This is my first post regarding the Mercer Airfield project I'm working on. The Airfield is located south of Auckland in New Zealand. It's a small aircraft type.
However it has a large ex airforce hangar on it and an interesting old hangar area with a Backpackers motel. The fun thing about this Airfield is the old
Hangar area is separated from the main Airfield area by a water channel. I have made the bridge that crosses it so you can taxi from one area to the other.
In reality these days only a few small aircaft do this for maintenance reasons. However it is fun, so I have placed a starting point in the old hangar area.
This is a walk around Airfield, so you can enter the big hangar, the motel, and several other buildings. There is the Dome Cafe which has a spiral staircase which you can
Climb to an upper deck. The Airfield is a day operation so don't have runway lights, but I will be adding lights around the buildings and might do an addon that adds the runway lights.
At the moment I'm have 95% of the modelling done in Blender. There is still work to be done on textures which I have to workout how to add dirt etc. The current ones ore generally too clean. This version of Mercer Airfield will be 90% accurate to the real thing. Mainly because I measured it about two years ago. I used to belong to the RC aircraft club that flew there. You will find the RC boys by the orange hangar at the end of the runway. Before landing you should to announce your intentions to land on the radio. LOL.
This Airfield is in MSFS2024, but is very badly done. In reality he Airfield is flat, yet the one in the sim has the runway on a ridge with a major slope across the apron. The water channel is at surface level when it fact it is in a deep channel. Fixing that is a headache and still needs refining. The bridge they have isn't cross able.
At the moment I'm having trouble finding people for it other than Daves people. I'm not sure what is the best approach for this. Also I would like to have some flowering shrubs around the motel. I have them all in my personal install, but the flowers come from NZA and the parked aircraft you will see in the images are from Burning Blue. I plan to build my own scenery Tiger moth for the Airfield. Can anyone tell me where I can find these objects? People, planes, flowering shrubs.
These early images gives you an idea of the size of the big hangar and yes you can taxi into it with a small plane.
However it has a large ex airforce hangar on it and an interesting old hangar area with a Backpackers motel. The fun thing about this Airfield is the old
Hangar area is separated from the main Airfield area by a water channel. I have made the bridge that crosses it so you can taxi from one area to the other.
In reality these days only a few small aircaft do this for maintenance reasons. However it is fun, so I have placed a starting point in the old hangar area.
This is a walk around Airfield, so you can enter the big hangar, the motel, and several other buildings. There is the Dome Cafe which has a spiral staircase which you can
Climb to an upper deck. The Airfield is a day operation so don't have runway lights, but I will be adding lights around the buildings and might do an addon that adds the runway lights.
At the moment I'm have 95% of the modelling done in Blender. There is still work to be done on textures which I have to workout how to add dirt etc. The current ones ore generally too clean. This version of Mercer Airfield will be 90% accurate to the real thing. Mainly because I measured it about two years ago. I used to belong to the RC aircraft club that flew there. You will find the RC boys by the orange hangar at the end of the runway. Before landing you should to announce your intentions to land on the radio. LOL.
This Airfield is in MSFS2024, but is very badly done. In reality he Airfield is flat, yet the one in the sim has the runway on a ridge with a major slope across the apron. The water channel is at surface level when it fact it is in a deep channel. Fixing that is a headache and still needs refining. The bridge they have isn't cross able.
At the moment I'm having trouble finding people for it other than Daves people. I'm not sure what is the best approach for this. Also I would like to have some flowering shrubs around the motel. I have them all in my personal install, but the flowers come from NZA and the parked aircraft you will see in the images are from Burning Blue. I plan to build my own scenery Tiger moth for the Airfield. Can anyone tell me where I can find these objects? People, planes, flowering shrubs.
These early images gives you an idea of the size of the big hangar and yes you can taxi into it with a small plane.
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