EHSB Soesterberg Air Base Retro

Here's another option for interesting transient or visiting aircraft. The Skyblazers started with the F-86F in 1954 and adopted the Skyblazers color scheme for the 1955 season. I found a Skyblazers F-86 skin for Mike Stone's F-86F on Simviation. Mike's planes make excellent AI or static scenery models and the lack of a VC doesn't matter and probably makes them less demanding of computer resources.

I also found this page about the Skyblazers: https://aerobaticteams.net/en/teams/i162/Skyblazers.html It's has history of the team and if you scroll down the page you'll come to a line of thumbnails that open some photos.

Skyblazers F-86F.jpg
 
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I'm confused! :dizzy:

I've begun to install Soesterberg, 1950s into FS1954 and 1960s into FSJetAge, but I'm stalled before I even get started. There are files that I don't know what to do with and I can't find any explanation in the ReadMe.

In both the 50s and 60s scenery folders there are scenery sub-folders full of files, and there are also zip files named 'scenery' that are full of files with the same file names but not the same modified dates. Which of these not quite duplicate files are to be used?

In the 60s folder, but not in the 50s one, is a sub-folder named ADE IMAGE with two photo images in it. What are those for?

In both folders is a file named "EHSB_ADE9_60s_v2.ad4" What's to be done with those?

I'm sure there must be a purpose to all these files but I can't fathom it. Some enlightenment would be very much appreciated!.
 
Hi Mick, Thanks for the heads up on the Skyblazers paint. That was their first scheme, I do not have that one so nice find. My scenery referred to by Ian contains their second version on the F-86.

Ok now to your issues with Soesterberg. So, it looks like I didn't catch and delete those zip files when I put the package together. The Scenery50s and 60s zip files within each folder can simply be deleted, those were simply earlier versions that I zipped and sent to Huub, Ian and Kalle for testing so they shouldn't have been there.

Any zip file within the main zip folder can be deleted or ignored as well, including the two backup folders in each scenery folders, F86 in the Aircraft Needed folder and the Bonus Traffic files.zip in the Bonus traffic folder. They are all files I just missed getting rid of before I packaged this.

The EHSB_ADE50s (and 60s)_V2.ad4 are simply the ADE project files provided for those who might want to fiddle with modifying the airport. You can leave or delete them. They are mentioned in the installation instructions as being provided for those who know what to do with them. You can also delete or leave the ADE Image folder, it just holds the background images for the ADE project file just described, again for those who know what to do with them.

So just install the two main folders (the 50s and 60s versions), once installed copy the Texture folder from the 50s into the 60s version (they both use the same set of textures) and if you wish, delete the zip file in each. Keep or delete the ADE and ADE image folder if you want. Install the other folders as directed, I know there are quite a few, and then add them to your scenery library and activate only one version of Soesterberg at a time.

If you have any more questions, I will be happy to answer them.

Enjoy

Al



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Thanks Al :ernaehrung004:

Since this thread has been going on for almost three weeks and I'm the first one to ask about these things, I suppose I should've been able to figure it out myself like everyone else apparently did.

The scenery that you and your crew create amaze me! You have a lot to be proud of!
 
Thanks Mick, the feeling is mutual. I have just about every paint you have published. at least the ones I have the model for. And send thanks for me to David Wooster for the F-89 and F-86L models he did for me some years ago. There must be at least 30 skins developled for those models and they appear in a lot of sceneries. and still are being added to more.

Al
 
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