SoloTürk or Solo Türk, often stylized as SOLOTÜRK, is a single-aircraft aerobatic demonstration team of the Turkish Air Force. Plans for the team began in November 2009 and the pilot training process was finalized in August 2010 with three pilots initially. The first demonstration flight was performed within the military in September 2010, and the team made its first public appearance 15 April 2011. Since then, SoloTürk has participated in several national and international airshows, with most maneuvers in demonstration flights being special to the team.
The team uses a specially-painted General Dynamics F-16C Block 40 aircraft which is combat ready. SoloTürk formerly operated out of the Akıncı Air Base, but moved to the Konya Air Base in 2016 after the coup d'état attempt. The team has a total of 13 personnel, including two pilots, and uses a CASA CN-235M-100 for transportation. Pilots wanting to fly for the team must meet certain criteria before they qualify for a training. SoloTürk has received multiple awards for its demonstration flights.
Illustrator Notes on this Livery:
This was a particulary Difficult Livery due to the aircraft developers choice of breaking down the Uv's, in several sections on the main or A surface of the Model, It caused stretching and all kinds of havock.
there are also areas that where overlapped,Stretched , Pulled, mirrored and placed ontop of each other, further degrading the authenticity of the livery. The Lines look warped do to the stretching of the UV's. this Livery had over 200 layers to contend with on just alignment issues.
to add scope to the level of difficulty, i started this proj in December of 2021, and it is now March 17th ...... so no joy ride ...
Just know i attempted to be as accurate as i possibly could within the confines of the developers paint kit.
Outro:
I hope everyone enjoys and appreciates the time and effort that went into this proj...
Happy Flying...See yah in the Skies
hope will have more F-16D livery!!
2 years ago
sonyejin3721
I was tempted to paint this, and the Venom. I may still do the Venom. This, I won't touch because of how the UV was done. Kudo's for a pretty accurate paint while being handicapped by the developer.
2 years ago
Appreciate the Love Marine1
2 years ago
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
Marine1
This was my personal request from him. He is right, it took 3 months effort and he always keep updating me. Thank you for your effort and fantastic work! I know how difficult to make it. Thats why nobody did it, but you! Who complains about errors, they should make it better than this and let us congratulate them!!
2 years ago
yavuzoner1
Thanks for the great work. I was looking forward to having this livery and today I just wanted to see if anybody finally released it and I searched it! Guess what happened? I found your release! Thanks again for all your efforts.
2 years ago
devfs
There are too many errors. Since the model you make is not custom, it must be in accordance with the real thing. Why did you post it with a broken painting? Msfs is a very high quality simulation. There is a painting that does not suit the screenshots to be taken here.
2 years ago
You are More than welcome to waste 3 months of your time to Do it without the errors using the SC Paint Kit ...Have at it
2 years ago
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
denizalkas48
Beautiful choice of livery. I really like it a lot. The only improvement I can see is the front of the eagle head should be wider and closer to the border of the aircraft tail. I was using your thumbnail pic in the game for reference as a comparison.
2 years ago
I am adding this to one of my favorite livery for the F-16 minus my small critique about the eagle head. Keep up the fantastic work.
2 years ago
TopGun007
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