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I can asure you that DivingDuck is working on this and probably will release the mod soon!:yep:

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Size matters
 

Moin,

need some help. How tall is a buoy?

http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/4...size004tk4.jpg http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3...size002ex2.jpg

I really need this information. The buoy mod is ready to release. But I don´t know how tall they should be. Even don´t know whether the skins are correct.

This is what I have at the moment:

• 2 Buoy Models (see pics above)
  • 2 green with flashing light / steady light
  • 2 red with flashing light / steady light
  • 1 yellow with flashing light / steady light
  • 1 black with flashing / steady light

Waiting for reply.

Regards,
DD

DD - the simple answer is they come in many sizes. Most navigational buoys are 1-2 m high out of the water. You can also have some large ones (3m) for large navigational hazards. However, the ones I typically see in ports (US, European and South American) are 1-2m.

These photos give an idea of the size of a pre WWII (1926) navigational buoy:
http://enc.slq.qld.gov.au/logicroute...L&num_result=0
http://enc.slq.qld.gov.au/logicroute...L&num_result=0

I think you have the scale about right for both types.

This also shows a buoy in comparison to a building.

http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/7835/mhvcbuoyyh8.jpg

YES!!! like maybe an attack persicope housing for the VII interior!!!;)

Moin DivingDuck,

the skins are not really correct. I used modern bouyage with the typical red and green as colours, but to be coerrect there shouldn't be white with it. But on the other hand modern boyage wouldn't be correct for WW2 also :-?
From what I found till now, there was no universal system used and it seems it differed alot to were you were going. For the Elbe for example, read they used red/black tons. So I decided to make these skins, making use of the red/green we are used to and putting the white to it, because it looks better than just one colour :)

Btw. In modern Bouyage the red/white-one would mark the "Fahrrinne".:hmm:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...serzeichen.pnghttp://www.ostsee.org/sbf/lehrgang/see02/lat_ueb.gif

As you can see on these pics ther are even more bouys and when you go to the danger-bouys ther will be alot more :D. But I think a simplified system reduced to the three skins I made (Starbord/Portside/Danger) is enough.

Greetings,
pontius

@ Pontius : Nice pictures. It will be much more realist ! From now, we'll have to watch out for buoys when entering a harbour :o GOD, THIS GAME IS THE BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :rock:

Hi DD,

take a look here:
http://www.auxetrain.org/Buoys.html
http://www.jfcmarine.com/pdf/iala_ma...nformation.pdf
http://www.navis.gr/marinav/buoy.htm

And remember that some buoys have a bell too..... ;-)

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9606/buoys002fy2.jpg

;)

It depends what type of bouy your talking about,
a chanel bouy(at least the ones around me) are about 5-6ft(1.5-2m) from keel to tip with out about half under water. So the small ones might have to be shrunk or al least have the daft incresed. Sea bouys on the can range from the size of houses(open ocean RDF bouys) to maby a bit smaller than a avrage (U.S) sadan. So I would say the one gary made is fine.

Channel or Sea mark buoys
http://www.boatnerd.com/news/newpict...s12-1-01jt.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_mark

Buoys
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buoy

OT: Funny Bouy story
 

Heres a funny Bouy story...

U-124 was steaming down to its PZ and ran into a lose bouy. She sank it and sent in a report. 124 didint sink a thing thaty patrol but when Schulz got back to Lorient he was asked about the one ship he sunk. As it turns out the German U-Boat staff had been scraching there heads about the Report of "versenkt eine tonne". As it turns out the German word for Ton and bouy are the same. Now if a U-Boat tells you he sank one ton over the radio you would think a ship right? :roll:

I'd like to see the one-ton pennant they painted to fly when they pulled in!

They didint.