Spanish Civil War - Heinkel He.51

[+Stephen1918 1,474]

Today, thanks to a lot of help from Ojcar, I uploaded the Heinkel He.51 for the Spanish Civil War. The Heinkel was a one man, biplane fighter introduced in 1935 and used by the Nationalists throughout the war. There are a lot of pieces to install, but in the end you'll have a new 7.9 mm machine gun, a new German 10 lb bomb and a drop tank. The download includes a camo skin, decals, a fully functional cockpit, and my skinning templates. 

Ojcar found the 7.9mm machine gun in his SF install, but doesn't know who made it. I decided to use it anyway. If anyone knows who made the machine gun for SF, please let me know and I will give credit.

Ojcar also taught me how to add controls to First Eagles so you can make the drop tank drop with a keystroke. He also included other features, like flaps, landing gear, wheel brakes, etc. so we can use some of the Strike Fighter planes in FE. I have included instructions in the download.

[+Trotski 935]

opens up some possibilities, getting an early B 109 in would be nice along with the Chaika and Ratas as well of course.....and maybe even a Ju87A.........so many possibilities !! now if only we could use JPG's instead of BMP's !!! 

 

[Silberpfeil 363]

As always, good job Stephen1918!  Flies nice right out of the box and everything works well!

[+whiteknight06604 934]

15 hours ago, trotski00 said:

opens up some possibilities, getting an early B 109 in would be nice along with the Chaika and Ratas as well of course.....and maybe even a Ju87A.........so many possibilities !! now if only we could use JPG's instead of BMP's !!! 

 

I'm pretty sure montyCZ released early 109s and a Ju-87A a long time ago. great quality mods too. 

[+Stephen1918 1,474]

12 minutes ago, whiteknight06604 said:

I'm pretty sure montyCZ released early 109s and a Ju-87A a long time ago. great quality mods too. 

Yes! Coupi posted screenshots of the Bf 109 flying in FE2 in another thread. And I have pointed out that in the SF1 downloads area -

• Russouk2004 has a Messerschmitt Bf.109
• Pasko has a Junkers Ju87 Stuka
• Russouk2004 has a DH82 Tigermoth
• Raven has a Fiesler Fi156 Storch

With the new controls that Ojcar told us about, all those planes should work well in the FE Spanish Civil War.

[Wilches 1,169]

Thanks so.much Stephen1918!!! Superb work as ever!! The cockpit is awesome. Don't forget to finish the NiD-52. Greetings from a huge fan!!!

[+Trotski 935]

3 hours ago, whiteknight06604 said:

I'm pretty sure montyCZ released early 109s and a Ju-87A a long time ago. great quality mods too. 

Yessir, its just a matter of converting the fm's etc to make sure they work ok in FE .........and that is beyond my ability, its black majiks an voodoo stuff is that, I believe there is an HS-123 floating around out there too. plus some Breugets and a few others . There is also an early HE111 and DO-17 as well, not sure if those are of Craparses site though.

Edited September 10, 2019 by trotski00

[+Trotski 935]

Oh yeah and Geezers Gladiator and CR-42

 

[Wilches 1,169]

Both Gladiator and Cr.42 were never used on SCW. Sad...

[+Trotski 935]

I only mentioned them because Geezers original models were designed for FE rather than SF 

[Wilches 1,169]

Geezer's Cr.32 Chirri is exceptional but WIP with some small detail and cockpit to be done. Very promissing.

[+Trotski 935]

Indeed, the Chirri is a much needed model, and I'm not sure if Geezer is still working on it, he's been AWOL for a while now, hope he's ok.

[+whiteknight06604 934]

2 hours ago, trotski00 said:

Indeed, the Chirri is a much needed model, and I'm not sure if Geezer is still working on it, he's been AWOL for a while now, hope he's ok.

I hope he's ok too but I think he's pulled another of his disappearing acts. he seems to do it after he has an argument with someone in the community. last time it was over a year before he came back.

[+Trotski 935]

Thats a real shame because he does some outstanding work 

[Wilches 1,169]

The Chirri only needs a telescopic sight and FM. Stephen1918 could make a cockpit, I hope.

[Crawford 570]

Thank you Steve, this is a very cool mod.

Interestingly, version 1.0.0 is indicated. This allows us to hope that after a while a new version will appear with a large number of simple but attractive details (air flow divider in front of the radiator, step on board near the cockpit and steps on the landing gear struts)?  ;)

 

 

[Crawford 570]

56 minutes ago, Wilches said:

The Chirri only needs a telescopic sight

Any rather bad sight wouldn't be a bad thing for the Heinkel too

[Wilches 1,169]

By the way, the He 51 had a reflector gunsight.