Curtis P40 M

It is intended For use either with Charles Gunst's ECA (Enemy Coast Ahead) Panel, or the Pacific Tide Campaign - using the Hurricane slot. To use, unzip the *.tpc files, 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 and presents a radically different P40 version never available before - the stretched rear fuselage  section P40M model. 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 developed the correct ground shadow for P-40s and the medium distance view model included here.

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.



Cheers,

Captain Kurt
