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[dsawan]

We need one for Bonzo's memory!

[BOYAN]

@Boyan many thanks for your advice, I'd rather not model the Midway class (rather ugly to me), nor Enterprise class (not quite right either).

Many many thanks to you Karla, for this huge effort, I still can`t believe that there will be a supercarrier in IL2!
I too don`t quite find the Midway class very good looking, in any configuration... Enterprise and Nimitz class are the best looking to me.

Video I found recently, a short doc about USS Nimitz in early 1980s, plenty of footage also in "The Final Countdown". And music... Awesome!

[duffys tavern]

Wow! Now we'll have a CV big enough for just about any jet! Thank you very much!

[karla]

close up of flight deck (unfinished; more texturing needed)

Quite a few hours have been put in this past week. The hull is still being manipulated with Blender, work started modelling the island and quite a lot of effort on the flight deck texture map with Gimp. Much effort is spent searching through hundreds of images trying to find the appropriate detail - the weld lines on the lower hull for example. Anyway, I'm slowly getting it all together.

@Boyan - useful video thanks.

[duffys tavern]

Karla,
Thanx for all of your hard work. Difficult to find the right words to tell you how much we appreciate all of your efforts. Please keep it up.

[Seb]

From this passage already you see that it will be another great ship. So much for him, thank you and good luck.

[max_thehitman]

Amazing details Karla  Very very cool !

[KingTiger503]

Nice Karla, very coolest.

[Type83Fighter]

*Eyebrow raised

1. Thanks for taking the time to make this
2. Will this ship have dependencies on jet war?

[karla]

hull and flightdeck in Blender

Thanks everyone. Steady progress this past fortnight - hull and flightdeck modelling continued and refined. Quite a lot of texture maps have been created for hull and decks but are not yet fully completed. Sponsons are almost completed. The next stage will be the stern where a decision will be made on the piping complex (nuclear cooling system?). Also to be done are the catwalks and lifecraft before we can move on to the island.

@Type83.. I aim to get it to run under 4.12 and it should have no dependencies on JTW.

[max_thehitman]

Beautiful 3d-art Karla

This reminds me of the first time I built a plastic model of the USS Enterprise
Nuclear powered aircraft carrier - (CVN-65), formerly CVA(N)-65.
What a great classic that was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)

[karla]

Blender construction of stern

Work has proceeded on several fronts during the past couple of weeks. The deck edges and catwalks are now almost complete and more textures have been created for the hull and sponsons. The stern is nearly finished; the stern and all other textures still need weathering and shading. Phalanx and Sea Sparrow weapons have been modelled and textured but still need weathering and shading like all texture maps. (There is no intention of making the weapons work at this stage, it's taking enough time just creating a passive vessel). The liferafts have been modelled and textured and need to be multiplied and fitted. Railings have started to be installed.

Vertex count is rising and care will have to be taken to ensure that the game engine can cope with this level of detail.