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Emilio's repaints

golakers

golakers

Charter Member
Hi all.

After a 2-years-hiatus I am finally back flying ;-) also my motivation for repaints is back. I primarily intend to do some repainting of the US Navy models, here is a little tease of what I was up to the last days... before you point it out to me, I know that not every squadron had the F-14D, but like I allready told Mr Dino Cattaneo, it is a virtual world and I wanna see them all flying again. I intend to do every Tomcat squadron in several versions and surely I'll very soon do something for the Razbam A-7 model... hope you like it so far.
 
VF-11 CAG 90ies repaint finished!

I've sent my Red Rippers repaint to Dino. I may release it separately once he responds, otherwise you may have to wait until his next update.
It's the CAG bird from the mid-90ies. Out of all Rippers paintjobs over the decades, I find the rare tails on this one to be the prettiest. I've also done a completely new wear & tear layer, as always.

Some pics of what you can look forward to...
 
New repaint!

...pressing on with rare paint jobs, what do you think about this one of the VF-2 Bounty Hunters, deployed in 1997 aboard USS Constellation? Found only 3 pictures of this. I may still do a different dirt layer so that it doesn't look the same as my previous one...
 
All are looking good to me.

A couple more suggestions:

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I've never released any of my repaints.. For two reasons.. One I never sat down to learn how.. And two.. There are lots of people who are better at this then me and lots of Monday morning quarterbacks who like to point out what's not completely right about the new textures...I do send my stuff to people who ask.. PM me your email..
 
Are the links still active here in the SOH library to your previously uploaded repaints from a year or two ago, or were they hosted on a different site? I seem to remember some Point Mugu stuff ? Mike :salute:
 
Hmmm... I had a repaints thread about 2 years ago where I did some work for the IRIS F-14A mostly, but I can't find it anymore, it's probably deleted. Don't know if that is what you mean anyway... I still have these repaints though, and I have to say they look amateurish to me now...
 
new project

Yeah, I think it's time to add some realistically fukked-up repaints of the dirty SLUF to our lives. Still putting some finishing touches on this one, I thing overall it needs to be a darker shade of grey, whaddayou say? I almost got dirt on my hands while painting it ;-P This one is straight from the cruise book of 1987, USS Saratoga.
 
Not sure when the air wings crossed decks, but I DO know that VFA-81 & 83 were on the Sara for the '90 Med cruise.

It was quite common, though, for squadrons to switch carriers.

Golakers, great job on the dirty SLUF paint! NC
 
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