Roger wilco Rabaul beta screenies

[Warhawk1130]

Fortunate to be a beta tester for this....great scenery....post more in awhile when I get the objects working LOL.

[Warhawk1130]

OK a few more...objects at the strip, but not many...am I supposed to see more, Roger? Superb....

No framerate hit with my quadcore rig.

[jeansy]

Awesome

Ive been lucky enough to go there with work a few times

We did all the tours thru the mountain bunkers and some jungles

A lot if it was destroyed when the volcano blew, damn shame for such a huge historical island

[Geomitrak]

No Beehives ?

[Roger]

Looking forward to this

[roger-wilco-66]

OK a few more...objects at the strip, but not many...am I supposed to see more, Roger? Superb....

No framerate hit with my quadcore rig.

There are not many objects yet, the ones you see are some of the around 90 objects I made with GMAX for the Rabaul scenery. The ones you see are just from testing them.
The beehives are also made in GMAX and should be visible.

Glad you like it!

Cheers,
Mark

[roger-wilco-66]

Awesome

Ive been lucky enough to go there with work a few times

We did all the tours thru the mountain bunkers and some jungles

A lot if it was destroyed when the volcano blew, damn shame for such a huge historical island

Ahh Matt, some are really lucky. This must be an awesome place. I put in on my travel list along with the Solomons already... These are some of the places I'd like to have been before conking out.

Cheers,
Mark

[cheezyflier]

slightly o/t but i'm gonna give it a shot.
the show baa baa black sheep. all the island names they used were hooey. where were these guys really, and are there other sceneries for that area?

[Warhawk1130]

slightly o/t but i'm gonna give it a shot.
the show baa baa black sheep. all the island names they used were hooey. where were these guys really, and are there other sceneries for that area?

VMF-214 flew from vella lavella in the solomon islands. I am sure Roger will be fixing up all that stock scenery with pretty WW2 ones.

Vella lavella https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q...&ved=0CJIBELYD

[roger-wilco-66]

The Solomon 1943 scenario covers Vella Lavella (the airstrip was named Barakoma), which has been designed by Jim Dhaenens and kindly donated to the project.
VMA-214 under Boyington also operated out of Munda, New Georgia and Russel Islands (Banika).
In all, the scenario spans from Renard Island way in the south now up to New Britain with Rabaul. The whole "Slot" is covered with around 500 islands and over 30 airstrips, as well as naval bases, contemporary settlements and a multitude of small scenarios.
I just re-read the books by Tommy Blackburn (Jolly Rogers, VF-17), Bruce Gamble and now Boyingtons own account to get the places right. I don't know much about the TV series, but I read that it was very disputed as far as historical accuracy goes (who wonders, this is not meant to be a documentary, it's a soap opera).

Cheers,
Mark

[expat]

Vella lavella https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q...&ved=0CJIBELYD

What is cool is that if you click on "satellite" on the googlemap link above you can see the Barakoma airstrip - or its remains - in the same spot it appears with Mark's/Jim's scenery in the sim.

[jeansy]

a few old pics i found from around the airfield of some shot up zeros





and rabaul harbour