That's a though one... but he referred to her as "my Bonnie", but for us it was his Bonnie. But there are more similarities with the WBS Mustang from Jan Kees. We don't see her anymore as well..........
(sorry I couldn't resist
)Cheers,
Huub
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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
My Bonnie..
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That's a though one... but he referred to her as "my Bonnie", but for us it was his Bonnie. But there are more similarities with the WBS Mustang from Jan Kees. We don't see her anymore as well..........
(sorry I couldn't resist
)Cheers,
Huub
And we now have another repaint, which has unfortunately introduced another clash, in the mix as well... Greenhouse357 has just pointed me at his G4-A "Passion Wagon" v2 repaint (available in the library here) - which became G4-A with no name, but a "Cute Nude" on the nose when the pilot changed and has been done by jankees...
Thanks!
This place is going to be busy. Then because the 357th never actually flew a single operational mission from Raydon according to a couple of accounts I've read, I'll have to send them all off to Leiston anyway.
Thanks!
This place is going to be busy. Then because the 357th never actually flew a single operational mission from Raydon according to a couple of accounts I've read, I'll have to send them all off to Leiston anyway.
Snuffy
Happiness Consultant
Have you seen how many dispersals Leiston has? I think it may be some time before I get to do that lot!
Ummm Yeah I saw that ... just before I sent it to you. LOL!
It'll never be as good as yours but I'm not doing much right now ... other than digging up info on Luftwaffe airbases in France before D-Day ...
Thanks jankees... The only thing that concerns me a little about this is AI file is whether anyone's PC will actually be able to run it all? 
In 1944, apparently, Leiston had 12 blister hangars, 2 T.2 hangars, 38 frying pan dispersals, 17 PSP (steel mat) dispersals, and 12 double fighter pens. That's a total of 79 parking spots, excluding the hangars.
Snuffy: What I do isn't actually that difficult, if you want to have a play with Leiston or anywhere else for that matter. It's more a case of being able to match what's on a diagram with what's left on aerial photographs from Virtual Earth. All you need is SBuilderX to get the GeoTIFF and ADE to do pretty much everything else unless you want to make ponds (you can't set the level of water in ADE at the moment - it's a known issue on the support forum - so you have to use SBuilderX for that).
If anyone else wants to have a go at this lark, feel free! It only gets truly hard when you start trying to do it properly, customising buildings for each site, and using photorealistic backgrounds and custom ground textures... Then you need to be one of the truly talented people that we find around here.
In 1944, apparently, Leiston had 12 blister hangars, 2 T.2 hangars, 38 frying pan dispersals, 17 PSP (steel mat) dispersals, and 12 double fighter pens. That's a total of 79 parking spots, excluding the hangars.
Snuffy: What I do isn't actually that difficult, if you want to have a play with Leiston or anywhere else for that matter. It's more a case of being able to match what's on a diagram with what's left on aerial photographs from Virtual Earth. All you need is SBuilderX to get the GeoTIFF and ADE to do pretty much everything else unless you want to make ponds (you can't set the level of water in ADE at the moment - it's a known issue on the support forum - so you have to use SBuilderX for that).
If anyone else wants to have a go at this lark, feel free! It only gets truly hard when you start trying to do it properly, customising buildings for each site, and using photorealistic backgrounds and custom ground textures... Then you need to be one of the truly talented people that we find around here.
Snuffy
Happiness Consultant
Jankees ... Awesome stuff! Thanks.
Ian, I'm familair with ADE ... just tried to update my stuff here and ran into a problem, I'm probably headed off to the FS Developer forums shortly.
Its not that I can't do them, its just that mine don't appear to be as pretty as yours!!
Anyhow ADE is buggered here atm ... I'll get it sorted. Soonish I hope rather than later.
A point, I don't, or rather, can't do AI traffic. So, if you want it, somone else is going to have to do that. :mixedsmi:
Ian, I'm familair with ADE ... just tried to update my stuff here and ran into a problem, I'm probably headed off to the FS Developer forums shortly.
