Plymouth Ho!

[DaveB]

Seen enough grey funnel ships yet??

Here's a few shots of my slightly more interesting than default Plymouth/Devonport. Not exactly Fly Tampa quality but there was absolutely NOTHING there before.. not one little dinghy








Much could be done with the area but this is probably as far as I'll go. I've added a few bits and bobs around Falmouth too plus ArkIV, Fearless and GlamorousOrgan visit daily. It's nice to see something where there was nothing before

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[DaveG]

Looks pretty damn good to me Dave.

Is the heli paint one of yours?

[DaveB]

Hello Mate

No.. strangely, not one of mine I can't remember exactly where I got it from but being a James Bond fan, you'll recognise it and the titles I'll send it ya if you like I've this one, the CBFS one, plain white (I use this more than most), Bristow, Alan Mann and BEA. All the rest have the infamous =n

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[Filonian]

Looks very good to me Dave. Keep it up.


Graham

[John]

What's that yank carrier doing in there?

John

[DaveB]

Hi John

It's a visitor with it's cruiser escort for NATO exercises in the SW Approaches. That was the idea anyway. The Ark Royal Group (Ark, Fearless and Glamorgan) are 'Blue' forces and will be supported by Exeter (in that line of ships leaving harbour) plus the O boat. The carrier has 2 tenders standing by and is making ready for departure with it's cruiser escort to rendezvous with the remainder of those departing ships to form the 'Orange' forces There was a plan.. it wasn't completely random

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[T6flyer]

WOW....very impressed indeed. Would love something like this for my VFR setup. Thats only 4 miles away from me.

Martin

[nigelb]

Well done, Dave!

Nigel²

[DaveB]

Cheers Martin

Unfortunately.. early Portsmouth and Devonport were very much learning curves as far as putting collections of scenery together are concerned. If you had the relevant UKVFR and ship files.. I could upload the scenery bgl for you but as it stands, I've no idea what the heck would show

By the time I'd done Southampton and added the last touches to Portsmouth.. my 'build' was more structured.. especially the end of Portsmouth where buildings and blocks of buildings were added to the area as individual blg's rather than simply added to the 'master' bgl. That way.. if things got too slow, I could easily remove a building bgl to ease things. In fact, it's only the last part of Portsmouth that was put together in this way as the buildings (or groups of) were large.. very large. Spice island at Portsmouth and 3 sets of dockyard buildings are amazingly complex and each group is a single model. Gad knows how the chap who built it in sketchup managed it

Sadly.. the level of interest in Portsmouth Dockyard by modellers has not been shown for Devonport. In fact I've found nothing at all for Devonport. Difficult to know why A brief touch was done by Nick Ryall for FS2002 (SW England) which was great but the south of England has moved too much over 2 versions to accommodate it now. I tried using the Torpoint ferries from it which good old Nick made animated. I was unable to 'get into' them with MCX so had to try them native 2002 in FSX. They were slightly out of line with Torpoint (but not by much as it happens) but shot across the Tamar like speedboats and disappeared before they reached the shore.. only to reappear at some point for the return

I've got 'Arthur' to put at Goonhilly at some point and there are 'default' sat dishes which can be used for the remaining AE's. Think I'll make that my next little project POI's.. landmarks is what I'm after really, not models of exceptional detail. Arthur looks detailed (another sketchup model) so I'll put him together this evening. As long as the other dishes are defaults (I'm pretty sure they are) I can make that a small file which can be added to your FSX If there are any other landmarks you might like to see, let me know and I'll see if I can find them

Cheers Nige

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[DaveB]

Here's antenna 1 (Arthur) at Goonhilly..



I've just looked at allnodes to see if anyone had made Goonhilly for FSX and the only thing showing was a windfarm demo for Nick Ryall's SW England for FS2002. Not all the antenna's are available at 3D warehouse so I'm going to find some shots of the real thing to show how different the antenna's are. 3 look very alike but I think there are 6 plus some smaller ones. Maybe NR's Goonhilly will drag into FSX That single 3D warehouse antenna is 9.62mb.. lib and textures

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