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Thank you gentlemen for your comments and, even more, for your best wishes. This move is a major step...in a good way...and I'm very much looking forward to it. My new studio looks out over the ocean and has beautiful light coming in through four dormer windows. I can feel the inspiration building already.

Thanks Matt for the thumbs up. We'll pick up on the model once I get plugged back in.

Jan Kees...you have the ball. I'm looking forward to your C-47 paints and maybe a couple on Matt's "Ugly Duckling" once I get the UVW maps squared away and a PK assembled.

Mr. Shupe...thank you for lighting my fuse. I believe that I have caught the bug sir. :very_drunk:

G...out for a few days. I'll post up some pics of the new digs when we get settled in.
 
gman5250 said:
Thank you gentlemen for your comments and, even more, for your best wishes. This move is a major step...in a good way...and I'm very much looking forward to it. My new studio looks out over the ocean and has beautiful light coming in through four dormer windows. I can feel the inspiration building already.

Thanks Matt for the thumbs up. We'll pick up on the model once I get plugged back in.

Jan Kees...you have the ball. I'm looking forward to your C-47 paints and maybe a couple on Matt's "Ugly Duckling" once I get the UVW maps squared away and a PK assembled.

Mr. Shupe...thank you for lighting my fuse. I believe that I have caught the bug sir. :very_drunk:

G...out for a few days. I'll post up some pics of the new digs when we get settled in.
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Where abouts are you locating to? There are a few of us in Southern California that try to meet at air shows around here. Would be great to meet you.
 
Paul Domingue said:
Where abouts are you locating to? There are a few of us in Southern California that try to meet at air shows around here. Would be great to meet you.
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It would be great to meet you too Paul. If there is a drawback to our forum, it is that we are rather sequestered by our locations and the distance between friends.

I grew up in Huntington Beach, surfed for 35 years before the ocean got sick. I moved to Mammoth Lakes, CA permanently in 1999. I love this area and the isolation, but the sage brush is requiring too much from my immune system. Kind of like living on the ocean and being allergic to salt water...lol.

This move is north and out of California. We will be landing in a beautiful and isolated spot on a cliff overlooking the Pacific. This is a temporary location, but lovely and suitable while we begin to look for the right property to develop to suit our needs. We have spent the last year upgrading and re-modeling our little place here, just south of KMMH. I have a spectacular view, overlooking Lake Crowley with cattle in the front yard and the East Slope directly at my back.

It's kind of ironic, we finally have the place the way we would like to see it, but will be leaving it for someone else to enjoy.

My wife and I prefer to keep our actual destination to ourselves, but I'll share some details when I get the studio set back up. I've put in 100 hour weeks for the last five years, first with the ORBX work, then with my own. It was necessary to invest the time to the dev work and the house, but I would like to scale the hours back and devote some time to the gym and other interests.

Thanks for your interest Paul. I'm looking forward to working out of the new studio and moving closer to releasing my various packages. It's been a long time in development.

Best,
G
 
Quite the adventure you've been on. The Buffalo is exciting! Hope all goes well on the move.

Will ll that beautiful KMMH/KBIH scenery I've seen in your videos ever be released to the public? It's stunning work.
 
gman5250 said:
It would be great to meet you too Paul. If there is a drawback to our forum, it is that we are rather sequestered by our locations and the distance between friends.

I grew up in Huntington Beach, surfed for 35 years before the ocean got sick. I moved to Mammoth Lakes, CA permanently in 1999. I love this area and the isolation, but the sage brush is requiring too much from my immune system. Kind of like living on the ocean and being allergic to salt water...lol.

This move is north and out of California. We will be landing in a beautiful and isolated spot on a cliff overlooking the Pacific. This is a temporary location, but lovely and suitable while we begin to look for the right property to develop to suit our needs. We have spent the last year upgrading and re-modeling our little place here, just south of KMMH. I have a spectacular view, overlooking Lake Crowley with cattle in the front yard and the East Slope directly at my back.

It's kind of ironic, we finally have the place the way we would like to see it, but will be leaving it for someone else to enjoy.

My wife and I prefer to keep our actual destination to ourselves, but I'll share some details when I get the studio set back up. I've put in 100 hour weeks for the last five years, first with the ORBX work, then with my own. It was necessary to invest the time to the dev work and the house, but I would like to scale the hours back and devote some time to the gym and other interests.

