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Ships from German Navy - Bundesmaine

Your absolutly right.... the crew is just an eyecatcher and not needed for ai traffic. Will take them away from the models. Perhaps i can use them in static models for harbor scenery.
Every notice you made is well needed on my side to learn a little bit more about making this models.

Thanks
Klaus
 
Really nice modelling, Klaus! Keep at it, and the scenery packages are terrific. The fight to keep the model's from dragging FPS, that's a tough one. Getting enough detail to look 'busy', but keeping the performance from dumping...that's my sole gripe with MCX- it seems to do funny things to models, sometimes nearly doubling the size, and I don't know why.
I tend to keep my boats on the spare side, even for my tastes, in order to keep the size down and minimise performance hit. A lot can be done with textures to simulate complexity, but nothing beats the look of 'greeblies'. I tried adding a few crew figures from time to time, but the FPS hit was bad.
Railings, tubes, chains, propellers and rigging are pretty nightmarish, too.
 
Part 3 of German Navy ships... Fregate Baden Württemberg class 125 and Corvette Braunschweig class 130.

The corvette is without crew to get more frame friendly also with small textures.

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Will try to get all ships more framefriendly and than upload in near future as a hole package. This time upload is for this two ships.

Greetings
Klaus
 
Amazing work! How can I start to create by myself some (italian) ships from google sketchup? Do you have some tips?
Thanks, and happy new year!
 
Nice work,I have been on vacation,so,I don't have a way to download then until around the 10th of January,but,I do prefer crew scenery over none at all,I always feel like,I am landing on a ghost ship without them LOL,just my 2cents.
 
And the biggest ship of German Bundesmarine today ... the Supply Ship Berlin Class called "Einsatzgruppenversorger"

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Hope you will have fun with those models

Greetings
Klaus
 
And next part : all the Bundesmarine Minehunter Fleet. Hohlstablenkboot Ensdorf Klasse 352, Minenjagdboot Frankenthal Klasse 332, Minenjagdboot Kulmbach Klasse 333, Minentauchereinsatzboot Frankenthal Klasse 332b, Mienensucher Seehund Klasse.

Hohlstablenkboot Ensdorf Klasse 352

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Minenjagdboot Frankenthal Klasse 332

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Different Typs all together

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System in duty : Minehunter with 3 drone (Seehund)

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Upload will come today

Greetings
Klaus
 
Upload done.

Next to come first shots in FSX

German Navy tug Nordstrand Klasse 725A

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And German Navy "Living Ship" Wohnschiff Knurrhahn

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Some others will be inside this package then

Living Ship Ohre Class and the "Intelligence ships" from Oste Class"

Greetings
Klaus
 
Next one is the "Intelligence Ship" from Oste Class. These ships are called "Flottendienstboot"

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Oste1c.jpg


Oste1e.jpg


Greetings
Klaus
 
German Navy "Living Ship" Wohnschiff Ohre Class

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Ohre1b.jpg


Ohre1c.jpg


Ohre1d.jpg


All these ships will come up tomorrow.


Greetings
Klaus
 
One of the next to come.

Dock C - a pressure dock of the Bundesmarine. In duty by the navy since 1965 for the submarines of class 206 till 2016. Then it was sold.

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It will come in static variants for scenery building too.

Greeings
Klaus
 
One of the next to come.

Dock C - a pressure dock of the Bundesmarine. In duty by the navy since 1965 for the submarines of class 206 till 2016. Then it was sold.

druckdock.jpg




It will come in static variants for scenery building too.

Greeings
Klaus

What is the purpose of a 'Pressure dock'?
 
The purpose is to find little damages to the hull of a submarine and you can test max depth for submerge without loosing your sub and crew.

There is a nice statement for this on net...but it is in german... you have to translate this on. There are photos of the origninal inside.

https://ww2.dsm.museum/DSA/DSA25_2002_253268_Lehmann.pdf

Photo 15 and 16 ...

And the original.
1000.-U-Boot-gewartet-Millimeterarbeit-in-der-Roehre_pdaArticleWide.jpg


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Greetings
Klaus
 
After doing most modern ships of the German Navy i started to do the first base of the "Bundesmarine". It is called "Eckernförde". Homebase of the german submarines, some suplyships and also base of the german Seals called "Kommando Spezial Kräfte Marine (KSK M). In former times they have been called "Kampfschwimmer"

First shots from ScetchUp

Eckernfoerde Base1a.jpg



Greetings
Klaus
 
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