Bring it on!:arrgh!:

I'm hanging out for this mod for so long! I have to go and wipe my keyboard each time there is a new ship posted due to excess drool!

I've finally given up on SH3....played it to death so to speak so I probably wont ever see IAM's merchant pack. Perhapps it can be ported to SH4 but I've also decided not to play SH4 untill the Atlantic Campaign is fully implemented.

Its been great since Jan 2005 but 3.5 years of Sh3 and a little dabble in SH4 is enough for now....at least until i get the "sub itch" again :-)

In the meantime, i'm really getting into Project Reality....wow, what a great mod that is:rock:

I don't think you got it already... You wont EVER stop playing SH3.

You sometimes go out in a vacation, but someday you'll be back, skipper! :lol:

Thanks for the sticky.

Coming up between now and Sunday: old merchants and various tankers, along with a shipbuilding guide. I'd post it now but I have a reading assignment.:damn:

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Here we go! :|\\ :up: :up:

IABL, empty your inbox :up:

Shoot.

Have taken almost 2 month break from SHIII GWX 2.1 and come back to find this. :rock: :rock: Can't wait. :D

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Same thing. I love thise. But i dont like i have too make abreak from SH3. But theats life.
Keep up the fantastic job:up:

UPDATE #3: Trends in Tanker Design. T11A vs. T16A.

One of the things I am trying to do with this mod is to get a good cross section of ships built between 1900 and 1945. Many of the stock units tend to be mass-produced vessels like the T-2 and Liberty. In actuality, non-standardized vessels were the backbone of the Allied merchant marine - even taking into account heavy attrition and the construction programs for standardized ships.

Tanker T11A is supposed to represent one of the large, non-standardized vessels used to transport oil at the outbreak of the war. It's loosely based on the "E.M. Clark", "J.A. Moffett Jr.", "Charles Pratt", and other heavy tankers from between 9,000 - 9,900 GRT.

Typical features for old tankers include the three-masted configuration, vertical bow, a low superstructure, and an extremely tall, thin funnel. Ships of this type would have been constructed during and shortly after WWI.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d5...elife/T11A.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d5...ife/T11A-2.jpg

http://uboat.net/allies/ships/photos...rles_pratt.jpg

http://uboat.net/allies/ships/photos/am/e_m_clark.jpg

The vessel was kitbashed from the "Arrow Tanker" and several other ships. Because it was so similar to the "Arrow" class it wasn't a particularly hard ship to build. One thing that was a little dicey was the bridge - it needed quite a bit of work so that I could emulate the two-tone bridge paint scheme seen on the photo of "E.M. Clark".

Compare T11A with T16A - a modern tanker of about 10,500 GRT built right before the war. The bow is raked, there is a more substantial bridge, and the low funnel indicates it's probably a motorship. Many ships of this general type were built at Bremer-Vulkan (sp) and other German yards for foreign buyers, including Britain; it's ironic that so many of them fell victim to submarines built in the same country.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d5...elife/T16A.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d5...ife/T16A-2.jpg

http://uboat.net/allies/ships/photos...ck_s_fales.jpg

T16A is very loosely based on the "Narragansett" and "Frederick S Fales". Both were built in Axis countries shortly before the war - "Narragansett" in Germany and the "Fales" in Italy. After the war broke out they continued to transport petroleum products across the Atlantic.

On 22 Sep, 1940 the "Fales" was torpedoed twice by U-100 while sailing in Convoy HX-72. Her cargo of fuel oil exploded immediately, blowing apart the main deck and sinking her within minutes. 11 of her 43-man crew were killed.

"Narragansett" outlived her by less than two years. She was torpedoed by U-105 in 1942 while sailing independently with a cargo of refined petroleum. None of her crewmembers survived - possibly because she was sailing far from the major shipping lanes at the time of her loss.

All photos courtesy of uboat.net.

T-16???

You weren't just kidding when you said there were additions and changes! The pictures I'm working from only go the 12! How many freighters are there now? Small freighters?

Oh, they're looking great, by the way.:sunny:

Right now there are about 24 freighters and 18 tankers. I am not counting small ships because all of the small units are in need of revision. Also, some of the larger ships will not be released because their 3d modeling is obsolete; however, this applies to no more than about 5 of them.

WRT overall progress, as of this weekend the peacetime skins for 16 freighters and three tankers have been finished. Each unit has from 3-6 sets of 4 early war skins that will cycle according to the date when you use SH3 Commander. This makes a minimum of 12 and a maximum of 24 skins per ship.

Speaking of revisions, I see I've got my work cut out for me.
:rotfl:

Minor update - I'm finishing mainly oil tanker skins now for several companies:

Eagle Oil Co.
Esso/Standard Oil
Anglo Saxon (Shell)
British Tanker Co.

I'm also resolving 3d model & hex-edit problems as I go along. This evening I will hopefully reconstruct the Modern British Medium Tanker (T07B) along with some of the smaller tankers of about 4000 GRT.

http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuil...EGRITY_972.jpg

Photo courtesy of clydesite.co.uk.

This is good news.:yep:
Is it still looking good for a late Nov launch?
Just asking as i have some leave planned for then.