Thanks for your interest Paul. I'm looking forward to working out of the new studio and moving closer to releasing my various packages. It's been a long time in development.

Best,
G
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Hey Gordon I used to surf the California coast on my Bob Ford surfboard. I went to college in Southern California and then worked out of San Ramon, CA for 17 years with ADP. I miss those beautiful waves! Moved back to Texas. The biggest I saw in South Padre were about 3 feet high! LOL
Ted
 
griphos said:
Quite the adventure you've been on. The Buffalo is exciting! Hope all goes well on the move.

Will ll that beautiful KMMH/KBIH scenery I've seen in your videos ever be released to the public? It's stunning work.
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Absolutely will be releasing the scenery. As it stands now I've got:

KRNO Reno/Tahoe International nearly complete, Reno Stead is in the wings.
KBIH Eastern Sierra Regional nearly complete
KMMH Mammoth Yosemite nearly complete.
My vegetation library is basically RTM
The autogen is nearing completion.

Matt asked me if I would take on the Buffalo a while back, so now that the C-47 Beta is released I felt it was time to bring Matt's model up to speed. You guys are going to love the flight model, not the performer that later aircraft became, but no slouch either. Feels like a Jug, but without the massive power and weight.

Current airplane projects:
F7F Tigercat VC
Abrams P-1 Explorer full package
Brewster Buffalo with VC.

Kind of a large work load, but nothing I can't handle.

OK I admit that I've gone sabbatical and devoted some quality time to learning airplanes, but it doesn't hurt to be multi-dimensional and I've never been one to concentrate on one project at a time.

I had the sceneries nearly ready two years ago but lost it all in a Windows/Java update debacle that devastated my drives. Had to rebuild...nearly from scratch. One of the reasons I'm not completely enamored with Mr. Gates nor his legacy. Opening myself up to a thrashing with that, but I call a spade a spade.

Once I get this set ready for market I'll launch the product line. To be truthful, I've been waiting for the economic fundamentals to sort themselves out before I contract into a commercial venture. At this time I wouldn't be comfortable plugging into any existing. Once the bubble blows and things re-boot on the other side there will be a more suitable economic climate to plug into. IMO.

Aside from failing economies...lol...I'm watching the tech very closely. I don't want to lock on to a platform that may or may not have legs. I'm structuring my technology to be adaptable, but I don't want to reverse engineer a bunch of stuff when 64 bit comes online.

In the meantime, I'm expanding the product line.
 
I felt that I needed to finish some details before I tear down the studio today for the move, so I got up early and dialed in some details on the rivet/fasteners and bump mapping.

Bump heights are more subtle, especially reinforcing tape on the fabric panels.
Made the fastener patterns around cowl and forward fuse more accurate.

Current shots from the AM work.

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YoYo said:
It looks very similar like camera from F3F-2:
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The Buffalo was intended to be a replacement for the F3F, and had an overlapping service range. I haven't searched the details...yet, but it seems likely that both airplanes would use similar or identical cameras.

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Still one week away from internet install at the new location, but using coffee shop for vital com. :encouragement:

I'm filling my time working on projects, focusing on the Buffalo. One basic US navy training skin in sea blue/insg white completed and working on the VC modeling. I have some very good pics of the cockpit so the modeling is progressing well. I'll load some prelim shots on the thumb drive and upload next time I come to town for coffee and Bravo Sierra with the indigenous natives.

Move went OK...nothing got broke or mangled. Sim booted up fine, and the new studio is pretty awesome.
 
Congrats Gordon! A big accomplishment... looking forward to your scenery when you release for sale... enjoy the new digs!

C
 
I had three weeks to fill waiting for internet installation at the new studio. I filled my time modeling, animating and filling out the F2A Buffalo and working on the new F7F 3DS Max exterior and VC models. Mr. Shupe graced me with full creative license on the F7F, so I decided to upgrade from the original GMAX model to an entirely new model in 3DS Max, based on the GMAX original.

Here are a few prelim shots of the Buffalo VC, plus one basic Navy skin for my flying buck. This was a very complex cockpit, so the modeling will take some time. The basics are beginning to take shape with a frame and basic cockpit fundamentals in place. Smaller details and plumbing will be forthcoming.

For these shots, I've poached the MK 20 reflector sight from the F7F VC, but I'll replace it with a Mark 8 (yet to be modeled).


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