[REL] SKIN S-boat dazzle camo (yes, another one ^^)

[ichso]

Sooo,

after a request in thread http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=152178 I took on work on an S-boat dazzle Skin.

Funny enough, later that day running deer released his own version of a very similiar skin. I was half finished so I went on anyways and finished it this morning. No harm done, running deer, the more variety to choose from the better .

My skin is based on this image:
http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0803605.jpg

The skin features again, a slightly weathered look with rust, washed off paint (where the sea washed along all the time e.g.) and the oil canning feature I had in my last skin.

It now looks like this:

(It was a bit tricky to line up the stripes of differen areas because SH4 has a weird way of gathering it's texture information).

DL link:
http://files.filefront.com/SKIN+S+bo.../fileinfo.html
And an update for the complete (early & late war) version of the skin (as posted with pictures also below):
http://files.filefront.com/SKIN+S+bo.../fileinfo.html

The skin is again based on one of Foofighters base versions (already used in RFB afaik).

Happy sailing

[ichso]

And the first reply is by the author himself ... lame, I know

I was gonna skin this one for the sugar boats for next:


But if you're already working on it, running deer I would probably rather not start with it, not that we do the same thing twice again, just for organization

[runningdeer]

Originally Posted by ichso

And the first reply is by the author himself ... lame, I know

I was gonna skin this one for the sugar boats for next:


But if you're already working on it, running deer I would probably rather not start with it, not that we do the same thing twice again, just for organization

...nope.

Your sugar boat is incredible! It looks exactly like the photo you had to work from. I thought that the photo/design that I used was the only photo of an s-class in dazzle scheme, until you sent me yours. I googled til my nose bled to find mine.

It's very nice work.

P.S. unless you count this one that I toyed with about 4 days ago, but it was just a screenshot:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...08977&page=134

[gimpy117]

nice now we have two historical ones to choose from!
we need a few camo schemes for fleet boats...did they have any?

[Highbury]

I don't think Fleet Boats ever used Dazzle, but I could be wrong...

Thanks indeed for the skin, it looks fantastic! and the more types we have the better! I would love to see the system used on the USS West Mahomet in the pic, applied to a sugar boat!

For some good 2D diagrams of full ships in Dazzle schemes check this link: http://www.risd.edu/dazzle/
The "gallery" on the right is simply awesome!

[runningdeer]

Originally Posted by gimpy117

nice now we have two historical ones to choose from!
we need a few camo schemes for fleet boats...did they have any?

I think that by early in the war, it was determined that the best camouflage for submarines was either black or gray...primarily gray. (from what I gathered). I don't think we will find a porpoise, gato, etc in dazzle scheme unfortunately.

Not even an S-Class. I think there was only a few submarines done up in dazzle...the O & K class submarines. I think that after that it was just black and/or gray.

Bummer...I myself would love to skin a fleet boat in dazzle. It would be easy enough, but probably not historically accurate, for WWII submarine types.

Then again, I could be wrong.

[Highbury]

What is the class shown here? I am no expert on US WW2 submarines by anyones standard lol, for all I know it isn't even American.



It is a scan from the book; Warship by Anthony Preston. The picture states that the flattop is the USS Hornet, and the picture was taken at Ulithi, no date given. It does say that Hornet is sporting a Design 3A pattern, which I know was also applied to USS Franklin, in Norfolk, in 1944. So it is not necessarily an early war photo. (The book also states that USS Interpid and USS Hancock used the same starboard pattern, which leads me to believe that different patterns may have been used on port and starboard for some ships.)

[runningdeer]

The boat photo in this thread, ichso's skin...is the: K-5 (SS-36). It is a K-Class.

[ichso]

Hi there,

I don't know whether it makes any historical sense but I converted the above skin to a late war scheme also. The old version of the skin would use the dark paint scheme all war long, the newer one will switch to the light version at the appropriate date.

Here is how it looks:


DL link:
http://files.filefront.com/SKIN+S+bo.../fileinfo.html

[runningdeer]

Wow...this will be perfect.

After working with the s-boat skin, I took on a liking to the S boats. So I started a career from the very beginning of the war.

I'm using your skin, cuz it looks so cool and its exactly like the photo, so the game feels even more realistic now.

-thanx

[captgeo]

Great work, Thank You !!

[ichso]

Thank you I'm glad to finally deliver something instead of just downloading all the time

I was tempted to start a new career right away, too, by the way. But then I thought how long it took me to get to where I am now and I decided to finish the current one before

[Rockin Robbins]

I know my testing stuff is going to come to a halt while I rejoin my RFB sugar boat career! Now I have the perfect compliment to my shark mouth Kraken skin. It's so easy to forget that the game is supposed to be fun. After awhile you start counting rivets and all the fun is over.

[ichso]

I know exactly what you mean.

[Highbury]

That is why I stopped modding several years ago, I "tweaked" more then I played!

Very nice skin upgrade, I love it!