[dunkelgrun]

Nice vid. Makes me wonder though why folk are still flying the crap stock Midway map (even with the BP excellent additions it's still poor) after I spent all that time researching and making an accurate and better-looking one...

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Your map may indeed look more accurate and be "better looking," however I saw the other release first with hd video and pictures.

Also, It was the BP_midway map that got me excited about Il2 again. That map rocks! that coral, the sand...and the perfectly placed static tress...Im confused.....I wouldn't consider it "poor" ???

Poor in its depiction of reality. Not the BP team's fault though; like many stock maps in IL-2, Oleg's mapmakers were a bit... 'imaginative' ...or maybe lacking in it. Everything I placed on my map was based on extensive research - you've no idea how many times I watched that bloody film of John Ford's. It got to the point where I could figure out which parts were genuine footage and which were filmed AFTER the attack. I used every bit of info on the web, and every map and book I was able to lay my hands on, in order to make the most accurate map I could. Obviously, there are limits with the available objects for buildings etc, but compare the two maps and you'll easily see the vast difference between 1C:Maddox's fictional Midway and my attempt at a true re-creation.

This is what happens when you spend thirty years as a cartographic surveyor; maps are in my blood and there's nothing I like better than trying to make historical ones. Mind you, I enjoy the research just as much!

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