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Yes, Horsham Saint Faith.

Hi all, made some good progress this week. Couple shots of Chain Home Radar.

Best regards,
Booze

Booze, those pics are simply gorgeous!!! Didn't think could get any more impatient for these lovely maps in progress but you've done it to me now! Great work mate. S!

+1, just beautiful Booze, take yer time, take yer time

Jeez, i bet even Olegs ass is clenching! :-)

What's he doing to us is it a plot to lure us into selling our first-born for this mod

Sold

Really excellent work on the towers Booze and as usual no pressure but get a move on Avatar told me to tell you <runs away>

Ming

Now, if you could just lean a bicycle against the wall it'll be complete!

Seriously, superb work Booze!!

The Chain Home towers were made by Mr Jolly for my Channel map months ago, and were included in the UI 1.1.

Thanks guys, been going at it hard this week getting things installed, everything is coming along well, thanks for the kind words.

Ming no worry on the first born, these maps are on the house. And are you giving Avatar a hard time?

Ogdens sometimes we decorate up the airflelds and other sites we create when we make the screenshots to post but when you get the map most all the areas will look like the pics above. Just the main structures are there. This way you can decorate them yourselves for each mission or campaigns you create. The bicycle is a nice touch.


And yes the Towers above are from the Public Release of the most recent UI. We appreciate Mr. Jolly releasing them with this version. We actually have our own set created also but we have not yet been successful in getting the 3D converter to work. However we just brought on a new gentleman that is working on this for us. The exciting thing is that over this last week he has already created several new buildings for us for importation into the Channel Map. Most of the new objects are modeled after the Luftwaffe buildings provided to us by JVM. I am really really excited to get these in. Thanks again for JVM for making these available to us. The majority of our team is from the US. We have one member from GB and another from the Netherlands and one from Canada. Its important to us that the airfields on both sides of the map are equally as nice and as accurate as possible so that everyone can choose an airfield to call home should they want, so that is our goal. Thanks again for all your comments.

Best regards,
Booze

well isn't that great - mods should be used right?

Yep, I agree. I was just letting Ming know their provenance.

Hi Joe, i have UI 1.1 but i dont see these new towers i still see the old ones on the channel map. What am i doing wrong?

Thanks Canon, hugely impressive stuff all you modding chaps are creating for us and special thanks to Mr Jolly for building us the biggest WW2 simulator sandbox coffee house on the Internet from Oleg's wonderful legacy. Beat this Armed Assault 2 or even 3 probably

Ming

They hadn't been made when the beta was released. They're part of the final release (which is my current WIP)

Hi all, figured we would just go ahead and post up of some our our new models we have in the works. We have a great 3d modeller working with us now named Champ and he has been kind enough to start putting together several models already for use in our 1940 and 1943-1945 maps. Here are a few examples below. Please note these are a wip and some do not have skins on the yet. The Luftwaffe Hangers and the Machine gun tower are based off of diagrams provided to us from our friend JVM. The towers base is similar to the Chain Home Radar bottom with wire and wood slats on the top piece. Champ has provided us a Tower Bridge, Big Ben and an Eiffel tower as well as other prominent monuments or buildings needed. He has also created custom fitting hangers for the BF-109 and the 110 also based off of diagrams from JVM. We have many many more in progress we hope to have in soon. We're looking to create all new industrial targets as well as Subpens, Marshalling Yards, Oil Refineries and large train depots so just rolling with this to see where it might take us.

The Bodney Admin Hut is special to us because we received the data on this from one of the original members of the 352ndFG. Several of us had the opportunity to attend The Gathering of Mustangs & Legends in Columbus Ohio in 2007 where we were privileged to meet and talk with many of the members of the Group. We were told about this Admin Tower from a wonderful gentleman named Wayne Mark who sat down and told us about what life was like at Bodney airfield. We're still checking to see if this was solely used at Bodney or if it was used at some of the other stations also.

Best regards,
Booze

Simply stunning! Keep up the good work guys!

Something tells me I'll be spending MANY hours flying around this map

Great stuff there Booze. Looking forward to it!

Hi Booze.

This gets more and more impressive with each update.


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Marshalling Yards, Oil Refineries and large train depots so just rolling with this to see where it might take us

Northern France, Belgium, Holland I hope

And perhaps a revisiting of Krymskaya, which was a bit disappointing in the original- but look at the glorious terrain possibilities down there with the beach towels

Ming

Thanks all. Ming ya just never know where we all may end up with this sim. At this point we're just hanging on for the ride.

Booze