EAW VVS P40E generic paint scheme.

One of hundreds of lend lease Curtiss P40E's sent to Russia during 1942. The Russians simply painted red stars over the white Amarican stars and either left the blue background or painted it out with a green background, before adding the red stars. This plane lacks unit markings - it is only intended to represent a base camo scheme.

This skin is intended For use with Charles Gunst's ECA (Enemy Coast Ahead) Panel. The markings are designed to use in Emil's Caucuses Campaign. To use, unzip the *.tpc files and the *.3dz files and place in your EAW directory.

I developed a completely redone 3DZ model version of a wireframe of the P40 from Microprose's "1942: Pacific Air War" which brings it up to EAW standards. This was a difficult wireframe model to re-do. The only parts that I did not change was the gear retraction model and the pitot tube. The skin is also by me.

This has been something of a community project, in the best spirit of the great EAW community.

It is completely non-mirrored, courtesy of Rob Der Fuchs work. He contributed his solution to this and I was able to incorporate most of what he did. The entire fuselage and the insignia areas of the wings are separate.

Capitan Manducas work for the landing gear doors and pitot tube was also used and incorporated into the new model.

Claudio Wilches has made the cockpit for this plane, with completely new interior and wing views. Clauadio also built the non mirrored view for the medium distance model and fixed a 3DZ problem with the cockpit height.

I would also like to thank Alessandro Borges for his 3DZ!Studio and 3DZ converter tools. Without these I could do nothing like this. And finally, I understand that the Woolfman was responsible for first adding an EAW prop and transparency to the PAW model. 

Thanks, boys.

And as always, this model has the unmarked PCX included for anyone to add their own markings, with blessings from me.


Cheers,

Captain Kurt
