One Of The Last by AliceFromLake
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My B6N Tenzan taking off from Shinano. Well, Shinano never operated aircraft because it was sunk on her maiden voyage by USS Archerfish but it's the only aircraft carrier available for the time B6N was the actual aircraft. So this is a what if. With around 60,000 tons Shinano was the greatest aircraft carrier prior to the american super carriers but the shortest living aircraft carrier of the japanese navy.
Shinano is from De Espona. Deck and island are OK but the hull is not really correct and the gun towers are too big and may be not correct. When I have time I rebuild it for my purposes.
B6N Tenzan will be available in the Renderosity store when I passed the limit to sell more than three items.
Comments (6)
steelrazer
Very cool. Many of those Japanese carriers look like parking lots on the high seas to me. I guess I get so used to seeing the USN and Royal Navy towers that the Imperial Japanese Navy carriers look so bare. I'm sure you can tweak the Shinano to perfection. Nice to see a new carrier on the seas! Good job.
Pewter7
Wonderful perspective in this excellent historical scene. Thanks for the information too. 5+
cschell
Nice work... :) really nice job on this render! Shinnano was to have been built origionally as the 3rd battleship in the same Class as Musashi and Yamato... but was changed over to an aircraft carrier during her initial hull construction due to Japan's near annihilation in the years previous... Shinnano only had about 100 miles of open sea to cover while she was being moved to a safer ship-yard, fate dealt her cards and she sank after receiving only a single torpedo. her water-tight bulkheads were incomplete, her pumps hadn't been fully installed and many weren't even onboard yet. her crew was completely untrained and most water-tight seals weren't installed or properly packed... she was to have been completed once she'd been moved... she was taken under tow and a bucket brigade was started but they just had no way to compete with 100's of tons of sea water rushing in... eventually the guilded picture of the emporer was transfered to a destroyer and the crew taken off and she capsised and sank... There's a book called "Submarine!" by ENS. Edward Beach who served on subs in ww2 that tells part of the story of the sinking... as i recall he knew some of the men that crewed the Archerfish...
London224
Looks really nice Alice. I feel bad now about giving you a hard time on the Yorktown. I've just discussed with Bill above that I am going to start doing only Obj models in the future. Don
Penters
Lovely work especially on the Tenzan
Briney
What they needed was ASW helicopters!!! The torpedo plane looks great... Gee, even with such a huge carrier, it must still seem like landing on a big rolling plank of wood... gulp.