Bessonneau hangar for Red Baron 3D by Greybeard - 8 December 2009




HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Soon after airplane appearance, need for its sheltering became urgent. Early hangars were made of canvas. Most common on allied side was the Bessonneau, which use started in January 1915 and was prolonged up to 1930s. Built in various sizes, the one here represented is the 20m x 24m, that's to say 66x79'. Having an overall height of 25'5" and 13'2" at sides, it was a 6 bay, light timber structure, covered with canvas.

FEATURES
This model replaces stock wooden "Large hangar" and, having historical dimensions, looks significantly smaller than previous, enormous shelter (which was more than 165' wide - 50m). I gave it a mix of colours, just a rough conversion of what I had to RB palette: please consider it a coarse template and feel free to repaint bitmaps at your will. Included, are high, medium and low details model.

INSTALLATION
Launch the self-extracting executable, unzipping into your Simpatch folder, overwriting any existing file.

WARNING
This patch contains an OBJDAT.DAT file, needed to match new hangar dimensions with its own shadow on ground.

Available for download at the RB Misc page on my site.

Thanks Greybeard!

S!

I like it! I shall extract it to a working folder and install to Simpatch using CM11 patches utility.
Thanks for the heads up, vOben.

That's a nice hangar.


Wheels

S! VonOben,

I downloaded the new hangar and installed to Simpatch using CM11 patches utility.
Tried it on top of the PlasV1a patch, it works well technically but the hangar colors do not match the color palette of the other PLaSV1a scenery ground objects so the hangar looks odd compared to the surroundings.

The screenshot you posted looks like the OTE scenery, where it fits in more nicely in terms of colors. I assume that this may be a palette problem?

Swordfish

Hi Swordfish!

Yes, it is.

That's to say PLAS keeps giving problem of palette to all other RB3D stuff, lol.

Being Kess' patch quite outdated, I would recommend to replace with the much better and less problematic Golgo's one: please try to contact him at SWWISA forum, since he doesn't post it for public use.

Regards,
GB