Welcome to West Melton. A small aerodrome located in, ironically, West Melton, New Zealand. The aerodrome is 6 nautical miles west of Christchurch International Airport. The aerodrome is owned and operated by the Canterbury Aero Club, which operate out of Christchurch International, but use West Melton for ab-inito training as it is an ideal training environment away from the busy environment of an international airport. The airport has 3 runways - 2 and half of which are grass, leaving the remaining half runway of bitumen surface.
Below you'll find a few screenshots. One of which is a render of the main Canterbury Aero Club hanger, the rest are the photo-real scenery. I have nearly completed the annotation for it too. Another bonus is I occasionally fly out of here in real life, which means getting reference photo's and designing the airport should not be too hard.
Also, First attempt at the ground poly for this airport, and quite pleased with the results. I've included an overview of the airport to give you an idea of how it looks. It's a pretty unique aerodrome. Anyways, I've traveling out to the aerodrome hopefully tomorrow to get as many pictures as I can of the buildings, the surrounding area and whatever else I can gather.
A few of you also know I'm working on Palmerston North, don't fear. Palmerston North is still in the works. Considering Palmerston North is my first project, I thought I'd break away and try a smaller airport just to make sure I fully understand the concepts of scenery design.
Cheers.
