The central support towers also helped greatly as a measuring device to make sure elements stayed in the proper relative position to one another, and to check I wasn’t stretching anything out. The early attempts actually came off rather well, probably due to the intuitive, boxy nature of the layout that doesn’t hold many surprises in terms of how it all fits together. I began plotting out the layout not long after my visit there. If you want to download the coaster, click on the large title image at the bottom of the page. Plus, there were no POVs available on the net at the time (still weren’t until a few months after this re-creations’ release) so that was extra incentive to have a way of virtually simming the coaster before I could ride it myself, which I finally did later that October.Īs for the merits of the ride itself, I recommend reading my Steel Hawg Analysis, if you haven’t already done so.

Officially I was working on Maverick at the time, although progress on that one kind of hit the rocks when I realized my expectations were higher than my abilities, and this looked like a fun and easy project to get back into the groove of things.

It was a warm July early evening when I was looking up at the silent structure of Indiana Beach’s then-brand new Steel Hawg, having stopped testing and being informed that the coaster wouldn’t be operational that day, when a thought popped into my head: “This probably wouldn’t be that hard to design in NoLimits”.

No limits 2 make spinning coaster