McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C Hornet (Switzerland): Alpine Wasp

Awww, you beat me to 5017 and 5018!!! = )

(But then that frees me up this weekend, haha!)

Still got some work to do on the rudders of 5018, I see (that part has really poor texture assignment in the model - cost me about 50% of the time I needed for my 5011…).

Note also that you can’t use the “normal” Amarillo font: the numbers 5 and 7 are a tad different on our birds, with no bevel where the “round part” of the 5 goes into the vertical line and on the corner of the 7…

But great work, very much looking forward to them (the Panther scheme always was my favourite, actually…)

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Was too lazy on the J-5018 and did not align it. Yes, the template of the rudder and tail section are not aligned. These are two pieces. I got a 2000 pix resolution PNG from the creator of the J2018 logo.

I only have Amarillo.

I created a specific “help texture” for that which I used… ;-)

Even more painful however were the different aerials/housings on the trailing edges of the vertical stabilizers: There’s zero reason which made it necessary to decouple them from the rest of the stabilizers, and finding and properly texture them was really trifficult for the 5011 as the black/grey tiger stripes and yellow go right over them…

For all that missed my post at Live.

All skins were updated today. Those that already downloaded the skins earlier, redownload and overwrite existing files.

Update: 3.4.2025

  • Adjusted several labels, as on Swiss F-18 these are white
  • Add texture for engine fan blades, when looking into intake
  • Finetuned upper color to match more the Swiss Airforce grey
  • Fixed inner right rudder texture alignment (J-5017 only)
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