Ft. Worth Alliance Airport - Coming Soon

**thetford569** · November 19th, 2012, 17:37

Good Evening! My first major airport project has been completed and I am almost done testing and writing up the installation documents. I hope to have the airport available for download by the end of the week (if the turkey doesn't slow me down too much). Ft. Worth Alliance Airport opened in 1989 and was billed as the world's first purely industrial airport. It is home to the American Airlines 777/767 maintenance facility, Bell Helicopter Customer Care Center, DEA Air Operations Center, FedEx Southwest Region Sort Hub, and is a favorite stop for biz jets and GA pilots. It is also frequented by a large amount of military aircraft and cargo carriers. This is my "home" airport and is the first project of mine to include custom 3d models and buildings. I want to thank all of the help I have received from people on this site throughout the process of learning scenery design. It really made things easier with the amount of knowledge here and at FSDeveloper. Here are some screen shots to show you what to expect. I will update the post here when the scenery is available for download. Thanks!

Brandon Thetford

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**thetford569** · November 19th, 2012, 17:39

More Alliance Shots...
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**thetford569** · November 19th, 2012, 17:42

More Alliance Screen Shots...

**thetford569** · November 19th, 2012, 17:44

More Shots...

***falcon409*** · November 19th, 2012, 18:02

One word....."Payware".:salute:

**Barfly** · November 19th, 2012, 18:12

Yes, payware excellent for sure.

**yankeeromeo** · November 19th, 2012, 23:21

Nice work who deserve some bucks for sure

**Dave Torkington** · November 19th, 2012, 23:55

Originally Posted by yankeeromeo

Nice work who deserve some bucks for sure

Agreed! Very nice work indeed.

Dave.

***Dimus*** · November 20th, 2012, 00:08

All I can say is WoW!!!

:salute:

I love the way you have combined the photoreal background with the FSX aprons and runways. Usually it is hard to match the colours. I guess you must have done some extensive work manipulating the photoreal colours. Check Top toys and Menards Ad. I also admire you for your patience in aligning the location of lamps and trees with their shadows on the photo image.

A great work indeed. I think I am going to start revamping my home base (LGTT Tatoi AB) very soon. You certainly inspired me.

**jdhaenens** · November 20th, 2012, 03:05

Wow Brandon, looking great! Does it look like you're driving onto the runway coming from the south on I-35?

**OleBoy** · November 20th, 2012, 04:46

This is far and above. Very, very nice.
Your attention to detail really makes your scenery project. Very well done!!

**IFlySWA** · November 20th, 2012, 05:06

Holy cow!

A real labor of love. Fantastic work Brandon. :salute:

Brian

**papab** · November 20th, 2012, 10:19

Absolutely payware quality!

Stunning work......

Rick

**ST0RM** · November 20th, 2012, 12:58

Nice Brandon. And here I thought you were only a photographer. Looking forward to this excellent add-on. Next maybe doing a proper JRB Navy Ft. Worth?

-Jeff

**thetford569** · November 20th, 2012, 13:15

Originally Posted by ST0RM

Nice Brandon. And here I thought you were only a photographer. Looking forward to this excellent add-on. Next maybe doing a proper JRB Navy Ft. Worth?

-Jeff

Thank you for the kind words everyone! I'm very happy with how it turned out. Just putting some finishing touches in today and then a little more testing. Storm! Small world huh? This is a project I've been doing when I'm not taking or editing photos! NAS Ft. Worth is on my radar but I am short on source data (i.e. photos) at the moment. I was going to wait until the airshow this year and try to fix that problem but it sounds like there will not be a show in 2013...so I will have to wait another year or figure out how to do it without photos. We will see...I did take lots of photos in Houston at Ellington Field and I am currently contemplating doing that airport next. But for now I'm taking a break and enjoying flying FSX for a change. Sorry I missed you at Navy a couple weekends ago...

Brandon

**airattackimages** · November 20th, 2012, 13:56

Good LORD. This is awesome. Really looks like a high dollar payware field.

Well done. And from one of my favorite FC'ers. I love seeing how often hobbies cross paths.

**thetford569** · November 20th, 2012, 17:00

Originally Posted by airattackimages

Good LORD. This is awesome. Really looks like a high dollar payware field.

Well done. And from one of my favorite FC'ers. I love seeing how often hobbies cross paths.

Wow! I had no idea that anyone else from Fence Check was here at SOH. Too cool!

Brandon

**BlueAngelFan** · November 22nd, 2012, 20:25

Fantastic work, I've been to every Air show held at alliance since my birth. I fly there often in FSX and this right here is going to enhance my flying experience 1000x what it was!

**thetford569** · November 23rd, 2012, 17:01

Hey guys,

I couldn't figure out how to update the 1st post in this thread so if any moderator can move this announcement up to the top with the screenshots in the first post that would be great! This scenery is now available and should be able to be downloaded from Flightsim.com tomorrow. I had some issues uploading to AVSIM so it's not there yet. If you are ready to get the scenery now I have placed it into my Google Drive account and you can download it directly from there. I hope you enjoy the scenery as much as I did making it and hopefully I will be starting a new project in another month or so. Enjoy!

Download KAFW - Alliance Airport directly from Google Drive here - https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8P...llyRTEwU2dOR2M

Brandon Thetford

**Kiwikat** · November 23rd, 2012, 17:41

I am downloading it now. Really looking forward to checking it out when I get back home tomorrow. Thanks! :salute:

**BlueAngelFan** · November 24th, 2012, 00:23

Downloading at this very moment, I cannot wait!

**papab** · November 25th, 2012, 03:28

Bump!
Should this be a sticky?

Maybe the dev could post download in SOH Library
Rick

***Dimus*** · November 25th, 2012, 07:47

Definitely sticky material!

**thetford569** · November 25th, 2012, 12:21

Thanks everyone! There was a little issue at Flightsim.com but it is available there now. If a mod wants to sticky this that is fine with me. I don't think I can do that myself. Thanks for downloading it! Hope you enjoy!

Brandon Thetford