Skin Macchi C.200, Eastern front

[JapLance]

It was a surprise to me finding that no skins had been made for the DAF_C200 model by Alessandro Cassadio. It's a very nice model, and one of the most veterans in my CFS2 installs.

I liked a profile found in Wings Palette and used it for this skin, using the original one as base.



Hope you like it. It'll be available in the skins section ASAP .

[UncleTgt]

Nice job!

[Rami]

Japlance,

I will use this when I create my Italian campaign on the Eastern Front.

[JapLance]

Thank you guys .

Japlance,

I will use this when I create my Italian campaign on the Eastern Front.

It will be an honour to see my skin in a campaign :ernae:. I'm sure it's gonna be a tough one: shooting down anything with two synchronized 12.7mm is tough as hell :angryfir:.No wonder their best aces had only 20+ enemy planes in their bag.

[Rami]

Japlance,

I have done extensive research that I hope to start putting to use very soon. I have a complete history of the Regia Aeronautica from 1940-1943, including what squadrons were placed where, and with what aircraft. Coupled with the numerous websites where I have found info...

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://web.tiscalinet.it/warbirds/warbirds/corpo_aereo_ita_Russia.htm&ei=GIKMSr9-0L2UB43RuLsI&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=10&ct=result &prev=/search%3Fq%3DCorpo%2BAereo%2BSpedizione%26hl%3Den% 26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-USfficial%26hs%3DjQu%26sa%3DG

http://translate.google.com/translat...istory_state0=

(A couple of examples)

...and I think I can put Achim's Southern Barbarossa airbases to good use. I haven't decided if I'm going to make it dual-sided yet. The prospect of an I-16 vs Mc-200 or a Mc-202 vs Yaks, LaGGs, MiGs, Hurricanes, and even P-40s is an interesting one. I will probably end up with even some Polikarpov I-15s against Cr-42s as well.

But, I don't want to steal your thunder. Great work! :ernae:

[kelticheart]

It was a surprise to me finding that no skins had been made for the DAF_C200 model by Alessandro Cassadio......

Hear! Hear!

I share the same idea, this is another model deserving more attention from repainters.

Besides, it's the ONLY ONE available as freeware, so far.

Very nice repaint, JapLance, I can't wait to download it!

Cheers!
KH :ernae:

[PSULLYKEYS]

Nice job JL! I need it for my EF install also.

[JapLance]

Thank you guys

Since the downlad section is being stuffed with files from the old library and the skin's been buried, here is the link to the file:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...61&linkid=1711

[mvg3d]

It was a surprise to me finding that no skins had been made for the DAF_C200 model by Alessandro Cassadio. It's a very nice model, and one of the most veterans in my CFS2 installs.

I liked a profile found in Wings Palette and used it for this skin, using the original one as base.



Hope you like it. It'll be available in the skins section ASAP .

Hi JapLance,
The repaint is good, BUT....The fasces on left wing (top & bottom) are reversed......

[JapLance]

Hi JapLance,
The repaint is good, BUT....The fasces on left wing (top & bottom) are reversed......

OMG, I've been seeing pics and profiles of Italian WW2 planes for years and I had never realised that. Thanks for pointing it.

Maybe I will release an update correcting that and adding a couple of changes I found out after uploading the file: low visibility top fasces (could someone explain why would they do that having YELLOW Eastern front marks all over the plane ) and white triangle ¿recognition marks? in the leading edge of the wings.

Something like this:

[kelticheart]

OMG, I've been seeing pics and profiles of Italian WW2 planes for years and I had never realised that. Thanks for pointing it.

Maybe I will release an update correcting that and adding a couple of changes I found out after uploading the file: low visibility top fasces (could someone explain why would they do that having YELLOW Eastern front marks all over the plane ) and white triangle ¿recognition marks? in the leading edge of the wings.

Hi JapLance,

I have the original fasci roundels fixed for you in the upper and lower wing textures. They are still with the white background, do you want me to send them to you or have you taken care of it already?

I see you painted low visibility roundels this time, correctly oriented. Which is the right version, with or without the white background?

Italian traditional roundels are green-white-red, inner to outer, since WWI. Fascism changed that. The fascio is a Roman time consular symbol of the power of justice that Roman consuls could apply. It's an axe wrapped up in a bundle of thin branches, symbolizing a death sentence (the axe) for the worst crimes down to public lashing (the bundled whips) for minor crimes. Fascio, in Italian, means "bundle".

During fascism Italian aircrafts wore the fascio on both upper and lower wings and on the fuselage, sometimes under the cockpit, more frequently between the cockpit and the engine. On the rudder the white cross was the coat of arms of the Savoias royal house. On multi-engined aircrafts the fuselage fascio was painted on the engine cowls, instead.
The fascio axe blade must always point outward, away from the fuselage, on the wings and forward on the fuselage.

I cannot answer your question about Estern Front recognition marks, as I am not too well informed about Regia Aeronautica in Russia, but I can guess that the yellow wingtips, cowl and fuselage band come from Luftwaffe theatre markings of the same colour, to distinguish Axis planes from drab VVS aircrafts.

Cheers!
KH :ernae:

[JapLance]

Thanks, kelticheart, but I think I've taken care of the problem with the fasci markings: no white background in either top or bottom positions. The white triangle markings seem to be exclusively used by Saettas in the Eastern Front.

I think the skin is now finished.

[JapLance]

Just uploaded the final version now. This is the link:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...61&linkid=2036

I promise there will be no more changes, no matter the mistakes I made this time . Big thanks to Manuele for finding the glitch and Kelticheart for the explanations, and kudos to Rami for the hard work he's doing on behalf of the basement.

To Rami: should I delete the faulty version from the library?. Is it possible?

[Jagdflieger]

Just got it. Thanks!

[Rami]

To Rami: should I delete the faulty version from the library?. Is it possible?

Japlance,

I was thinking the exact same thing. I deleted the old version for you to lessen any confusion.