14th May 2006

HR F4F-3 Wildcat, white MF-1, flown by Major R E Galer, VMF-224, USMC, Guadalcanal September-October 1942 

Robert Galer's F4F-3 was unusually colourful, with its red cowling lip and fuselage stripe. During September and October 1942, Galer amassed 14 kills and three probables, including seven confirmed victories over the Zero, and this total, achieved only on the F4F, made him the fourth top scoring Wildcat ace.

Skin by DeanH, and elements and retouching by Col. Gibbon. Distance skin adapted from a skin by Edward.

New HR 3dz by Col. Gibbon based on the updated LR F4f model by Capt Kurt. 
Many thanks to Moggy who fied the RS issues on the model, and added a new element to the wheel bay.

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Info from Capt Kurt's original model:

The 3DZ model is a completely redone version of a wireframe of the Wildcat from Microprose's "1942: Pacific Air War" which was developed by myself. This update version corrects the wing hardpoints locations. The 3DZ programming work to relocate the hardpoints was originally solved by Claudio on an earlier iteration of a PAW F4F wireframe, I believe. If anyone knows differently please let me know. I adapted the solution to this model. The under wing PCX textures were originally done by J. Salty Salter. The original canopy transparency was developed by Woolfman. 

There is a new file mra.tpc, which will be needed with the next patch, as this will give the distance model full tra effect, something which currently does not work with this model at the moment. I will at that time add a working prop to the distance models, something which is missing at the moment.

Over and out.

Col. Gibbon
