This livery is very special to me as I not only created the skin but also the design for the real F-16. FA-95 was adorned with a unique special tail for its 8000th flight hour, being the first Belgian and European Viper to reach this milestone in operation.
For this occassion I was contacted by Tiziano R. from the KeeBee (Kleine Brogel AB) Paintshop to create a tail that ended up flying with FA-95 on its last hour of flight.
As such I have the unique honor to present you here the very accurate digital representation of this plane with its livery!
Hope you will enjoy.
A v1.5 of this skin *will* follow with compatibility for the SUFA mod as well as even more accurate weathering.
!! Due to the filesize being over 300mb you will have to download a .psd here with a link to the file, sorry for the extra step ;) !!
I am so grateful for the opportunity I had to reverse the skinning loop, going from DCS to Real Life to DCS instead of just recreating.
A huge thanks to: Tiziano, Bram, Robin Meus, Kleine Brogel Airbase, 349 sqn, 31 sqn, KB Paintshop and Plottersection as well as Julia Bialy and Sam Debaecke.
Nuffbutter, PorcoRosso, Wolfthrower.
In this livery you will find the Reinforcement plates found on BAF jets, my all new nozzle textures to make it resemble a PW engine more and photo-real weathering.
The skin is a collaboration between myself and "Wolfthrower" who did an incredible job on creating every stencil, down to the panel numbers for we which we had more than 4 months of research, material gathering and asset creation.
The exchange of ideas and expertise helped this project to achieve the highest level of quality we can provide for a viper skin.
This skin features:
*Accurate representation of the 8000Hour scheme with custom roughmets
* ALL BAF Reinforcement or Stiffener plates, added into the Normal maps
*Photo-accurate weathering of 95 with highly detailed roughmets, giving it the typical Viper shine.
*Custom texture options for the flightsuit, fuel tanks and AIM/CATM 120's
* Added missing panels all across the aircraft, most notably between the ventral fins.
* Custom PW-like nozzle with normal maps
* Custom normal map for a more worn look
* completely redone external cockpit texture
* over 120 Vector decals and labels correctly placed in their real life locations.
* 521 panel number labels. individually placed in their correct real life places.
* glare shield labels and bolts placed in their real life locations. matching roughmet's and newly created normal map.
*New ejection seat texture
*Custom fuel tanks and Pylons
*Little easter eggs ;)
*Manual with detailed instructions, special thanks and changelog
