[WIP] Big diesel powered Merchant
 

Nice Unit!

How many tonnes? 10000? 8000?

BTW, great work! Waiting for :up:

Oh, lookie, another target.:rotfl:

Looks good!:rock:

Hi, thanx for compliments !

This ship is not realy an modell of any explecit Unit but an modell of some units which have nearly this design !

Here an picture of an smaler vessel with nearly this funneldesign :

http://www.ddg-hansa.de/images/galer...ges/gfx_10.jpg

Greets

Maddy

Nice one Maddy
Very nice indeed

Looks really nice http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...s/thumbsup.gif

Do it like real Kaleuns did! :D

Looking at the pictures (And specifically at the cranes) I see 4 cargo bays. Make it an average 1500 GRT per bay, plus some extra 1000-1500 tons for superstructures and machinery, that is around 7000-7500 tons.

7500/53 (Factor for average ship proportions on cargo merchants) that is 141 metres length.

Average heigth per deck = 18 metres till top of superstructure, and some 35 to the top of the masts.

My educated guess for this ship would be:

140 metres length

7500 GRT

35 metres mast

Around 15-18 knots top speed

Am I much off the mark, Max?? :hmm:

Hmmmm....lecker ! Can´t wait to get her in front of my tubes :arrgh!:

Nice ship
 

Get theat beuty redy for atlantic. Great ship. I hope u will relise it soon. Keep up the great work:up:

Your work is always appreciated:up:

Many thanks,can't wait to add her to my collection:up:

Yes it is for real :D I just did what real Kaleuns did :yep:, although having experience as sailor (Like they had) and seeing a real ship of course would help refining the data. I suspected it would be around 140-150 metres long, the huge simplification of the formula I use for the "53" divider is of course not perfect, but seems close enough for a "fixed wire" speed measurement :D -again as it was done in real life-

Cheers

EDIT: Oh and I forgot to add: The ship shown in the real picture by AOTD_MadMax is much smaller. I count only three cargo bays, so again the formula would be 1500x2 + approx 1000 = 4000

4000/53= Roughly 75 metres

My guess for the ship in the pic would be then:

4000 tons

Bridge= 10 metres

Mast= 30 metres

75 metres length

15-17 knots

:D

Hi,

i have reworked the ship a bit and the time for release is comming nearer.
I have changed the draft and the weapons and some small fixes.
The only thing that have to be tested is dammage-modell.
Three torpedos must bring this ship down.

Here some mesures :

Tonns : 7600
Lenght : 155
Draft : 7,5
Mast : 34

New Pictures :

http://85.25.133.181//Files/mods/Mad.../NeueKGN07.jpg

http://85.25.133.181//Files/mods/Mad.../NeueKGN08.jpg

http://85.25.133.181//Files/mods/Mad.../NeueKGN09.jpg

I think with the lower draft this vessel looks better !

Greets

Maddy

Needs a repaint now to lower the water line

:up:

Nice work as ever Maddy
Looking forward to release

Nice ship! I'm looking forward to a 20,000 ton merchant from you :ping: