B-17 E Hires updated # 2 version for European Air War.

This skin represents a B-17 E, S/N 412435, from the 19th BG, 40th BS, based in Queensland, Australia.  This aircraft was shot down of Buna on 12th August 1942. 

I've done this the lazy way, and put it straight onto the HR B17 F 3dz's.  Ideally it should have the periscope type ball turret and different nose glazing.  Near enough really isn't good enough, but what the hell - it'll do!
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This is the latest update for the High Resolution B-17 F.  The last HR B-17G mod I made had non mirror patches, which always pissed me off because inevitably the NM patches never covered the area I wanted, which meant doing most authentic B-17 skins was impossible, and some of my B-17 skins were thus abandoned.  +mia enquired about the possiblity of some 3dz changes for on of his projects, and things got back on track again.  Changes to the model include :-
- Engines now shutdown correctly
- Fully non mirrored fuselage
- "Illu" type radio wires
- Transparent shadow.

In order to free up a 3dz to allow total non mirroring, I had to shift the Ball turret's textures from the B.3dz on the F.3dz.  This has worked out OK but there are still some minor rendering problems with the ball turret.  Hopefully you can put up with them.  Note that this model still has the prop shutdown problems associated with the HR-B17.

Instalation.
Extract all the .tpc and .3dz files to your EAW folder, or if using a skin/file manager, refer to it's instructions.  This zip has been optimized for OAW use - simply ensure winzip's "use folder path" is checked, then extract the files to your OAW folder, and the skin will be put in an "A-06 HR E 19th BG" folder.

Extras included but not needed for instalation -
I've included both the batchfiles for PCX to TPC, and TPC to PCX for any prospective skinners out there, and also a screenie.

Credits -
Thanks to Col. Gibbon for the original HR-B-17, some of it's textures are used.
+mia for the use of some textures, and the BUMP I needed to finish this.
Mosi for another timely BUMP,
Illu for the radio wire idea,
Charles, Andy + Pobs for the transparent shadow idea.
Sandbagger (in advance!) for hosting the skin.
Migge and Redeyesfor the MEX file which is mostly their work.
Tachyon for help with Pacific B-17 references.
Mr. Johnson for discovering how to fix the engine shutdown problems.
3dz mods and skin done by myself.

References-
"Combat legend - B-17 Flying Fortress" by Martin Bowman

If you have any problems, questions, comments or hatemail don't hesitate to contact me, either at the SimHQ EAW message board, or by Email.
Enjoy!

John "Chompy" Masters,
3rd July 2005.
jdmasters@ozemail.com.au
http://www.sandbaggeruk.com/chompy.html
