KRNO Reno-Tahoe International Airport

Hello all.

KRNO is coming along very well. I became very frustrated with the original authors buildings, hangars, etc. around the airport. I know they meant well. But most of the buildings were screen grabs from old Google Earth pictures and they looked horrendous.

Michael Kalinowski kept pounding in my head to watch tutorials. So I did. I have become very dangerous with Sketchup as a result of his prodding. Thank you Kali!!!

Here are some pics as the scenery is coming along: (please note that these images are from a PC over 22 years old. They look much better on today's current hardware. Also: Credits to Dedl & David Rollins.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bzs16iv…nf7s9awref&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ocf056i…i4lve5quew&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/msezwmt…80pfl70w7b&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/preview/Image1…w&role=personal
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t9om08y…v5keulhzxb&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0kj68dd…ijxfinhe8w&dl=0

Coming soon to your FS9 scenery library.

Michael

Yes sir.

Hello All,

Received a nice message from Kali today inquiring about the status of KRNO. I can honestly say in the last 30 days I have worked to varying extents on this airport everyday. When released, this will be a complete re-do that was released years ago by Mach-1. Very similar to the release we did for KJAX - Jacksonville International.

I credit Kali for pushing me to learn ADE and providing tutorials which provided me beneficial knowledge on the basics of scenery design. Personally, I pushed further and learned how to use Sketchup to design buildings and map textures. Let me pause here a moment. David Rawlins, the most talented designer I've ever worked with, is 100% on board with this project and is mapping the more sophisticated buildings I created in Sketchup. And he has politely offered up all his highly detailed "ground support equipment" for use in this project.

To date, I have created over 12 buildings that did not exist in the original scenery. Furthermore, I have added the terminal addition and populated it with David's scenery objects.

Below are links to images of where the airport status is to date. PLEASE UNDERSTAND: The computer I'm grabbing these images from is over 20 years old so the images will probably look bad. I assure you they look very good on a computer running current day hardware such as my simulator downstairs.

All the additional buildings have been added to the scenery. Now I have to start painting the textures to reflect what the individual buildings look like. This is extremely time consuming. But it's a passion that I will see to fruition.

All the best,

Michael

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/upobc1f…wepsx9ni1d&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vyh59dfrw3mn3sz41ary6/Kali2.jpg?rlkey=m39dt5x69ue2d4bd 7t9d2gac0&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fax5qjo…z7cyoo8nom&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/90914exfmggy35fme7xgi/Kali4.jpg?rlkey=3edmwgevt55mj1bufrpf9rs6i & dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pvfmq6h…7162unn318&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gmo4fpczwf7onuevxljay/Kali6.jpg?rlkey=lojqe3ocu2v3wbp ehqnu9cjie&dl=0