Its not that I can't do them, its just that mine don't appear to be as pretty as yours!!
Anyhow ADE is buggered here atm ... I'll get it sorted. Soonish I hope rather than later.
A point, I don't, or rather, can't do AI traffic. So, if you want it, somone else is going to have to do that. :mixedsmi:
I've just spent an hour or so slapping down the very basics for Leiston (runways, taxiways, flatten) so if you want, I can send that across to you by e-mail with GeoTIFFs pre-placed (although they're actually GeoJPEGs now)?
Have you got the latest version of ADE? If it's not 9x that saves using ADEX in the filename rather than ADE then you're best uninstalling and reinstalling ADE from scratch anyway.
Gotta go out. Don't want to, but SWMBO pointedly requests my help with shopping in the ice. Back later.
(P.S. Get AI Flight Planner - it makes AI so easy even I can do it. :d)
Have you got the latest version of ADE? If it's not 9x that saves using ADEX in the filename rather than ADE then you're best uninstalling and reinstalling ADE from scratch anyway.
Gotta go out. Don't want to, but SWMBO pointedly requests my help with shopping in the ice. Back later.
(P.S. Get AI Flight Planner - it makes AI so easy even I can do it. :d)
jankees
SOH-CM-2026
of course you all noticed I forgot the yellow rudders on these 364th Mustangs, but fear not, that has been corrected:
and while I was at it, I thought I might as well try a few 363rd Mustangs too, so I present to you:
The Count (B6-E)
Q-pee (B6-Q)
and Super-X (B6-X)
and all of them together:
and while I was at it, I thought I might as well try a few 363rd Mustangs too, so I present to you:
The Count (B6-E)
Q-pee (B6-Q)
and Super-X (B6-X)
and all of them together:
Snuffy
Happiness Consultant
Just an update guys!
After several days and unexpected occurances I now have a fully functional up to date installation of ADE once again. (Man I hate updates!)
That said:
Leiston now has 3 runways, a perimeter track and starting in the southeast corner, has 6 psp hardstands and 3 asphalt hardstands, and at least 1 blister.
I'll blaze away on more of it tonight.
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In the mean time, IanP, (or anybody,) do you have thumbnails for all of Ted Andrews and Bill Womack's stuff? It would be a big help. Thanks.
After several days and unexpected occurances I now have a fully functional up to date installation of ADE once again. (Man I hate updates!)
That said:
Leiston now has 3 runways, a perimeter track and starting in the southeast corner, has 6 psp hardstands and 3 asphalt hardstands, and at least 1 blister.
I'll blaze away on more of it tonight.
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In the mean time, IanP, (or anybody,) do you have thumbnails for all of Ted Andrews and Bill Womack's stuff? It would be a big help. Thanks.
As I know absolutely nothing from scenery making, this is most probably a pretty dumb question.
In FS2004 scenery often CFS1 models are used to as static aircrafts. I was wondering whether you could use reasonable simple FS2004 model as static aircrafts in FSX?
While following this thread I reaslised you are trying to fill all the dispersals on this airfield. When you use for instance the ex-donationware P51B/C for this you already have quite some high quality repaints......
And when you need more, I still have Dave Green's paintkit for this model
Below some examples....
Cheers,
Huub
In FS2004 scenery often CFS1 models are used to as static aircrafts. I was wondering whether you could use reasonable simple FS2004 model as static aircrafts in FSX?
While following this thread I reaslised you are trying to fill all the dispersals on this airfield. When you use for instance the ex-donationware P51B/C for this you already have quite some high quality repaints......
And when you need more, I still have Dave Green's paintkit for this model
Below some examples....
Cheers,
Huub
The main problems with using FS2004 models in FSX scenery are that some peoples' systems (mine being an excellent example) experience a disproportionately large loss in performance when they are drawn (I halve my frame rate when drawing MCDesigns' FS9 objects at Fowlmere) and that they won't work for anyone using DX10 preview mode. Often they won't display at all well in SP2 in general.
