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    Former Computer Geek, now Domestic Engineer, Scenery tinkerer, Aircraft paint tinkerer.

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  1. Since no one else has answwered in over a week, here goes. If the canopy is a file in the Textures folder, then yes, you can make it whatever you want it to. First you make it gold, then you make it partially transparent. However, if it is part of the model itself, then no, you cannot "easily" change it. A tool such as MCX will discover the answer.
  2. The Lord Howe Island one is here. It's the one by Darren Jackson. Note that the crashed Catalina shown in it comes up as an "almost intact" aircraft. In reality, it's only a few pieces of broken and twisted aluminium scattered down a hillside; and apparently, that is all it's ever been, as the big pieces were all "harvested" by the Air Force shortly after the crash. My wife was totally underwhelmed when we trudged down to see it.
  3. OK. The John Ross ones. Lord Howe Island. Cairns by Daryl Fisher. Adelaide and South Oz (and yes, I agree that the best thing to come out of Adelaide is the flight back home). The Sydney Add ons. Brisbane 2009..... are DEFINITELY NOT part of VOZ. The readmes for Sydney and Brisbane talk about individual authors. The John Ross ones are truly very, very, good. As is Darrell's LHI. Considering that they are only fairly small regional airports.
  4. There is also a whole bunch of really, really, really good regional NE New South Wales and SE Queensland sceneries - Ballina, Coffs Harbour, Grafton, Lismore, Port Macquarie, Kingaroy (amongst others) made by a guy called John Ross. Search for him and you'll find them. They are truly very good. They all feature in the scenery a lady in a tennis dress who I assume is is his significant other. His Australian eucalypt trees are amongst the best scenery trees you are going to see anywhere. There is also a superb Lord Howe Island, which both in Sim and in real life is at the absolute fuel range limit of the Qantas dash-8 that flies there. In both real life and the Sim, you have to land with more than 50% fuel because there is no possible alternative airport - if you cant land there, you have to go back from whence you came. It also has modelled in it the wreck of the Air Force Catalina that crashed there. The scenery is in four parts.
  5. There is one excellent YSSY here called SYD2004. There are some add=ons for it, like Sydney Harbour Ferries and Sydney Sea Bases.
  6. There is an excellent freeware Adelaide Airport in the South Australian Airports one. It is on here, but I dont remember what the name is (I rename all my downloads into a consistent format of my own).
  7. ok, thnax very much to everyone who replied. THere were a couple of suggestions there that I will now try. Thanx again.
  8. Well the title asks it all. I have this fabulous ancient X24 spacecraft, with excellent "ordinary" textures (pic 1). But the real X24 (pic 2) is made of shiny metal. So... can such metallic reflective textures be made? And if so, does FS2004 support them?
  9. There is a very nice Cairns here that has the main runway. I have used it. It is by a Daryl Fisher, from 2004. Search for him by name, you'll find the two downloads.
  10. Wow, what a fantastic reply. What can I say? Wow. Fully aware that all the 707s had the double bubble fuselage. What i meant was, not all of the models that I have downloaded so far have that. The polystyrene model I had was yes, the Airfix 1/144 scale. It definitely was BOAC, with the dark blue livery with the gold "speedbird" on the tail. So definitely BOAC, not BA. Impressed by your stash of plastic models. My most ambitious one was in about 1983 - a Qantas spacecraft (a la 2001 movie) out of an SR-71. Painting a black plastic model with white enamel is well and truly a pain in the tailfin. I have used MCX to make countless static models from flyable ones, have never ever ever encountered any problems. Once again, thanx for your fantastic reply.
  11. Looks like this one here. Well at least these look like the right engines. [ATTACH=CONFIG]225040[/ATTACH]
  12. In about 1983 (!), I purchased and built a polystyrene model of a then BOAC Boeing 707. It may have been an "Airfix" model. There are two specific features of it that I remember. It had the "double bubble" fuselage (ie, sort of peanut like cross section), and it had the cluster of exhaust pipes (I think 8) for each engine. Is such a model available for download? I am looking for a detailed static model (which I can make from a flying one using MCX) that I can paint in modern Qantas colours for a diorama.
  13. THey are not on your list, but I have his KC135 and B52M and am happy to send those wherever you need them.
  14. What Tom Gibson say is very true, BUT one thing you can do that MAY have some effect is to edit the night time textures to brighten up the area around the nav lights, so it looks like the light is "spilling" onto them. This assumes that your model has night lighting defined. It will cost you nothing but a little bit of your time to try that.
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