Warthog!

[RobH]

This is my favorite look for the A-10. Thanks to all involved at IRIS for a awesome plane!:applause::salute:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a83/RobH1108/FSX%20IRIS%20A-10/FSXWarthog1.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a83/RobH1108/FSX%20IRIS%20A-10/FSXWarthog2.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a83/RobH1108/FSX%20IRIS%20A-10/FSXWarthog3.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a83/RobH1108/FSX%20IRIS%20A-10/FSXWarthog4.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a83/RobH1108/FSX%20IRIS%20A-10/FSXWarthog5.jpg

[PRB]

That does look bad a**! When I was in the navy, in an FA-18C squadron, we went to Nellis AFB for training with the USAF, and I overheard some of our pilots talking about making the mistake of "picking on" the A-10s. The basic rule of thumb seemed to be 1) don't get in front of that plane. It's that gun... and 2) don't turn with an A-10, because it can make square turns... :icon_lol:

[Matt Wynn]

great images, what scenery has the sun shades/socs? (Soft aircraft shelters). i'm still in the Hog paint hangar... Davids locked me in here until i get more schemes done... can somebody get the key? heres a sneaky peek at whats going on... oh and i'm not just doing US 'Hogs... i'm thinking Globally (Fictionally of course)...

[RobH]

Great story Paul, yeah I would not want to be in the sights of A-10!

Smoothie, those are great looking paints! Hopefully David will at least let you out for the Holidays! LOL!

The scenery is in Iraq from Michael Carr. I know its at flightsim.com, probably at avsim also. The file name is mcdiraq.zip.

[Lateral-G]

That does look bad a**! When I was in the navy, in an FA-18C squadron, we went to Nellis AFB for training with the USAF, and I overheard some of our pilots talking about making the mistake of "picking on" the A-10s. The basic rule of thumb seemed to be 1) don't get in front of that plane. It's that gun... and 2) don't turn with an A-10, because it can make square turns... :icon_lol:

You should be about 100yds away on the ground when that gun fires when coming in for a strafing run 75' off the deck....it sounds like the sky is ripping apart.

Got to see it more than a few times at FLW's Cannon Range....

-G-

[PRB]

You should be about 100yds away on the ground when that gun fires when coming in for a strafing run 75' off the deck....it sounds like the sky is ripping apart.

Got to see it more than a few times at FLW's Cannon Range....

-G-

That would be awesome. Or perhaps a bit too close for "awesome"... :) I've watched our FA-18s strafe targets towed behind the aircraft carrier with thier M61 20mm cannon. It sounds like this: "brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp, whooooooooop"

[Matt Wynn]

yeah the A-10 firing is a great sight and sound... witnessed it in Afghanistan, sends a shiver down you and makes you wish the GAU-8A was man-portable :icon_lol:

[CybrSlydr]

On our FTX at Ft. Sill, us gun bunnies had a couple MLRS go off over our heads about 1.5mi away - loudest damn thing I've ever heard.

[warchild]

heh. even if its too close, its the most beautiful sound in the world, cuz usually it means you can sleep safely that night.. When i was in nam, we could hear shadows four miniguns firing from over five miles away, it was like the worlds loudest buzz saw, and we all loved it..

[CG_1976]

great images, what scenery has the sun shades/socs? (Soft aircraft shelters). i'm still in the Hog paint hangar... Davids locked me in here until i get more schemes done... can somebody get the key? heres a sneaky peek at whats going on... oh and i'm not just doing US 'Hogs... i'm thinking Globally (Fictionally of course)...

If you do a Canadian Arctic Camo Hog, I could give heck to the USAF over in Alaska and menice the Chinese/Russians in the Arctic Ocean:jump:

[Sundog]

The only problem with those pictures is anyone looking at it can't hear it. They really got the engine sounds right on this, as it has that sort of "buzzing" sound the high bypass TF's make replicated very well. I'm assuming they used actual recordings, just saying.

[wilycoyote4]

USAF Eielson AFB, just about 20 miles east of Fairbanks had A-10 aircraft for years but now all have gone to other bases. There may be some paints of these aircraft in winter.

[Matt Wynn]

USAF Eielson AFB, just about 20 miles east of Fairbanks had A-10 aircraft for years but now all have gone to other bases. There may be some paints of these aircraft in winter.

was just looking at the charcoal black and white scheme... not many markings on the thing...

[redriver6]

This is my favorite look for the A-10.

what look?:icon_lol:

[captdoug]

Is the AFRES Hawg re-paint shown in your screen pics available for download?

The one shown in low vis gray with the hog tusks...


Thanks

Captdoug

[skyhawka4m]

25935

Here's a paint I'm working on that is about 70% done.

[skyhawka4m]

25936

[Matt Wynn]

looking good :salute:

[RobH]

Is the AFRES Hawg re-paint shown in your screen pics available for download?

The one shown in low vis gray with the hog tusks...


Thanks

Captdoug

Thanks everyone!

Captdoug,

It will be ready for download in a day or two, just got to double check everything and make sure everything is right. I will let you know when it's ready:salute:

[fox18delta]

That would be awesome. Or perhaps a bit too close for "awesome"... :) I've watched our FA-18s strafe targets towed behind the aircraft carrier with thier M61 20mm cannon. It sounds like this: "brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp, whooooooooop"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuYmn_xYB78

[peter12213]

Look at this one!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sALiuWg_I1k&feature=related

[kilo delta]

The A-10 has been a personal favourite of mine ever since seeing a pair of Euro1 Spangdahlem based hawgs display at a local air show.

[MHAircraft]

Is anyone doing Maryland ANG repaints for the Warthog? I feel obligated to, but I have too much on my plate already.

[Matt Wynn]

why i love the hogs.... insurgency hiding in a building? not an issue...

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[peter12213]

I'm supprised they just didn't stick a 500 pounder through that!

[Matt Wynn]

I'm supprised they just didn't stick a 500 pounder through that!

soft structure, no need to waste a 500lb'er :icon_lol: them bombs are pricey! :icon_lol: economic cutbacks? just call in the -10's more often :icon_lol:

[Dag]

25936


Looking very nice. You stated earlier that you were going to do a lot of A-10 repaints, representing most units. Would you mind if I did some paints as well ?

Thanks

[skyhawka4m]

Is anyone doing Maryland ANG repaints for the Warthog? I feel obligated to, but I have too much on my plate already.



Maryland is on my paint list......I'm hoping to do both green and gray scheme's

[skyhawka4m]

Looking very nice. You stated earlier that you were going to do a lot of A-10 repaints, representing most units. Would you mind if I did some paints as well ?

Thanks


PLEASE DAG do some! LOL! There are so many out there. I'm nto sure if you are familiar but another colorful I plan on doing the "ANCHORAGE" aircraft from Alaska and that will follow my PA ANG Co's jet.


John

[Dag]

PLEASE DAG do some! LOL! There are so many out there. I'm nto sure if you are familiar but another colorful I plan on doing the "ANCHORAGE" aircraft from Alaska and that will follow my PA ANG Co's jet.


John

I think I'll start off with Cold War European One schemes, possibly adapt some of the ones I did for aerosoft. We'll see.

Thanks

[Matt Wynn]

so who wanted an Eielson AFB snow camouflage one? the old exercise type snow camo that is ;) image showing what i have done after half hours work...

[RobH]

Would you mind if I did some paints as well ?Thanks

You had better do some paints for the A-10 Dag, thats an order, LOL!! Just kidding! I only planned to do the one I posted in this thread, so don't worry about me getting in the way.:salute:

[RobH]

so who wanted an Eielson AFB snow camouflage one? the old exercise type snow camo that is ;) image showing what i have done after half hours work...

The wings don't match Smoothie, LOL, just kidding! Looks great, I love the looks of the snow camo! Looking forward to it!:salute:

[skyhawka4m]

Wasn't the white just sprayerd over the EURO1 paint?

[Matt Wynn]

there were 2 snow schemes, 1 was used on an exercise and 1 was an EU1 variation...
http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/8386/csh1.jpg

and my hog so far... still a lot to do... of course i'm doing this as a 'service paint' so i can take a few artistic licence points with it, camouflage rarely ever stays on the exact same lines :icon_lol: i can't decide whether to use the 'big dipper' on the fin aslongside lettering or just the lettering...

