A Spark of Genius (or Madness…you choose)
Tonight while quietly sitting on the couch I had a great idea about using another PC in my 'virtual ship' setup... This second PC would be a surrogate for Canterbury...
From the Arctic to the Med’; Adventures of HMNZS Canterbury
After the recent PC re-shuffle, and the major ManCave redevelopment, Canterbury has been busy sailing the Northern seas. She has been as far North as North Cape, and Murmansk in...
F421 on an ‘Arctic Patrol’
Canterbury steams past the outlying 'Stacks' off St Kilda Canterbury is on her way North into the Arctic Ocean.. After yet another PC Upgrade and shuffle-around F421 is now running...
F421 in Bridge Command
Canterbury sails into Two Harbours, Santa Catalina A little light reading tonight, and some fiddling around with models, and I now have Canterbury sailing around in Bridge Command. With a...
It’s an addiction!
Since getting interested in Bridge Command, I have started messing with it.... it ships with a basic scenery of Santa Catalina Island, which looks ok, but really needed some textures...
Great Ship Simulator
During some googling around looking for some radar display images I stumbled on to the "Bridge Command" website, and found a neat ship sim. The biggest surprise was that this...
Changing the Guard
In (yet another) PC shuffle, Canterbury has been returned to port, and has been replaced on patrol by Wellington. The reason for this is predominantly one of economics; Canterbury runs...
A weekend of Development and Testing
After the development work on TACOPS over the past few weeks, it was time to put it all to the test. Nathan and I fired up all three sims, plus...
Spring Time Means Spring Cleaning
A quiet, Spring weekend and I finally got had the time to have a bit of a clean-out in the ManCave. I got some old, redundant PC's out of the...
A kick in the RHIB’s?
A quick and dirty conversion of some 3D models, then a rough and ready merge with Hama's speedboat.... Speed Trials...... quite a *lot* of speed! And thank's to Hama's great...