No prob Jap Lance, your English is just fine. Yeah I was thinking it's your basic North Sea camo as she's an auxilliary ship (sub tender HMS Bonaventure).

Mountbatten

@Mountbatten
Re: she's an auxilliary ship (sub tender HMS Bonaventure).

I see you like auxiliary ships...
How about this. Former Yugoslavian sea plane tender Zmaj renamed by Germans to Drache and converted to helicopter carrier.
Mostly used as a mine layer and fast troop transport.

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/7843/Drache3.th.jpg

Transporting troops
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1752/Drache1.th.jpg

Drache under attack by RAF Beaufigher in September 1943.
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/6457/Drache2.th.jpg
She survived this attack. Eventually Beaufighters got her a year later, i.e. in September 1944.

not particularly but
 

they do add some variety to an anchorage. The Bonaventure interests me because she's the depot ship for the British X-Craft Submarines.

But that is one interesting ship, the Drache was it? Man can you imagine a match up with Graf Zeppelin or Aquilla? An alternate history commando movie - Get the Ark Royal (or Illustrious or something) where the Brandenburger Commandos launch an airborne landing on the Ark Royal while the Me109s and Stukas cover and suppress the AAA of the carrier. Major propaganda coup for Nazi Germany... except there happens to be an ex-Royal Marine Commando who's now a cook in the galley of the ship (played by Steven Seagal LOL)

But seriously that's a neat little ship. It's such a pity we can't move stuff around the model. It could be a Flower maybe or a German escort ship with one funnel deleted.

Another thing I noticed, trawlers of this period look virtually alike - one tall slim funnel to the rear, a boxy bridge structure and one or two guns, one at the very bow the other at the stern. That ship really should be in the game...

Mountbatten

By the way Bruno could you please resend those German TB color camo plates? I seem to have misplaced the first one and I'd really want to finish the repaints before I move on to another.

Thanks,
Mountbatten

Here you go.

German torpedo boats Type 23-24 'Roubtier'/'Roubvogel' otherwise known as 'Wolf'

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/263/Color2.th.jpg
http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/8...lor14ku.th.jpg
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/2148/Color3.th.jpg

Type 35/37/39
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/353..._Page_1.th.jpg
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/568..._Page_2.th.jpg

Brandenburger Commandos you say... How about this Brandenburger Kommando guys boarding Drache in November 1943. They are off to Leros :arrgh!:
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/2...rburger.th.jpg

Helicopter maintenance aboard of Drache.
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/2...hrauber.th.jpg
Well, she was a small ship. But she was an operational ship. :rock:

Hi Bruno, Mountbatten, JapLance, Horsa
We have some units that need a texture improvement for Mare Nostrum mod.
If someone are be able to help us,he will be very appreciated.

We also would like to ask permission to the authors of those wonderfull british ships, retextured for the mediterranean theatre,and also the model of the italian unity Muzio Attendolo, to use them in our mod instead of the originals. All contributions, of course, will be acknoledged in the credits of the mod.
Obviously the mod will be completely free.

The link is www.forum.maricosom.net.

No problem at all from my side. I enjoyed Alfa Tau a lot and hope to enjoy even more of Mare Nostrum :up:. Take what you may need of my repaints. Soon I'll have the Queen Elizabeth and the Southampton ready.

Regarding help with textures in MN, I'm not sure to be very helpful, since I more or less know how to use existing ship profiles in simple models like those of the original game, but I'm not very talented if I have to actually paint the ships.

I am not good at retexturing at all. Plus recently my main OS is Linux so I cannot test units as SH/DC require exclusively Windows 98/XP. However, I have some literature about various Navies of the WW2 period, I am very interested in history of naval engagements in the Mediterranean Sea, and I am looking forward to Mare Nostrum as the most realistic and historically correct Naval sim ever. Consequently, I am most willing to contribute by sharing whatever information I might have (camo plates, ships, drawings of guns etc.)

no problem here either
 

Horsa has pretty much all my older stuff, though. You may be interested in the Blackburn Skua for earlier battles with Ark Royal or something like that. Sure wouldn't mind helping out in my spare time. What ships? :know: I don't suppose there's a chance of seeing my ship there hehehe (ie. HMS Kelly)

Mountbatten

Sure can vouch for that Bruno - wherever would I be without you and your treasure trove of info!

Many many thanks alt kamerad,
Mountbatten

Cortesy of Bruno and his superb profiles, the QE:

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/8272/qerep7sc.jpg

Repaint HMS Queen Elizabeth

I bet our Italian friends are busy writing a mission how to sneak into Alexandria harbor and blow up both HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth.

It's a shame - looks like everybody knows the name of Gunther Prien and not many aware who were Durad De la Penne, Antonio Marceglia, Vincenzo Martellotta.
These incredibly brave guys riding their maiale sneaked into the main RN harbor in the Mediterrenian and blew up two battleships, a tanker, and damaged HMS Jervis.:arrgh!:

Man, when you feel like it, give us also HMS Valiant and HMS Warspite. This should be just a matter of a little bit different camo on the same QE class battleship.

http://img451.imageshack.us/img451/3756/Valiant.th.jpg

Hi Bruno
 

Well I got busy last night (can't let JapLance have all the fun hehehe) and I'll be posting a new German T-class escort in two color camo based on Bruno's posted plate.

http://rapidshare.de/files/16436960/...color.zip.html

Enjoy,
Mountbatten

Is anyone making any new merchant vessles for Silent Hunter II? (Besides the Fishing Boat and Tugboat) There are very few stock ones.

(I'd also like to know if there is any way possible to add new ships to AOD, even though I doubt anyone would be interested even if it were possible.)

As far as I know, there is no chance to add new ships to AOTD.

For SH2 there are three German raider models which look like merchants, so I guess you could use the models, and also in the Pacific Aces mod I think there is at least a couple of new ones.

That ship in your signature is the coastal tanker from AOD converted for SH3, right?.

PD: excellent, glowworm, I'll try it tonight after the MotoGP races :rock: .

Not new merchants just new repaints. I got it in my head to try and make as many of these old ships in their old company colors so there are quite a few kicking around in my HD.

By the way, it would be nice if someone could translate those SH3 ships into SH2 hehehe.

I think AoD doesn't have the flexibility to add new ships unfortunately.

Cheers,
Mountbatten

I think I have downloaded at least one of those raiders. But just in case you are talking about different ones, could you tell me where they are?

:down:

Well, actually it is a kitbash of the Tugboat from SH3. But is designed to look like those two small tankers from AOD.

With all theses new ships for SH2, I might have to get back into playing it again. :hmm:

@Mountbatten
Downloaded GerTB1924_2_color.zip
Man, there's no pictures there. Give us pictures of Mowe and Wolf in camo :arrgh!:

In this site (Serbuto's) there are two of them, the Kormoran and another one called raider.rar (I think it's the Stier):

http://web.telia.com/~u18216264/

Then you have Pinguin/Kandenfels in Canarb's site:

http://canarb.altervista.org/index.htm

I've seen a few pics and they look specially well. It would be amazing to have them in SH2.