Vietnam Community Project Idea: Gulf of Tonkin Incident - Redux

[fonok79]

It will be a fantastic addition once it is completed.

[citizen67]

22 hours ago, Gepard said:

I'm near to finishing DRV 2.1 terrain. The only thing i still have to do is to rework Da Nang AFB again.

Give me two weeks.

 

There will be also a campaign?

[+Gepard]

1 minute ago, citizen67 said:

There will be also a campaign?

I have not planned to create a campaign, so far.

[+Gepard]

Da Nang Air Base (WIP)

It is still a long way till it will be finished.

[Tannethal]

Hi there guys. You are doing a awesome job of revitalizing this terrain!

This sparked my interest to check in after ages.

And my hat's off to wrench for even bothering with my old edits of Ubon and NKP.

And yep i did n't bother with explaining why one needs to renumber / dupicate check target.ini entries  . But hey you are a Modder and worked it out.

These were done from screenshots of SEA Airbases from MS Flightsimulator and FS Scenery creator with a lot of help from Polak and later Swambast. Way back before the target area editor.  Was a fun time and your retouching of this stuff brings up fond memories.  Real life interfered with modding, but still have installs of SF2 on my pc. Time to dust them of.

 

Gepard:  think i used some of your Airbase objects back then and i think i even  made one retexture for NKP to give it that dark blakish tarmac look. However I'm really enjoying your expansion of the airfields / bases. Btw. did a Sampan  Mod for WoV too, and one sampan was skipped, the sail one LOD is 90° offset/moving sideways....  Been there done that, LoL

 

Looking forward to the  release!

[Tannethal]

1 hour ago, Gepard said:

Da Nang Air Base (WIP)

It is still a long way till it will be finished.

And seems i did a early DaNang Wip in 2009 too, not released and source files most probably gone for good. 

[+Wrench]

Tannethal, nice of you drop by!!!  Thanks for the kind words!!! You gave me (us) a great framework to work with.

Yup, Gepard has his hands full, and is doing a GREAT job on this!!

Too bad about the Da Nang layout. But, hey, it happens to us all!

Stick around for a while, see how things turn out!!

[+Gepard]

Da Nang AFB (WIP) consist now of 500 single parts.

Not finished yet, but the finish line is close now.

I still have to do the airfield ini with the parked aircrafts for Da Nang and then i will make the never finished north vietnamese airfield Dong Suong.

[+Gepard]

Da Nang AFB final approach.

[+Gepard]

A question for the wisdom of the forum: Where was the control tower of Da Nang AFB located?

I placed it at the tip of the arrow. Is this correct?

 

[+Gepard]

The never finished airfield of Dong Suong

The Americans bombed it so often, that it never became operational.

[+Sundowner]

Not too sure about your Da Nang tower location but my  reference's show it further down to the south on the old original pan, basically between those first 2 large hangars in your screenshot.

Originally the old French built tower was used for a short while before the US built their own wooden structured version which again was in time replaced with a more modern "concrete" structure.

All these US bases are very hard to depict accurately as they changed so much in the early years as various combinations of materials were used during construction then upgraded as need to suit newer aircraft coming the war zone, just the types and sizes of the revetments alone can be a complete nightmare

[+Gepard]

I thought, that i would be close to finish the terrain. But when i placed Monkey Mountain EW site close to Da Nang i found out, that i had forgotten to place TOD trees and objects to a couple of tiles.

Back to drawing board!

Monkey Mountain Facility and clearly to see, that the trees are missing.

 

[+Baltika]

Hey Gepard,

Great work you are doing here!

Thanks for your time and effort, I am looking forward to the full release.

Slainthe!

Baltika