks for the advices, now we have a couple of Rhodesian Meteors

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Rhodesia%20Gloster%20Meteor%20F8%201957_zpskaqyecnd.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Rhodesia%20Gloster%20Meteor%20F8%201957_zpskaqyecnd.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Rhodesia%20Gloster%20Meteor%20F8%201960_zpsjx1c1oot.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Rhodesia%20Gloster%20Meteor%20F8%201960_zpsjx1c1oot.png.html)

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: AXOR on October 24, 2016, 02:08:47 AM
Hi Glanini  :)...Camouflaged Meteor it's the most attractive,love it  :-*
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on October 27, 2016, 01:11:03 AM
I have always liked this airplanes, I hope you can appreciate the back story as well ......

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Ambrosini%20Sagittario%201957_zpsefed2qlx.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Ambrosini%20Sagittario%201957_zpsefed2qlx.png.html)

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: AXOR on October 27, 2016, 03:19:56 AM
Indeed,this is an elegant airplane.Often I thought to work on this subject but failed to start.
Good job ! :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on October 27, 2016, 09:52:40 AM
Beatufiul "Sagittario"!  I just obtained the SEM 1/72 resin kit of this one.  It's very, very tempting to finish it like this.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on November 02, 2016, 12:05:07 AM
Here is a FARE Fishbed


(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Spain%20MiG%2021F%20Fishbed%201963_zpsclxrj8vo.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Spain%20MiG%2021F%20Fishbed%201963_zpsclxrj8vo.png.html)

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: M.A.D on November 02, 2016, 04:38:42 PM
There is so much amazing detail in that MiG-21 scene!!
Congratulations on your amazing talent!!

M.A.D
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on November 05, 2016, 03:58:48 PM
Hard to say a Soviet MiG21 is a What If, but at least the back story .....

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USSR%20MiG%2021F%20Fishbed%201967_zpsmo0adasc.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USSR%20MiG%2021F%20Fishbed%201967_zpsmo0adasc.png.html)

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Buzzbomb on November 08, 2016, 04:43:30 AM
Really nice work there
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on November 09, 2016, 04:03:13 AM
.... a couple of upgraded Hunters

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/UK%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201966_zpsj8i0vxir.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/UK%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201966_zpsj8i0vxir.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USA%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201967_zpsddmsoa1z.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USA%20Hawker%20Hunter%20F4%201967_zpsddmsoa1z.png.html)

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: CiTrus90 on November 10, 2016, 08:02:09 PM
Really love the Sagittario, like many of Stefanutti's creations it was in a class of elegance all of its own.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Volkodav on November 10, 2016, 10:10:21 PM
1972 USAF TAC FGA9 (or Sapphire powered equivalent) instead of Corsair?
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on November 15, 2016, 02:22:10 AM
Here is an updated SAAF Mirage 2000 during the Cuito Cuanavale battle

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/South%20Africa%20Dassault%20Mirage%202000%201988_zpskjkzmvny.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/South%20Africa%20Dassault%20Mirage%202000%201988_zpskjkzmvny.png.html)

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on November 15, 2016, 02:22:47 AM
 :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on November 17, 2016, 02:22:36 AM
....... Iraqi Mirage and Peruvian AMX

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Iraq%20Dassault%20Mirage%202000%201988_zpspiodfd5r.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Iraq%20Dassault%20Mirage%202000%201988_zpspiodfd5r.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Peru%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201992_zpswqv8lwxe.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Peru%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201992_zpswqv8lwxe.png.html)

btw beside the last part on AMX acquisition the backstory for Peru is true
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: CiTrus90 on November 19, 2016, 12:14:07 AM
Nice Folgore II :)

