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Sound of Music. So, ummm yeah, it’s been awhile. Which really means I’m rusty at this modeling stuff. Stuff happens, time passes, I get rusty, it’s the way of things. Anyway, to get back into some modeling I needed something easy’ish, so I made this Yamaha CGX101a.

What was that reverse thrusters thing? I’m pretty much done modeling this. I might go tweak some things, but for the most part it’s done.

Whoops. Forgot to post these final renders.

Back to the shipyard. Here are some progress renders of a Casablanca Class escort carrier. This class of carrier was made somewhat famous during the Battle Off Samar in 1944, where a Task Force of these carriers came under fire from a Japanese Fleet. If interested you can read a great online book about the battle at www.bosamar.com.

What? No Carriers? In various states of completeness here are the final renders of the IJN Kongo:

What? No Battleships? Finished the Tone and Mogami class cruisers today. So far I’ve kept all these ships under 60k polygons, which makes them pretty low rez. Someday I’m going to make a 400k’ish+ ship, but right now low-poly is what’s called for. Here are a few renders:

Ships, ships, everywhere. I’m just about done with these, here are some render updates:

All hands on deck! Well, my Memorial Day weekend project is nearly done. Not too bad for 4-ish days of work. Since at some point I plan to make a Battleship this destroyer will fit in nicely to any future animations as a second ship. Perhaps together they’ll blow that Light Cruiser out of the water! 😉

Ahead Two-Thirds! Here is an update to the Kuma model. I think I’m going to call this one done. My reference for this is so poor it’s really hard to make a good model. Based on what I had to look at this is an okay model, but if compared to the actual ship I would rank this piss-poor. It would be fine in a far-off background shot I guess, but certainly is unusable up close. Here’s a render:

Does it roll? As an exercise I built this yesterday. I doubt I’ll do any more on it and have no current plans to build the bike it belongs to.