The 'skinning' is with the plane in the FSX screenshot.
Late afternoon light makes the visuals even more appealing.
I hit the 'anchors' in the Thud a wee bit too late....so a second or 2 later the scene wasn't quite as pretty....not for the AI aircraft, anyway.
Dynamically it is next to impossible to fly formation with these 2 aircraft....the civilian would be just about flat-out to keep up with the Thud at stall.....hanging it all out and juggling thrust with attitude [standing on your bum] and sooner or later you'll fall out of the sky and need to clean up and recover lift. You can't sit on your arse and go balistic as thrust /> weight.
As you see by all the icons in the Fences....there's all sorts of crap used to help with the skinning of FSX....the most important is the DXTBmp graphic 'opener/converter'.
Working out what maps where...and why is 'entertaining' as not all skins/models do it the same.
I'm currently running with no WB as I have the Beta of IE9....and need to be bug-hunting that as it affects Wincustomize, etc....
