FW190A-8White11.zip

Fw 190A-8 (WNr. 681497) as flown by Gefreiter Walter Wagner of 5. Staffel/II. Gruppe/JG 4.

This Fw 190A-8 participated in Operation Bodenplatte on January 1st, 1945. The pilot, Ggfr. Walter Wagner, had a choice to make that fateful morning after his plane was hit by AA fire over St. Trond airfield. As he was low in altitude at the time of being hit, he could either attempt a crash landing in the fields surrounding St. Trond. Or he could attempt to land his crippled plane on the runway at St Trond itself! Wagner chose the later and immediately became a prisoner of war. Upon interogation, Wagner was surprised to discover he had actually been attacking the wrong airfield. His unit had been assigned to attack the US Ninth Air Force base at Le Culot, Belgium, home of the P-47 Thunderbolts of the 36th, 363rd and 373rd Fighter Groups. But instead most of the planes of II./JG 4 got lost and attacked St. Trond by mistake.

"White 11" was thus to become a truely remarkable example for modern day researches of Luftwaffe paint schemes. Numerous color and black and white photographs were taken of this captured plane by USAAF personnel. She had obviously seen a lot of use in her career as she was a patchwork of parts from various cannibalized aircraft with a correspondingly confusing mixture of paint types on these various pieces.

For a very interesting read on this aircraft be sure to visit this link:

http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/luftcambg_5.htm


Installation:
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Note: You must first install the full Anton package which includes all of the 3D files and the rest of the BMPs before installing this skin. This package is available at http://www.wwiifighters.com/. It is refered to as "Fw A-8 3D model with JG2 "skin".

Before installing this, or any other custom modification, you are advised to make a backup of your original ww2.sqs archive.

Extract the contents of this archive to the WWII Fighters\Data directory.  Assuming the default installation, this is:

C:\Program Files\Jane's Combat Simulations\WWII Fighters\Data

The files in will be extracted to a new directory:

\WWII Fighters\Data\Fw190A-8White11

Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the newly created directory.

Note: This distribution includes multiple high-resolution (512x512) textures for users whose video cards support this texture size.

WARNING: Attempting to install high-resolution textures on a system
with a video card which does not support them may cause the game to crash.

To install, double-click on the "InstallWhite11.bat" icon.

NOTE: If you already have a copy of the Fw D-9, D-11, the new Anton, or some of the common 3D  files installed on your machine, SQZIP will generate a warning message when installing the BMPs. This does not mean that anything has gone wrong with the installation. It is only warning you that it is overwriting files that had been previously installed.

After double-clicking the installer batch icon a DOS session will open up and the installation will proceed in this window.  When the installation is complete, a message saying "DONE...CLOSE DOS SESSION" will be displayed in the DOS window. Close the DOS session by clicking on the X (close) button in the top right corner of the window.


Final Comments:
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Please feel free to post questions or comments about this new 3D model and skin to the "Custom Modifications" section of the WWII Fighters Online message board at http://www.wwiifighters.com/ .

Please do not post these files anywhere without permission. Also please do not remove or alter the "Hammerd" logo from the bmp's.



