Fantastic looking,always love the red&white stripping on the bow deck,trust the Italians to have a bit of style with there ships:up:

Duliio tale of the tape.

Displacement: As built:

22,956 tons normal
24,729 tons full load
As modernized:
26,434 tons normal
29,391 tons full load Length:

168.96 m (554.3 ft) Beam:

28.03 m (92.0 ft) Draft:

8.58 m (28.1 ft) Propulsion:

As built:

Steam turbine system
20 boilers
4 shafts
30,000 shp


As modernized:

Steam turbine system
8 Yarrow type boilers
2 shafts
75,000 shp Speed:
As built: 21 knots (39 km/h)

As modernized: 27 knots (50 km/h) Complement:
As built: 1,233

As modernized: 1,485 Armament:
As built:

13 × 305 mm (12 in) guns (Three triple and two double turrets)
16 × 152 mm (6 in) guns
13 × 76 mm (3 in) guns
6 × 76 mm anti-aircraft guns
3 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes

As modernized:

10 × 320 mm (12.6 in) guns (Two triple and two double turrets)
12 × 135 mm (5.3 in) guns (Four triple turrets)
13 × 76 mm guns
10 × 90 mm (3.5 in) anti-aircraft guns
15 × 37 mm anti-aircraft guns
16 × 20 mm anti-aircraft guns Armor:
Belt: 100 mm
Turrets: 275 mm
Decks: 250 mm

Shouldn't the guns look like this?
http://www.serafimov.com/public/general/roma32.jpg

Something like this ^_^

You know, Duilio and Cavour class had 320guns instead 381 of littorio class, btw design is similar!

(What a nice model in your image! °_°)

That's the image I'm useing to finish the Italian triples.
:yep:
Check out the model here.
http://www.military-meshes.com/forum...hread.php?t=87

The Doubles are nearly done.

I started the Italian Guns just after the Averof Guns were released.
;)

I didn't know this, but i've started an italian battleship...
Ok, i'm from Italy, but this "randomness" is interesting :hmm: :up:

The Guy did a fantastic job!
For more images of his work.
http://www.serafimov.com/public/phpB...wtopic.php?t=5

OMG i cant believe it another BB for SH3.............. fast fast on the download list! And this :rock: :rock: :rock:

Duilio
 

Great Work VonDos!:up: Glad to see you're still turning these high quality ships out, and en masse too.:D I agree that both the Cavour and Doria class BBs are so similar, once you have completed one, the other shouldn't be too hard to kitbash - two birds with one stone so to speak.:hmm:

Also, do you have plans to work on a UK carrier or a French cruiser anytime soon?:hmm:

I think this will work for the triples as a start.
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n.../Roma_Guns.jpg

First ingame image
 

Update image down here!

Those Italians, even make their battleships artistic. :up:

Wow! I hoped soooo much for these ships to be modeled in SH3. Thanks.

At a first glance, I would suggest four small adjustments:
1. The forecastle on the Duilio's and Cesare's is shorter than on the Littorio's: it should end just aft of the 90mm guns and not at the C turret;
2. As far as I remember, there were no visible anti-torpedo bulges ("controcarene" in Italian) on the Duilio's and the Cesare's; I will check this one out, anyway [EDIT: I checked that: in fact the Duilio's relied only on internal anti-torpedo protection (the so called "Cilindri Pugliese"); no external bulges];
3. The ships were somewhat lower on the water (IMO also the SH3 rendering of the Roma is a bit too high on the water);
4. The grey the Regia Marina used before the war (i. e. before camouflage of the ships) is lighter and a little bit more blue-ish (San Giorgio looks much better to me).

As for the turrets, the twin mount looks quite good to me; the triple turret instead is decidedly too big and "square". I wonder if the best solution wouldn't be to modify the twin turret in order to fit in a third barrel.

:up: "Keep up the good job, kaleun!" :cool:

Buhring

One more note: the platforms of the turrets should be smaller, in order not to be wider than the turrets themselves.

Cheers

Buhring

Von Dos,

You are the man! I needed an Andrea Doria class battleship bad and Cavour class! Right now there's no IT BBs or Heavy Cruisers in that weight class.

:up:

(I am right now in the middle of scripting the First Battle of Sirte. I'll put them both to immediate use when you're done with them.)