And I had never heard about the last bit on Perù, thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on November 19, 2016, 10:22:37 PM
Just reading a book of the only member of Gladio (the stay behind unit of Italian Military in case of Soviet Invasion) that has published something. That is where I found the story of Italian support to Garcia in Perù that has been later confirmed by the Chief of Italian Inteligence, some parts of the books looks realistic like involvement in the protection of the leaders of the revolution in Portugal in 1974 or training UNITA in Angola againsta MPLA or actions in Libya, what looked complete unrealistic is that a group of twenty of them was sent under US pressure in Vietnam in February 1975 to slow down the North Vietnamese Army advance and blow up a bridge. This part of the book is well detailed to be honest but it just can't be true. With Australian and New Zealand SAS, US Green Berets and Navy Seals why the US should have called Italian agents with no experience in the area, strange but a lot of Whif inspiration..... anyway to go back to business an Argentine AMX with GE engine since UK refused to give the RR Spey.....

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Argentina%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201989_zps4uzlcyka.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Argentina%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201989_zps4uzlcyka.png.html)

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Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: CiTrus90 on November 19, 2016, 10:54:45 PM
Intriguing! What's the title of the book?

And btw, with the Argentinian livery it looks like a natural :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Volkodav on November 20, 2016, 10:47:37 AM
Love the AMX profiles, especially as there is a mainstream kit available now (that I may add to my stash and never build).  I reckon the two seater AMX would look great in the RAN trainer scheme.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on November 21, 2016, 01:50:55 AM
here is an Italian AMX with its gun bay open. The airplane entered in service in 1989.

Reading books about this period I have come to the conclusion that in 1992 there has been a judiciary and media coup in Italy and since that we have been in decline.....

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201989_zpszg2jvif5.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201989_zpszg2jvif5.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on November 23, 2016, 01:58:27 AM
Italian Folgore in Gulf War, it may not be noticed but a lot of details have been added

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201991_zps6shckkkk.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201991_zps6shckkkk.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on November 25, 2016, 06:49:46 AM
Thanks for the suggestion, now the Peruvian AMX had some mistakes that needed a fix. Than for one reason or the other a Somali and a Thai one make sense

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Peru%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201992_zpsopzuku3t.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Peru%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201992_zpsopzuku3t.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Somalia%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201993_zpszmeszf29.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Somalia%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201993_zpszmeszf29.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Thailand%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201991_zpsfvcajbyd.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Thailand%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201991_zpsfvcajbyd.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on November 26, 2016, 12:16:12 AM
Here one from FAV and the other one from Tunisia, even in this case the story, beside the acquisition of the AMX, is true

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Venezuela%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201997_zpsmaaleoyp.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Venezuela%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201997_zpsmaaleoyp.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Tunisia%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201989_zps1btupfb5.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Tunisia%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201989_zps1btupfb5.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: AXOR on November 26, 2016, 01:12:24 AM
Tunisian AMX has a cool camo,love it  :-*  :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on November 26, 2016, 07:00:41 PM
He will be judged by history.... in the meanwhile "hasta la victoria siempre"

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Cuba%20MiG%2021%20MF%201989_zpsirtvum5o.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Cuba%20MiG%2021%20MF%201989_zpsirtvum5o.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on December 09, 2016, 10:17:51 PM
Don't know why the companies stop developing the airplanes there were studies to upgrade it with a RB199 and even an EJ200, at the end it entered service in 1999 and it had big teething problem, especially with the RR Spey but one they have been solved the plane has worked very good in Afghanistan.....

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201989-1_zpsjjqxbcpe.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201989-1_zpsjjqxbcpe.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Portugal%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201993_zpslbokmc2u.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Portugal%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201993_zpslbokmc2u.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/New%20Zealand%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201999_zps09pps1vs.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/New%20Zealand%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201999_zps09pps1vs.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on December 09, 2016, 10:24:20 PM
That RNZAF one seems particularly practical given their affinity for Aermacchi products.

