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Title: Polish Fighting Team Spitfire Mk 9
Post by: Greebo on September 09, 2007, 06:33:34 AM

I've had a couple of requests to do a Polish Spit so here it is. This skin can be downloaded from the AH Skin Department (http://www.ah-skins.com/).

This aircraft is from the Polish Fighting Team, who formed a flight of 145 Squadron in Tunisia in 1943. In six weeks they destroyed 25 aircraft for one loss. A history of the PFT can be found here (http://ww2-aviation.net/polavhist/circus.html).

I left the five kill Swastikas off as HTC won't allow them, but I might replace them with crosses instead. The squadron code on the right would more usually be "6 ZX" on an RAF aircraft, but I found a photo of a PFT Spit marked this way.

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots3/PFT_SPIT9.jpg)

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots3/PFT_SPIT9_2.jpg)

(http://aces.safarikovi.org/victories/obr1/aircraft_spitfire_mk.ixc_pft_2.jpg)

(http://www.markstyling.com/latespitfires/35a.jpg)

Title: Polish Fighting Team Spitfire Mk 9
Post by: Bruv119 on September 09, 2007, 06:50:39 AM

Very nice Greebo,


Thanks for the work!


Bruv
~S~

Title: Polish Fighting Team Spitfire Mk 9
Post by: Squire on September 16, 2007, 11:07:19 AM

Sweet.

Title: Polish Fighting Team Spitfire Mk 9
Post by: Obie303 on September 16, 2007, 12:23:08 PM

That's awesome!  Great job!!!!:aok

Obie

Title: Polish Fighting Team Spitfire Mk 9
Post by: SgtPappy on September 16, 2007, 07:27:52 PM

Awesome spitfire! I've been looking all over the place for this skin.

One problem though. I've followed the installation instructions as carefully as I could.
1) in the skins folder, I created a new folder called 'spit9_8' since I already have  7 other spitfire 9 skins.
2) I put the skin in that folder and created a txt file which shows up. Problem is, when I go into the hangar and select it, it just goes default.. even though it doesn't actually say 'default' on the skins box, like it usually does during a skin malfunction.

Any help would be great. Thanks!

Title: Polish Fighting Team Spitfire Mk 9
Post by: Greebo on September 17, 2007, 02:36:38 AM

Thanks guys, glad you like it.

Just to be sure I downloaded the skin from the Skin Department and tried it offline and it worked OK. SgtPappy, you should have the files spitix.bmp and spit9.txt in your spit9_8 folder. You haven't renamed the skin spit9.bmp have you?

Title: Polish Fighting Team Spitfire Mk 9
Post by: SgtPappy on September 18, 2007, 02:58:42 PM

Actually i think I have. I'll just change it back. Thanks!