A new batch of skins for those gaps in SCW. These are really colorful, as Agracier said.
https://www.mediafire.com/?d5a9ceo1onj2oga There were at least a couple of dozens of Fokker F-VIIb/3m participating in SCW for both sides. Some of them were the F-VII M military version, used for colonial duties and equiped as bombers before war and most of them were former civil airplanes from LAPE and CLASSA that were used as transports or transformed into improvised bombers. This is the case of one of the most famous ones EC-PPA nicknamed "Abuelo" (Grandfather) which was equiped with tubes to hang bombs in both sides. It was the one that bombed El Pilar Basilica in Saragossa, and was used as a bomber until 1937 spring, leading a formation of mixed old aircraft called "La Balumba", which included Breguets XIX, Tiger moths, DH-89 and Nieuport Ni-52 as escort.
I made the skin with bombs (only as decoration, I'm afraid. It would be great if someone made a mod with real bombs hanging out!
) and without them. You could use the last one for later periods, when it was used as transport and school.
Other LAPE Fokker that participated side by side with “el Abuelo” in bombing raids over Huesca and other objectives was EC-AAU. I don’t know if it was equipped with the same kind of artisanal devices than EC-PPA, apparently not from film “Alas Rojas sobre Aragon”, so I made the skin without.
The last I include for republican side is 20-1. This was a military one, used in Spanish Morocco before war. It was recovered on time by republicans and used also as bomber. Even in the first serious attack on Huesca was flying together with the two previous ones. I haven’t seen any pictures of her in that period, when I suppose she had red bands painted on wings and fuselaje. To avoid invention, I only include the colonial painting, valid for first SCW month.
(These pictures with weird colour effects in republican flags and roundels are dedicated to Manowar)
For nationalist side I started with this military 20-4:
No, no mistake: It’s for nationalists, since it was captured by them and used for airlifting moor troops without changing republican markings in the first weeks.
Then you have this other 20-4, but it’s not the same plane repainted, it’s a completely different one that inherited the code after crash landing of the first one:
For finishing (by now), here you have “El Veterano”. Another famous one, and one of the most mistakenly represented in profiles and kits. The actual name painted in both sides was “El Veterano” and not “Veterano” and the dorsal markings in wings that usually appear in kits illustrations are mistaken with those of 20-4.
Anyway, for the colours of camo, I decided to follow profile, since it was probably painted similarly to some ju-52.
For all the skins, as for those of EC-RRA trimotor, I started from TGA file and made a good bunch of modifications to solve mistakes with engines, etc. But I thanks Imme anyway for his good work, despite I hadn’t the original template.
OK, sorry for the long post, I hope you find something interesting and I promise to keep working in new stuff.
Have fun.
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