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: The Big Gimper on December 09, 2016, 10:35:39 PM
The RNZAF version has my vote.  :)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on December 18, 2016, 11:41:41 PM
Here another two AMX

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USAF%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201993_zpslqegcvxi.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USAF%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201993_zpslqegcvxi.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Hellas%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201996_zpslr43elwn.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Hellas%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201996_zpslr43elwn.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on December 23, 2016, 03:57:05 AM
Thanks for the suggestion, Netherlands and Belgium, more to come

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Netherlands%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201996_zpskdpi45sw.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Netherlands%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201996_zpskdpi45sw.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Belgium%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201996_zpszmzms5j4.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Belgium%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201996_zpszmzms5j4.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Geist on December 26, 2016, 10:59:47 PM
Thanks for the suggestion, Netherlands and Belgium, more to come

([url]http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Netherlands%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201996_zpskdpi45sw.png[/url]) ([url]http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Netherlands%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201996_zpskdpi45sw.png.html[/url])

Regards

I like it :)
Great work!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Spey Phantom on December 27, 2016, 02:54:02 PM
i love that Belgian AMX  8)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on January 07, 2017, 10:38:05 PM
..... the Chilean AMX was one of the latest on the list

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Chile%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201994_zps3psbsg0a.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Chile%20Aermacchi%20M.342%20Ghibli%201994_zps3psbsg0a.png.html)

meanwhile during the Xmas holidays I have read several books on Cuba and Castro, so here is a MiG21 from Venezuela with a movement similar to the one from Chavez happening in the 80s

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Venezuela%20MiG%2021%20MF%201986_zpsiboam5m6.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Venezuela%20MiG%2021%20MF%201986_zpsiboam5m6.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: AXOR on January 07, 2017, 11:22:47 PM
Love that MiG  !
Check your PM
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on January 22, 2017, 11:24:16 PM
..... sometime I need to get out of my confort zone and so I have redrawn the MiG23, here i a Yugoslav one......

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Yugoslavia%20MiG%2023%20Flogger%201982_zpsjx1fo7jp.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Yugoslavia%20MiG%2023%20Flogger%201982_zpsjx1fo7jp.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: AXOR on January 26, 2017, 06:59:51 AM
Heeey,I missed this post...this MiG looks so right with Yugoslav markings...great job Glanini!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on January 31, 2017, 12:37:27 AM
A couple of Mustangs one from my beloved Washington State so not a What If, the other a true Whif since it is a Tibetan one

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USA%20North%20American%20P51D%20Mustang%20WA%201948_zpsfzbaey6r.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USA%20North%20American%20P51D%20Mustang%20WA%201948_zpsfzbaey6r.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Tibet%20North%20American%20P51D%20Mustang%201950_zpstmeaenvq.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Tibet%20North%20American%20P51D%20Mustang%201950_zpstmeaenvq.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: finsrin on January 31, 2017, 05:53:04 AM
Looking extra crisp and Mustangy !
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 02, 2017, 02:37:20 AM
...... here  a Brazilian one and next to come a South Vietnamese, for this one the pilot is taken from an Osprey book.

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Brazil%20North%20American%20P51D%20Mustang%201945_zps6umtedbx.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Brazil%20North%20American%20P51D%20Mustang%201945_zps6umtedbx.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 05, 2017, 04:10:58 PM
now a Whif Vietnamese and a true KY ANG

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/South%20Vietnam%20North%20American%20P51D%20Mustang%201955_zps1oe4hwzf.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/South%20Vietnam%20North%20American%20P51D%20Mustang%201955_zps1oe4hwzf.png.html)

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/USA%20North%20American%20P51D%20Mustang%20KY%201948_zpshxdb4lx6.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/USA%20North%20American%20P51D%20Mustang%20KY%201948_zpshxdb4lx6.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: apophenia on February 13, 2017, 10:45:24 AM
No shortage of Mustangy goodness there ... but it's hard to beat a Tibetan P-51D. Love it  :-*
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on April 01, 2017, 11:46:53 PM
My daughter BFF is from Finland so we are spending some time with her family and I have drawn this for her dad, pilot and ground crew are from Osprey Finnish Aces WWII book

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Finland%20Messerschmitt%20Me%20262%20Schwalbe%201947_zpsiad4ldyz.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Finland%20Messerschmitt%20Me%20262%20Schwalbe%201947_zpsiad4ldyz.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: AXOR on April 02, 2017, 07:55:56 PM
Great, you're back  :D
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on April 08, 2017, 04:10:24 PM
ANR Me 262

