USS Brooklyn ACR3 by Haze Gray - 3D Printed

[Haze Gray]

I'm a big fan of the ships from the Spanish-American war period.
I'm most of the way through the design but still have more to do on the superstructure and other odds and ends. 

 

if you like ships from the Spanish-American war period post a reply and tell me your favorite ship!

 

- Haze Grey

[ccoyle]

4 hours ago, Haze Gray said:

if you like ships from the Spanish-American war period post a reply and tell me your favorite ship!

 

I'm a fan of the transitional sail-to-steam period, too. I have always thought that USS Petrel (PG-2) would make a very interesting model.

[Jsk]

I'm right there with you on the Brooklyn. Love the tumblehome and three stacks!

 

[Keith Black]

 The early transition period is my fav period even though fraught with build issues due to lack of information. Any of the wood hull screw frigates from all navies is my cuppa. 

[Haze Gray]

3 hours ago, Jsk said:

I'm right there with you on the Brooklyn. Love the tumblehome and three stacks!

 

 

3 hours ago, Jsk said:

I'm right there with you on the Brooklyn. Love the tumblehome and three stacks!

 

Hi JSK - what program are you using? delft ship?

one of the things about the Brooklyn was it was the first US navy ship that used electrically driven main gun turrets instead of steam powered turrets

- Haze Grey

[Jsk]

8 hours ago, Haze Gray said:

Hi JSK - what program are you using? delft ship?
...

Wings3d (www.wings3d.com). My 'Go To' modeling application.

 

Many years ago I started out making models for the old Virtual Sailor simulator. So, they were necessarily low poly. The simulator is pretty much defunct at this point so a few years ago I had a go at converting my models into driveable/sailable ships for the open source flight simulator FlightGear (or 'FloatGear' in my case!). I was progressing fairly well when life interrupted and I drifted back towards other hobbies. Still, I had some success in getting the Olympia, skipjack Kathryn and my Statenjacht models into FGFS. I could never quite wrap my head around the physics needed to make them perform as they should but they weren't too bad for people unfamiliar with the real thing. I keep telling myself that someday I'll return to FloatGear because the world DOES need a decent open source sail simulator.