Back to the Nest by steelrazer
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Curtiss SOC "Seagull" floatplane heading back to the nest. In this case, the "nest" is the USS Astoria. There are some cool videos on UTube showing these cool floatplanes landing at sea and being recovered, as well as some catapult launches...it must have been a lot of excitement for the pilots. I always wondered how these planes landed in the open ocean, but interestingly, the recovering vessel would make a wide turn and the bird would land in the resulting area of relatively "smooth" water and then be winched onboard. Fascinating invention, the floatplane served as a limited range armed observation scout for the fleet with a long and distinguished service history despite being in reality from an earlier flying generation.
Curtiss SOC "Seagull: Free on sharecg, generously shared by Briney. Just some little tweaks here and there.
USS Vincennes: Shared also for free at the same location by Briney doing bit player work as supporting fleet vessels.
USS Astoria also a New Orleans class cruiser: Free on sketchup warehouse by nottumun with a bit of fussing and re-tex.
USS Casablanca: Free on sketchup warehouse as well, this by jjasper123,retex.
WW2 Destroyer: here on rendo originally by BVR now offered by RPublishing (very nice model)
Various Crew that are "Waldo-like" all around: Epici Enemy Soldier here on Rendo with various retex and props..(truly, they are there!)
Various texture tweaking here and there to taste by myself.
C4d6 XLCE+, Poser7, Vue6Infinite, PS Cs3
Comments (13)
Lady_Nimue
Fantastic art!!! This must be one of the best 'war like' images I've ever seen. Great art!
Greywolf44
Can't get to much aviation/navel/WWII art. Very nice image. I think you out to change the camera position slightly up or down just so the plane doesn't get completely lost in the lines of the cruiser. It is a really good POV though. Keep 'em comin'.
London224 Online Now!
Nice scene..but wonderful wake Bill.
Penters
This plus the previous 3 posts are just brilliant..love your work
fly028
Amazing work!! Superb image, great textures, great light!
Cyve
Fantastic creation... wonderfully done!!!
UVDan
Great history lesson and superb scene!
AliceFromLake
Great picture.
neiwil
Brilliant image Bill!, you're doing some mighty fine 'Fleet' images lately.Great atmos and more stunning 'waterwork', the letterbox format really gives a sense of the scale to this piece. 10/10++
Bendinggrass
This is fantastic.
Osper
Nicely (very) gone image!!!!!!
Briney
Awesome to see the Seagull and co. getting around. Excellent render! Wasn't always fun though. There was a time a Walrus pilot misjudged his landing run and pranged into the side of the patient waiting HMAS Australia... He got badly knocked up. All these various spotter machines had a very high attrition rate with landing accidents etc.
debbielove
Got to say, another fine work mate.. Very good indeed, excellent detailing.. Rob