[WIP] Improved Empire Freighter
 

In the next day or two I am going to release a heavily modified version of the Empire Freighter. It incorporates some of the design changes that I have begun to include on several ships in the Merchant Fleet Mod. Below are a few closeups of the alterations. Now the model has a different midships island, ladders on the deckhouses, a new 3d wheelhouse, more detailed lifeboats, and more rigging. The armament has been changed to reflect typical UK and Commonwealth merchant ship armament - now, the late war versions will be armed with 2-pounders instead of 20mm cannon. It will be used by the Netherlands as well as Great Britain and Canada (I found out that the Dutch government-in-exile purchased at least two ships of this type). You can easily add it to the roster of whichever country you want but I don't know of any other nationalities that used them. The superstructure & hull textures have been improved. Skins include green blotch camo (shown here), grey blotch camo, blue blotch camo, two-tone grey and grey overall. Tonnage will stay the same (6800 - 7100 GRT). The download will also have a small preview of the other ships I am going to release.
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d5...fe/New35-1.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d5...fe/New35-2.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d5...fe/New35-3.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d5...fe/New35-4.jpg

looks absolutely sensational! top work!

I love the earth tones. :up:

Wow !

Can't wait to fire a torpedo in its hull ;) :D

Great Work as always :yep: :up:

Very pretty ! :D :huh: :sunny: :up:

Wow very nice iambecome,

i love your work.
We bothe are riding on the same wave cause i like realistic merchants the same way like you.

Does the new one replace the old empire freighter ore could they both exist like ebony and ivory ?

Greets

MadMax

Nice model IABL.....should be an interesting comparison with the original :up:

Utterly gorgeous as always IABL:up:And I to was wondering if they can be enabled via JSGME at the same time;)the more of the fantastic looking boats the merrier:yep:

That ship looks stunning! :cool::rock:

You have PM Iambecome

Revelation! Empire Freighter in camo! SuperB work!:up:

Every time i think that i want to reload SH4 for another go around i see that someone has posted another wonderful mod to SH3.

All you modders out there have made SH3 an awesome game that has amazing replay ability.

And with all the garbage out there game wise (read sh4) that is saying something good!!

Many thanks!

Everytime I reply to something posted by Iambecomelife I find I always use the same word. I need a thesaurus! lol

Amazing!

Stick with us kid :up: SH3 has such a vibrant positive Community, there's no need to go any place else !