The Charge of The Johnston by RG19
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Description
Lt. Cmdr. Ernest E. Evans, Captain of the Fletcher class destroyer USS Johnston DD 557, shouted another heading order from the fantail of his crippled ship. The engineers manually changed the rudder position as the helm control had been lost. Captain Evans was sacrificing his crew and ship to buy time for the escort carriers of the Taffy Task Groups to escape Admiral Takeo Kurita’s formidable battle group. Kurita’s central strike force consisted of 5 battleships, 10 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers and 15 destroyers. On the 25th of October, 1944.
The LORD told Gideon, "With these three hundred men I will rescue you and give you victory over the Midianites. Send all the others home." (Judges 7:7)
Credits:
USS Johnston = USS Fletcher by DeEspona + fantail hatch is cabin door by Ratracer in the Marketplace
IJN BB Yamato = Nowa 5 by Silver Wolf
Mogami and Tone class heavy cruisers = Nowa 5 by Silver Wolf, NNY and Siosai + 90 degree sci-fi pipe by Joe Kurz + = SDF-1 by mechmaster and Jhoagland + Fletcher class by De Espona + Nakajima A6M-2N floatplane = KI84 by Bazze + speedboat in freesuff
TBM "Avenger" bombers by BeyondVR
Lost Island by Tantarus
Comments (28)
Fantastic looking scene!
Awesome war scene! Fantastically done!
Great work on this scene it looks fantastic, love the water it is superb!! wonderful Posting!
Excellent scene and render!
Excellent work
One of your best this RG,great scene
Great job on the rendering of the scene. Your water looks great, really convincing. Nice job on the WWII models, too.
A super composition, marvelous scene, congratulations!
Now there's a fantastic render of an incredible moment in naval history. There's a display of great Native American military heroes in the pentagon, where they mixed up labelling Lt. Cdr. Evan's picture with that of another man. Great work! This would be of the quality of the cover art of those Bantam military history paperbacks of the 70's, if they still published such things.
Nice image. I remember hearing about this battle on the history channel.
Dam talk bout detail This is one way over the top work of art here Beautiful historic work .... excellent composition Bravo and my hat is off to ya and staying off
excellent
very cool, love the water :-)
Great battle scene. Excellent models, effects and lighting! Very nice work.
Think the others above have about said everything already. This is an exceptional naval action render. Love the water props. Not sure they ever were that close to each other, though, and I may be wrong but I thought the weather was not all that clear that day.
A real MasterPiece!
Fantastic action shot! I like the roll and pitch of the ship.
this is a love/hate picture.... I LOVE... the angel of the boat being attacked, the background and BG lighting. I hate - well, I don't hate it - lol the boat looks too dark compared to the background as if it is two different pictures.... the explosions in the water seem like a wrong choice on color - perhaps mor like the yellow explosion on the ship would of been a been choice or white with some blue or red. overall cool image.
Amazing!
"Into the valley of the shadow rode the three hundred." To paraphrase another charge. The Japanese lost two cruisers in this battle. Lots of action here!
Terrific naval action scene - bravo!
Very good job, this is amazing. I like the tiny soldiers you put.
Cool action with lots of detail, superb work
A superb scene with a fantastic render!
Spectacular piece of work!
Very dramatic work!!! Great lighting and action.
Excellent work!
Extraordinary composition and astonishing art!