Tuskegee Airmen P-51D "Creamer's Dream."
Capt. Charles White, 301st FS, 332nd FG, 15th AF.
Ramitelli, Italy

Skin by John "Skycat" Turner.
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This file contains a replacement skin for Rammjager's "Six Gun Whore" (v.1) P-51D model for Jane's WWII Fighters game. 
It installs the paint scheme for "Creamer's Dream." 

This P-51D was one of the first D-models to see service with the Tuskegee Airmen. It was flown by Capt. Charles White of 
the 301st FS, 332nd FG. Charles White is credited with destroying two ME 109s (April 1, 1945). In a recent interview, White 
described that day: "We were looking for activity and scanning the skies. I guess we must have been 25,000 feet up. I 
started dropping down a bit. So, there were these eight black pilots looking for Hitler's elite forces. ... We saw this as 
an opportunity to shoot down planes. ... I started shooting at one in the back ... and he crashed into the side of a hill. 
I raked (another enemy plane) with some fire. ... And all of a sudden there were no planes around." For his action, White 
was promoted in the field from lieutenant to captain, but two of his colleagues were killed during the battle. 
White received many medals for his service, and became a real estate broker and teacher after leaving the military. 
He retired as principal of Stevens Middle School in St. Louis. 


In creating this skin, I borrowed freely from earlier Mustang skin mods created by other artists:
-- Rammjager, of course, who created the original model, textures and paint kit that is this skin's basic foundation;
-- The Flying Dutchman's P-51B paint template, which I used for restoring panel lines in the deep red tail;
-- Hammerd's original 'Jane's' P-51D paint template to create the distant view textures;
-- MEGA's "Baby Mine" for damage textures and the basic installation package structure;
-- "Angel's Playmate" skin (artist unidentified) for the weathered anti-glare panel on the nose;
-- Crager's "Iron Ass" for the red spinner texture;
-- Johnny Red's "Troublemaker" for wing textures without black identification stripes;
-- Johnny Red's "Blondie" for rudder damage textures.

In addition, I've been directly and indirectly influenced by the work of many modders, far too many to begin to name. 
Specifically, for this project, Kolodziejski Dariusz's "Millie The P" inspired me to improve the contrast on the national 
insignia (stars and roundels) on the wings and fuselage.   
 


Installation
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Before installing this, or any other, custom modification, you are advised to make a backup of your original ww2.sqs archive. Note 
also that Rammjager's P-51D v.1 model must be installed prior to installing this skin; this skin will NOT work with the game's 
default Mustang model or with Rammjager's "Whore" version 2 model.

This package includes high resolution (512x512) textures only.  Older video cards may not be able to handle this higher resolution. 
If the high resolution version is installed on a system with an inadequate video card, a crash to desktop will likely occur during 
the game. 

Extract the contents of this Zip file and then move, copy or place the enclosed "Creamer's_Dream" folder into your WWII Fighters\Data 
directory.  Assuming the game is installed to the default location on your drive, the folder will go here: C:\Program Files\Jane's 
Combat Simulations\WWII Fighters\Data. Then, double-click the "INSTALL_CreamersDream.bat" icon inside the "Creamer's_Dream" folder 
to install the skin.
     
This will open up a DOS session and the installation will proceed in this window. A message "INSTALLING P51D CREAMER'S DREAM" will 
be displayed. When the installation is complete, a message saying "INSTALLATION OF P51D CREAMER'S DREAM COMPLETE...CLOSE DOS SESSION." 
will be displayed in the window.  Close the DOS session by clicking on the X close button in the top right corner of the window.