EDIT: forgot to add the updated image with the wing started...

[RobH]

Looking good Smoothie!!:ernae:

[kilo delta]

Excellent work Smoothie!


Gonna enjoy scaring penguins and polar bears with this one! :d

[OleBoy]

I'm looking forward to everyone's works. I picked up the A-10 from David. Hard to pass on it no matter if I like jets or not. I made it a must have exception.

The schemes are coming along nicely

[AckAck]

I'm about to get this, and I'm too lazy to look - are any JAWS schemes in the original release, or are any being thought about? I know they were one-offs on a day to day basis, four temporary schemes, but...

Brian

[Matt Wynn]

I'm about to get this, and I'm too lazy to look - are any JAWS schemes in the original release, or are any being thought about? I know they were one-offs on a day to day basis, four temporary schemes, but...

Brian

JAWS is on my list of to do's for the texture pack :salute:

[kilo delta]

Here's a pretty good Hawg site... http://warthognews.blogspot.com/

[Dag]

JAWS is on my list of to do's for the texture pack :salute:

Will it be done accurately or with artistic license ?

[Matt Wynn]

Will it be done accurately or with artistic license ?

as accurate as my HD Masters allow :salute: got a nice list of fictional operators to get through... countries like Saudi Arabia, Israel... UK as well... going to be tough going but i'll get it done... just affixed a Hawgmeet 2010 sticker to the ladder door on the snow one :icon_lol:

[Odie]

Back in the 70's I was commuting between Shreveport and the small town we were living in and the drive took me past Barksdale AFB. Every afternoon, you could see the 917th TFW practicing their gun runs over Barksdale. Those A-10s would dive, pop-up, and roll off of the target.....like watching a ballet with depleted uranium shells!!:icon_lol:

Made the trip home a bit more enjoyable!

[CodyValkyrie]

USAF Eielson AFB, just about 20 miles east of Fairbanks had A-10 aircraft for years but now all have gone to other bases. There may be some paints of these aircraft in winter.

THEY MOVED THEM?!

I was stationed there up to the end of 2005. I worked on the ECM on those hogs. David, I believe at my request, included an early Eielson paint scheme.

While I was stationed there, during several Cope Thunder exercises, I never once saw any A-10 painted in winter camo. They were always the typical USAF gray. These camo jobs happened before, and after my stint at the base. Same with the F-16s that were stationed there. They painted up the D in nice camo right after I left. Crying shame. Never once saw any bird in those beautiful colors.

Of note, that famous picture of the moose on the flight line at Eielson AFB was taken while I was there.

An interesting story about the A-10s... They were flying in after a long stint overseas doing combat and I had volunteered to work as security while some of our SPs were in the sandbox. While they were flying in, we had a car come out of nowhere into our zone. After flipping on the wailers, stopping the vehicle with guns pointed, it only then became apparent we had just stopped and drawn our weapons at our base commander (who had never told anyone he was there to welcome the boys back to base).

Thankfully he was completely cool with what happened. Even had a chuckle about it. I think he learned his lesson though, as we had no further security breaches from a base commander that I was aware of after that.

[wilycoyote4]

I think the last A-10 Hawg left Eielson AFB in summer 2007. Must google for more info.

http://www.eielson.af.mil/photos/mediagallery.asp?galleryID=2381 start of A-10 photos

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- Lt. Col. Quentin Rideout, 355th Fighter Squadron Commander prepares to step down from his A-10 Thunderbolt in the hawg pens on July 31. The first two A-10's arrived at Eielson on December 18, 1981, while the last two A-10's are set to leave on August 15, 2007 to Moody AFB, Ga., and Mountain Home AFB, Idaho...........

[Matt Wynn]

on a break from normal A-10's i have wandered down the fictional Road.... what if the RAF had them? still WIP for my texture pack...

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x270/mattwynn/hog%20WIPs/RAF_WIP_5.jpg

EDIT: Forgot to say it got zapped by a visiting USAF crewman...

