Ships Parts for Everybody

[Nuno dos Santos]

Hello again. here's Set11- WW1 British dark grey. I've given a darker tone of grey to hulls, superstructure and mast (not the mast themselves, just the strutures on them), and kept the original tone on the turrets, except the british turrets, wich are light grey, with dark green tops. This is how british ships are on Storm Eagle Studio's 'Jutland' game. Also in some old pictures the turrets do look ligther in colour (http://blog.livedoor.jp/irootoko_jr/archives/2553300.html).

Here's HMS Princess Royal as an example (I´ve also used some of ccip's fantastic acessories, but not much, so as not to detract from the paint job).

www.mediafire.com/view/zzzoaln320cltmc/Princess%20Royal.bmp

However, some other pictures, including colorization, show an alternate scheme whith actually darker turrets (http://blog.livedoor.jp/irootoko_jr/archives/2555195.html).
Instead of making an extra set myself, if anyone thinks this design is better, and here's HMS Queen Mary as na example (again, with some of ccip's  fantastic acessories):

www.mediafire.com/view/nrt6exqcpfuv0h9/Queen%20Mary.bmp

all you have to do is create your own set by copying this one and them taking all the black turrets from Set10 (Black Russian) and replace the light grey ones on this one.

Quite frankly, I don't know wich one I like best. It's this sort of thinks that keeps me up at night. That, and insomnia.

Oh, well, here's the set, alternate bows and sterns as usual, same format as the rest, ccip's acessories compatible.

www.mediafire.com/download/anx55b5m0w1m5c0/Set11.rar

Have fun.

[axe99]

Cheers Nuno, looks great, legendary work .

[ccip]

Thanks for the British scheme Nuno, it looks great and is readily compatible with most parts that already work well with the original Set 1!

I haven't had a chance to do much this weekend (mainly because my average work day this past week started around noon and ended around around 2am...), but I did look at my "big boats" problem and came up with a provisional solution - which is two sets of smaller lifeboats for those who'd prefer those. One is my own work and those are tiny indeed, while the other is based on (I believe) galagagalaxian's shrunk-down version from an earlier set.

You can grab them here:
Small Lifeboats.zip (3.81 KB)
You can make your own parts folder for them or add them wherever - I'll include them whenever I get around to the next set of updates to my set. There's still plenty of other parts that could use a shrinking-down of their own!


I think it makes for a better/more unobstructed look for upper decks on ships, especially larger ones.
Example:
 

[ccip]

Oh, and another couple of "shrunk" parts I made - here are two small parts for yard arms on masts, and a smaller bow wake sprite for a more subtle look.

Just save the attached .bmp files, and put them in the folders where these go in your ShipParts, if you'd like to use them

Accessories14a2 mast small.bmp (10.59 KB)
Accessories14a2 mast srev.bmp (10.59 KB)
Accessories12qu.bmp (6.06 KB)

[Nuno dos Santos]

You're quite rigth. The earlier boats were very cumbersome (big) particularly the one with davits. Some of yours are really tiny, but I'm definetly using some.
Thanks.

[ccip]

Yep, and as I say, variety is always good! I agree that some of those are far too tiny, too, but I like having that option on the table

[garrisonchisholm]

I am just starting to learn how to design the Top Down view to better match what is possible now with the side-views, and it does seem to add a lot to the presentation, though I'm not sure that I would spend the kind of modelers-level detail work on it as my exalted peers above. But, with time and practice, maybe I'll begin to see what is possible with a mere 10-15 minutes work.

I haven't downloaded any extra parts yet, I want to improve my technique before I add to the palete- I will not soon be approaching the levels of "so gorgeous it is worth sharing", I am sure!

[flyingtoaster]

This is amazing! I never bothered with generating side views before, but now I've been having fun tinkering with my new US fleet, making sure they look right. Rigging especially adds so much to the look of the ship.

[galagagalaxian]

Funnily enough rigging is the one thing I find myself lacking patience to do well. Mostly because one slip up and its difficult to cleanly erase it.

Tried a weird rear superstructure on this one using that one raised platform. Not sure I like the end result.

[garrisonchisholm]

You know, with a 3rd rear turret in that tower's location with identical alignment, that would be a very powerful and bad-ass looking early DN profile. I might try to emulate that.

[galagagalaxian]

You mean like the back end of the HMS Agincourt?

[garrisonchisholm]

Saving for the super-firing, yes. Somewhere I have a bmp drawing I made for an old c64 game called Dreadnaught or Warship or something, and I had a ship with a slightly raised forecastle and turret, and then three, co-planar, aft facing turrets laid on the rear. It really looked like something someone would design before they had faith/knowledge in superfiring turrets.

[director]

Sort of like the Italian Dante Alighieri, or the various Russian BBs with 4 triple non-superfiring turrets.

[ddg]

An ARWY turret layout will get you pretty close to that in RTW. There will be a small but distinct gap between W and Y, but that's about it.

[galagagalaxian]

One thing I've noticed lately while poking back through design styles is that the generic turret design (0) and the British Style (1) are identical. I don't think they really need to be differentiated, especially as I dunno what you'd put as a more "generic" turret design, but I thought I'd point that out.

Finally got a chance to try out some of your new goodies, CCIP. Thanks again for those, I think I rather like the new windows, though I'm not sure about the scuttles, however given the sizes involved (2 pixels!) I dunno how you could do better.