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Fletcher class wip - first look... last ship

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this should be my last ship to round out the WWII fleet i've been working on -- this is raw . no materials , no textures just vertex colors and still a few surface normals to suss out.

i'm thinking of depth charge effects on this one :typing:

coming soon , {within the week soon...}
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Thanks Bruce, keep up the great work. Looking forward to this one as well.

Regards, Tom :ernae:
 
Nice! the 5" 38 cal barrels are a little long and the stern should sit a bit lower in the water, not a lot of freeboard there!

Cheers: t.
 
Bruce, love yer stuff. Haven't been doing a lot of FS flying lately but this should certainly be fun to use!
 
I took a lot of pictures of the Fletchers that served as plane guards for us and they came along side for refueling.
Here's some suggestions.
 
Trans_1007 said:
NC, if im not mistaken, wasn't the USS-Indianapolis the ship that carried the atomic bomb to arrival piont for B-29's? This ships name rings a bell in my naval history mind.
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Yes, it carried the bombs to Tinian. She was sunk shortly after that
by a Japanese sub with heavy loss of life. The survivors
floated about for days as the Indianapolis wasn't reported
missing for some time after she was sunk.

Paul
 
The USS Indianapolis indeed carried the second atomic bomb. But it's also infamous for being torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese sub and the surviving crew suffered one of the worst recorded shark attacks with the loss of over 700 sailors. It's mentioned in the movie Jaws. Books have been written, and TV documentaries have been made about the sinking. Not one of the Navy's better moments.
 
The definitive history book "USS Indianapolis" is gripping reading.

Did anyone ever do the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) as a scenery object?
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What would be great to have is an aicarrier2 friendly AI version of a WWII heavy cruiser just like this one! :gossip:
 
A great destroyer! I had the privilidge of serving on one for a while as a youngster.... The USNR had several that were pretty much unchanged from the WWII configuration, just removal of torpedo tubes and most of the light AA battery. However beautifully maintained!

Cheers: T.
 
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