(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o287/glanini/Italy%20ANR%20Messerschmitt%20Me%20262%20Schwalbe%201945_zpsg2rpy5we.png) (http://s123.photobucket.com/user/glanini/media/Italy%20ANR%20Messerschmitt%20Me%20262%20Schwalbe%201945_zpsg2rpy5we.png.html)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on August 18, 2017, 10:19:25 PM
First of all to my Spanish friends, fellow Italians and worldwide citizens:

NO PASARAN

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/79/ec/68/79ec68ba48f7c96c8f45592822525da1.png)

then next week I am going to Japan, so even if this is not a Mitsubishi Airplane (I am going actually to meet them)..... here is a IJA airplane

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/23/59/6c/23596c23601d4f51e89086f336f4bd97.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Tophe on August 18, 2017, 11:17:10 PM
beautiful twin-boomer! :-*
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on August 19, 2017, 04:43:42 AM
Nice work on both
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on August 19, 2017, 02:01:11 PM
Both beautiful pieces of work.  I'll keep that Ki-98 in mind as I have multiple kits of that one (both multiples of the Meng kit and a resin one).
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on August 20, 2017, 03:13:49 AM
Both beautiful pieces of work.  I'll keep that Ki-98 in mind as I have multiple kits of that one (both multiples of the Meng kit and a resin one).

What's the resin one Evan?
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: CiTrus90 on August 20, 2017, 07:51:12 PM
then next week I am going to Japan, so even if this is not a Mitsubishi Airplane (I am going actually to meet them)..... here is a IJA airplane

Nice works as always!

I've been to Tokyo 3 years ago, it's been a beautiful experience, I hope you'll enjoy Japan as much as I did ;)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: M.A.D on August 20, 2017, 08:03:38 PM
Oh, very nice Glanini  :P

M.A.D
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on August 24, 2017, 11:17:13 AM
Both beautiful pieces of work.  I'll keep that Ki-98 in mind as I have multiple kits of that one (both multiples of the Meng kit and a resin one).

What's the resin one Evan?
A+V Models in 1/72.  I have it and two Meng kits to work with.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on August 25, 2017, 03:04:17 AM
Ah, ok.  I was hoping it might have been the 1/48 Raccoon one in which case either an offer or a raid might have been made....
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on August 26, 2017, 09:39:28 AM
Ah, ok.  I was hoping it might have been the 1/48 Raccoon one in which case either an offer or a raid might have been made....
Defenses on the remote southern stash have been upgraded (went for a review a couple weeks back) and the stash here is guarded by a number of attack cats.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on August 27, 2017, 02:45:55 AM
Ah, does that imply there is a 1/48 one there? ???
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on August 27, 2017, 07:03:06 AM
Unfortunately, no.  I got back into modeling too late to acquire any of the Racoon models in 1/48, but this is one I'd love to have.  I may still buy some more examples of the Meng kit and encourage them to do more such subjects.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on November 30, 2017, 09:03:46 AM
Being back in the Pacific Northwest bring inspiration, furthermore I am reading several books that are teaching me a lot of things about the diplomatic (and not only) hostilities between Italy-USA and France-UK in the Mediterrean from the mid 50s up to know, the first part of the story in this profile "During the Algerian War, the Algerian FLN was actively supported by the Italian State Gas Company ENI (Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi), led by Enrico Mattei, ENI provided funding for weapons, other branches of the Italian Government also supported FLN, with military training provided at the infamous CAG (Centro Addestramento Guastatori) under the watchful eye of American advisors. Shipping Companies linked to the SIFAR (Italian Army Secret Service) helped also in the transportation of weapons. The French reacted with anger and a French Navy submarine destroyed the boat Hedia outtside of Tunisia, that was running under Panama’s Flag but with Italian crew that was supposedly smuggling military equipment for FLN at the beginning of March 1962, while Mattei was killed in October of the same year after his airplane exploded during landing thanks to a bomb planted by SDECE (French Secret Service)" is considered as the truth by some historians. Adding also that the famous movie "The Battle of Algeri" was supported by the Italian Government to discredit the French...

