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Hawkingen-Dover
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dvslats
Charter Member
Nice job Canion. 
For those who load this beta, you will need to rename a couple of folders. Change/rename the scenert to scenery.
Hiya Merlin2, take a peak inside the .sca file Canion included, with notepad.
For those who load this beta, you will need to rename a couple of folders. Change/rename the scenert to scenery.
Hiya Merlin2, take a peak inside the .sca file Canion included, with notepad.
Nice work - but sorry to say, not a bit like the real Hawkinge. I was brought up near there and used to fly model planes on the airfield as a kid. The field was grass with no central runway and certainly no trees. It is high up on the edge of the Kent Downs overlooking Folkstone and on a clear day you can see the French coast from it. It was a front line field in the Battle of Britain and suffered a number of tip and run attacks - a relative and several of his family were killed in one of them. The airfield has now been built over, but in some of the original buildings at the edge of the site there is a splendid museum containing various bits and pieces of aircraft found in the area and even a full V-1.
Hi cpljacko.
Unfortunately I could not find photos reprecente this air base, I could only imagine.
I hope your provide assistance, then re-power with original features (Hawking 1939).
In the museum are graphic photos of the WWII period.
Also location of radar. Dover port and vilag, appearance and characteristics of trees.
Unfortunately I could not find photos reprecente this air base, I could only imagine.
I hope your provide assistance, then re-power with original features (Hawking 1939).
In the museum are graphic photos of the WWII period.
Also location of radar. Dover port and vilag, appearance and characteristics of trees.
Canion - I've just emailed the museum to see if they have a plan or recon shot of the airfield from the war years. Keep your fingers crossed. The main airfield was just a huge grass field which had an asphalt perimeter with (as far as I recall) asphalt dispersal points (although I think this may have been added late or after the war). There were several pill boxes scattered around the edge of the field. The hangars, buildings, barracks etc were all grouped to the north of the field. There were no trees at all in the main field.
Just spoken to the Museum at Hawkinge - their only plan is for 1944. As I thought the asphalt perimeter and dispersal points were added late in the war. There was just a concrete apron in front of the hangars during the Battle of Britain.
Apparently plans of the development of the airfield (and all the others in the Battle of Britain) can be found in a book called "The Battle of Britain Then and Now" by Winston Ramsey. Publisher: After the Battle. ISBN-10: 0900913460
ISBN-13: 978-0900913464. It is quite expensive but presumably can be got from the library. Hope this helps.
Apparently plans of the development of the airfield (and all the others in the Battle of Britain) can be found in a book called "The Battle of Britain Then and Now" by Winston Ramsey. Publisher: After the Battle. ISBN-10: 0900913460
ISBN-13: 978-0900913464. It is quite expensive but presumably can be got from the library. Hope this helps.
If I May...
Before I moved to Iowa from the Left Coast, I started working on maps and diagrams to be included in a larger-than-usual upload.
Life got in the way, but I still have the map data.
The Airfield map is a "generic" layout taken from "The Few", one of those "Always On Sale" coffee table books @ Borders. The Euro airfield map is from another book, I believe a tome on D-Day.
Hope this helps !
SC
PS - I D/L'd the BoB file and converted Hawkinge's Aerial image to a JPG file, which is included here.
Before I moved to Iowa from the Left Coast, I started working on maps and diagrams to be included in a larger-than-usual upload.
Life got in the way, but I still have the map data.
The Airfield map is a "generic" layout taken from "The Few", one of those "Always On Sale" coffee table books @ Borders. The Euro airfield map is from another book, I believe a tome on D-Day.
Hope this helps !
SC
PS - I D/L'd the BoB file and converted Hawkinge's Aerial image to a JPG file, which is included here.
Ravenna
SOH-CM-2023
I just did a search for this book on ABEbooks and found a bookseller in PA who is offering one copy for US$40. The only other one I found was US$230!
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hewman100
Guest
Snap up the US$40 copy! If I recall when re-released the book cost £50-60.
Those 'After the Battle' books are beautiful. I wish I had the moola to get hold of 'em
Those 'After the Battle' books are beautiful. I wish I had the moola to get hold of 'em
kelticheart
Charter Member
From all I see above, the best Hawkinge rendition for CFS2 remains Gary Burn's BoB airfield package for CFS2, I think one of the very first addon sceneries done with the low framerate impact GSL tecnique.
In Gary's scenery Hawkinge is a 100% grass field, with a concrete apron among the hangars and buildings grouped to the North of the airfield. It also features very few trees, close to the buildings and a CH/CHL radar station close by to the South-East, as can be seen in sc7500's third picture map.
It matches Cpljacko's descrition very closely, not only, with Rhumba's new mesh files installed, it does sit high up on an edge. Gary's scenery should be taken into account very closely for a new scenery or an upgrade, which could very well be a better blended texture into the landclass.
Cheers!
KH :ernae:
In Gary's scenery Hawkinge is a 100% grass field, with a concrete apron among the hangars and buildings grouped to the North of the airfield. It also features very few trees, close to the buildings and a CH/CHL radar station close by to the South-East, as can be seen in sc7500's third picture map.
It matches Cpljacko's descrition very closely, not only, with Rhumba's new mesh files installed, it does sit high up on an edge. Gary's scenery should be taken into account very closely for a new scenery or an upgrade, which could very well be a better blended texture into the landclass.
Cheers!
KH :ernae: