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US-Bases on Emiraua Island 1944

klnowak

klnowak

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Hello everyone,

after I found the superb scenery made the Solomon Islands by Marc, I have decided to complement this towards the north-west. Around 220 Milen northwest of Rabaul are the islands Emirau, Eloaua and Mussau. 1944 they were conquered by the US armed forces and first applied to Emirau a large base. This was 2 runways, as well as a port. Below were built on Eloaua and Mussau small alternate airports.
Far from the capabilities of Marc, I have to now try to create these bases as a supplement. They reflect the state of the bases in the second half of 1944 and are equipped with an extensive AI traffic in the air and at sea.
Yet the whole is far from finished, but I would like to present this little project ever. I beg your indulgence for the quality, but I am an absolute beginner in scenery design. Bit by bit, these scenarios with now continue to grow and hopefully be even better.

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Bag my pardon for my very bad english....it isnt my language.

Greetings
Klaus
 

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Don't worry too much about the language. . .your images speak volumes and I have to say that for a novice scenery designer you have taken on a large task and done quite well. Your work looks awesome and should be well received by all the WWII buffs among us. Keep up the great work!
 
falcon409 said:
Don't worry too much about the language. . .your images speak volumes and I have to say that for a novice scenery designer you have taken on a large task and done quite well. Your work looks awesome and should be well received by all the WWII buffs among us. Keep up the great work!
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Well received indeed. Beautiful work!
 
Not bad for a beginner! No serious: this is looking great. I think you're using Marc's libraries?

:applause::applause::applause:

Cees
 
Thank you very much for all your kind words.

Off course i use Marc's libraries. I think everyone who is interessted in using scenerys from WWII in the pacific will know Marc`s biutifull work. So his great libraries are installed on all users computer. But the real reason to use this stuff..... i`m not able to do such a good work.

At the next two photos you can see the location of the islands Emirau, Eloaua and Mussau. Emirau an Eloaua are activ airports today. On Emirau there is only one runway in use today for GA-Traffic. The runway on Mussau is out of duty.

The three islands with markings for the three airports

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And Emirua with the airport today

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Next first pictures from the base on Eloaua Island

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Greetings
Klaus
 
Excellent sceneries, Klaus !!
I love the amount of details you are trying to include in these.
Do you plan to include some grass or bushes as well ?
 
Daube said:
Do you plan to include some grass or bushes as well ?
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I did grass in just one place till now. Just want to look what will happen to the FPS. FSX is running on a laptop on my side... so i had to look after the FPS. Till now all is wonderfull. 3D Grass shurely will be one of the last things to do.

Till now i did some changes on landclasses on the islands so they show up more realistic. With google i found some helpfull links about the history this bases gone through. Some nice pictures in there.

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/airfields/png/emirau/index.html

http://rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/15598/5su-on-emirau

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirau_Airport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_on_Emirau

http://www.vmb433.com/images/annual019.jpg
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Next steps will be the work on AI-traffic an some repaints for the planes that had been in use on these islands in 1944.

Step by step i will learn a little designe in gmax so that i could do things like runway, takiway and so on with new, more realistic, textures. Just know i do everything only with ADE 9x. i think the best way will be to update the scenery later with new things i learn.

But just now there is a lot to do till i will put the first step to Avsim.

Greetings
Klaus
 
I`ve decided to take the period of Nov 1944 to Feb 1945 for the bases. In this period there are Fighters from the RNZAF, an Bombers from US on that islands.

Fighters are the 19 th. squadron RNZAF with F4U Corsair and the 22 nd squadron RNZAF also with F4U Corsair.

US-Marine Corps is present with VMSB-243 operating SBDs and the VMB-413 and VMB-433 operating the B-25 Mitchel.

First i did the 12 different repaints for the 19 th. squadron RNZAF. The others will follow. AI-flightplanes now represent this planes as you can see on the next pictures taken from FSX.


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Hope you will enjoy that later

Greetings
Klaus
 
I don't see anything to be embarrassed about with it. I haven't done much add on scenery with FSX yet, but I want to be first in line for this.
 
Great work! This looks like a fascinating scenery package, and full of small yet important details.

Looking forward to the release. :encouragement:

Cheers,
 
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