Curtiss SOC "Seagull" floatplane heading back to the nest. In this case, the "nest" is the USS Astoria. There are some cool videos on UTube showing these cool floatplanes landing at sea and being recovered, as well as some catapult launches...it must have been a lot of excitement for the pilots. I always wondered how these planes landed in the open ocean, but interestingly, the recovering vessel would make a wide turn and the bird would land in the resulting area of relatively "smooth" water and then be winched onboard. Fascinating invention, the floatplane served as a limited range armed observation scout for the fleet with a long and distinguished service history despite being in reality from an earlier flying generation. Curtiss SOC "Seagull: Free on sharecg, generously shared by Briney. Just some little tweaks here and there. USS Vincennes: Shared also for free at the same location by Briney doing bit player work as supporting fleet vessels. USS Astoria also a New Orleans class cruiser: Free on sketchup warehouse by nottumun with a bit of fussing and re-tex. USS Casablanca: Free on sketchup warehouse as well, this by jjasper123,retex. WW2 Destroyer: here on rendo originally by BVR now offered by RPublishing (very nice model) Various Crew that are "Waldo-like" all around: Epici Enemy Soldier here on Rendo with various retex and props..(truly, they are there!) Various texture tweaking here and there to taste by myself. C4d6 XLCE+, Poser7, Vue6Infinite, PS Cs3