[REL] K-Class Zebra skin
 

K-CLASS ZEBRA camouflage skin for all S-class boats in SH4.

I saw a request for a camouflaged sugar boat. I thought it might be a fun project, and a way to contribute to subsim and you all. So I did some research and came up with this skin. My googling only turned up one photo of a K-class boat done in a ZEBRA paint scheme. I based my skin on this one photo and other information that I gathered on camouflaging early war boats. Not much was available on submarine's that were done in camo. It was used primarily for ships.

I wanted to be as historically accurate as I could. I hope that I accomplished that with this skin.

First is the photo I found online. Showing the "K-2" or (SS-33)...pre-war. 1916. Looks like a prison boat, lol. But it is an actual boat and was what I had to go on.

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/1939/o16.jpg


Early war
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/294...eearlywar2.jpg

Early war 2
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/4834/...leearlywar.jpg

Late war
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/4690/...zlelatewar.jpg

Late war 2
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/8185/...lelatewar2.jpg

Of course this skin doesn't effect the games AI. But its kinda cool. From what I gathered of dazzle camouflage, it did not improve a submarines attack, and probably wasn't as useful as it was on a ship. I think i would have wanted one that was the same color as the pacific ocean, but what do I know? :O:.

I hope some of you enjoy the mod. This is my first mod and upload. I am new to skinning. Having learned from tutorials found here at subsim and from all the replies to my thread(s). Thanks all. Especially ichso & tei for taking extra time to explain things to me.


UPDATE:

Early war - tower skin refit:

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/512...towerrefit.jpg

Late war - tower skin refit

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/837...towerrefit.jpg

JSGME ready, available here:

SUBSIM: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom//dow...o=file&id=1205

FILEFRONT: http://www.filefront.com/13930199/K_...ZEBRA_CAMO.zip

SHMF: http://www.silenthuntermods.com/foru...hp?topic=149.0

-Enjoy :ping:

Nice work, keep it up :up:

Nice work! Thank you.

Awesome, just awesome. I was one of the people asking for this so I am quite excited. I am sure RR will be as well.

Now, I have USS S-27 parked in Surabaya.. think I will slap this on and go for a patrol!

Thanx fellas...my nerves are finally starting to settle down. This is my first mod and upload. But I'm quite sure that all is proper...after downloading and running it myself like 10 times :o.

nice work !

look at the tower : isn't it dark in the Navy picture ? and the dazzle diagonal on the periscope standarts ?

just a thought, keep up the godd work ! :up:

keltos

We can just call it a different variation :up: Ships tried and changed Dazzle patterns often. These pic are both the USS West Mahomet, before and after a major refit I would assume as there are some big differences in silhouette, but they are both credited as being the same ship. It may actually be in the yard still in pic 1, and the hull profile is hard to make out.. which was kinda the point.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2224/...cfe47f8b0f.jpghttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2122/...d2f9c341d9.jpg

That is the great thing with Dazzle for a skinner. Use your imagination, mix it up a bit. runningdeer, while this skin is very good you could certainly play around with other patterns etc. Since this is your first uploaded skin that could give you some good practice if you are interested. In my last post in the Gato thread (where this was requested) I put a link with alot of the US Dazzle systems detailed. I would be perfectly happy with this skin for the rest of my SHIV S-Boating days, but like any greedy bastard I want more more more!

Thanx all, for the feedback.

I updated the skin...tower skin refit to include stripes also darkened the tower a bit. However I still had to be creative on the tower, simply because I cannot see the tower well enough in the photo I had to work from.

But the stripes turned out nicely, thanx Keltos... :yep:.

looks really cool, nice work!

Looks Great! What mods are you using by the way? the interface looks different then the stock.

An excellent addition!
Very nice.

Thank you !!!:salute:

I use TMO 1.7 with RSRD. The HUD is a mod by CaptainAmerica and is now a part of TMO v1.7.

The HUD is awesome. I think it might still be available as a separate mod. But I'm not sure.

This S-Class skin is based on an O-Class boat.

Hi all. While researching for other dazzled submarine types I discovered the correct identity of the boat photo I used as a guide to create this S-Class skin. Previously I thought it was the USS-S39 (USS-144).

It is the USS O-16 (SS-77). An O-Class. I cannot find any photographic reference of an S-class done in dazzle. Perhaps that is because so few were done in dazzle...before the colors black & gray were proven to be the best camouflage color, for submarines.

My goal was to create a replica of an actual S-Class dazzled boat. I cannot find one single photographic reference on a S. If anybody should happen to find one please let me know. Thanks all.

It seems info on that boat is confused lol, it is listed as the USS K-2 (SS-33) in these two places:

http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08492.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_K-2_(SS-33)

Here it is listed as the USS O-16 (SS-77) :

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...%3D18%26um%3D1
(bottom of page)

Weird huh? http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/3383/cuckoo.gif