Coral Sea- May 1942 by Briney
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Description
May the 4th be with you... May 4th 1942. The rendezvous of Task Force 11 (USS Lexington and her escorts ) with Task Force 44 (heavy cruisers HMAS Australia and USS Chicago, light cruiser HMAS Hobart and three destroyers) during the early jostling before the carrier battle broke out. Ok... maybe there weren't any Fletcher-class destroyers at the Coral Sea Battle... Admiral Fletcher might have been impressed though!
Rendered in Vue 8 Esprit
Assets
USS Lexington (Alicefromlake)- transparency map applied to the material to hide the turrets (replaced with AA shortly before the battle).
TBD and F4F aircraft on flight deck - these are the BeyondVR freebies of course (Renderosity/ShareCG), I've added early 1942 textures.
WW2 destroyer (RPublishing) -I'm thinking that maybe Lady Lex never crossed paths with this advanced destroyer class... but the BeyondVR destroyer still looks the part...?
HMAS Australia- my model.
Comments (12)
Beautifully done image - nearly a photo. The Australia in the left background - you made it? Could we get a close-up image sometime? Those were some dreadful battles - sometimes short, but, oh, so bitter! I'm reading Theodore Roscoe's (1956) book "US Navy Destroyer Operations in WW II". My, the intensity and ferocity. We just can't grasp it today. Keep up the good work! :-)
Thanks for your encouragement. When I finish the Australia I'll use it for close ups more often... I've still got to revisit it a bit...
Really terrific job. It has a real sense of distance to it. It's not as easy as it looks to make everything fit convincingly, and to get a sense of atmospheric depth and presence. I really like what you've done with this. Nice work again!
We'll let the "Fletcher thing" pass for the good pict that it is. ;)
Stunning work... Really good! Love this, a Fave! Rob
great
outstanding
Great picture. I want to make the rebuildings of the Lexington class. They were intense, not only other guns but some rebuildings in barbettes and additional AA-guns and so on. When my actual project is finished I make the Lexington of 1942 and then Saratoga of 1943-45 (she looked totally different).
That is wonderful news... I'll keep an eye out for those! Thanks. I really appreciate seeing models like this.
really outstanding
Great scene....... gives you the feeling of being in another boat looking out across the sea .....NICE
If I recall this correctly, the USS Fletcher herself was at the nighttime battles of Guadalcanal in August of 42. You would not be off by much with this fantastic image, showing the much older converted battle-cruiser and the "modern" analog computer equipped Fletcher class. Another First rate Pacific Theatre recreation!!!