Overflight by Osper

Wings 3D • Aviation • posted on Jan 02, 2010

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A nice weather picture to make up for what it's doing outside! A pair of Vought OS2U Kingfishers overfly the USS Allen somewhere in the Pacific. The USS Allen (DD66) was one of six Samson Class destroyers that served in the First World War. It remained the only one out of the class to also serve in the Second World War. Assigned to Pearl Harbor it was present at the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. Missions included acting as an anti submarine ship for training with working up US subs. Also it was disptched at times on convoy duty between The Hawaiian Islands and the West Coast of the United States. It was sold for scrap in 1946. The Vought OS2U was an observation aircraft assigned to the battle ships of the US Fleet. It served not only with the US Navy but also the Fleet Air Arm (British), the Royal Australian Navy, the US Coast Guard and the Soviet Navy. It was designed for catapult launch and recovery but also could change out the floats and use landing gear for dry land operations. Several memorable events were flown by Kingfisher crews, including rescuing Eddie Rickenbacker and his B-17 Crew in 1942 and on one occasion rescued ten downed aviators from Truk lagoon. Models done in Wings, Vue for the rest!! Comments, questions and observations always welcome!

Comments (45)

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OrphanedSoul

9:33AM | Thu, 21 January 2010

Superb modeling, info and art!

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knupps

11:34AM | Fri, 22 January 2010

Great work on this render. I love the wake. :)

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aureagle

2:06PM | Mon, 01 February 2010

Beautiful lighting and what a lovely scene... v. nice POV! :)

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mickeyrony

10:01PM | Wed, 03 February 2010

It is a work of impassioned my friend. Cheer. A beautiful piece. Mile mercies to divide. A mercy special for your visit ((5++)) C'est un travail de passionné mon ami . Bravo . Une belle pièce . Mile mercis pour partager . Un merci spécial pour ta visite ((5++))

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Buffalo1

10:24PM | Sun, 07 February 2010

Love the Kingfisher and your excellent render with old four piper DD66! Got a Kingfisher on the USS Alabama's catapult in my gallery.

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castro2007

1:26AM | Sat, 13 February 2010

Great work in all of your plane work!!!

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tallpindo

5:43AM | Thu, 18 February 2010

I know this bird very well as a model. They were tiny two piece things on the battleship Missouri model I built in the early 50's. I still have a bigger one in the box unopenned that my mother gave me about 20 years ago. She never could understand why I wanted it that way. Once again, a throughly interesting scene.

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junge1

1:26AM | Fri, 09 April 2010

Great render!

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kasalin

4:29PM | Sat, 24 April 2010

Very great render ! Fantastic models and POV. Excellent done !!!!!!

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pixeltek

8:36PM | Mon, 17 May 2010

Very nice and really excellent POV. That's a perfect flyer's view. Too bad the scale shows the weakness of Vue's water, but other than a painstaking post clone stamp job to add more randomness to it, there's little you can do here.

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