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F-84F the Hog - La 1ère Escadre de Chasse repaint (IAF)

YoYo

YoYo

SOH-CM-2023
Hi,

I finished the new repaint for F-84F Thunderstreak. This plane from La 1ère Escadre de Chasse was used in the first days of Suez Crisis war in 1956 when French planes was repainted in Israeli Air Force. Top secret mission : ). Repaint is dedcated for SSW's F-84F model.

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The skin is finished, but I needa a time to create thumbnail, readme ect., so perhaps it will be available tomorrow or after tomorrow.
 
Nice one YoYo!!

Had this planned myself so that will save me some time, thanks :very_drunk:.

Btw, check the red on the tail, in real it was more redish, and the yellow band is to bright, should be more darker, but in all, nice paint !
Also the red stripes should be more angled backwards....... :eagerness:
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Cheers,
Hank
 

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Not exactly. You show different paint schemates. See this:



So:

- angle on the tail is ok or near ok,
- yellow belt here is wider (the colour is ok I think, but it depends on the time of day, not published so I can change the tone a little).
- just on this picture 3 mistakes: no "A" on the tail and French flag was painted by white paint, different colour on the top of tail too.
Unfortunately there are not many photographs from this period.

Thank You for all, Im glad than You like it. :)

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Nice paint,YoYo!
Just a little remark: I think you missed the red strips in the texture area between the lower fin left & right surface,there is a strip dedicated to the lower fin surface.
Ciao,
Ale
 
YoYo, just a few remarks:

That small drawing you'd showed depicts one with the letter code of EC 4 ( 4-NA)...... not EC 1/1 Corse.
Escadre de Chasse 4 converted to the F-84F Thunderstreak in May 1957, long after the Suez Conflict of 1956.
If you do have a picture, I'm more than curious to see one!

The red colors on the tail are the colors of EC 1/1 "Corse", whereas EC 2/1 "Morvan" had yellow.
A third Escadron ( EC 3/1 "Argonne" ) had green. But all had the same pattern.......




All this to help :encouragement:
 
PLUTO16 said:
Nice paint,YoYo!
Just a little remark: I think you missed the red strips in the texture area between the lower fin left & right surface,there is a strip dedicated to the lower fin surface.
Ciao,
Ale
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Ahh, ok, good find. I will add it too. TY.

hae5904 said:
YoYo, just a few remarks:

That small drawing you'd showed ...
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Hank, It isnt small, did You click it :)?



So maybe in this book is a mistake, but not a mistake in the skin I think. I always try to do the faithful realism as it possible, just the problem is missing photos, not many from this period. Cant find any picture more than You, but thank you for your help.

Btw.

1/ The fin is fixed.
2/ Yellow colour has been corrected (darker now).

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Holly Molly YoYo, what a stunning paint you did. The F-84F is on of my faves and it does not get flown enough. I'll have to dust it off for this one. Great job!
 
dvj said:
Holly Molly YoYo, what a stunning paint you did. The F-84F is on of my faves and it does not get flown enough. I'll have to dust it off for this one. Great job!
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Thank You for kind word. Here is the final version (I think :) ).


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YoYo said:
Ahh, ok, good find. I will add it too. TY.
So maybe in this book is a mistake, but not a mistake in the skin I think. I always try to do the faithful realism as it possible, just the problem is missing photos, not many from this period. Cant find any picture more than You.
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Well YoYo, if you do change it into 1-NX (serial 29090) you're good to go with realism!! Like I stated above, 4-NA means EC 4, and not EC 1. (EC 4 converted to the F-84F in May 1957).

Cheers,
Hank
 
Texture released

Hi YoYo,

Did you release this texture anywhere yet? If so, where can I get it? Thanks for all your beautiful work.

Bill
 
Great work! The "Israeli" F-84Fs certainly is an interesting story. Who did they think they were tricking...?

As has been mentioned, drawings are most often a bad source for reference as they already have gone through one level of "possible human error". I have found so many so called accurate profiles both from artists and model decal makers over the years to be full of mistakes that I always try to base my repaints on real pictures. Or use pictures to check important parts of the drawings. At least to get the major details right as decals and codes/numbers.

This repaints looks to be a good example on the above, a very nice repaint, but based on a drawing which is all wrong and you end up with a repaint with the decals of of a squadron which not even flew the F-84F at the time of the Suez war.
 
Nice paint! Just downloaded it and will install soon.

This is a very interesting subject. From what sketchy information I have read it seems that there were a moderate number of French Air Force F-84F's of EC 3/3 "Ardennes" were based at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus during the Suez Conflict which launched their first strikes Against Egypt on Oct 31st, 1956 before the Nov 7th Ceasefire. My question is, was it some of EC 3/3's aircraft which were deceptively remarked in EC 1/1 "Corse"/IDF markings when they were flying from Israeli bases or did the EC 1/1 marked F-84F's end up in Israel before EC 3/3's aircraft were sent to Akrotiri? It may be a tiny unknown occurrence in aviation history but still quite fascinating.
 
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