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US-Bases on Emiraua Island 1944

Klaus,

do you use the FSX default islands? Or did you trace the shorelines in SBX or Google Earth (can't really tell from the screenshots)?

I also can contribute a better set of palms, the ones I see were my first humble try in these horticultural enterprises and look a bit funny with their fat trunks. They also are a bit complex.
I made another version that can be deployed in hundreds over the airfields without a noticeable frame drop.


Mark
 
roger-wilco-66 said:
Klaus,

do you use the FSX default islands? Or did you trace the shorelines in SBX or Google Earth (can't really tell from the screenshots)?

I also can contribute a better set of palms, the ones I see were my first humble try in these horticultural enterprises and look a bit funny with their fat trunks. They also are a bit complex.
I made another version that can be deployed in hundreds over the airfields without a noticeable frame drop.


Mark
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Hi,

yes till now i use the FSX default ilands. I only change the landclases. In my fsx these islands did not look like islands with jungle.
Marc... every help is welcome. So if i may use this new set of palms i would be very happy to do this. Your libarys are a fantastic work. Without them i couldn`t do such a project.

At this point i will show the next steps forword. Just make the next paints for the AI traffic and flightplans that operate this AI traffic. First there are 12 different paints for the 22nd RNZAF fighter spuadron.

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And also did the vmb433 marine bombing squadron.

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Next to follow is the vmb413 marine bomb squadron.

Greetings
Klaus
 
Hi to everyone,

just the time to tell something about the progress.

Till now all the AI traffic is done. All planes in use got their repaints and all flightplanes are done. Just the shiptraffic will get some little changes in the next time.

For the base itself there is a very big progress by some very welcome help from Marc. He offers the islands he madeto me, so i can use them for this project. At the same time he told me a very much needed pool of informations how to design scenerys. With all that help i startet to do things in SBuilderX by looking into the islands he made.
After some hours of trying i`m now able to change some things and i think i`m on the right way to use this programm to change a lot in the scenerys.

Frist i did the shoreline of the islands an also did a lot of changes in the landclases. So now the first beaches are ready. Some things on bases i had to replace, because Marc did a fantastic work for the islands from google. Their look is much more realistic now.

But have a look at yourself.

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Next coming up is to do all the rest of changes on Emirau and then the other islands will follow. On the pictures you can see that there is much to do....

Thanks a lot again for the very big help i got from Marc. Some things would have taken a lot more of time if i had not gotten the big help and a lot of information from him. Thanks for all that.

Greetings
Klaus
 
So.... Emirau is nearly ready. Coastline and landclasses are done. I think this look is ok. Now the next islands will follow.

kueste7.jpg


Greetings
Klaus
 
Klaus,

I've been working on the B-25J glass and gun nose versions ever since you announced this scenery. Still a WIP as
I'm trying to dirty these birds up. If you have any info on Serial codes for both VMB 413 and 433 I can do full
squadron for both units and send to you to use with this package. You can PM me here if you want to use them.

This is just the glass nose and still a lot to do.





Joe
 
Thanks for that great offer joe. Fantiastic work you do there. Till know i wasn`t able to find the right model with glass nose, so i do every repaint to another later model without that nose.

Every information i get to both bomb squadron, i found on the following sides. There are a plenty of photograph in there that show the markings and numbers of some aircrafts.

http://www.vmb413.com/index.htm


http://www.vmb433.com


Greetings
Klaus
 
Thanks Klaus,

I had already found those 2 sites, but the lack of more info on BuNo. for each aircraft makes it hard to do squadron strength.
The John Young (JYAI) B-25 AI package has the glass nose version in it. (model.1) The one you used for your paint is (model.2)
and lacks the top turret. There is another gun nose version in the package (model.8) that has the top turret but lacks the side
mounted guns. There is also a D model (model.6) that can be used for the PBJ-1D that these 2 squadrons shipped out with on
there way to the Pacific.

And now for the sad news....
I did what probably every one has done that uses photoshop or any other paint program, which is to save my paint and for
some reason flatten the image and click save again, then close out the file and lose all my layers. So all that work is now gone.:pop4:
The good news is I had saved an earlier version of the PSD file with most layers still there, (didn't know I did that) minus all my weathering that I did yesterday. The other good news is that it also had all my reworked panel line layers and another factory
fresh metal paint that I had did for another Pacific based USAAF bird + all my Doolittle Raiders paints. So I'm very happy that I
don't have to start that all over again.:encouragement:

Joe
 
The other islands Eloaua and Emananus are ready. Think it`s ok like this.

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Next to come : little changes on the bases and the landclasses on island Mussau.

Greetings
Klaus
 
Some new pictures from the bases. nearly ready now. Next to follow : the instructions for the installation. Then the first "Beta"-release will follow.

Eloaua Island

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And just a very little thing to come with. There is a little island about 40 miles east of Emirau, called Tench Island, that is not build in FSX. Today there are some houses and a little church.... nothing else. I think in 2nd WW there was nothing. But it`s a little nice place to go from Emirau (and just my route for the second carrier group comes to that island) so i decide to make it a little US base. (perhaps it was in real...but i dont know)

Tench Island

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Hope you will enjoy it with the hole scenery.

Greetings
Klaus
 
It`s done. You find the download here in Warbirds Library.

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Hope you will like it. Have fun.

Next to come is the modern version of Emirau Island as it is present today. Just working on it.

Greetings
Klaus
 
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