To give me a little company while testing a certain Sea Vixen, I thought I'd get the UKMIL paint packs for the Alpha Vixen and let one join me on Monday mornings out of Yeovilton. The Alpha AI pilot is a bit of a newbie and as you can see, his first attempt was high! He was off centre on the second but started gaining confidence..
My thanks to the Ark Royal team, UKMIL for the additional Alpha paints and to BrianF and the team
The 'quick' among you may notice that the Alpha Vixen in the first shot is not the one doing the T&G's ;-)
Lovely stuff DB.... I'll need to see if this "Acceleration pack" will allow AFX files on AI ships... now that would / will be fantastic! And I know another ship I'd like to see a hard deck on. ;-)
Yep, was aware of the harden, DG modified an old Hermes for me which sails (with another which shall remain nameless for now) from Southampton around Jersey and into Plymouth twice a day.
Its a shame they haven't worked out a way to attach an AFD to a model... or NAV aids for that matter as even though Hermes is only sailing up and down the channel, she can be a bugger to pick up!
No matey.. the Phantom's you see don't land, or move for that matter. There are 2 types of load you can have with each of the 4 Ark Royals.. 1 is clean (eg.. no parked aircraft on deck) and the other is as I have it. In fact, I have a mixture. I think the one I have up Norway has aircraft on deck as does the one off Devon but the one off Gib is clear ;-)
I'm sure I've asked this pefore somewhere, but is there any chance the guys could recompile ARK to an mdl (model file) rather than a bgl. It would be so nice to have her sailing about.
I'm sure I've asked this before somewhere, but is there any chance the guys could recompile ARK to an mdl (model file) rather than a bgl. It would be so nice to have her sailing about.
Ah yes you did, but I was in the Caribbean at the time (yes my life just sucks doesn't it!!) and couldn't do anything about it. Having been cruelly brought back to the UK ahead of the ship (PORTLAND in case you were wondering) I could probably look at it, I've got some exams to do this week so probably in the next fortnight or so, once I've established what else I've promised to do!!
That would be great. I can add an MDL file to AI ships in FSX very easily... can even pick out a nice route too! Unfortuantely the only way to make it landable would be to make the deck a hard surface within the Model as you can't attach afcads to AI ships. I've no idea whats involved in this as I'm not a modeler (yet) but Dave Garwood did it before for the old Hermes and If I remember it didn't seem to take him long.
Anyway, I'll leave you to it, and if you are able to "modelize" it I'd much appreciate it.
Just wondering do those F4's every take off or are they static?
You was the best there ever was.
