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Mods for Shessis Whitley MkV Bomber Cmd by UT & Pepe!

UncleTgt

UncleTgt

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A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Skins - British

Description: Whitley MkV BC bits + pieces by UncleTgt

This is a collection of mods for Shessi's excellent reworking of Ted Cook's AW Whitley MkV Bomber Command for CFS 2.

This zip contains:

The airfile was created by Peperez, & adopts the distinctive "nose-down" attitude in level flight.

The panel is a direct copy of Shessi's Whitley MkV panels, all I've done is to make it WIN 7 friendly.

I've included some bitmap tweaks for each of Shessi's paints. Mostly they are retints of the interior to tone down the strong greens, but also correct a couple of small errors:

The finflash for Leonard Cheshire is changed to the early war style, correct for late 1940.
The engine nacelle camo for the 58 sqn skin were swapped L to R to match the camoflage better.

The dp includes exhaust effects, & several weapon loads. Because of thw wide variety of loads possible, there is an early war & late war dp file. The early war dp file includes leaflets, paras, the late war dp includes SBCs, paras, glider tow & SOE (paras & supplies) loadouts.

Weapons used are:

Shessi's Leaflet weapon from his Whitley MkV

Bismark13's 250lb & 500lb bomb from his Beaufighter packages

Jim Jacobsen's paratroops, resized & recompiled (20% smaller) so they fit inside the Whitley fuselage.

Jim Jacobsen's supply_airdrop, resized & recompiled (20% smaller) so it fits inside the Whitley fuselage.

The leaflet, paratroop & supply airdrop weapons are included in this pack.

Alphasims RAF_250lb bomb as a placeholder for the SBC incendiary

Shessis own 500lbmc_long, & Brit1000lb bombs

To install, unzip the download to a temporary location & move/ copy files to the matching folder names inside your chosen CFS 2 install.

Thanks to

Ted Cook for a great aircraft, & his willingness to support converting them for use in CFS2

Shessi for his work at bringing older models up to code, & inventing novel solutions so CFS2 can simulate such a wide range of combat operations

Peperez for helping with the challenge of making a more accurate airfile

Bismark13 for his 250lb & 500lb bombs

Jim Jacobsen for his innovative solution to the problem of depicting paratroops within CFS2

Kelticheart for his exhaust effects, & inspiration for the propeller bitmaps

This is freeware and subject to the usual conditions

UncleTgt,

JAN 2015

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit Mods for Shessis Whitley MkV Bomber Cmd UT.zip
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.
 
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UncleTgt and Peperez,

I love the pic, but I love the modifications even more. Great work, everyone! :biggrin-new:
 
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