Wrench

The original terrain sets up (ALL stock terrains) leave a LOT to be desired. But look what we, just devoted fans with "some skills" can do with this terrain engine! Great work Gepard!!!

No 335 Squadron, RAF Western Desert (picture found in the archives of my MTO folder)

Yes. It's coming soon. Check the announcement thread for the Goshawk, and there's a picture of pre-war bird., Also, the French Navy V-156-F. (just in case someone builds a Battle of France map)

View File BF2C Goshawk USN Decal Fix for Cowl Ring Colors Here's a quick patch by Wilches that fixes my inability to think straight! The package contains a new decal ini for the VB5B skin, and some modified decals. Simple Instructions: If you have downloaded the BF2C already, grab this package, unzip and drop in included folder where they go. The patch ahs been applied to the Full Aircraft Upload (tm), and Version 2 is being uploaded now! Again, HUGE thanks to Wilches figuring this out!! Submitter Wrench Submitted 08/26/2026 Category Other  

ok, check out and a new version of the aircraft will be uploaded shortly The Wilches Fixit Pack will be uploaded seperately for those just needing to patch their recent download

thanks! I'll get it checked out today!!

Well, I just made an astonishing discovery ... and I must apologize to the 2 dozen or so WW2 players. I just discovered that our MTO terrains, in particular "North Africa" (western desert, Egypt, Lybia) and Tunisia (post TORCH) are NOT in the SF2 terrain downloads. They are in the 1stGen terrain downloads, and have never been converted for SF2. Going into my archived MTO mod folder, I find that I was working NAfrica in 2017, and Tunisia either in 2018 or 2023 (going by Window "date modified" column). I do know that bot maps had been retiled to use the IsraalME tiles, to match the WW2 Palestine (IME based). Again, like Dueces' "Green Not Desert", many stock desert farm/city tile remain. So, shit! After finishing some of the birds now in the hangar, I'll be stopping work on them, and the PAW1 and WW2 Darwin terrains and see if I can remember where I was in the rebuilds. OTH, the PTO Philippines, New Gueina, and Solomons (v3) are all been convered to SF2 a long time ago. again, apologies!!

My thanks!! As I stated above, my plan is to NOT mess with the original ships, so as to keep the scripted missions intact. Any mods to them (the carriers) would have unique names so prevent internal (infernal?) confusion. This also would be of 'general' releases', for those with PTO mod folders NOT RS builds. In come cases, I'm thinking of NOT being full mod, just inis and maybe textures, End Users (tm) would have to have Rising Sun to transfer the various LODs from. As always, anything and everything I mod for RS is yours for the taking! This, of course, includes any other products of mine released over the years. have several other plans for improvement of some of the aircraft, and I know Snapper21 has been fiddling with the other warships, making them more in line with SF2 coding. There are some fantastic items, but a great number of the have some flaws. Most are easily fixed with ini edits, or texture conversions. For my own use, I hex edited the F4F-4 Wildcat to take jpg textures, converted the 12+meg skins to jpg, and deleted all but one. Using the "Brain32 Trick" of having only one skin set in the main aircraft folder, reduced the size of this one aircraft by 70 megs. A very fortunate thing is, US Navy birds 'all look alike'. Well, until the G System of markings came in .. and most can be done with decals. Again, I thank you VERY much for the permission granted!!!

and Dolly Parton too. This world ...

can't just send it via pm??? LoL!!

Rob, I just checked the link, and it says 'unavailble' for me too!

ABSOLUTELY!!!! remember, it has to fit the 1930s Navy style! (full, top, bottom) for each of the 3 birds in each flight (below, Red Section, VB-2, 1938)

View File SF2 Curtiss BF2C-1 Goshawk / Hawk III by MontyCZ SF2 Curtiss BF2C-1 Goshawk / Hawk III by MontyCZ 8/20/2026 -For SF2 =ONLY= (Full/5 Merged Recommended) What we have here is a fairly major revamp of MontyCZ's Curtis BF2C-1 Goshawk as used by the US Navy in 1933, and the Hawk III export model used by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force in the late 1930s. Originally released in 2004 for 1st Gens, nothing has been done to this bird since a small mod by me in 2008, also for SF1. Historical comments are in the usual place, the "Notes" section below. Included in the package are skin and decal sets for the following units: US Navy: VB-5B (USS Ranger 1933) NS Blue/ NS Gray (<1941) (a fictional skin) ROCAF (aka Nationalist China): Hawk III, 5th Pursuit Group <1937 The skins remain in their bmp format, and decal randomization is TRUE. The VB-5 skin has been partly repainted, and all marking are decals. Plane-in-squadron flight color bands and BuNum are 100% historically correct. The only incorrect thing is due to "something wrong" with the cowl ring mesh, the proper decal placement of nose color bands is impossible. When the SB2U Vindicators are released (2 weeks!) you'll see how they really worked. The NS Blue/Gray skin re-uses the same decals as the VB-5. Historically, ALL of the Navy's Goshawks had been scrapped by 1935. This is a 'what if' skin. The ROCAF's skin serial numbers are correct for this aircraft in the time frame of its usage. The USN version has been tested on all our WW2 aircraft carriers, included the YAP RS versions (now in dry dock being revamped for SF2). It does have a small problem catching the wire, but otherwise is "passable". A user list was created for all those that had these on inventory at some time or another. Everything is included: WW2 bombs, drop tank, pilot figure and so forth. You'll also be adding a 'new' engine sound, so have your SoundList ini extracted, or be ready to extract it and add the new sound's data. Full instructions are in below, in the "To Install" section. On the Aircraft Selection Drop Down Screen you'll see: BF2C-1 Goshawk (the RoCAF skin will show this name as well, even though Curtiss called it "Hawk III") As is always recommended, unzip to a temp folder or your desktop to give easy access to the rest of this readme for it's install instructions. ==PLEASE== read them, before installing!!! There's all sorts of important information there to make sure installation goes as smooth as possible!!!!!!! Please read the Notes section for any other useless bits of information, the change log and so forth. MontyCZ's original read me text in included, in the main aircraft folder for archival purposes. Please also take note of changes in the Standard Disclaimer in the "Legal BS" section at the bottom. Happy Landings! Wrench Kevin Stein Updated: Package now has cowl color band fix by Wilches. For those that only need the fix go to this URL: https://combatace.com/files/file/18775-bf2c-goshawk-usn-decal-fix-for-cowl-ring-colors/ For those downloading for the first time, you needn't worry. The Repairs have already been applied. The Fix Is In!!! With Much Appreciation to Wilches! Submitter Wrench Submitted 08/25/2026 Category Other