B-24 Liberator

[John Young]

It's certainly an interesting one, but it would require a separate model and texture re-map - it's 7ft longer than a standard C-87 and has a single fin. If I did that one, I's probably do a PB4Y-2 (Privateer) as well.

Possibility, but don't hold me to it.

John

[mins]

Hi...
Any update?
Keep it up.

[John Young]

The Liberators are all done, documented and packaged. I'm just awaiting Brian Clarke to finish off the North Pickenham scenery.

John

[John Young]

Sorry, quite a gap since the last post, but various diversions got in the way of completing the project. However, I'm pleased to say that I uploaded 6 zips to Avsim early this morning containing the B-24s (FS9 and FSX), B-26s (FS9 and FSX) and Brian's scenery for North Pickenham and Earls Colne in England (FS9 only). Here's a taster:

There are 12 specimen B-24 examples, including these:



This is "Tuberao" a formation ship just passing the North Pickenham Tower:



Some 491st BG B-24s on their way out for a mission:



The bomb dump at North Pickenham under camo netting:



4 AI Jeeps roam the North Pickenham and Earls Colne airfields:



B-26 Marauders at Earls Colne:





Dispersal at Earl's Colne with some of my static vehicles and personnel:



The file names at Avsim are:

JYAI_B24_FS9_1.zip
JYAI_B24_FSX_1.zip

JYAI_B26_FS9_1.zip
JYAI_B26_FSX_1zip

BC_North_Pickenham_FS9_1.zip
BC_Earls_Colne_FS9_1.zip

Some library files will be needed for Brian's scenery, but many MAIW users will have the bulk of them I would think.

I'm hoping all the files will be available later today. I've been waiting for the e-mail upload confirmations from Avsim for 5 hours.

John

[bismarck]

Fantastic!!!
Giorgio

[clickclickdoh]

Spectacular work.

[Kelleymoe]

Beautiful work John! I can't wait to add them to my FS2004 world. They'll look nice with F-15s flying top cover.

Mike

[asizi]

Great! Looks very good. Can't wait to see them in my sim.

Arne

[John Young]

Actually Mike, if you leave RAF Marham active, it's only 6 miles away so you can have Tornado GR4s overflying North Pickenham if you like.

Don't know what's happening at Avsim today. I haven't received any confirmation e-mails from them and the uploads are not in today's releases. In fact there are only 3 zips released today, all from the same person. I have e-mailed to ask if I need to re-upload.........

John

[TheFoufure]

The B-24, The B-26 and the two sceneries are on AVSIM. I just download them.

[flyboy]

Thank you John and Brian for all the hard work. Just downloaded them also.

[John Young]

Yes indeed, they are there. E-mail received from Avsim saying they have had a problem with their auto-generated e-mails today.

John

[Jon]

John,

Just downloaded. thank for taking the time to paint Strawberry.

Jon

[mins]

Great!!!Many thanks...

[Sonarboy]

Many thanks John for your kindness and help with the release of the two bases. North Pickenham and Earls colne.

John has done an amazing job with his modelling of aircraft, but also went the extra mile to make the bespoke scenery models and the readme's plus uploading the files.

My role was a very small part in producing the bases then placing Johns superb scenery models.

Unfortunately my new computer has been back and forwards to the repairers over the last couple of months which has created many problems for me.

John should take the credit for all the graft. I cannot thank him enough.

For those that like the WW2 theme I hope you enjoy them.

Brian

[John Young]

Thanks Brian, but I cannot possibly steal your thunder. You did all the painstaking work on the AFCADs, you placed all the vehicles and you found and placed the missing models we needed (just avoid MAIW Custom Libraries for the future LOL). You also did some tremendous research into serial numbers and nose art which were difficult to find given the period and a time when most photography was in black and white.

We wouldn't have had the airfields for the AI if it were not for your initiative. I'm grateful to you for making it a complete package, at least for FS9. The bonus was that It was also great corresponding with you while we did it.

John

[lbrooks]

Thanks for your great work!

[bismarck]

Working on alternative FPs.
Six Liberator over Berlin



Giorgio

[John Young]

Something wrong there Giorgio. The airframes should be highly polished (turn on "reflections" in FS9) or they should be dark green if the painted versions.

John

[essub]

Thank you for this wonderful work - phantastic. I have tried to use your Bofors in a scenery of my own by using ADE9 and adding the object bgls to the library function of my ADE9. I can place them on the scenery but when using this scenery in my FS9 I do not see any of these objects. What do I do wrong? Is it possible to use your objects on ADE at all?

Cheers and thanks again

Kalle/essub