Back again - some pictures of my activities

[essub]

Hi and hello to all of you,

being away for almost 18 months (silent spectator and downloader) and seeing all the new creations I think I should become a little more active. During 2020 and 2022 I had finally managed to use Sketchup, ADE9, MCX, SBuilder, dxtbmp and started to create objects, backdating airfields, repaint some A/C and so on. My first participation was the Baghdad Main Station which Ken Lawson an Al Von Pingel allowed me to apply in their wonderful Bagdhad Airport scenery. At this time I had already done a lot of objects and had WIP for Gando Airport 1958, Canary Islands, Son Bonet Airport 1958 Mallorca, and some other more Western European military airfields. Furthermore I was playing around with some Near and Middle East airfields and scenery enrichment for Northern Africa and Eastern Mediterranean. All well and good, but in late April 2022 Covid-19 struck. One by one my whole family catched it and I was the last one. Before that we all had got 3 vacinations . Fortunately no one was seriouly ill (vacination effects?) but I needed almost 3 months to recover. During that time I had absolutely no interest to do scenery design or anything else. Many things had to be postponed, had been neglected and and a lot of new duties, problems, activities required priorities. I started some months ago to get familiar again with my tools and finally doing some new designs. I have not started to continue with the airfield projects I had stopped in 2022. But all these new sceneries, enhancements (GCA and LORAN for instance) made my mouth water step by step. I have still a lot of other things to do, so finish sceneries which I have started to design/back-date have no priority. From time to time I do some object designing and for the rest of this year and probably first quarter '24 this will be all. But at least I would like to show you some of the things I did during the last 24 months.


































For now I have to stop, priorities strike again.

Cheers to all

Kalle

[Bernard]

Hi Kalle, Welcome back and many thank you for any effort put forth in any way. Looks really awesome. So classic FS9 eventually might still have nice days ahead of it!

Bernard

[essub]

Hi Bernard,

thank you for your kind words. Unfortunately I was in a hurry when posting the pictures and I messed up the explanations for those which are not self explanatory. The warship on the first pic should be an US Navy Forrest Sherman class destroyer as of 1958. Such ships of this period are only rarely to be found in FS9, so I did some of trhese to spice up harbors with naval activities. No.2 is a German cargo/passenger ship of the Santa Ines/Santa Teresa class as of 1958. Nos.3-4 represent Gando Airport, Gran Canaria, as of 1958, civilian Northern side. I was in the process of finishing the airpotz including the military part and the adjacent "Hospital" complex. No. 5 is the Son Bonet Airport Terminal 1958 at the island of Mallorca, Spain. Nos.6-7 are Frankfurt am Main landmarks, the "Dom" ( not a cathedral, no bishop there) St. Bartholomäus and the Steel Bridge over the river Main (Eiserner Steg). I wanted to enhance the wonderful Frankfurt Airport scenery made by Wolfgang Gersch, currently I am working on the recreation of the Gateway Garden Housing Area of the USAF personnel north of the airport. No. 8 Westerland train station (Sylt island) 1958 for my recreation of RAF Sylt airbase. No. 9 Yemen houses. No.10 Nile river ferry.Nos. 11 - 12 Egyptian houses alongside the Nile river. Nos. 13 - 14 Martin Matador MGM-1 cruise missile on launcher and on transport semi-trailer truck. When investigating USAF airfield Wheelus, Libya, I learned that the USAF operated some years a missile training range some 15 kilometers east of Tripoli as part of the Wheelus AFB. The missiles were transported from the European USAF bases for life exercises and were flown to target ranges several 100 miles south in the desert. Nos 15-16 represent the vintage Nile paddle steamer SS Sudan (part of the movie "Death on the Nile" starring Leon Ustinov as Poirot and David Niven and others. The ship has been refitted several times and is still operating doing Nile cruises around Luxor. The building should represent the "Old Cataract Hotel", also part of the old movie, still operated as a tourist hotel. I have done many other objects, some OK, some less so - I am still learning. Right now time available to do more is the bottle neck.

Best regards, cheers to all and : FS9 and CalClassic forever, thank you Tom, and all other contributors and aficionados!

Kalle

[Tom/CalClassic]

Some nice objects there, and you're certainly welcome. Glad to see new things being created thanks!