Saso Kiselkov of HotStart brings a great start to the weekend after been sent a few images from Goran Matovina of LES, responsible for the visual model of the TBM-900. The joint venture between the two developers looks to be progressing extremely well so far. You can see the comparison of the old and the new mesh in development:

Background:

Saso Kiselkov, better known as Totoritko is the genius behind the freeware BetterPushback and TCAS plugin. Kiselkov has been coding the aircraft for over a year before reaching out to Goran for a possible partnership in producing the visuals for the TBM-900. With a glance at Saso's work on the G1000 screens, an impressed Goran jumped into the project. Both Saso and Goran are of Slovakian descent. Prior to the public announcement, this project is one of the many factors that led to the delay in pushing updates for the SAAB 340, aside from the major hurdle Cameron has to overcome with modernising the installer coding.

We've covered their initial aircraft debut a few weeks earlier, read here for feature list and project information: https://www.thresholdx.net/news/tbm900

Back to the TBM-900, Saso has published the following previews:

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The TBM-900 looks to set another precedent in quality and balance between systems and visuals. One can ponder if the aircraft sits under X-Aviation award winning "Take-Command" series of Study-Level aircraft products. And how would it compare to Dan Klaue's/Carenado TBM-850 conversion in terms of visuals and systems?

From the looks of it, Goran has gone full on with true PBR texturing with Substance Designer. We cannot wait to see more from this project!