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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I hope this isn't offtopic for this thread. I'm working on a videogame* that requires a lot of 3D models of military naval ship components -- things like deck guns, bridges, searchlights, the ship hulls themselves, torpedo launchers, etc. Basically everything from early WWI through end of the Cold War, ideally covering all the major factions. I'm gonna have to make the models myself, but it'd be a lot easier if I had a good supply of reference photos to work from. Does anyone know of a good resource where I can find photos like that? Haphazardly googling for things as I think of them isn't the greatest strategy, especially since there are probably things that I don't even know exist and thus won't know to search for them. I think google image search works pretty well
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This thread is a great resource. I am also trying to make a PC simulator of navy and submarine warships. Any and all pictures of the insides of SSBN submarines or zumwalts you guys have would really help as google image search seems to be lacking. Close ups appreciated! I am using farcry engine fwiw.
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I made some reference art, do I get paid in exposure?
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I hope this isn't offtopic for this thread. I'm working on a videogame* that requires a lot of 3D models of military naval ship components -- things like deck guns, bridges, searchlights, the ship hulls themselves, torpedo launchers, etc. Basically everything from early WWI through end of the Cold War, ideally covering all the major factions. I'm gonna have to make the models myself, but it'd be a lot easier if I had a good supply of reference photos to work from. Does anyone know of a good resource where I can find photos like that? Haphazardly googling for things as I think of them isn't the greatest strategy, especially since there are probably things that I don't even know exist and thus won't know to search for them. Naval Heritage and Historical Command has a huge library of photographs like this online. It's where I got most of the photos for my manuscript.
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Honestly? Can probably rip off War Thunder assets and hope you don't get caught.
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mlmp08 posted:Honestly? Can probably rip off War Thunder assets and hope you don't get caught. Or just use them as your references and model them yourself. World of Warships would be worth looking at too if going that route.
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Yeah, I'll be modeling things myself, it's just a lot easier to model them if I have an organized set of references to work from. Ideally I'd work from the source material instead of someone else's models, but second-hand work is definitely better than nothing. Thanks for the suggestion. Vincent Van Goatse posted:Naval Heritage and Historical Command has a huge library of photographs like this online. It's where I got most of the photos for my manuscript. Sweet, thank you! A few other sources I found or was directed to by others: World's Fastest Battleship, a PDF about making the Iowa-class battleship, which has several very handy top-down and side-view layouts for various battleships. Super-easy to plonk into Blender and make a quick model from, this is basically the ideal source when I can find it. There's a few Wikipedia articles that have similar diagrams, but (like with this one) I pretty much have to know that the ship class exists before I can find diagrams. ...I guess what I should be doing is finding a listing of ships by era (like this Wikipedia list) and then using that to find ships to search for by name. Navweaps.com is kind of disorganized but has a lot of information about naval weapons. WW2DB has a ships section, again kind of disorganized but oh well. Gettyimages has a section on the Imperial Japanese Navy, complete with some photos of Kantai Collection dolls, which you can buy for $500 (the photos, not the dolls)! 
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Unfortunately, I accidentally found a collection of scale folded paper models of WW2 ships a couple of weeks ago that I promised myself I wouldn't lost the link to, but I lost it.
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There’s a pretty good YouTube and Instagram community of model builders, they post that kind of stuff all the time. Would link you but I deleted my accounts. Edit: this guy https://youtu.be/kXiifCQ0ZtQ
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Thanks y'all. I found some decent reference photos of the Lexington (BB-4, early US battlecruiser). Here's quick models of the hull, 12"x35 caliber deck guns, and bridge.  I'm gonna have to make a lot of models like these, and I'm not gonna spam the thread with 'em, but I wanted to show that I'm making use of the help you're giving me. 
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Thanks y'all. Do you mean Iowa not Lexington?
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Flikken posted:Do you mean Iowa not Lexington? This is the image I was using as a reference, with the caption included:  So if I have the wrong ship class, it's because the caption lied to me.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:This is the image I was using as a reference, with the caption included: Yeah, that was CC-1 that got converted into CV-2 during construction. BB-4 was USS Iowa, a pre dreadnought battleship
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Flikken posted:Yeah, that was CC-1 that got converted into CV-2 during construction. BB-4 was USS Iowa, a pre dreadnought battleship ...huh, how bizarre. You're right, thank you for the correction. Guess I'd better update my internal designations.
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Dutch Navy online archives has some good photos and technical drawings iirc.
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It's been a while since we've had a good ol' classic CHOOM in this thread. I aim to fix that: https://twitter.com/ConflictsW/status/1158375186103750658 blyat! edit: oh hang on there's another: https://twitter.com/ConflictsW/status/1158419811883474946
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 People are definitely dead in there.
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That's a uh, conventional depot right? 
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Look at how far away some of these dang secondaries are [edit: from the main explosion] https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1158453646423728128 Duke Chin fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Aug 5, 2019 |
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MRC48B posted:That's a uh, conventional depot right? Look in your heart, comrade.
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Are you loving telling me nobody died from that?! 
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Its not blowing up comrade, thats just burnt concrete.
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MrYenko posted:
Krasnoyarsk *is* a large chemical production center.
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There's some sweet sweet c stuff there. Probably not any b that's survived that.
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Comrade do you taste metal?
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Yeah, its interesting how each city in Russia is specifically designed around specific products.That Works posted:Comrade do you taste metal? Best not to ask questions, Vasiliy
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A bear scratching his head while holding a stick of dynamite
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CommieGIR posted:Yeah, its interesting how each city in Russia is specifically designed around specific products. The purpose-built cities are cool. Go check Norilsk on map. It’s a big city with all amenities, at some point you realize on the maps that there is no road leading out of there.
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Vahakyla posted:The purpose-built cities are cool. Go check Norilsk on map. It’s a big city with all amenities, at some point you realize on the maps that there is no road leading out of there. I had a friend who grew up in Norilsk until they moved to Moscow at age 16. He said the pros were if you like hunting outdoors the nearby country side was really nice in the summer. I think everything else was a con.
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BUG JUG posted:There's some sweet sweet c stuff there. Probably not any b that's survived that. Ed: wait nevermind just got it.
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Welcome to Libya. https://twitter.com/gin_and_tacos/status/1158564919605944325
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Thread https://twitter.com/wellerstein/status/1158736186174779393?s=19
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Its good. I think my only issue is that there tends to be a focus on the nuclear weapons, but the Firebombing campaigns actually killed more people in Japan and Europe, even in single strikes. Nuclear weapons are evil, to be sure, and should never be used again, but we tend to miss the forest for the trees. Just as many women and children were slaughtered by firebombings than the atomic weapons.
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Vahakyla posted:The purpose-built cities are cool. Go check Norilsk on map. It’s a big city with all amenities, at some point you realize on the maps that there is no road leading out of there. Why would there be no roads leading out of a mining center?
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Phanatic posted:Why would there be no roads leading out of a mining center? Because no human would drive out of there. It’s effectively an island in far siberia.
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CommieGIR posted:Its good. I think my only issue is that there tends to be a focus on the nuclear weapons, but the Firebombing campaigns actually killed more people in Japan and Europe, even in single strikes. It's a thread literally in dedication to the anniversary of the atomic bombing, that may be why it focuses on the atomic bomb.
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:It's a thread literally in dedication to the anniversary of the atomic bombing, that may be why it focuses on the atomic bomb. Yeah, I completely glazed over that 
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