After languishing in a field for the past 8 years (give or take) she’s finally going to become a sim! I am converting 62-23855 into a simulator for No.17 Sqn Air Training Corps, based at Wigram here in Christchurch. The plan is to build a multi-purpose simulator, allowing the cadets to fly aircraft ranging from […]
Some more scenery work
A little AAA scenery just on the Northern side of the DMZ 🙂 All part of my plan for building an environment for the sim to exist in.
Some Playmates for the Sim
Part of my sim project has always been the virtual environment in which it lives. As a part of this I have been working (off and on over the past few years) on AI traffic which will bring the Air Base scenery’s to life. I recently painted the MAIW/Nick Black AI MB339A model as the […]
Some Graphics and Lights!
When I was building my first Skyhawk Sim I got in contact with Richard of “Gekko Graphics” who produced an incredibly detailed set of A-4K decals. Richard sent me the graphics I would need for the exterior of my sim, which I then got computer cut. Fast forward 10 years, and I got another set […]
A little scenery project…
Just testing out some effects for use in “scenarios” in the sim….
Nice custom 737 Throttle Quadrant at work
I wish I could have one of these for my 737 project at home… Sadly this is a special, built for a customer with *very* specific IO needs….. This thing uses beautiful brushless DC motors with near-zero backlash gearboxes which gives a fantastic feel through the levers. As a project this was pretty cool, a […]
I’m back! 3 years in the making, lots to catch up on….
Just a little flight in the sim! This is  a video I shot a while back, with an old phone… which explains the video quality….. Since the last update lots has happened.  My sim room has been flooded, rebuilt (better and warmer), the sim has progressed a little, and there is now another sim project […]
More paint…still no photos :)
In more paint matching madness, I found a match to the interior paint for the TA-4 and again found a commercial match to the FS#… this time a Dulux product, which is a copy-cat of a Resene colour…. which is a long explanation for the fact that I now have the correct interior colour! Amazingly […]
Found some old sim photos….
While looking for photos of the sim room I came across some old pics which I thought I’d share
Shifting, Shortening and Walls…. been a while since an update!
More than a year has passed since my last update, and lots has happened…. I have moved house, having split with my wife of 15 years, so the sim has a new home. The down side of the move is that the new “sim room” is significantly smaller meaning that my TA-4 has had to […]