USS Saratoga (CV-3) 1938 by AliceFromLake

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CV-3 USS Saratoga 1938


USS Saratoga (CV-3) was a Lexington-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1920s. Originally designed as a battlecruiser, she was converted into one of the Navy's first aircraft carriers during construction to comply with the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. The ship entered service in 1928 and was assigned to the Pacific Fleet for her entire career. Saratoga and her sister ship, Lexington, were used to develop and refine carrier tactics in a series of annual exercises before World War II. On more than one occasion these included successful surprise attacks on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She was one of three prewar US fleet aircraft carriers, along with Enterprise and Ranger, to serve throughout World War II.

This model represents Saratoga as she appeared in 1938. The ship was rebuild some times and always changed their appearance. I recommend to use the Devastator from my store for this ship. Other aircraft used on Saratoga were Grumman Buffalo, Grumman Wildcat (from VanishingPoint or Digimation_ModelBank), Vought Vindicator and Douglas Dauntless (from thunderr).


Included is the model in Collada (*.dae) format, usable for all render packages able to import Collada (nearly all actual render packages can do so) and OBJ format for older programs not able to deal with Collada. The files are separated so you can download the desired format.

I decided to skip the old 3ds format, because it's restrictions. In future I use Collada (*.dae) und OBJ only. Collada can be imported by all modern rendering programs like DAZ 4, Poser 10 and 12, Vue, Studio Max, Cinema4D, Bryce, Modo, Carrara and so on. In Collada all groupings and materials are preserved and it has no restriction in mesh size and naming. If you need the OBJ file because your program can not deal with Collada file than please download the saratoga1938-obj.zip file.

The model consists of around 470.000 polygons.

The Images are made with Cinema4D