P-47 D 5-RE
High Resolution P-47 C/D Razorback for European Air War by Microprose.

This skin represents "Little Demon", a P-47 D 5-RE, SN 42-8476, flown by Maj. Walter Carl Beckham, 353rd FG, 351st FS, based as Raydon, February 1944.  On the 22nd February 1944 he was forced to bail out after bing hit by flak over Ostheim, and was captured and spent the remainder of the war as a POW.  Beckham was one of the famous aces of the 353rd downing 18 enemy aircraft, and at the time of his capture was the top scorer in the ETO.

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This model is based on the HR P47D but has been given a major overhaul to include the following : -
- armour plate and 3d radio behind pilot.
- open canopy with gear down.
- Reshaped rear fuselage, 3d rudder and elevators
- 3d Turbo waste scoop
- Flaps with gear down.
- Wings shape has been smoothed out.
- Nose re-modelled
- No bar and wide view deflection cockpit.
- Rear view mirror (internal and external)
- High res Wingview.
- Damaged torn off wings
- Smaller prop to suit earlier versions up to D-22-RE and D-23-RA
- Reshaped transparent shadow file

To get all these extras in I've stripped back and completely rebuilt the A, B, C, E and G 3dz's and written a new RS for them.  Instead of all having 255 elements they now have around 60-70, so there is plenty of room for adding new elements.  It may even speed up framerates?!

What's not fixed?
- The cockpit show through problems.  It IS fixable, but only by putting the cockpit elements back onto the F.3dz, which would require a huge 3DZ and RS rebuild, new PCX's and remapping the entire fuselage and prop.  Call me lazy - maybe one day, but not now!  The P47C has been a work in progress for over two years, so right now I just want it out the door.
- Also the open canopy mod has RS problems for similar reasons.
- With a wing shot off you will still have flap elements attached.  This is because I can't use two action codes for 'draw this when gear is up AND when wing is attached'.
- Probably some RS problems I haven't seen!

Installation
Extract all the 3dz and tpc files to your EAW folder.  If using OAW extract all files to your OAW folder making sure winzip's "use folder names" option is CHECKED.  Start OAW and the skin will be available for selection in the "A-02 HR 353FG 351FS" folder.  If you don't like the no-bar cockpit just delete the Pp47cV.3dz and Pp47cW.3dz files to go back to the defaults.

Credits and thanks go to :-
Skylark for being a great 'rivet counter' and second pair of eyes.
Gurney for his brilliant 3dz Studio.  95% of the element work was done with his program!
Alessandro for the old 3dz Studio - don't worry, it still gets used!
also for Converter 1.8 which was essential.
Can't find who made the original mex.pcx, but thank you.
3dz and skin by myself.

Enjoy,
John "Chompy" Masters
22nd August 2005
jdmasters@ozemail.com.au
http://www.sandbaggereaw.com/chompy.html