(http://imageshack.com/a/img922/6871/7ajNpX.png)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: ysi_maniac on November 30, 2017, 10:23:40 AM
Nice Gina :smiley: :smiley:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on December 03, 2017, 01:32:09 AM
On the same subject

(http://imageshack.com/a/img923/4281/GUBYNA.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on December 03, 2017, 03:27:12 AM
 :smiley:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: AXOR on December 03, 2017, 07:22:06 AM
Welcome back...that MB 326 looks fantastic !  :-*
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: john_matthews129 on December 05, 2017, 02:07:47 PM
 :icon_surprised: :smiley:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Geist on December 05, 2017, 08:03:33 PM
 :smiley:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on December 17, 2017, 05:07:42 AM
In the early sixties the Italian Government and its controlled Oil firm ENI, decide to set a more aggressive policy in northern Africa and Middle East, they propose a 50-50 revenue sharing with these nations against the 75-25 of the Seven Sisters, but also it is decided to covertly help the independence movement in several countries. Algerian FLN is the group the receives more funds together with logistic support and training. Few months after the agreement between De Gaulle and FLN on Algerian Independence, the French President is forced to resign by the military. At that time France had not completed their withdrawal from Algeria and so units of the Foreign Legion start to attack Algerian units while the new French President General Salan denounces and withdraws from the Evian agreement. Algerian Government ask for support to the United Nations and friendly states. French uses its denial power at the UN, at the same time United President John Kennedy agrees with Italian Prime Minister Fanfani the support for Algeria. The purpose for Italy was to expand its anti-colonialist stance in Northern Africa and Middle East while US aim was to made the French Military Government fall and to avoid that Algeria would become a USSR proxy in the Mediterranean. As Italian Air Force units arrive in Algeria the US Army groups placed in Italy start patrol the French Italian border on the Alps, US Navy does the same as well in the Tyrrhenian Sea while US Air Force cover the airspace between the two nations in order to avoid that the conflict might expand in Europe…………….

(http://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/T7bGN1.png) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnT7bGN1p)


Since its founding, Force 14 had been sending pilots and technicians to train with various Arab, Communist and Third World nations. These were absorbed by the air force of Syria, Algeria and Libya, as well as in various Warsaw Pact air arms. In August 1978, 32 pilots and 60 mechanics returned from various training courses, and a 150 were in training in the Eastern Bloc a year later. Fatah had also initiated a military assistance programme, and Force 14 became a useful instrument of Palestinian diplomacy. Its personnel were sent to assist Idi Amin's Ugandan Air Force in 1976 and delivered arms and supplies to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua after their victory. Force 14 also provided helicopter and fighters pilots for the Nicaraguan war against the Contras, as well as crews for Aeronica, a local airline. The PLO may have also established several of its own small airlines to operate its cargo planes. These served as both a cover for PLO activities as well as the nucleus of a future Palestinian airline. Following Syria's break with the PLO and its expulsion from Lebanon in the wake of the 1982 Lebanon War, Force 14 relocated its headquarters and the bulk of its personnel to the Yemen Arab Republic, although it maintained a presence in various other Arab countries, including Algeria, Libya and Iraq. In 1985 The PLO was reported to have leased the Island of Kamaran from Yemeni authorities to serve as a base for Force 14.


(http://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/LbY5QK.png) (https://imageshack.com/i/pnLbY5QKp)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on January 22, 2018, 03:37:55 AM
Here is another re-tooled profile, lots of work in this one that contains also several clues to my personal life....

(https://imageshack.com/i/pme29kWtp)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: AXOR on January 22, 2018, 07:56:59 AM
Grat job as always Glanini. :smiley:

I see your name under the cockpit...are you now a pilot?...oooor you got married? ;D and your wife's name is Gabi?
If so,sincere congratulations !
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on January 23, 2018, 02:20:04 AM
 :smiley:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: apophenia on January 23, 2018, 07:36:40 AM
Great stuff ... and wonderful backstories  :smiley:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: M.A.D on January 23, 2018, 01:48:00 PM
Here is another re-tooled profile, lots of work in this one that contains also several clues to my personal life....

