For the moment I am not going to redo the theatre layout, that will be for a phase II of the work, and will finally incorporate all the work Wudy did a few years back (see the posts here) on the Pacific atolls and islands.
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The main effort at the moment is
(1) to create a 1.29 set using different plane folders for four periods of the Midway battle:
3rd June (attacks by B17s and PBYs on Japanese fleet),
4th June to 15.00 (the main battle: Jap attacks on Midway, US attacks from Midway and Fleet on Jap carriers),
4th June after 15.00 (US attack on Hiryu, Jap attack on Yorktown),
5th June and 6th June (final US attacks on Jap fleet and Wake).
Between the various plane folders I hope to include all the aircraft involved.
(2) to bring in whatever hi-res planes aircraft there are available, skinned for the appropriate carrier or land air group, Update loadouts and ordnance.
(3) to create 3D carrier models for the US and Japanese fleet, and better 3d models for battleships, cruisers and destroyers using the PAW multipart models.
(4) to redo the historical missions for the new single mission setup so that each aircraft can have a mission sequence.
With the plane folder setup, and the 1,000 tmod slots now available this is now doable.
This by the way, I never knew until now:
"Three U.S. airmen, Ensign Wesley Osmus (pilot, Yorktown), Ensign Frank O'Flaherty (pilot, Enterprise) and Aviation Machinist's Mate B. F. (or B. P.) Bruno Gaido (radioman-gunner of O'Flaherty's SBD) were captured by the Japanese during the battle. Osmus was held on the Arashi, with O'Flaherty and Gaido on the cruiser Nagara (or destroyer Makigumo, sources vary); all three were interrogated, and then killed by being tied to water-filled kerosene cans and thrown overboard to drown. The report filed by Admiral Nagumo tersely states of Ensign Osmus, "He died on 6 June and was buried at sea"; O'Flaherty and Gaido's fates were not mentioned."
So I will dedicate this make over to Osmus, O'Flaherty, and Gaido.