The Nevada Test Site Project (NTSP)

Whelp, here's the crown jewel, most difficult and probably our most favorite of the projects... Groom Lake! In our opinions this will probably be the very best Groom Lake scenery ever made for Flight Sim. The base is completely custom, each building is hand crafted using what little photos, we can find, and peoples memories, as will most of the stuff we do. Just remember, we are nowhere near finished, and still have a lot of buildings to make. Building numbers and descriptions were taken from Dreamland Resort, and the Area 51 Research Center map.

I guess we shall start with photos from the beginning of the project. The first basic layout and building, Hangar 18, were done by Jason Terry of ARX, then tweaked and temp. buildings, ramps etc added by Joshua Nyhus of ED.

Very First Layout

First Building
Hangar 18

Tweaked version with temp. buildings.

Here we have the Red Hat hangars. These little beauties were made by Jason Terry. Each Red Hat is different in some way, just like they are in real life.

Hangar 4

Looking out from Hangar 7 at Hangar 4.

Red Hats

Hangar 4

Next up we have the U-2 Hangars, Shops and other little buildings on the north side of the base which were left over from the 50s from the very first project based at Groom Lake. These were made by Joshua Nyhus.

Bldg. 217
"Base Machine Shop"

Bldg. 220
"AGE Maint.Shop"

Bldg. 224
"Vehicle Paint & Body Shop"

Bldg. 222
"Base Battery Storage"

Bldg. 230, 234 & 233
"Power Plant, Compressor Plant & Plant Cooling Tower"

Here's a photo of the north ramp area.

Here's a photo of the north ramp area looking south.

Here's a photo showing the south ramp area, here you can see a nearly completed Hangar 18, completed Hangars 30-23, a completed Hangar 8 and nearly completed Hangars 9-16.

Another shot of the south ramp area, now looking north.

And a shot showing Hangars 20-23

Here's a photo of the Tower.

Photo of one of the dishes which is located on the north side of the base.

Here's one of the dorms.

Lastly we have a few little things left to show.

And that's where we stand, like I said above, we still have a lot to do, but it's getting there!

For more on Groom Lake and other areas of our project, check out these sites:
www.DreamlandResort.com
www.LazyGRanch.com