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RAF Kirkbride WIP

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Nick C

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There's a whole host of airfields situated around the north west of Cumbria in the border regions. Following in Ian's footsteps, I've started working on about four airfields, from HMS Nuttach, down to RAF Cark.

Here's a few pictures of RAF Kirkbride which I've almost finished. The dispersals need a few tweaks and I'm hoping I can persuade Ian to make a little AI.

Kirkbride was an aircraft storage maintenance unit and in late 1945 had over 1000 aircraft in storage!

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Scenery assembled with Ted Andrews RAF buildings, ADE and SBuilderX and will be compatible with default and Horizon VFR scenery (if you don't mind caravan sites, which accompany almost every former RAF field in this area!).
 
Mathias said:
You should consider making a few Luftwaffe bases. :d
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The problem I'd have is with the lack of scenery libraries containing buildings etc. and the lack of knowledge. Are there no German FS enthusiasts willing to give it a go?
 
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Here's a picture of the basic footprint I've created for RAF Silloth, which is four miles west of RAF Kirkbride. The exclude isn't final and as you can see, this airfield is rather a sprawling mess!
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Dang, that is nice. Leaves me wishing I could get out and walk around it a bit.
 
I just KNEW you wouldn't be able to stay out of scenery design forever. :icon_lol: Looking excellent, Nick! Sorry I missed your Skype earlier, or I would have said so then, too. The thought of laying out all those dispersals makes my head :mixedsmi:.
 
That looks very good. :applause:

My only criticism would be that fluorescent orange traffic cones were NOT a feature of 1940's RAF bases! ;)
 
Very impressive Nick, had no idea you were working on this, great work bro!! :ernae::medals::medals:
 
WOW! (Had to) Thanks so much for doing these, I want my 1940's UK so bad. I grab all IanP does and I am looking forward to anything you put out.

All my A2A planes will have period correct places to land. No more Twilight Zone like episodes where the poor WWII pilot comes out of the clouds a little dizzy wondering where the heck he is and what happened to the airfield (which turned into a 2nd millenium airport with modern airliners).
 
That's looking great Nick! I agree about the Luftwaffe bases, except for me, it's more from lack of info. I enjoy the German archetecture. Many Luftwaffe hangers were modern before there was a modern movement.

Thread hijacking complete...sorry.

Jim
 
Very nice work. Would be great if Nick or Ian could also do in this excellent style RAF West Malling and Biggin Hill for FSX . .
 
West Malling, you can do no better than Bill's version in the Real Air Spitfire pack, so I wouldn't even venture to try... As for Biggin, unfortunately for a variety of reasons it is very difficult to "backdate" airfields with AI that are part of the sim base package, which is why I stay away from them. With Biggin, there's also the problem of "the bump", which changes with every mesh you use. Nick may have a go, but it's not on my list right now, sorry. :(

Getting back on topic, I still reckon that you need a road atlas to get from parking to the runway at Silloth - that place is insane. I was talking to Nick on Skype when we started nosing around up there on Google Earth, looking for old RAF fields and I had to zoom out quite a long way to get all of Silloth on the screen!

Going back off topic again, I'd love to do some German fields. Unfortunately, the only person I know who has done one is Lionheart. I'm sorely tempted to get the FS9 Valkyrie set just for the scenery and force FSX to play with it... They do say history is written by the victor and unfortunately regarding Luftwaffe airfields this holds out to be true. You can get as much info as you like on even the least significant allied base, but WW2 Luftwaffe bases? Gold dust. :(
 
Hey Nick where you at?, we're only a couple hours difference mate, don't tell me you're sleeping still? LOL!

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He'll still be at work... I just finish insanely early (and start insanely early to make up for it!) ;)

Thanks Mathias - unfortunately my two years of school German aren't up to translating 99% of that and all it has convinced me of is that I can't do it with the models available to me. I'll leave the hangar and terminal construction to Mr. Dhaenens for the moment... or quite possibly forever... :d
 
Fantastic work there Nick, and one of the screenshots really grabbed my eye, the departing Wellie, that alone makes me want to dig out my 'warbirds' folder and get flying, fantastic work and keep it up :applause::icon29:
 
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