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Australian Daring Class Destroyers, HMAS Vampire [D11], and livery for HMAS Vendetta [D08].

HMAS Vampire was the third of three Australian-built Daring class destroyers serving in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). One of the first all-welded ships built in Australia, she was constructed at Cockatoo Island Dockyard between 1952 and 1959, and was commissioned into the RAN a day after completion.

She was one of the last all gun Destroyers in the Royal Australian Navy.  Regularly required to do plane guard duties for HMAS Melbourne II with her sister ships HMAS Vendetta [D08] and HMAS Voyager [D04].

Armed with 6 x 40mm Bofors guns in 2 single and 2 dual mount turrets for air defence, and 6x 4.5in Guns in the 3 main turrets.

HMAS Voyager not included as she was bisected by the HMAS Melbourne in 1964 and was resting on the bottom of the Tasman Sea when these 2 ships had their mid-life refits in 1970 (as modeled here).

Livery is included for her sister ship HMAS Vendetta [D08].

Fictional Royal Australian Navy livery from the late 1970s.  Based on the Gull Grey/White scheme of the RAN A4G Skyhawks operating from HMAS Melbourne in the 1970s.

Back in the days when Australia had an aircraft carrier.

Completely made up, but in the spirit of the original.

In the spirit of my other RAN fictional schemes, I present the Su-27 in RAN VF-805 colour scheme.  Created so that a mate of mine who flies Russian aircraft could fly with the same 'uniform' as the rest of us.

Totally fictitious, but in the spirit of the original A-4G Skyhawk livery from the Mid 70's HMAS Melbourne, with some Russian-ness thrown in.

Enjoy

China Type 86 Livery Pack for BMP-1

Tweaked versions of the default USAF squadron liveries to what I felt is a more accurate and varied depiction of the real jets.

I present to you my livery pack for the 103RD Aviation Sand Sharks, a fictitious Apache squadron, operating in Syria and the Persian Gulf. As a case study, I wanted to see if I could use plastic scale model painting techniques, like pre- and post- shading, airbrushing, weathering, chipping and rust, grime, oil and grease streaking, etc., in a digital world, to create something one might consider hyper- or photo-realistic. I approached it from the perspective of a scale model builder, not a 3D texture painter, and had to come up with some clever ways of reproducing those techniques I have been using for years in the real world in a convincing way.

This skin pack contains the efforts of my 90+ hours hand painting virtually every surface of this bird (including rocket and missile pods, as well as the 230 gal fuel tank). There are 10 different versions, in both clean and dirty for 20 total. I hope you enjoy them!
-Koder

*** Please see note in the description about downloading the bundle.