Here are a few images from two scenery items I am getting ready to upload. The first is intended as an enhancement to the Aerosoft Kamchatka - the Lost World scenery; it is the Rybachiy Submarine Base in Avachinskiy Bay. Rybachiy had the NATO reporting name "The Hornet's Nest" and remains the site of the only functioning nuclear SLBM storage facility in the Russian arsenal. It is also the site of large scale decommissioning and dismantling and in typical Soviet fashion has a large graveyard of submerged and half sunken ships and hulls, which is represented in the scenery. I also modeled the SAM site at the top of the hill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The other scenery "item" is a landable carrier from the Indian Navy called the INS Vikramaditya. Similar to the Lioning, the newly re-furbished, former Soviet Kiev class aircraft carrier serving China's Navy; India chose to allow steadfast ally Russia to complete what is being described as the future flagship and final non-indigenous warship of the Indian Navy...It was supposed to be delivered in 2008, oops!

 Vikramaditya, which means "Brave as the Sun,"  has animated radars, deck and night lighting, working IFLOS, cables and catapults. She floats 40,000 tons leaner than either the Admiral Kuznetzov or the Lioning. Some small portion of this may be made up when the ship carries it's own defensive system, currently it has two PK-2 chaff/decoy dispensers, besides it's air complement for protection. The latest plan is to acquire the AK-630 CIWS and longer range Barak SAM; I added the much more wicked Kashtan and two Barak 8 launchers. I also made some escorts, the INS Talwar, India's latest "stealth frigate" and a Russian destroyer of the Fregat Udaloy II class, which might be a typical escort from Severodvinsk, a trip that is expected to occur late this year.

 The airplane I am testing with is the MiG-29K from Iris, which I made a believable INAS skin for. I do not know how to fold wings or deploy the fuel probe, but I have started to get the traps despite the lack of an AOA indicator, which, along with their equivalent of slime lights, are present on the real bird.

 

 

 

Some of the traps are a little hairy..

This is a perfect line up. Speed, altitude; the "ball" is centered in the green lines. Maintain throttle and pick your cable.

 

 

My intention is to wrap up the "readme's" and upload Rybachiy in time for Saturday, Sunday at the latest; then Vikramaditya next weekend.
 

Interesting and ambitious projects.  Nice

Great work!

Very nice work, Rich! Really love seeing "global" ideas for FSX!

Thanks guys, really not that ambitious, more about patience, like when I wait for my 300,000 polygon carrier to render. Something I'd wanted to do - and I learned incredible things about both the subject and the technique along the way.

 For example, during my Rybachiy project, a movie was released starring David Duchovny and Ed Harris that centered around K-129, the Soviet sub that sank in 1968. What are the chances of a major motion picture release, based at an obscure location, happening while working on a scenery of the same place..? I'd hoped to get some good views of the base, but Rybachiy, the town of Viluchusk and the entire peninsula remain closed to non-residents. The port used was much larger than Rybachiy without the steeply encroaching hills on all sides and further snow capped peaks. Still, the story was fascinating and offered some interesting explanations for some of the K-129 mysteries and anomalies.