First thing's first. All credits need to be given to Reflected and Tomcatter87 who allowed me to use their works as a base for making this skin. Their resources, skills and advice prooved invaluable.
On top of that, they provided the inspiration for me to try my first in DCS retextruing and resulted in this skin.
It was my original goal to paint the NH 201 (the one on my DCS profile cover), but i just couldn't find a photo detailed enough from this period. If you happen to have more info, be it historical data or detailed photos of that plane, feel free to contact me!
Hopefully this will be available for download in 2022 and consider it to be my gift to the community that have so much to all of us. HAPPY NEW YEAR and happy flying!
"Captain Dalan"
This is supposed to represent a 1977 F-14A, NH 202, buno 159861, block 90 from VF-213. The high-viz template is based on Reflected's high-viz liveries, from 1975-1976, with the white underbelly being
adjusted to more closely resemble the photos i found for this bird. The nacelle fins are repainted from scratch. The tail art and the crew helmets are taken from Tomcatter's VF-213 early 80's livery.
The blue surface on the rudders and the top of the stabs is a result of much trial and error while experimenting with DCS lighting. The fed blue didn't work for me. While it resembled the F-14D VF-213's
from the 90's it just didn't 'jive' with the 70's photos. The buno is composed of digits taken from other high-viz skins by Reflected and shuffled in the needed order. The Kittyhawk markings on the wing
gloves and the base of the vertical stabs are taken and adjusted from Reflected's Vark livery. Unfortunately, i could not a photo detailed enough to see the names of the crew that flew this bird on that
cruise, so i kept the Tomcatter's crew bellow the canopy. If you happen to know more about this plane and who flew her in 1977, contact me.
Installation: As with most DCS user files skins, unpack the contents in the "Liveries/F-14A-135-GR" folder
Version 1.01 - Updated wing modex number
