currently in the workshop(s)

[Roxane-21]

This looks impressive!

Will it work with Rhumba's "old" LOD-DEM meshes and matermasking, or will it require his most recent 'Global Surface Water' set?

 

[UncleTgt]

As with all my scenery, it is created to use Rhumbas new world mesh & show off the huge amount of work Dick carried out in providing this more accurate mesh. That said, it has it's own watermasks & excludes, so it should work with an old world install.

TBH an "old world" install should just use the old Pen32win Port Moresby & Maskrider Papua New Guinea airfields.

 

[UncleTgt]

I am interested in the ground figures. You know there are no US Army models either

Check your mail CK ...

 

[Roxane-21]

As with all my scenery, it is created to use Rhumbas new world mesh & show off the huge amount of work Dick carried out in providing this more accurate mesh. That said, it has it's own watermasks & excludes, so it should work with an old world install.

TBH an "old world" install should just use the old Pen32win Port Moresby & Maskrider Papua New Guinea airfields.

Thank you.

A bit OT: is there a good (or at least acceptable) GSL randition of Rabaul for stock meshes? I use an "old world" install for South Pacific, mainly because of stock airfields and all the old missions/campaigns I have, but I have always been quite frustrated by how "empty" Rabaul area looked like.

 

[Rami]

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UncleTgt,

I never cease to be amazed by the quality and breadth of your work, thank you very much!

 

[UncleTgt]

Myola Lake proved a tough landing ground to make use of. Unsuitable for DH84s or C47s, they tried to get a Hudson in there & it nearly lost it's undercarriage on the way out. They used a Ford Trimotor but that overturned on landing. They were more succesful using USAAF O-49/L-1 Vigiliants for CASEVAC.

But no FS version of the Vigilant exists, so I've converted Joe Binka's "Shaky Jake", a Cessna 195, & given it a 1942/43 USAAF ambulance paint job as a stand-in ...

 

[Worthless]

Outstanding!

 

[UncleTgt]

THe Kokoda Track gsl is completed, I 'm now starting on the gsl for the Port Moresby area itself - this may take some time. Meanwhile, here's a few screengrabs to hold your interest.

 

[UncleTgt]

So nobody noticed the windsock object in the screengrab above

 

[UncleTgt]

More Fairfax habour work, moving northwards with the gsl ...

 

[Captain Kurt]

So nobody noticed the windsock object in the screengrab above

I did. It is excellent, like all of your work, so it doesn't really stand out by itself. That's a big compliment BTW. But it explains why it wasn't singled out for comment. Does it rotate with the view or is it stationary?

 

[UncleTgt]

I'm afraid it's static, but it is destroyable!

 

[Sarg Willy]

Hey chock another one up for the gipper , I like it , and it,s so much nicer than the Cfs-1 wind sock ,
I used those for marker points , to Martins refuel box , a couple of Lyndsays water towers ,
and refuel truck , ambulance , jeeps , Then Lyndsays red becone for night finding ,

 

[UncleTgt]

Still plugging away at the gsl around the Port Moresby area. A couple of progress shots ...

 

[Captain Kurt]

Incredible is the only descriptor.

 

[msfossey]

Wow! Absolutely amazing UncleTgt

msfossey

 

[kdriver]

Beautiful work John - very realistic. I recognised the first picture immediately. My sister lived in Konedobu half a mile north of Ack Ack Hill. Port Moresby's main beach, Ela Beach, is on the southern side of the peninsula below Ack Ack Hill.

 

[Ravenna]

Beautiful work John - very realistic. I recognised the first picture immediately. My sister lived in Konedobu half a mile north of Ack Ack Hill. Port Moresby's main beach, Ela Beach, is on the southern side of the peninsula below Ack Ack Hill.

I showed John's screen shot to my wife, who grew up in Port Moresby. Her family home was on Paga Hill (aka ack ack hill). She gives it her tick of approval.
Years ago I saw my Father-in-Law's photos of wartime Moresby. At one end of Ela beach, out at the end of a jetty, was an officers' club. Along the top of the hill was a handful of houses with wide verandahs.

 

[UncleTgt]

OK, so there was a beachclub at Ela ... pure guesswork on my part, but I knocked this up in GMax

 

[UncleTgt]

BTW, the gsl is completed

Now I just have to compile it all into a pack for upload