Help required for scenery project!

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Hooky722

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Hi All,

All this recent talk of phantoms and carriers has rekindled my interest in a scenery project I started a while back. I set out to create scenery of Yeovilton circa late 1960's when 700P NAS and 767NAS were based there. trouble was I knew very little about scenery Design (My knowledge is limited now) and I had trouble finding any Images of Yeovilton from that era I got as far as placing some buildings and getting a modern satellite map from Google maps to use as a template but then stopped when I realised I'd put the whole thing facing the wrong way!!!:pop4:

Anyway, to cut a long story short, Real life took over and I recently rediscovered the project files during a Hard drive clean out and wondered if anybody out there could help me out be it with research (photo links etc..) or if anybody with a lot of patience (I'm still somewhat of a novice) would be willing to work with me on the project. just wondered if anyone would be interested

Regards

Hooky:salute:
 
im not a great one for working with other people on scenery projects but it dose sound intresting, any retro uk military scenery intrests me, ive found an ariel taken in the mid 60's giving a good idea on hanger layout ect, and a plan from 1945, apparently the runways where length'nd during the 60's but the plan should be a pretty good representation of Yeovil right up to the 70's,80's, just with longer runways, match the plan to the google earth image and it should be pretty spot on. send me a pm if intrested.
Feel free to post on the forum for any help or advice,
cheers ian
 
ian elliot said:
im not a great one for working with other people on scenery projects but it dose sound intresting, any retro uk military scenery intrests me, ive found an ariel taken in the mid 60's giving a good idea on hanger layout ect, and a plan from 1945, apparently the runways where length'nd during the 60's but the plan should be a pretty good representation of Yeovil right up to the 70's,80's, just with longer runways, match the plan to the google earth image and it should be pretty spot on. send me a pm if intrested.
Feel free to post on the forum for any help or advice,
cheers ian
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Cheers Ian much appreciated like I say any help is good mate thanks for the offer of advice may take you up on that at some point

Regards

Hooky
 
If you haven't found anyone interested, let me know via a PM. I'm usually over on the FSX side every day.
 
falcon409 said:
If you haven't found anyone interested, let me know via a PM. I'm usually over on the FSX side every day.
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cheers falcon I'll give it a few days and see if I get a response then I'll contact you you say your on the FSX forums a bit bear in mind this project was started for Fs9 originally partly because my antiquated tower hasn't got anywhere near the guts required to run FSX. however if the project does go ahead I have no objection what so ever in making an FSX version but someone else will have to do it. but thanks for the offer I may well contact you anon.

Regards

Hooky:salute:
 
er, umm not to spoil things too much but there is/was a version of Yeovilton in one of Gary Summons UK2000 demo packs for Fs02 (remember fs02 scenery works in fs9 too)

Then all you'd need to do is add a few parking spots via afcad and AI planes.

ttfn

Pete
 
Motormouse said:
er, umm not to spoil things too much but there is/was a version of Yeovilton in one of Gary Summons UK2000 demo packs for Fs02 (remember fs02 scenery works in fs9 too)

Then all you'd need to do is add a few parking spots via afcad and AI planes.

ttfn

Pete
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thanks for the heads up Pete but thing is from the few photos I have studied of late 60's Yeovilton the layout was quite different when the phantoms were there and I recon a few hangers have been demolished since then. also as far as I can tell ALL the runways were still in use at the time so I figured if I was going to do period scenery may as well get in as historically accurate as possible to the era and all the UK2000 scenery depicts circa 2003 but I thank you for the advice all the same. By the way I had a look at the UK2000 site and I don't think there's a link to the demo any more either that or its broken looks like the whole UK2000 site is shifting address!

Regards

Hooky
 
Just wondering, did anything come of this project, now that the old Alpha/Virtavia F-4s have been released as freeware, this sounds like an ideal home for the RN model.
cheers ian
 
ian elliot said:
Just wondering, did anything come of this project, now that the old Alpha/Virtavia F-4s have been released as freeware, this sounds like an ideal home for the RN model.
cheers ian
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Hi Ian
This projects not dead but i must confess I've made little progress with it of late. my Scenery Creation skills were limited anyway and I have no idea how to generate building macros and such. I got as far as placing a few hangers using Rwy12 but thats about it. couple that with Work and real life the project sort of fell by the wayside. I would be happy to digg up what I've done so far and continue if people want 60' 70's Yeovilton as I agree that the ALPHA F4's would be right at home but Ideally I'd need support from someone who's done this sort of thing before I'll post some WIP Screens in a second.

Regards

Hooky:salute:
 
I think that looks pretty dam good Hooky, as far as im concern'd you've done the hard part, youve got an Afcad down with a good qraulity photo background, thats usurally the stuff that give's me a headach, the building macros is the easy bit for me,
If you need a hand with anything give us a shout, i use EZ-scenery which is a more user friendly program but i can still use the same objects, thats to good looking to gather dust on a HD somewhere.
cheers ian
 
ian elliot said:
I think that looks pretty dam good Hooky, as far as im concern'd you've done the hard part, youve got an Afcad down with a good qraulity photo background, thats usurally the stuff that give's me a headach, the building macros is the easy bit for me,
If you need a hand with anything give us a shout, i use EZ-scenery which is a more user friendly program but i can still use the same objects, thats to good looking to gather dust on a HD somewhere.
cheers ian
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thanks Ian

I just sent you a PM with a more detailed Progress report but its not showing up Im my sent items box so i don't know if it got through or not???
 
Hi Hooky,

Do you have World War 2 Airfields by Philip Birtles (Ian Allen, 1999)?

It has a small map (from Pooley's Flight Guides) and quite good photo of the control tower in 1967.

If you don't have the book, I'll be happy to scan & post the page for you, either here or by p.m.
 
Ralf Roggeveen said:
Hi Hooky,

Do you have World War 2 Airfields by Philip Birtles (Ian Allen, 1999)?

It has a small map (from Pooley's Flight Guides) and quite good photo of the control tower in 1967.

If you don't have the book, I'll be happy to scan & post the page for you, either here or by p.m.
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hi Ralf

yes that would be great thank you I'm working between two computers atm and neither one is working very well so if you could post some here i could work from both without having to worry about it.

Many thanks

Hooky:salute:
 
yeovilton.jpg


With compliments.

Seems to have come out OK. Nice Hunter! A row of them as static AI would be good for us Cold War boys...
 
A small breakthrough today got the airfield looking a bit less square thanks to some help from Ian Elliot and the whole scenery looks a bit more refined. Unfortunately as i mentioned to Ian I'd forgotten that i deleted all the buildings by accident which is why it was the project was put aside in the first place. anyway heres a screenie for all to see .

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if your wondering why it stands out a bit more than earlier shots its because i'm no longer using default uk scenery.

Thanks all will keep you posted

Hooky:salute:
 
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