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Announcing my retirement

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OBIO

Retired SOH Admin
I am announcing my retirement from skinning, converting and other forms of working on other people's airplanes. No..I am not leaving the world of CFS2, not leaving the world of FS2004 (which I just entered). Now that my insane pile of projects was suddenly reduced to nothing by a HD snafu a couple weeks ago, I now have a totally clean work bench. Yes, I lost hundreds of hours worth of work..and yes, it sucked losing that work....but, it sure is nice not having dozens and dozens and dozens of projects in various stages of progress...so many projects going on that they were getting in the way of each other.

So, what will I be doing with all the time that will be freed up by my retirement from skinning, converting, paneling? Flying for one....I do very little flying....and what flying I did do was mainly done to check out planes that I was working on. I want to fly....nice long flights instead of short 3 and 5 minture flights to check out panel lines, paint colors, insignia placement, gauge placement. I want to fly from Bangor, Maine all the way to Tampa, Florida. Or climb into a Mossie and fly across the English Channel into France. Or from San Diego to Pearl Harbor in a B-17.

So flying will take up some of the time freed up. Some of the freed up time wll be spent learning Gmax and learning to model aircraft from scratch. There are a great number of aircraft that I would love to have in CFS2 and FS2004 that have not been done, or have been done but without VCs, or have been done but are very dated, or have been done but with horrible texture mapping.

Not sure when I will get busy with Gmax, but it won't be too long....but for now, I am just going to fly! I have never taken the time to really enjoy CFS2...shortly after I got the program, I began skinning, converting, paneling, DPing....I have not even run a single one of Rami's missions, or not a single one of DevilDog's missions.

So, OBIO's Aircraft Shop is shutting down for the time being....and when it reopens it will no longer be running as a mechanic's garage but as a full fledged aircraft manufacturing company.

OBIO
 
OBIO said:
...Now that my insane pile of projects was suddenly reduced to nothing by a HD snafu a couple weeks ago, I now have a totally clean work bench....

...So, what will I be doing with all the time that will be freed up by my retirement from skinning, converting, paneling? Flying for one....I do very little flying....and what flying I did do was mainly done to check out planes that I was working on...

...I want to fly....
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Amen brother, ...

...fly big OBIO, ...FLY!!!...


Sh*t grows flowers OBIO, ...nothin's ALL bad.


Hmmm, ...HD failure eheee, ...totally clean work bench?, ...more flyin' time?...

(Tried something w/ the wife'n'kids, ...but they found their way back home...)
 
OBIO,
A well deserved rest is needed indeed , & a Big " THANK YOU " for all the contributions you have made for the rest of us in this sim.
It's been a long tough road , so now it's time to sit back & enjoy this life all you can.

Many Thanks
All the best for you & Deb
OTTO

P.S. We'll patiently await the Grand Opening of your new shop
 
Yeah, right

You'll be back. I know, I try retiring every few years and I always seem to get lured back in. I'm not going to help you either. In fact, I might just send you a few of my new models with my typical bad paint jobs and you will eventually paint them or go stark raving mad . . . .


:karate:
 
Obio,

I very truely understand you. As for me I haven' t flown a mission for almost a year (only those short hops checking things out). And I can follow that longing for a/c building. FSDS and Gmax are now idling for almost two years on my pc without beeing touched.

I plan to get into the aircraft building buisiness as well. But that is for my retirement end of September and after I have finished the European airfields.

Maybe you can teach me a trick or two when the time is there.

Cheers

Achim
 
Yes...I "retire" from time to time to fly my own stuff...that's why Tuskegee is taking too long, I'm simply having way too much fun! :ernae:
 
Obio,
:amen: It usually takes something major to force me to control my impulsiveness. I also have a major backlog of uncompleted projects including some that are sim related.
 
OK, but be warned that flying cfs2 in the US and some of Europe will mean making models of most of the fields you intend to use. Trying to do it in fs2004 or whatever won't work well because as you taxi your b25 into position for take off you might have to wait for a 747 to land. I did what you propose and really enjoyed it. Had to model my airports as I went along but I am not maskwriting genious.

Jimskui
 
Well

Obio go do what you have to do .Many Thanks for what you have done for this sim and us basement dewellers. All the best to you and Deb. You will return. Its in your Blood.
RM :ernae:
 
:friday:Hey, Buddy! Thanks for the ride ... you were a super source. I hope that after you've had a chance to stretch your wings that you'll at keast casually dip into the old well from time to time with a "special" present.

Best always to you Deb and all the creatures.

Bill:engel016:
 
Fly brother! :amen:


Try this:
Put an aircraft carrier at just the right place in the Pacific with just the right heading and then fly from San Diego to Hawaii with a Corsair. When needed, the carrier will take you aboard and refuel you and you can take off and continue.
:wave:
 
Have fun with the "retirement" and if you get a chance try flying the stock campaigns. Just don't forget to replace some of the stock stuff like using the Sara or Lex instead of the stock Yorktown.
 
I always wondered when you found time to fly. You've got the Whole World to case out....Now you can drop your membership from the caterpillar club. :icon_lol:
 
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