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FS2004 Screenshots Here!!!
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Gotthardt Handrick was a gold medalist on the modern pentathlon during the Olympics from 1936.
Cheers,
Huub
That's a beauty!
ian elliot
SOH-CM-2026
Thanks, Model by Shessi, repaint by me. Both available in the library here.
AcWai new CFS2 Ki 61 works nice in 9, had to swap the sounds and it needs quite a lot of positive trim for take-off, but ive always liked the look of this aircraft. Thanks AW
A beautiful model, but how does it compare with Akemi's model?
Cheers,
Huub
ian elliot
SOH-CM-2026
Id forgotten Akemi did one, im going to have to check it now , i will say the VC in this new one is very cool
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Yes, sorry - I made these a very long time ago for my own amusement and didn't store the details on most. I'll try to get them for this model (I think it was from a CD package of WW2 aircraft)
Edit: it looks as though the Liberator is an A2A Simulations model which was included in the "Wings of Power" collection for FS9 (and later for FSX). Some of my screenshots will also feature aircraft from Shockwave's "Firepower" collection for CFS3 - which also had, as I recall, B-17 and B-24 models, though of course developed for combat simming, with explosions and other special effects over and above those already used for CFS3
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@ darrenvox & zswobbie1 - thanks for those kind words. The clouds are courtesy of another CD pack "Flight Environment" by Flight 1 (I also have their "Ground Environment" to go with it but I always preferred to use photoscenery when screenshotting). That software allows you to choose from many different cloud AND water effects, but you guys probably know all about these?
The 'target' planes in my earlier Mig 21 shots are from another CD set featuring Cold War aircraft - I'll to look for it today - I seem to recall that it was for FS2 as well as FS9 and that the virtual cockpits were crude but the rest of it very nice; very good for setting up these 'interception' scenarios for the Sabre and the Mig etc. Btw, both of those were freebies from PC Pilot Magazine and I can supply full details of the fantastic F-86 (by "SectionF8" if you want
The 'target' planes in my earlier Mig 21 shots are from another CD set featuring Cold War aircraft - I'll to look for it today - I seem to recall that it was for FS2 as well as FS9 and that the virtual cockpits were crude but the rest of it very nice; very good for setting up these 'interception' scenarios for the Sabre and the Mig etc. Btw, both of those were freebies from PC Pilot Magazine and I can supply full details of the fantastic F-86 (by "SectionF8" if you want
Sbob
SOH-CM-2026
Aha, thanks for that. I'd forgotten about the Wings of Power set. I actually have that in my 'library'!
I'd forgotten how nice that collection is.
I love your clouds & scenery.
I managed to buy that set a couple of years ago (Amazon or simMarket?) and get it installed.
Great selection of aircraft and no nasty surprises. Their B-29 kinda mirrors Gloopney's planes but also includes an animated H2S radar "turret" that raises and lowers.
Mick
SOH-CM-2025
Thanks.
Well, it started out as Golden Hawaii, which I have the rest of installed. But Pearl Harbor in Golden Hawaii is grossly inaccurate. For one thing, it's set in the very early thirties, with old, pre-moderization battleships, Ford Island as a grass field, biplane Curtiss fighters and a blimp base with AI blimps. All completely wrong. The Naval Air Station on Ford Island started out paved; there was very little Navy activity there in the early thirties, there were never Navy blimps in Hawaii - they sent one there once for a few minutes and quickly found that the blimp couldn't handle the Pacific trade winds. And those anachronistic old lattice-masted battleships aren't tied up on the Battleship Row wharf along Ford Island, they're moored out in the middle of the loch.
I kept the rest of Golden Hawaii but I removed all of Bill Lyons' Pearl Harbor stuff, made an AFCAD to pave the air station on Ford Island, tied up a flotilla of Paul Clawson's Idaho-class battlewagons along Battleship Row on Ford Island, and placed a bunch of buildings and stuff from scenery libraries to represent - very roughly - the air station as it was around 1940, with period correct aircraft made into scenery objects. I also moored an Idaho out in the middle of the inner part of the loch to fly Kingfishers from its catapults. In general it's far less in-authentic than the Golden Hawaii Pearl Harbor, but it's nothing like accurate in detail. I also made a rough approximation of Hickam Field across the loch, but the only part of that's at all realistic is the AFCAD parts - runways, taxiways and ramps.
It's nothing like the authenticity I seek in the models David and I make, but it was fun to fly there - back in the old days when I actually had some time to fly, much less fiddle with scenery.
Mick, are you going to upload that VP-8 paint job?
Mick
SOH-CM-2025
I put the skins up last evening, so they should appear on the download page as soon as one of the librarians gets a chance to do an update. I know it went up because I can see it on the download page - the one who uploads a file can see it before the librarians do their thing, but nobody else can see it yet. I suppose it works that way so the uploader can see that the upload was successful.