EAW WW1 Theatre

[Moggy]

I had the Airfix plastic models flying on my bedroom ceiling as well!

I'm sure we can dig up the info. I don't think there were too many of them.

[Lolo Kramp]

You can't stop.

Basically I think of this as digital model making. A return to my youth except the models aren't hanging from the ceiling, they're flying around in virtual space.

Yes ! I fully agree

I even started thinking that LR Models are 1/72 scale while HR Models 1/48 or 1/32 scale...

Lolo

[Moggy]

[rotton50]

Still working through some lesser known aircraft from Germany and the Allies:

Nieuport 25 ( a prototype with a 200 HP rotary ). I didn't make a separate set of skins for this one. I used the Nieuport 24 skins as it was an upgrade to the engine and wings with no visible changes:


HalberstadtC4 escort fighter and ground attack. Apparently a pretty good dogfighter too:


Siemens-Schuckert D 1, a copy of the French Nieuport 11:


Siemens-Schuckert D 4:

BTW, this is a lo-res model thus proving that with a little attention to detail a lo-res model can look quite good.

Siemens-Schuckert D 6 parasol version of the D 4:


Fokker C 1 two seat version of the Fokker D 7:


Roland D 6:


Albatros D 9

)I realized after I took the screenshot that I left a radiator on the top wing. It's been removed.

Fokker D 6, basically a Dr1 in biplane configuration:


Fokker D 9 parasol version of the D 7:


A few other yet to come:
Sopwith Snapper
Sopwith Snark
Martinsyde F.4 Buzzard
Aviatek D 1
Aviatek D 4
Aviatek D 7
Pfaltz D 15
Rumpler D 1
AFG DJ 1

[Moggy]

[Moggy]

Ray, I've started to try and put together a 1.6 WW1 setup using your 29-12-25 aircraft collection.

Are there any more planes/FMs ready for addition to that set?

[rotton50]

Yes, I have a finished Sopwith Snapper. It just missed WWI so you might not need it.

But I am also finishing up the Aviatik D 7 which did make it under the wire.

I'll upload a fresh set in the next couple of days that includes both of these.




I came across the nice website that lists all the aircraft used by both sides. It turns out there's quite a few more that I can add:

https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraf ... rcraft.php

[Moggy]

The dates there are useful in putting together planesets.

I'm trying to sort out tile maps, terrains, and target layouts from previous WW1 attempts.

And gather together whatever WW1 ground objects we have.

[rotton50]

I've been thinking that I should but a note on each aircraft hangar screen with some basic info since the data for WWI planes is not as well known as WWII.

I already do that on all the prototype and "what-if" models, both WWI and WWII.

That would also help with putting together planesets.

[Moggy]

That's a good idea. Maybe Include date bracket of principal operational use ie "March 1915-June 1917" which would be very helpful.

Managed to get the original TWF tile matrix converted to eaw32.tm and loaded into the map editor today. It looks good for the new setup with the pockmarked terrain they also did for 128C in 2008-10.

There is also a target/base layout from that setup which I can see in the map editor, and concentrates on the western front area. I need to see it in Jelly's target editor.

[Moggy]

Ray, how do you feel about some requests?



For the early period we need:

Royal Aircraft Factory FE2b
Royal Aircraft Factory BE2c
Vickers FB5 "Gunbus"

For the mid period:

Halberstadt DII & III

and for the heavy bombers:

Friedrichshafen GIII
Zeppelin-Straaken R VI

I can't see that anyone else has had a crack at these, but the configurations are not wildly different to some of the planes we already have.

[rotton50]

I finished four more very late war models:

Anslado D.1

Martinsyde F.4

Aviatik D.7

Sopwith Snapper(technically it missed WWI by a few months but what the heck, it's a good looking plane)


I will take a look at some of the earlier planes as requested.

[Moggy]

Thanks Ray,

Those late war planes look good.

I am trying to get the scenario sorted. I've been in touch with Ade (Flying Tiger) as to who did what in the original TWF setup, and whether he has any files which I don't. He has mentioned a Spring and Winter scenario, which I don't have any files for.

There are two target setups. The first was done by Pobs, and concentrates on the wartime airfields on the Western Front. The second target setup was done by Jel, but this was for his online version, and his reduced size map.

I haven't loaded Pobs' setup in the target editor yet, but probably will this week. That's the one I think we can use.

[rotton50]

As you know, I'm pretty proficient with the target editor. Both SPAWFinalCut and the 2015EAW setup have some very good target setups, using up the entire allowable 255 slots at each target.

While SPAW probably doesn't have much in common with a European WWI scenario, I wonder if the 2015EAW target set might help speed things up since each target has an individual file. In theory these should be importable to a WWI setup.

In particular I did a lot of work getting the various TMODs properly placed on the airfields. Also there are probably some TMODS that will work for WWI. For example, I know some of the vehicles, buildings and artillery wouldn't look out of place.

Another thought. When Jel produced the last editor with it's individual files for each target, one of the unexpected results was more than one person could work on the project and then send their work to the main production supervisor for inclusion.

I would not be opposed to trying that out with you as the lead man.

Meanwhile, as you get sorted, I'm going to get back to work on some of the mid-war models.

[Moggy]

This sounds like a plan.

Having got the stuff from Ade, I'm pretty sure I have more or less all that was done previously for the WW1 scenario

I'm trying to put together a basic 1.6 setup.

Ade sent amongst other things what hed been done for a Winter setup. I set up the tile editor with both Summer and Winter terrain (the Winter terrain needed a couple extra "trenches" tiles) and have finished off the winter terrain with the trench line from the channel to the Swiss border, and also done the same for the Summer tarrain. Both of these can be augmented with more shell holes etc in due course.

I have also extended the front line that runs down the middle of the trench line not only to the Swiss border, but also to the front line between Italy and Austria-Hungary.

I've set up the target editor with the summer terrain and am trying to understand the target setup from the original work.

Also trying to sort out the ground object setup from the original work, and sort out what extra objects are needed ... LATER - the answer to this is that it uses the 72 model original Dunkirk tmpd setup.

I have made two dir.sets, one for Summer, one for Winter, and started on five basic planesets:

1-1914-1915 Early Skirmishes,
2-1915-1916 The Fokker Scourge,
3-1916-1917 The Jastas,
4-1917 Allied Supremacy,
5-1917-1918 Final Battles.

Also put in a quick setup of the BGM files.

Will make all this available shortly.