(https://imageshack.com/i/pme29kWtp)

Regards

Why cant I see this picture Glanini?  :o :-\ :(

M.A.D
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on January 23, 2018, 02:30:08 PM
I have the same problem; I cannot see the picture.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on January 24, 2018, 02:40:05 AM
No problems on my end.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Old Wombat on January 24, 2018, 08:42:34 AM
Nor here.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Jeffry Fontaine on January 24, 2018, 10:18:10 AM
No problems on my end.
Same here,  shows immediately after page opens.  Maybe clear your browser history and see if that makes a difference.  Usually I am the one that does not see the linked images so I guess I should be grateful it shows for me this time around. 
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on January 28, 2018, 11:40:31 AM
Well first clue on my life, beautiful Naples is my Hometown

Well A Soviet MiG21 is not a What If by itself but in this context and with this markings yes

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/nkjejs.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on January 30, 2018, 02:41:02 AM
No problems on my end.
Same here,  shows immediately after page opens.  Maybe clear your browser history and see if that makes a difference.  Usually I am the one that does not see the linked images so I guess I should be grateful it shows for me this time around.
Interesting thing is that it still does not show up on a completely different computer system. :(
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: M.A.D on January 30, 2018, 06:53:51 PM
Oh wow, I can see the profiles now  ;)

I have to say Glanini, your 'working' profiles give amazing details - the open airbrakes, the raised radome, the raised cockpits.....excellent!!!  :P

M.A.D 
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 01, 2018, 08:00:12 AM
I have just finished the latest Osprey "Armies of the Greek-Italian War 1940-41" and it has inspired this profile. I have really appreciated the dedication of the author, that is to his mother and to the memory of the fallen of this war, and that this could be the last armed conflict between their two nations.
Furthermore, my Grandpa was part of the Italian occupation troops in Greece and was captured by the Nazis after September 8 1943. He refused to join Mussolini's army, died from the treatment he received and later awarded the Bronze Medal.

By far this was the dumbest of Mussolini's war, attack Greece from Albania at the end of October just to celebrate the anniversary of its march on Rome with less than half of the division requested by the Army.

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/CIsxSI.png) (https://imageshack.com/i/poCIsxSIp)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on February 02, 2018, 01:58:37 AM
 :smiley:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 08, 2018, 09:47:48 AM
Well since Photobucket has asked me quite some money to publish my profiles and they have disappeared  I am upgrading some of my old ones and republishing them.

Here is an operational  P-59

(https://imageshack.com/a/img924/3575/zEPpIV.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Tophe on February 09, 2018, 01:23:27 PM
Sorry, it does not work for me (I cannot see your last picture).
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Old Wombat on February 09, 2018, 03:36:27 PM
I can. :smiley:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 12, 2018, 10:37:59 AM
Updated Meteor in Palestine........

(https://imageshack.com/a/img923/4287/1Moqwu.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on February 13, 2018, 02:09:22 AM
 :smiley:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 14, 2018, 10:21:50 AM
Here is a SAAF Meteor in the Korean Conflict

(https://imageshack.com/a/img924/6608/v9H0Wx.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: AXOR on February 14, 2018, 07:41:19 PM
That's quite nice  :smiley:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on February 15, 2018, 02:22:01 AM
 :smiley: :smiley:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on February 15, 2018, 06:36:07 AM
Very nice Meteors, both of them, with quite plausible stories.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 16, 2018, 09:05:33 AM
An AVG Airacomet in China's Civil War

