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Screenshots

Gentlemen...

The horse is dead. Please stop beating it. This thread is supposed to be about screenshot artistry. Can we please keep to that track?
 
Tom Clayton said:
Gentlemen...

The horse is dead. Please stop beating it. This thread is supposed to be about screenshot artistry. Can we please keep to that track?
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Actually it's still on track, Tom. The whole thing started *because* of screenshots... And i would never ever beat a horse, not even if he/she is dead. But let's not go into that. That would be *really* off track. :)
 
Paul K said:
I had that Airfix Gosling! I'd completely forgotten about it. Thanks for reminding me, Jan.
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Your welcome, Paul. :)

Remarkable how 'plastic-aircraft-model-making' can be remembered so well atleast with *some* models and after so many years have gone by and the models itself are looong gone. I feel it's even a bit like photographs. The joy i had with not just making and painting the models but also with visiting my local hobby shop (also looooong gone...) going over the collection over and over again and to see what's new, is just unforgetable. I guess it must be because i was young and still had dreams to become a pilot...Hehe... dream on little boy... ;)
 
(RE: FSEconomy)

Javis said:
What exactly is that, Denny ?
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It's a free online "mission" system that offers a bit of a "structure" to MSFS. You can engage with it really casually, just looking for interesting places to fly, or get hardcore into it and run virtual FBOs and join groups with friends. www.fseconomy.net

I've flown Flight Sim for 40 years now (!!!!) without a need or desire for structure. But I've learned that FSEconomy is fun because finding missions to fly gets me to explore areas and airports I'd never think of otherwise! Some screenshots to illustrate, to stay on-topic. :)

The Nebraska sandhills! Really cool formations I ended up reading about online after encountering them by chance. I'd never flown around Nebraska before.

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I've been basing out of Juneau, AK lately and finding fun small airports and amazing scenery in the area.

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For instance, the beautiful Return to Misty Moorings seaplane bases...

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If there's any interest in forming a Sim-Outhouse group together, we should totally create a topic to talk about it!
 
DennyA said:
(RE: FSEconomy)
It's a free online "mission" system that offers a bit of a "structure" to MSFS. You can engage with it really casually, just looking for interesting places to fly, or get hardcore into it and run virtual FBOs and join groups with friends. www.fseconomy.net

I've flown Flight Sim for 40 years now (!!!!) without a need or desire for structure. But I've learned that FSEconomy is fun because finding missions to fly gets me to explore areas and airports I'd never think of otherwise! Some screenshots to illustrate, to stay on-topic. :)

The Nebraska sandhills! Really cool formations I ended up reading about online after encountering them by chance. I'd never flown around Nebraska before.
I've been basing out of Juneau, AK lately and finding fun small airports and amazing scenery in the area.
For instance, the beautiful Return to Misty Moorings seaplane bases...
Xs5xiy6.jpg

If there's any interest in forming a Sim-Outhouse group together, we should totally create a topic to talk about it!
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Thanks Denny, that sounds seriously interesting. I'd like to install it and give it go one of these days !

But first have some work to do. I know where the test area will be ! I remember the Misty Moorings floatplane base from FSX/P3D. Wow!! That looks particularly charming in MSFS ! :applause:

Thanks again for the info ! :encouragement:
 
Bomber_12th said:
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Nice Bomber, though shots like these cause me to muse at the dearth of Mythic Warbirds to fly in this lovely sim. I continue to feel that one of the first, the Corsair, is still one of the best. Would love to have a fly of a Late Zero after flying an F-G1D or Wildcat, assuming the flying characteristics were accurate.
 
I don't think there is a real lack of warbirds for MSFS, especially given how short of a period of time it has been since this sim was released. I'd always much rather have quality over quantity, anyway. The virtual warbirds I'm most impressed with are those that have been made for DCS, in which the average development time exceeds 8,000 man hours, over a 4-6 year period (that amount of development time is only hard to comprehend for anyone who hasn't spent time developing a virtual aircraft). As a result, there aren't an incredible number of warbirds for that sim, but each one is absolutely phenomenal. I've seen more than one MSFS payware developer claim within recent months that they don't care about absolute accuracy in the visual models they make (or recycle), because "99%" of customers won't care/notice where there are visual errors/inaccuracies. To me, this is always going to be a lazy excuse. I'll continue to put my support behind the developers that have enough care for what they do, and care for the aircraft they make, that they desire to build them for the "1%" that really do care about said aircraft type (and I'd hope that the developer themselves would fall into that same "1%", as otherwise why are you really investing your time making it to begin with?). Right now, in my virtual hangar, I have an F4U (Milviz), F6F (FlyingIron), Spitfire Mk.IX (FlyingIron), P-38L (FlyingIron), P-51D (Asobo), AT-6 (Asobo), C-47 (AH), DH Beaver (Milviz), DH Caribou (ORBX), C-45 (Carenado), Ju-52 (Asobo), Curtiss Jenny (IniBuilds), P-40F (IniBuilds), P-40N (Flight Replicas), Bf 108 (IniBuilds), Tiger Moth (Anthony Lynch), L-4 (Flight Replicas), Hawker Hunters (Dave Garwood) and MB-339 (IndiaFoxTecho), all of which are superb, all of which I am truly grateful for the developers having done such an incredible job, and all of which I have a hard time finding enough time to fly. Any more and it will make it that much harder to find the time to fly them all (especially since I've been flying a lot more civilian types as well). The FlyingIron Spitfire still holds the crown/throne for me, when it comes to favorite warbird in MSFS to-date. FlyingIron, it is said, is expected to be releasing their Bf 109G just about any day now, which will be an instant purchase for me. I too would love to have a well-crafted A6M Zero in MSFS, one built by a skillful developer that has the utmost of passion for and interest in the type - a true desire to do it right. Having seen three different authentic A6Ms fly over the years, I have never seen another aircraft look so sleek and natural, slipping through the air, as the Zero - it left me absolutely enthralled by the aircraft. There is a payware A6M Zero for MSFS, which I purchased to support the developer, but I understand it is not everyone's cup of tea (as the original release thread showed).
 
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(I realize now that, with my last post, I was responding just as much to the various recent threads in this forum than to the previous post.)

I took a small break from working on B-25 landing gear this morning to do some lake flying. There is still a distinct haze in the sky due to the smoke traveling south from the Canadian wildfires.













 
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