Kyushu J7W1 Shinden ("Magnificent Lightning") for the Fw 190D Slot in European Air War
By Charles Gunst - May 2001

This Kyushu J7W1 Shinden replaces the Fw 190D in EAW, and is intended for use with ECA (Enemy Coast Ahead) Control Panel (which is available from most of the websites listed below). The Shinden takes the place of the Fw190D, using ECA Control Panel v3.3 or later.

To install, just unzip the *.TPC, *.3DZ, *.MPC and *.WSP files in this zip file into your EAW directory (the one with EAW.EXE in it). 

You will have a new aircraft 3D shape, with a new skin, and even a new hangar screen to go with them. 

To un-install, simply remove those files from your EAW directory. 

For those who want to change the skin, the PCX files are included.

This is a major reconstruction job on an EAW 3D shape, to create the J7W1 Shinden canard fighter, an unusual design intended for interceptor duties against B29s. A large project like this would not have been possible without those indispensable EAW editing utilities, Paulo's 3DZMAP.EXE, and Alessandro's 3DZ Studio and Converter. 

The Shinden actually started life as the PAW P39 shape, and uses as a base a skin by Claudio Wilches from Alessandro's site. The colour scheme is a fictional late-War IJNAF one. There are a few small rendering problems with the 3D shape ("disappearing" panels, or panels that "appear" even though they are "behind" another one,  when viewed from some angles) and some distortions in the skin, but I think it looks pretty right.  The 3D shape is scaled up, so the gun flash points will not be correct using ECA Control Panel v3.5 or earlier. This is corrected in ECAPanel v3.6.

There are plenty of websites with other EAW skins and shapes. I can't list them all, but try these sites (and most have links to many others):

  The Aces Paint Shop: http://www.onlinecombat.com/EAWPaintShop/
  Airbuddha's: http://thehangar.dogfighter.com/
  Alessandro's: http://www.geocities.com/alessandroborges/aces_over_gyn_index.htm
  Cord's: http://eaw.thrustmaster.com/
  -E's: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/6644/
  Fox2's: http://fox2.ch/fichiers/eaw/fichier_downloads_eaw.htm
  JG5's Skins: http://www.madasafish.com/jerry/jg5/html/skins.html
  Lentulaiuvue 34's Skins: http://www.muodos.fi/LLv34/
  Manduca's: http://kikegg.batcave.net
  Major Lee's Aerodrome: http://www.kvi.net/~majorlee
  Migge's: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/4145/
  Mosi's: http://mosi.thrustmaster.com/
  Relent's: http://www.sonic.net/jcam/eawskins/

I hope you enjoy the Shinden. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments.

Charles Gunst

GunstQC@aol.com

May 2001
