Kriegsmarine Capital Ships Skin Set [DOWNLOAD] + Type34c

[Type941]

Ok, sorry for long delays, but things have been in the way, including a full format HDD and other things. So, now I'm back (for a time being anyway!) and releasing the promised Bismark, Tirpitz and Prinz Eugen skins. Download Link at the bottom.


Just pasing here my README bit, to save some time with typing:

"Kriegsmarine Capital Ships" Skin Set by Type941
For Silent Hunter III PC, August 1, 2005
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Skin History
The download includes 7 skins in total for 2 SH3 Ships - Bismarck and Hipper.

INCLUDED:

1. KMS Bismarck 1939-40 - Early War skin, light grey hull and superstructure, plain teak deck. Resized portholes & less rust (for all Bismarck class including this one)
2. KMS Bismarck 1941 - Baltic - the famous striped camouflage, left unedited as far as position (in real life - different) due to texturing abilities of SH3 for this model. has swastika in white square, no red flag around it, and the deck is full teak as well.
3. KMS Bismarck 1941, May 23 onwards - Final part of operation Rhinebung, painted over camouflage, leaving only the fake wave. Should only be on bow, but again because of how the model is textured, it's also at the stern. Still, look good. Deck has grey painted over the swastika, rest is teak.
4. KMS Tirpitz 1941. The dark grey on bow/stern similar to what Tirpitz had in 1941.
5. KMS Tirpitz 1942. Not entirely accurate, but looks ok from the distance - the striped, Norway-type camouflage for Tirpitz. The following camouflage variations applied toTirpitz with AA guns on turret, hence this one is most accurate if you want the big striped version.
6. KMS Prinz Eugen 1941 - Baltic. Same as Bismarck, the striped livery applicable to the period of war games in the Baltic.
7. KMS Prinz Eugen 1941 - Denmark Strait. Accompanied Bismarck on her fatal mission, this skin has stripes painted over and front/back dark grey hull bits are lightened up. For Hipper class, the portholes are also resized, but I left the rust unchanged, as it looked to have been on some pics of the original ship.

KNOWN ISSUES:
The portholes on Hipper in some places are a bit cut off due to texture mapping - if you find a way to fix it - do by all means. It's not very noticeable unless you view the portside or starboard very closely. I left it as is, due to a possible inability to further work on the ship in near future, and I want to release it asap. To me, it's not a big deal. If it really bothers some purists - please, fix it up!

May be not entirely realistic, I just wanted the ships to look better. Perfect is not possible - there is nothing perfect in the world!


For JGSME users, it should be very easy to install, and switch through between the skins. I recommend doing it with the mod manager, but of course you can do the usual tedious copy/paste the Data folder into SH3 dir.

the Download includes a separate folder called REAMDE and it has the TXT file and the pictures of each ship in slightly better detail.

This is the preview of all of them in one go:



File Size: 7MB
Download from Rapidshare: DOWNLOAD Kriegsmarine Capital Ships Skin Set

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@ Terrapin - I have trouble getting to your front page! If you can do it now - could you upload it yourself? Otherwise I'll have to come back to this later, as it's not bringing me to front page..
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Type34C Destroyer - get it at Terrapin's site once it's live, as well as from here, though please test the rapidshare file and tell me if it works - I'm not sure if the upload was smooth... Terrapin's site shuold be good though.


Download link: http://rapidshare.de/files/3586078/T..._skin.rar.html

Preview pictures: