Hey! Are you calling me a rivet-counter? :o
Actually I practically was for this one. Once you get one line of rivets though you just keep duping the layer in Photoshop and you can fly through it (sort of). So it looks fancier than it is I suppose! The worst I ever did was the Gannet- LOTS of rivets there, although I bet Paul Foster's Shackleton easily beat it for a rivet counter's nightmare (or dream

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On another note, let me just say I am having a new honeymoon with FS9 at the moment - the combination of Real Environment Pro and Active Sky 6.5 is a marriage made in heaven. The sim just looks flipping beautiful at the mo and has improved my frame rates as well as the quality of the environment graphics. If you don't have them, I can't recommend them enough ('specially as the former is freeware!)