ME410 - 2/UA of ZG26 circa 1944
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 During September of 1943 II./ZG26 Horst Wessel began to replace its Me 210s eith Me 410a-2/U4s. The Gruppe operated with another great Hornisse unit,ZG 76 ,operated against the 8th Army Air Force over Germany ,Austria,Hungary and Czechoslovakia.


OK..The 410 project ..gawd where to start :)

 I started skinning a 410 (Lo res base model ) and somehow got hooked by the shape of the old girl.

 I asked a few questions at Frugals and SimHq and Colonel Gibbon and Flyright jumped in firstly  just with some answers and then got carried away and went full bore on the project with me .

 I simply wanted to fly the 410 in a campaign (43 or 45) from the start and have this certain skin with a better cockpit than we had and a wingview to match.

 Unfortunately i couldnt get the cockpit (claudios excellent version) to work properly in the 410 slot although it is fine in the 110 slot.The landing gear lights overwrite the bottom two gauges ..which isnt all bad;)

 The antennas /hardpoints/rear fuselage guns and spiral props were all done by the Colonel and he also unmirrored the model:) and did the hangar screen.  The loadout and cool ordnance was done by Flyright as well as the gun flash positioning to line up correctly with the gun ports.. Flyright also got rid of the blocky prop problem.
 
 Thanks heaps to them both as we had emails flying over the net like mad:)

 i simply did the skin and wingview and main screen(as well as much bashing my head against the key board:) 
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To use the 410 how i planned it....Set the ECA panel to western 1945 and you will have the me 410 as a flyable plane in CAREER mode from 43 and the 45 campaign.Just click through the different German Gruppes and you will see it appear twice in each case.

 Load all the  the me410 files in the  folder LAST and then you should have no probs with any blocky props and will have the mainscreen and hangar screens as well.
 For OAW users it is in  an A folder all ready to drop straight into your main OAW folder.
 For people who dont use OAW simply extract all  the files  (except the 410.ask-skinpic and contents.txt)which are for OAW and drop staright into your main folder AFTER you have loaded ECA WESTERN 45.

 You should be able to select a good range of ordnance for this plane and she also has some wicked front end punch!!:).
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Thanks for everyones help at Frugals and simHQ with my plane and may EAW go forwards and upwards..the possibilities are endless chaps with this game:)

 Any queries just drop a line at Frugals forums or simHQ
 cheers Aussie Jim DEC/JAN 2003

 ..and look after her as she is a joy to fly :)