The first thing I noticed when I first saw this plane was his similarities with the jets from AC3 so, I decieded to give him some love!
Here it is! Finally this bad kitty has his own custom skins with custom spec map and glow.
Nothing in particular here, I simply attached the GRDF decals on it because I thought that the original coloration was suitable enough
UPEO scheme
...but wait! There's more! Since the General Resource transformed itself from Gründer Industries, I decieded to create a skin which would have functioned has a link between AC5 and AC3
So...hold your pants on!
(yes, the paint-scheme is based on the one from the first F-14B prototype)
---- Backstory here! ----
"Since the end of the Belkan War, the Osean government (manipulated by the Gray Men) secretly commissioned to Gründer Industries an upgrade project aimed to radically improve the avionics of the aging F-14D for the OMDF. Gründer's R&D section, ubeknowst to anybody but the CEO and the Gray Men, re-opened the old files of Belka's top secret "Project Pendragon" and started to working on the old data obtained from the ADFX-01 and 02 and on some strange highly classified files about a "Connection for Flight Interface", a revolutionary mean to enhance pilot awareness in aerial engagements. The first ever and only one model (called AXF-14G "Digital Tomcat"), was flown in 2007 over the Waldreich Mountains by Ashley Bernitz of the infamous Grabacr Squadron. It showed outstanding results both in low and high altitude dogfight and seemed that Gründer would have started the mass production of it. Unfortunately, while working on the AXF, the researchers decieded to concentrate their efforts on the mysterious "FALKEN" project while Gründer's board of directors decided to concentrate the company production efforts over the licensed erusian's X-02 leaving the "Digital Tomcat" rusting in one of Sudentor's top-secret hangars. Today, the fate of this legendary prototype is still unknown since the Gründer's HQ was heavily damaged by the joined YAF and OADF in the end of last war, so it is unlikely that it has survived so long and all in one piece".
- Albert Genette, "The Secret War: a retrospective of the Circum-Pacific War", 2015
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That's an unusually long publishing time for Genette, don'cha think so? The iconic swing wing was also noticeably absent from AC3. Perhaps the concept was obsolete?
Jokes aside, great job on the skin.
I know it was absent :D
Orignally ,in my bckstory, It should have been a cheaper alternative to others GR fighters such as the F-22C and the Erne (that's the reason behind an obsolet concept like the swing wing) but then, It would have been really too long to read! Anyway, thank you ;)
PS1 couldn't handle it. The R-103 has a swing wing inside its aeroelastic skin, but that isn't seen either.
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So that's why the fuselage design was rather different. Though if I'm not mistaken, the XFA-36 Game has moving parts on the wings, no? Not a swing wing tho', just a variable design similar to the ASF-X/F-3 Shinden II.
Guess they had to remove it for other contents.