(https://imageshack.com/a/img924/7900/RwKJqP.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on February 16, 2018, 11:43:16 AM
Ni-i-ice!!  Quite the tempting subject to model.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: AXOR on February 16, 2018, 06:22:20 PM
Man,that's a great whif,I love it!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on February 17, 2018, 04:17:52 AM
(http://moziru.com/images/koolaid-clipart-oh-yeah-4.jpg)
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: john_matthews129 on February 17, 2018, 07:37:45 PM
That is some really nice work there! 
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 18, 2018, 03:32:36 AM
The AVG Airacomet needed some fixing, so here it is in a different livery

(https://imageshack.com/a/img922/2108/p9DIKb.png)

in addition an IAF Airacomet

(https://imageshack.com/a/img924/8283/FlNCjJ.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on February 18, 2018, 03:43:54 AM
 :smiley:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 22, 2018, 02:34:47 AM
A French Airacomet

(https://imageshack.com/a/img923/156/tVxnEw.png)

A RAF Meteor in Korea

(https://imageshack.com/a/img922/8592/eTq1fE.png)

A RHAF Meteor in Congo

(https://imageshack.com/a/img922/349/W1mXUZ.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on February 22, 2018, 02:45:53 AM
 :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on February 22, 2018, 04:09:31 AM
Beautiful new additions!!  All of them!  Any chance of seeing a USAAF Meteor?
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 26, 2018, 01:55:22 AM
Beautiful new additions!!  All of them!  Any chance of seeing a USAAF Meteor?

.. Guess I will be working on a USAF testbed

of course I couldn't miss an Italian Airacomet

(https://imageshack.com/a/img923/1778/Voeybr.png)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on February 26, 2018, 02:02:15 AM
 :smiley:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on February 26, 2018, 04:40:56 AM
Very nice and, again, very plausible; this would lead into their taking other American combat aircraft moving forward.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on April 05, 2020, 12:00:30 AM
Good Day to Everybody... after a little bit more of two years I am posting a new profile... COVID is forcing me at home....

https://www.pinterest.it/pin/290552613462103242/?share=true (https://www.pinterest.it/pin/290552613462103242/?share=true)

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: elmayerle on April 08, 2020, 08:20:13 AM
As far as I can tell, it looks good. But since I'm not a member, pinterest won't show me the full picture.  Can you post it here?
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Logan Hartke on April 08, 2020, 11:15:45 AM
Same for me, unfortunately.  :(

Welcome back, glanini. Looks like I need to dust off my .PSD files and do some profiles soon, too!

Cheers,

Logan
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 23, 2023, 04:49:43 PM
Good morning... Back again after some years... Got some inspiration by recent events

Regards
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Old Wombat on February 23, 2023, 05:13:50 PM
 :smiley: :smiley:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on February 24, 2023, 12:33:35 AM
 :smiley:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 24, 2023, 10:31:35 AM
On the same subject
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Old Wombat on February 24, 2023, 10:57:01 AM
 :smiley:
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: GTX_Admin on February 25, 2023, 02:01:11 AM
Isn't that a AMX?  Where did the M.342 designation come from?
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 25, 2023, 09:27:30 AM
It is an AMX, but I guess it would have been better following Aermacchi naming conventions
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 25, 2023, 10:58:53 PM
my original F16 was not that good, some rework needed. Here is a Moldovan F16.

Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Sport25ing on February 26, 2023, 02:38:17 AM
Those F-16's - first bought by Portugal, then sold to Romania, and now given to "Moldova"!
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on February 27, 2023, 07:38:24 PM
Lots of talking about them... Thought that an Ukrainian F16 could look like this one...
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on March 03, 2023, 06:49:07 PM
This one in the final camo
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Kerick on March 03, 2023, 11:15:28 PM
Very nice! I’ve no doubt we’ll see this one day. Ukraine will want modern western stuff in a complete revamp of their equipment.
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on March 05, 2023, 03:28:48 PM
A couple of Georgian Vipers

Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on May 11, 2023, 06:19:04 PM
Bell P59 profile is my more detailed work, here is a RCAF one...
Title: Re: GLanini Profiles
Post by: Glanini on August 27, 2023, 10:32:28 AM
Good morning

Here an updated F16 that required quite some work.