All I said I'd do originally was create an AI file for all the repaints, as requested. That got turned into Snuffy developing Leiston because the FG never actually flew operationally from Raydon (which I now need to update). However, if we seriously fill every dispersal, whether it be with a static or AI, how many peoples' PCs will seriously be able to run it?
Unfortunately I don't have thumbnails for any of it, Snuffy - there are pics of all Ted Andrews stuff in his R12 library downloads (the ones I use, at least, are the same models remade for FSX) but they won't work as thumbnails directly because he's named them using the object name and not the GUID.
All I said I'd do originally was create an AI file for all the repaints, as requested. That got turned into Snuffy developing Leiston because the FG never actually flew operationally from Raydon (which I now need to update). However, if we seriously fill every dispersal, whether it be with a static or AI, how many peoples' PCs will seriously be able to run it?
Unfortunately I don't have thumbnails for any of it, Snuffy - there are pics of all Ted Andrews stuff in his R12 library downloads (the ones I use, at least, are the same models remade for FSX) but they won't work as thumbnails directly because he's named them using the object name and not the GUID.
Snuffy
Happiness Consultant
Huub, Those are great skins and shots! Wow!
Unfortunately all I am is a basic mudmover. I know nothing about incorporating static aircraft or AI ...
So basically what you're going to get from me when Leiston is "done" is an airfield with all spots available and some other pretty scenery. And yes, I'm using Michael's FS9 ww2 military vehicles so expect that frame hit. Sure wish he'd update them to FSX ... soonish please.
Unfortunately all I am is a basic mudmover. I know nothing about incorporating static aircraft or AI ...
So basically what you're going to get from me when Leiston is "done" is an airfield with all spots available and some other pretty scenery. And yes, I'm using Michael's FS9 ww2 military vehicles so expect that frame hit. Sure wish he'd update them to FSX ... soonish please.
Snuffy
Happiness Consultant
Just so ya'll don't think this was forgotten ...
here's an update ... still a wip ... Leiston.
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here's an update ... still a wip ... Leiston.
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Snuffy
Happiness Consultant
I think you missed a dispersal... :icon_twi:
...IanP runs quickly for the nearest NBC shelter and slams the door behind him...
LOL! At the time of this picture, I have missed several things ... surprisingly its going quite well. As of this writing, all parking places are in, both T2s are present, a control tower and a fire house.
I have a couple outlying building areas mapped and some interfield roads laid out. A little more work on it today might get it close.
Having just discovered that Jan Kees has uploaded the six from this page of the thread to the library (I'd missed them... oops!), I now have a grand total of 33 paints installed for the 357th FG. I'm currently working on an AI file basing them at Raydon, as my Leiston consists of three runways and a peri track - as soon as Snuffy's airfield becomes available, I'll do a find/replace to swap the airport over and they'll shuft over there.
However. Question for anyone interested in this... 33 A2A Mustangs really is going to be a heavy load at one go - and especially with other bases nearby, which will produce more copies of the same model when they are flying.
I currently propose to do three AI files, one per squadron, with three aircraft set up to fly at 1%, three more at 10%, three more at 25% and any remaining at 50% AI slider (they seem to work on the airliner slider). Does anyone think that is appropriate, or would anyone like to suggest more appropriate slider settings/aircraft numbers for them?
However. Question for anyone interested in this... 33 A2A Mustangs really is going to be a heavy load at one go - and especially with other bases nearby, which will produce more copies of the same model when they are flying.
I currently propose to do three AI files, one per squadron, with three aircraft set up to fly at 1%, three more at 10%, three more at 25% and any remaining at 50% AI slider (they seem to work on the airliner slider). Does anyone think that is appropriate, or would anyone like to suggest more appropriate slider settings/aircraft numbers for them?
Greenhouse357
SOH-CM-2023
Thanks to IanP, JanKees, and Snuffy for working on my favorite mustangs and WWII airfield (Leiston). I probably don't have the power to run everything, but I'll try :salute: