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OMG It FLOATS!!... ::lol::

Those picks would be over five years old by this time.. It's a whole new world for the outhouse, photobucket, everyone.. those links are gone not due to anyone mishandling of them, but the very nature of the web itself.
 
A little paint

I've tried a little repaint and find myself really loving this boat.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that you can find the resource files to bring her to fruition.
Don't mind the color on the stern, that's just me finding what is where.
 
I like the way that repaint brings out the detail on the boat. I used white because oddly enough, the Kriegsmarine found that white disappears against the water at night time ( truth ). Could you possibly do another repaint?? This one would be a much lighter grey over all with deep green grey fore and aft decks while the walkways too the left and right of the pilot house are wooden planks and the non slip planking below the guns are round.. If you could, that would be awesome.. Not sure about the red green and yellow on the mine ramp though ::lol::
I hear someone made a bow wave effect, that this boat desperately needs.. She should have a bow wake coming half way up her freeboard as she plows her nose slightly into the air ( its a 200000 pound boat guys.. it doesnt fly well ).
 
warchild said:
.... This one would be a much lighter grey over all with deep green grey fore and aft decks while the walkways too the left and right of the pilot house are wooden planks and the non slip planking below the guns are round..
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Can you do me a favor and give me a sample of the color grey and deep green you are looking for...?

I have been trying to add more wooden planks on and around the pilot house but I think some textures are missing.
Using ModelConverterX I get errors about missing DDS texture files.

What I wish is that someone who knows what they are doing could check what objects are missing textures and map new ones.
If you know someone who could help..?

Until that happens I'll try making some new texture files and rename to those missing. Pretty much hunt and peck.
 
Hi Pam,

I agree; well done model and yes, it floats and drives very well. :) Nice "flight model".

I pulled it up in MCX and it does show some missing textures so if you find the source, maybe you can surface those missing texture names shown in the attachment.

SH72, if you look at the object report, it will show you what objects have materials. The objects that show a color are without materials.

You can isolate those objects to see which ones they are; there are many.
 

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Milton Shupe said:
Hi Pam,

I agree; well done model and yes, it floats and drives very well. :) Nice "flight model".

I pulled it up in MCX and it does show some missing textures so if you find the source, maybe you can surface those missing texture names shown in the attachment.

SH72, if you look at the object report, it will show you what objects have materials. The objects that show a color are without materials.

You can isolate those objects to see which ones they are; there are many.
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Knowing how confused and lazy i was getting, I can only speculate that the objects without textures were assigned materials in 3DS Max, that were of that type and color material. At least this would b true for everything except the walkways to the left and right of the pilot house. Those were wood. whether they were dark or light to begin with i dont know as salt water has an interesting effect on different woods. I can speculate that they were some deeper color of mahogany as the entire ship is made from a very special and rather rare mahogany grown by the company who made the boats.
As too the colors themselves, My reference materials from years ago were much different than whats available now. Mostly i had pictures of hyper expensive models with brass fittings to use for reference and historical documentation. However, with the exception of the red stripes on the fore deck, I am confident that this model below is painted correctly with the correct colors..


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Oh, and the torpedoes on the model are wrong, but everyone gets that wrong because theyre accustomed to american torpedo's

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Oh Gods. Milton.. Thank you.. I must apologize as ive been a complete space cadet this afternoon.. running around all morning plain took it out of me i'm afraid..
Now if anyone can take the mdl file and regress it back to an editable mesh, please feel free.. I no longer have 3ds max nor the skills to use it. I've changed a lot in the last five years. I'm sorry for that..
Pam
 
warchild said:
.. However, with the exception of the red stripes on the fore deck, I am confident that this model below is painted correctly with the correct colors..


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Oh, and the torpedoes on the model are wrong, but everyone gets that wrong because they're accustomed to American torpedo's
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Are there any other pictures of this model..?
Any idea what the color is below the waterline..?
 
Seahawk72s said:
Are there any other pictures of this model..?
Any idea what the color is below the waterline..?
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Yes indeed. There are hundreds of images. Some of them are built by home builders, some by historians, some by kids who figured it would be fun to dabble.. Some have black bottoms which are not likely to have been done as black lead was not that abundant. Some are red lead, and are painted red on the model, and some are the correct red lead showing a slight copper color. It's this last that i believe is historically correct as red lead was abundant and very effective against toredo worms in shallow bay area's. Toredo worms are the nemesis of wooden boats. they bore into the wood then sideways through the grain while they multiply.. At som point the bottom detaches from the ship and you have a mess..
There are also black and whirtes taken at Cherbourgh in WWII bt someone with better eyes than I would have to look at the waterline and see if they detect more than a black line with a red bottom..

https://www.google.com/search?q=Kri...HGMKHShBBvcQ_AUICigB&biw=1363&bih=638#imgrc=_
 
and then theres this thing.. Everything on this model is correct from the ammo cns on the frot 20mm to the 40mm flak gun in the back. You really dont want to know how much it costs.. The Italeri Schnellboot S-100. its almost a legend by itself..

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Ah, that beautiful 3 ft monster of a kit! Amazingly enough they also did a PT boat and a Vosper MTB in 1/35 scale too. All are still available with a little searching although the S-100 is now running around $200. I've found the PT and MTB at around $110, actually not too bad considering the prices of scale models these days.
 
thats actually a good price for the MTB and the PT.. But 200 dollars for a model?? Thats a little pricey ;)
 
Seahawk.. Here's the grey I was talking about. Not too far off white, but enough to make everything pop on th page.. And my apologies about not getting it last night. I was pretty wiped out and confused..

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Currently downloading the solomons scenery for testing the boat. I made a few changes to the FDE and changed the wake effect. I'm still looking for something that does an even remotely believable bow wake.. The boat is slightly faster at the moment, which to be honest, may not be historical, but island hopping in the solomons its a god sent miracle.. However, I'll drop that down later to its historical value of 44 knots ( of which the survivors who were on the ship, swear it never went over 42 ). The problem is that the prow rides too low. The engines would push this boat up out of the water by a good two feet on full speed. Our little boat didnt even come out of the water.. So, now i'm playing around trying to get the boat to behave like its real life counterpart.. Mostly I'm doing amateur stuff while I relearn or try to relearn the skills i lost. Please bear with me..

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