Greyhounds of the Deep by Osper
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Description
Destroyers have been nick named (among other things) Greyhounds. Sleek and fast they were tasked with protecting the bigger ships. Here two speed by while in the background the biggies go about their own chores.
The nearer destroyer is a Benson Class Destroyer. A class of thirty ships these were designed after the Washington Treaties expired. They were slightly larger and heavier than the preceeding classes to take advantage of heavier construction methods to support a new engine room/boiler layout. They and their earlier brothers were heavily involved in most of the surface actions in the Pacific during the early part of the Second World War.
The second Destroyer is an early Fletcher class. Called 2100 tonners the Fletchers were designed with all the restrictions of the earlier classes over come.
Normally the US Navy placed like destroyers of the same class in the same squadrons. However in the early Pacific campaigns losses of ships made composite squadrons a neccessity.
The Cruiser is a New Orleans Class Cruiser and the carrier is Neals USS Enterprise modified by me.
Technical note: If I thought researching the vatious New Orleans Cruisers was a pain. I found that the pre war destroyers were worse! It took weeks to figure out which ship had which upgrades. Five turrets, no four, wait..some with two turrets forwars and partial or no turrets aft (just the guns) radars, AA guns, portholes covered/not covered, one anchor, no two. ARGGGH!!! One destroyer had three cammo schemes in an 18 month period. Great fun!!!
All ships (and planes) done in Wings 3D.
Rendered in Vue 7I (are they up to Vue 10?)
Comments critisisms and all that kind of stuff are welcome. I know, I know, no girls, Fairys, Elves,Orges, Dragons or that kind of stuff. But bear with me.
Comments (46)
Ravyns
Your models & image are wonderful. And thank you for the history on the destroyers. I learned something today.
Faemike55
Very cool scene well done and researched
eekdog
i can feel the wwII feel to this, most incredible realism. superb history indeed.. 8+
tiku_67
Great!
BardCoennius
Wow... f***'in' awesome render. Can't see many details on the boats, but the viewer doesn't need details to appreciate the sheer drama in this image. That said, I hope you will show us some close-ups of these models and share some of your techniques. I'm been struggling with Wings3d for awhile, now and would love to be able to create some decent models.
London224
Wonderful modeling and like your telling us about the research behind it. The scene is so realistic with the bad weather and appropriate layout of the elements....and the best part of it is there's not a single large breasted sailor in the entire scene!...a stowaway of course : ) 5 from me.
taliesin86001
Awesome render...well done with the wakes! could'a swore I got a glimpse of a mermaid though!!! lol
TheOwl68
My word, don't you dare apologise for no faeries, dragons, etc...your modelling work on these ships and planes is AWESOME, what patience you do have~ I'm with London224 on this re: the missing large breasted sailor LoL Hey, some of us like a little more variety and this Vue scene is magnificently done =) Inspiring work!
rocdan
excellent scene wonderful work and art fantastic
flavia49
fantastic scene and models
EricofSD
Very good work for Wings.
HADCANCER
Really like this one.
renecyberdoc
very interesting.my wifes father was u boat man in WWII. his ship got sunk,he managed to get to north africa,was pow by the french,but as the french did not even had enough to feed their own troops ,he escaped got cauhjt by the americans,came to north carolina or south i dont remember,but in any case he survived the war well,was also well treated in america and came home early enough to "fabricate"my wifey wich was born in 1946 so thanks old man Hugo!!!!
Briney
Awesome models and scene... lots of hard work come to fruition. The overcast atmsophere and sea is excellent too
debbielove
Fine Render mate! The hazy conditions as sea, Atlantic or in the Pacific hid some if not all the details so.... Picture looks great! If you want to get REALLY confused, try working out who was in the Med just on the Royal Navy side, then add the US! Then take a headache pill! lol Rob
Fidelity2
Super cool. 5+!
cricke49
hey i was in the navy, you could go on and on and on, for me! lol! excellent modeling, awesome image render!:)*5
sandra46
SUPERLATIVE WORK!
Maxidyne
Fine work on the models and the scene looks suitably overcast. You are one better than me, i'm still using Vue 6 lol.
Richardphotos
very realistic render. the water looks so real
jocko500
did a wonderful job on them. yes looking up stuff is hard at times.
tallpindo
I'm sort of left at FRAM II and how it left the destroyers and Garcia class and how it cutoff Navy ship size at 650 ft AWL and DE. Of course hydrofoils were being tried and SCS was anything from an ACV to an aircraft carrier. I did look into guns bores in inches and barrel lengths in calibers based on how the calibers went down for 8 inchers compared to 5 inchers. I slipped back to early black powder cannon to understand this. Quad 20's and twin 40's is the veterans I grew up with and said farewell to in 1965. Ever seen a Kamikaze up close?!!! Yesteeray a grey wolf made a fast pass from behind on me as I walked out of the front of the house to get the paper. ??? Was it a baby cougar? It seemed to bound as it hit the street and jumped the silt barrier to the lot across the street. Definitel a long equally busshey in length tail. I found out online they can climb trees and are about 38 inches long. I guess it wasn't a cougar by the range here. Definitely not a skunk, or raccoon which move slowly. Probaly just stalking by scent as it made a similar pass when my sister came out on the porch a few days earlier. No high pitched yelping in fear and it came quite close to me maybe 8-10 feet it could have easily avoided by going over a limestone retaining wall down to the next yeard.
Mondwin
Magnificent image my friend!!!Bravissimo!V:DDD.Hugsxx Whylma
UVDan
A great image. I love everything about it.
MagikUnicorn
GORGEOUS RENDER AND POSTWORK ! LOVE IT
jif3d
Kool result after all that mind bending research, yes Vue is up to 10.5 now and probably the clouds and water would look a bit better, but not much ! Well done & ~Cheers~
A_Sunbeam
Water effects are very impressive!
drifterlee
THose ships and scene are awesome!!!!!!
Maxthon
Very nice work... love the atmosphere too.
psyoshida
Wow! Wonderfully realistic scene. Thank you for the history too. Wonderful modelling.