Where the wild things live - GEO static model.

This post is actually about a week late... After much scratching of head, swearing, deserting the PC in frustration and finally having a break-through with the process, I managed to successfully add a static scenery object into FSX.
Small steps, but progress all the same. I'm far from finished on this job, but outside the TGC hangar there is now a well used Polish bird... Being GEO of course.
PZ will follow, once I've nutted out how to get the same .mdl file in two different places wearing two different textures. In the mean time - enjoy.
Puchacz static model by Sunay Kilic, repaint by myself.

New toys - Past and present

I thought I'd have a crack at the TGC's latest and greatest - GXT, a Duo Discus XLT...
Now since no-one has modeled an XLT I've used another of Wolfgang's creations: a Duo Discus X.
I'll have to nip over to the club and get some snapshots of the XLT graphics below the canopy lip at some point and tidy up the registration mark location, but overall I don't think she turned out to bad for a 2 minute job in Photoshop.

Rewind the clock about 53 years, and there were excited noises being made about another hot ship... GBQ.
I had a crack at recreating a photo that pops up every now and then, but I'll let you be the judge.

More tinkering and some Southern Soaring - Plenty of pics

More swearing at Photoshop resulted in my skin for GNM being completed, so that's another one down.
GOI was always going to cause some headaches - There isn't a DG-400 model available, so I resorted to using Wolfgang Piper's DG-202 17... So far so good, although I have a feeling the wingtip markings aren't quite as they should be.
Finally, after enjoying some wave down South in those two, I jumped into the Aerosoft Discus BM - It's just a shame that this model can't be re-skinned to represent one of the local Discii.

BKJ, V2.0 - Better, cleaner and now with more detail.

The learning curve was steep, but here's the results of 6hrs swearing at Photoshop - Nice clean straight lines, extra detail and that "just right" look. A little tweaking of the flight model and she'll be spot on.
For those Pawnee fans, I can't find a model with Hoerner wing tips so that rules out PNE for the sim - Matamata's BZA will be appearing soon though, after yet more swearing...

Now we're getting somewhere

My first crack at a powered aircraft repaint - BKJ now exists in Flight simulator! I still have a bit of work to do tidying up the blue stripes on the fuse and tweaking the config to get speeds and climb rates right, but it's a vast improvement on the Maule M7 default tow plane in FSX...
Here's a few teasers of BKJ with DS in tow: