Thanks.
Well, it started out as Golden Hawaii, which I have the rest of installed. But Pearl Harbor in Golden Hawaii is grossly inaccurate. For one thing, it's set in the very early thirties, with old, pre-moderization battleships, Ford Island as a grass field, biplane Curtiss fighters and a blimp base with AI blimps. All completely wrong. The Naval Air Station on Ford Island started out paved; there was very little Navy activity there in the early thirties, there were never Navy blimps in Hawaii - they sent one there once for a few minutes and quickly found that the blimp couldn't handle the Pacific trade winds. And those anachronistic old lattice-masted battleships aren't tied up on the Battleship Row wharf along Ford Island, they're moored out in the middle of the loch.
I kept the rest of Golden Hawaii but I removed all of Bill Lyons' Pearl Harbor stuff, made an AFCAD to pave the air station on Ford Island, tied up a flotilla of Paul Clawson's Idaho-class battlewagons along Battleship Row on Ford Island, and placed a bunch of buildings and stuff from scenery libraries to represent - very roughly - the air station as it was around 1940, with period correct aircraft made into scenery objects. I also moored an Idaho out in the middle of the inner part of the loch to fly Kingfishers from its catapults. In general it's far less in-authentic than the Golden Hawaii Pearl Harbor, but it's nothing like accurate in detail. I also made a rough approximation of Hickam Field across the loch, but the only part of that's at all realistic is the AFCAD parts - runways, taxiways and ramps.
It's nothing like the authenticity I seek in the models David and I make, but it was fun to fly there - back in the old days when I actually had some time to fly, much less fiddle with scenery.
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