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x270/mattwynn/hog%20WIPs/RAF_WIP_6.jpg

[wilycoyote4]

http://www.eielson.af.mil/photos/mediagallery.asp?galleryID=2381&page=7
page 7----big high res photo of tail left rudder, left side, big dipper, etc, low viz grey

[Matt Wynn]

thanks Wily have a beer on me :ernae:

[wilycoyote4]

thanks Wily have a beer on me :ernae:
The original is 3000x1960 at 2.44MB. :ernae::guinness::icon29::guinness:

[RobH]

Almost ready to upload this one

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a83/RobH1108/FSX%20IRIS%20A-10/FSXWarthog6.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a83/RobH1108/FSX%20IRIS%20A-10/FSXWarthog7.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a83/RobH1108/FSX%20IRIS%20A-10/FSXWarthog8.jpg

[Matt Wynn]

and i've just finished the first of about 15 "what-if's".... here she is... RAF 6SQN, the 'Flying Can Openers'

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x270/mattwynn/hog%20WIPs/RAF_WIP_18.jpg

[atf300]

nice work smoothie ! bring on some more what ifs ! what other do you have planed?

[Matt Wynn]

RAF Grey, Saudi, Australian, West German, Luftwaffe, Hellenic (Ghost & SEA), USAF Demo, IRIS House, Warbird Style, Captured (By Russia) RNLAF, Swedish and a huge what if.... USN...

[Daveroo]

i appologise for not having been following this thread,,and i dont have the time today to search back,,,but is there a place to get all these paints for the A10?

[Matt Wynn]

mine are IRIS 'sanctioned', all 32-bit HD textures... just a side project of mine before next project gets on the paintshop floor... aiming to get all 14 out by mid/end of January. theres enough paints already but i'm doing them as a texture pack, same options as the A-10 main, low-very high res textures to suit PC speed....

[Dag]

Almost ready to upload this one

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a83/RobH1108/FSX%20IRIS%20A-10/FSXWarthog6.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a83/RobH1108/FSX%20IRIS%20A-10/FSXWarthog7.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a83/RobH1108/FSX%20IRIS%20A-10/FSXWarthog8.jpg

Very good show Rob :salute: It's nice to see some rather more accurate schemes being done. Are you planning to put on the original hog faces, the ones with a tan nose and much longer fangs ?

http://www.wademeyersart.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/a-10nose.jpg

This was off course back in the 80s and a few aircraft had the markings painted on. Rescue markings and ejection seat triangles were different as well. Some white being used.
Thanks

[Paul K]

on a break from normal A-10's i have wandered down the fictional Road.... what if the RAF had them? still WIP for my texture pack...

I would dearly love to see that one available.

[captdoug]

Thanks everyone!

Captdoug,

It will be ready for download in a day or two, just got to double check everything and make sure everything is right. I will let you know when it's ready:salute:


Hi Rob,

Did the Warthog repaint get uploaded and I missed it or is it not ready yet?

Thanks, Captdoug

[RobH]

Hi Rob,

Did the Warthog repaint get uploaded and I missed it or is it not ready yet?

Thanks, Captdoug

Captdoug,

No you haven't missed them. I should have known better than to set a time frame during the holidays, lol. They just need another look over, then I need to create the thumbnail images, and read me file. If all goes well, hopefully tomorrow night, if not Sunday for sure!:salute:

[captdoug]

Thanks Rob...


No rush of course, I just thought I may not have searched in the correct locations.

Appreciate the fast response !

Happy New Year

Captdoug

[demorier]

GAU-8 test fire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd3tUg6Dj1Y&feature=related

[merida72]

and i've just finished the first of about 15 "what-if's".... here she is... RAF 6SQN, the 'Flying Can Openers'

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x270/mattwynn/hog%20WIPs/RAF_WIP_18.jpg


I'm sorry but what kind of software do you use to see the model?

[Matt Wynn]

3DSMax, perks of being an IRIS Repainter is that they give me the model to get schemes done before having to load FSX, kinda handy really...

[merida72]

Thank you very much :salute:

[Paul K]

Smoothie, any news on the A-10 'what -if ' repaints...and the RAF one in particular ?