@ethmister there you have it - permission to make a version as long as you change more of the appearance. Please just respect the original creators in each case

Not really happy with it. I don't feel there is much creativity in it. Perhaps if he stuck his own roundels on it or changed the paint scheme, I would be fine with it. After all, the aircraft was exported widely, and someone would ought to give it a different paint job. @Skua

@ethmister I don't think I can really add anything to what Pilotmario said, so just be aware of the rules and try to follow the advice in his comment

@Pilotmario I can leave this up if you're happy with it. Thank you for your well written and reasoned comment, too

@Skua I think you may want to check this guy out.

Hello! It seems you're new here. Welcome to the community.

Just a reminder: we don't mind modifications to existing aircraft, but I do not think the modifications done here would qualify as significant enough. This aircraft is virtually a straight copy of my aircraft, which I admittedly made many variants of myself. I am warning you of the potential consequences of making posts like this. I do not believe that this was done to intentionally plagiarize my aircraft, and that you wanted to provide a variant to this aircraft. But I am afraid that if an admin runs into this (which they will), it will be pulled. I would not consider sticking new bombs on ordnance racks designed for bombs and rockets making a new plane. Perhaps given a new appearance would do. I have done this in the past myself. I would love to see how you could redecorate this plane. There's even a tag for it.

I would advise you to refrain from such posts in the future if you do not want your posts to be taken down. I am aware this is something you have done before, but never received the proper notification that this is against our rules.

Good luck with designing and flying, sir. And remember, use tags. After you post, you can add tags. People often search by these tags when they want a certain type of aircraft. I hope this helps you very much. I was a bronze like you, and I am a bit enlightened to see people take an interest in a generic single-engine attack plane with mediocre performance and a camo paint job could gain your interest.

Sincerely,

Pilotmario