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The Maunsell Sea Forts

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Robert John

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Have anyone built The Maunsell Sea Forts for cfs2 as a destroyable working object.
How much interest in a project like this would there be
 
Robert here is one that was done...by Collin
http://www.simviation.com/lair/cfs2shipyard.htm

scroll down the page...

fort03.jpg

http://www.simviation.com/lair/files/shipyard1/Maunsell_Naval_Fort.zip

I dont know if they are destroyable.

He does wonderful work!
 
:ernae: Just happened to be browsing the forum Rami, ....and i love these forts they were qute a project in their day and must have been very wet during the big storms. I had a uncle who was involved in the building of Highlands One, one of the first rigs for the North Sea and the old time hydrographers uses to say there were these big storms that they classified as 100 yr storms. Well as it turned out,once they had a stable platform to measure things with, ie the first big rig, and there were trained observers aboard, the 100 yrs storms happend quite a bit more often than 100 years, i think he said maybe like five years lol. And then the REAL 100 year storms showed up! At least they HOPE they are. :)
 
Thanks for the quick reply.
I never knew anything like this excisted.
I'll have a quick look at the model tomorrow.
Good night.
 
Sea Fort

A cursory exam of Collin's files indicate that his sea fort is indeed destroyable.

He even includes the coordinates for proper placement AND directionality !

Gotta love this game...
SC
:kilroy:
 
The model at the shipyard is of the naval type, it is destroyable but will take quite a bit of punishment.

The other type were the Army forts which had the 7 blocks connected by walkways and bofors guns on top of 3 of the blocks.

You will find further info in "After the Battle, Issue no 4".

http://www.afterthebattle.com/ab-con1.html

regards Collin:ernae:
 
CrisGer said:
:ernae: Just happened to be browsing the forum Rami, ....and i love these forts they were qute a project in their day and must have been very wet during the big storms. I had a uncle who was involved in the building of Highlands One, one of the first rigs for the North Sea and the old time hydrographers uses to say there were these big storms that they classified as 100 yr storms. Well as it turned out,once they had a stable platform to measure things with, ie the first big rig, and there were trained observers aboard, the 100 yrs storms happend quite a bit more often than 100 years, i think he said maybe like five years lol. And then the REAL 100 year storms showed up! At least they HOPE they are. :)
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Its where they got the scientific data for rogue waves, google the Draupner Wave. We did have a thread on them in the naval forum but it was lost in the last crash.

Or try this forum thread.

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Fastnet_Carraig_Aonair.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php%3Ft%3D2055581340&usg=__i1LPkneb1n8_WZFzayIAor_fdy4=&h=480&w=640&sz=49&hl=en&start=80&sig2=5YMR0tVXLR-oH036KTD-zA&um=1&tbnid=-UxItMnb_EuFaM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddraupner%2Bwave%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:eek:fficial%26sa%3DN%26start%3D60%26um%3D1&ei=jpHnSrvbI8ewjAep0923CA

regards Collin:ernae:
 
I built the second type several years ago, but have not uploaded--I still don't know how to make objects destroyable!! But I didn't think it mattered in this case, as they are really just steel and cement from the look of it--I guess a nuclear warhead would do it!

merlin 2
 
i did a version for FS9 a few years back but ive never tested it in CFS2,
but it should work as a scenery object, although its not destroyable and im not sure how to get it to show in mission builder.
I did pass on the FSDSv2 project files to someone who wanted to convert it to CSF2 but i never heard any more from them, should have them still saved on disk somewhere.
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/index.php?lloc=downloads&loc=downloads&page=info&FileID=7642
cheers ian
 
ian elliot said:
i did a version for FS9 a few years back but ive never tested it in CFS2,
but it should work as a scenery object, although its not destroyable and im not sure how to get it to show in mission builder.
I did pass on the FSDSv2 project files to someone who wanted to convert it to CSF2 but i never heard any more from them, should have them still saved on disk somewhere.
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/index.php?lloc=downloads&loc=downloads&page=info&FileID=7642
cheers ian
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I thought your fs9 version looked great, Ian - but when I tried to use them in CFS2 they were invisible. I've had this problem before trying to use scenery from fs9 and assumed that the bgls were looking for some fs9 textures that weren't there.

It would be great if someone could provide a dedicated version for the Senior Sim.

Cheers
BuV
 
wow, very nice. I will tire up FS9 and see if i can find the textures if that is what is needed. They look great from that image...
 
The Maunsell forts certainly can take a lot of punishment. I straddled one with innumerable bombs and fired hundreds of rounds of ammunition and this is all I could get.
 
Thank you Ian.

I had no idea that someone had done a sea fort for FS9. I've installed it into FS 1954 and attached a NDB and VOR/DME to it. I've got the old CFS 1 CFC Rochford scenery installed a couple of miles from Southend and associated the long range nav aids with that scenery with that AFCAD. I figured I'd put the radio tower to good use ;)

Thanks again..

Willy
 
FS 1954 "A Half Century of Flight" is a heavily modified FS 2004. It's a pure custom rework that involves environments scenery and aircraft from all over the FS9 spectrum. You pretty much have to build it yourself to how you want it. I've used the Silver Wings environment, retro scenery and propliner AI set from California Classics, other vintage type scenery that I thought would be a good fit. 1954 is just kind of loose date in my install. I've got stuff from the 20s to the early 60s with almost no jets (DH 106 Comet is the only civil jet). A few others have built their own versions.

It's an ongoing project that will probably be never finished, but the building is half the fun.
 
Cor blimey Willy, I've never seen the Thames look that clean:icon_lol:. Even the fish come up coughing:isadizzy:

regards Collin:ernae:
 
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