Italia

thierry_st_malo · 22nd April 2010, 08:13 AM

This is a first picture of my ongoing model of the Italian fast battleship "Italia", launched in 1880. She was an incredible and epoch-making ship: when launched she was, quite simply and by far, the largest, the fastest, and the most powerful warship in the world. Completely unarmoured, too ( Crazy Italians ! Almost as crazy as the French and the Russians ) !

I use the model as a testbed for V3DTools, my companion software for AC3D. Written in VB Express 2008 ( soon 2010 ) it saves a tremendous time to create such things as cuboids, ladders, railings, bulwarks, windows and portholes, as well as rigging.

As for "Italia" I need to "glue" more than one hundred windows ( not portholes ) to the hull, which involves one translation and two rotations per window, you understand that the development work is worthwile.

Thierry

22nd April 2010, 08:13 AM	#1
thierry_st_malo Senior Member Professional user Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Saint-Malo, France Posts: 148	Italia This is a first picture of my ongoing model of the Italian fast battleship "Italia", launched in 1880. She was an incredible and epoch-making ship: when launched she was, quite simply and by far, the largest, the fastest, and the most powerful warship in the world. Completely unarmoured, too ( Crazy Italians ! Almost as crazy as the French and the Russians ) ! I use the model as a testbed for V3DTools, my companion software for AC3D. Written in VB Express 2008 ( soon 2010 ) it saves a tremendous time to create such things as cuboids, ladders, railings, bulwarks, windows and portholes, as well as rigging. As for "Italia" I need to "glue" more than one hundred windows ( not portholes ) to the hull, which involves one translation and two rotations per window, you understand that the development work is worthwile. Thierry Attached Images