Curtiss Kittyhawk Mk. III, 112 Squadron, Royal Air Force, Foggia Main, Italy, October 1943

This particular Kittyhawk III is of 112 Squadron after they  had fought thier way from North Africa, through Sicily and on into Italy. The P-40M US variety was built with a longer rear fuselage. It retained its original USAAF Olive Drab and Neutral Gray camouflage with British markings applied; this was not unusual on various US types supplied under Lend-Lease to the RAF,  both in Northern and Southern Europe (and also India/Burma). 

It is intended For use either with Charles Gunst's ECA (Enemy Coast Ahead) Panel, using the P51b slot. To use, unzip the *.tpc files, the *.3dz files and the vcg_p51b file, and place in your EAW directory.

Captin Kurt developed a completely redone 3DZ model version 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 of the P40M model. This was a difficult wireframe model to re-do. The only parts that he did not change was the gear retraction model and the pitot tube. 

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 pilot tube was also used and incorporated into the new model.

Claudio Wilches 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 thanks to Woolfman who I understand was responsible for first adding an EAW prop and transparency to the PAW model. 

3D texture corrections and repainted skin and cocpit view by Col. Gibbon. This plane has been retro fitted with the hurricane cockpit.

9th May 2001.

Col Gibbon.