As we are slowly easing into the last month of Q1 of 2011, I think it is safe to relax, sit down and look back at what was a hectic, but also a successful 2010.

In our second full year of operation as a pay-ware outfit (we started halfway 2008 with the first E-Jet), we released as many as thirteen World Airliners for the PMDG MD-11, the Captain Sim 757 and the FeelThere E-Jets v2. One would say quality would suffer from the sheer quantity, but our first AVSIM Gold Star award (for the E-Jets v2), which we received in November has proven otherwise. We worked hard, shifted from Normal Definition to primarily High And Ultra High Definition repaints, brought in some new talented people, while some of the main stayers upped their ante and had fun in the process.

That was 2010 in a nutshell. Time to look forward at what 2011 has in store for us.

As a design studio specialized in exterior textures we have worked for and with 'the big boys', (the) PMDG (MD-11) being the latest in the list of developers that already consisted of Wilco, FeelThere, Level-D, Flight1, Captain Sim and Coolsky.

Now, if you ask me (and for the sake of virtually having a conversation, I'll just pretend you are indeed asking me) ; the only one missing from the list, the cherry on the pie, the cream of the crop, is the PMDG 737NGX. As talks with Robert -from PMDG- progress it is just a matter of time, before we've achieved the (highest?) goal we set for ourselves when we first started doing freeware repaints as a group back in 2007 : adding a flagship PMDG product to our portfolio.

With the vast majority of operators and liveries of the 737 it is a project that will keep us occupied for the most part of 2011 (and perhaps even into 2012). But if wheeling in the NGX was 'The Goal', the highest achievable, we set for ourselves, what's next? Does it end? Retire and spend our days on our yacht (we don't have a yacht), hop on our private jet (nope, no jet either) and relax by the pool of our beach house (wait, no beach house?) in the Maldives?

H to the No, it is time to move on and broaden our horizon, something we have been doing behind the scenes for the past couple of months as we were hired by Flight1 to do all the artwork for the Coolsky DC-9. This means we are responsible for not only the exterior (HD) textures, but also the interior, but most noticeably ; the 3D model, both exterior, virtual cockpit and virtual cabin. Being 'eye-candy enthusiasts from the EGA (some even CGA) era' we set the bar high and in my next entry I will let you guys get a taste some of the stuff we've been doing.

For now, back to work on the PMDG MD-11 World Airliners 5 and the first couple of Level-D 767 World Airliners.  Duty calls..