Another Bismarck

[Trex2001]

Hey guys, this is my first post of my work here. Actually an old render of the Bismarck, i modelled more since then. Maybe i'll post some more pics this week...

Any c&c welcome


Greetz

[RodrigoRosa]

very nice... i like naval ships.... looking forward for ups....

[lphoenixl]

hey. I just started Scharnhorst. :) Your model is far better than mine.

[Trex2001]

BTW, if anyone feels offended by the german cross, tell me and i'll remove it. I'm german and just wanted to do it as correct as possible...

[Corky13]

No problem with the cross. Its just zensored in germany and austria.......

[RodrigoRosa]

no problem with the cross at all.... it's ur model Trex2001... do whatever u feel it needs.... ;)

[Trex2001]

As I said, the above pic is an older one...This one's more actual. Still many parts just rough geometry, but all guns finished and in the right place...

still, c&c welcome


Greetz

[novoAlias]

sweet. are you gonna do an animation?

[Trex2001]

still not finished with the modelling. What u see is about half the detail i wanna reach...

Thought about animation too. But can u imagine animating this on an AMD 700. Guess it'll take hell of a long time...:-(
But sooner or later i'll give it a shot. But first i need to find out how to make real good ocean waves, muzzle flash, things like that...

[Emperor]

Sweet model doode. About the crosses it's sad that they are associated with nazi movements of the WWII when the swastika really is a hindu symbolf for the...sun I think. But of course mr AH didn't think of his empire as an evil one. Nuf of that ..no problems with the crosses just pointing it out. Looks very authentic :)

[RodrigoRosa]

Trex2001, u have to put close ups....:D

[Trex2001]

Thanks guys, oh and
RodrigoRosa , already in production...


Greetz

[mmiller]

About the swatstica
This is an issue that kind of burns me up.
I did an image of a couple of WW1 aircraft one of which had a swastica on the side.
But there was an immediate assumption that I was somehow promoting this group !!??
Now, i have no political agenda here, i'm just trying to make historicaly accurate images.
And THAT was the way it looked!!

now, i'm sensative to the associations tied to this symbol, and understand that it is not an easy thing to contemplate
But, when we start to edit out the painful parts of our history, That is when we are in BIG trouble.
It's actualy kind of scary

So, Trex2001
You go ahead and tell it like it was.
rant mode off

As for the Bismark
I think it is looking good
go for those details - As painful and boring as all that modeling might be, it will pay off in the end :)

at least, that has been my experience
Mark

[Trex2001]

Yeah, mmiller , this is exactly my point, and thanks for the compliments. I'll keep up modelling, also you're right, damn boring.

And that's why it'll take some time until u see some detailed shots, doesn't make any sense as long as there's no deatail...


Greetz

[Kujoe]

Trex2001.thats real good looking work there..:)

mmiller Hi ;)

[Brin]

Excellent work so far.

I have had to stop working on my model as I am doing a degree now.

Im looking forward to seeing this progress.

an interesting thing I found the other day is the Game Call of Duty.

There is a mission aboard the Tirpitz (The bizmarks sistership) you can walk around all of the decks and the detail is fairly good.

I think it is a useful thing just to see the scale of the boat. If you have any trouble with ref images I can get a few screen caps for you. ;)

[Trex2001]

Brin: I know, got the game myself, nice mission, and for a game its a beautiful model...

Due to a huge harddrive error and some bluescreens the Bismarck files are all lost, no backup done of course, meaning this thread is closed.
Maybe i'll remake the ship, maybe not...
Thanks to all the nice words so far, this could really keep me motivated....

[Cyrenn]

I love the story behind the Bismark.

Such a Beautiful battleship.

I really hope one day they will make a full length feature film or a live action film about the Bismark. Well at least an updated one.

There is so much history behind this battle ship.

Keep up the great work. You have to remember the sailors that fought and died with the Bismark were really not considered Nazi's.

The ship just carried the symbol. Because it was Hitlers baby, and the ship was a symbol of what the Third riech was supposed to be.

But as for the men that fought and died with the Bismark. They Should not be look down apon. But Saluted as Brave Shipmen. Who fought in the battle of the Atlantic.:D :D :D :D

Keep up the great work. Looking forward to seeing this one complete.

[vim_the_good]

Very nice model. Im interested in doing a ship myself. I was wondering if you have any modeling pointers and some good referance sites.
Cheers in advance

[Chris-3DT]

did the last two of you actually read his last reply?

[Cyrenn]

Oops!

I just happen to mis read the bottom.

Sorry to hear you lost your files.

I still wanted to note about how I loved the story of the Bismark and what the ship was about.

[gnunu]

Nice modeling there!!

[Liberace]

At first when I read the title, I thought I would find a jelly-filled powder-coated doughnut. Then I remembered the Bismarck was a ship!

But nice modelling, sorry to hear you lost the files. Hope you rebuild it! Back up your files man:D

[Trex2001]

Originally posted by Liberace
...Back up your files man:D

You bet i do that from now on...Surprised there're still people out there reading this threat...

Greetz 2 everyone

[Leandia]

Hello. Very nice model you have thre, sad you lost it.

I have one question for you about th texturing of th deck. How??? Since there is so many planks on her, a couple of thousand and with some variation. So how do you set it up to look atleast convincing?

[Trex2001]

Leandia , the deck is just a standard wood texture that ships with max, tiled very often, mixed with the "logos". since there are no detailed shots of the deck thats absolutely enough.

[Mystikos]

Cool, nice work

[dime1622]

Originally posted by Emperor
Sweet model doode. About the crosses it's sad that they are associated with nazi movements of the WWII when the swastika really is a hindu symbolf for the...sun I think. But of course mr AH didn't think of his empire as an evil one. Nuf of that ..no problems with the crosses just pointing it out. Looks very authentic :)

actually, the REAL swastika, or svastika, had the ends pointing counter-clockwise. it's a good luck symbol. however, lore has it that when the ends get turned and pointed clockwise (as in the nazi symbol) it provokes evil. much of the nazi belief system was built around such lore and superstition.

^^ history channel freak

btw, sux you lost your model man, it was lookin beautiful

[startwindow3]

Hye, dude nice model, for the nazi sign... i thought it was rotated a bit perhaps by 45 degrees. Just my opinion. Because right now the sign looks like the buddhist sign.:D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[jdgill]

I jsut checked you wip and I think you did an excellent job.

and earlier post by you...
BTW, if anyone feels offended by the german cross, tell me and i'll remove it. I'm german and just wanted to do it as correct as possible...

The Nazi's were tooken over by hitler. It wasn't their fault:p.

[Muhammed Imran]

Awesome work wow factor is there indeed.

[lunarion6]

Nice model - to bad you lost those files.
I also love the Bismarck story, read it hundreds of times when I was young - best WOII story imo =)

[Ninja Jones]

about the swastika... I thought anyone in the Kreigsmarine were to put any and all political affiliations on hold during active duty, Nazi Party included..

[Trex2001]

wow, cant believe there are still people coming by....

well, keep it up :))

Thanks all for the compliments. And actually, some time ago i started to remodel it, cause i was bored...so, after a loooong time...UPDATES, sort of... :roll:

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7640/bism1zg8.jpg (http://img405.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bism1zg8.jpg)

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/4629/bism2mn8.jpg (http://img227.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bism2mn8.jpg)

[ClassicGamer-3DT]

Impressive modelling, I've always wanted to try and build ships and boats but not sure where to start, the shape always puts me off, It looks too difficult to me. Any points on where you started with this, are you using blueprints?

This is really nice though, keep going it's cool

Kind Regards

Classic Gamer