Thx Charly & Numbthumb, I took those last 4 pics from in game while sailing her around Corsica,a scenery that comes with VSF
The renders i have done in KT on the Other forum link there was done with the water materials available for free download from the kt site using the "Wavy" water material
Oh its a 4.56mb Sketchup file, only 1 texture at the moment so that number will start climbing when weathering and rust etc is added
Thx Guys,As for the bottle idea,ill spend 15mins on some test renders and see how it goes,might be interesting, Working on animations for the booms and relative Lines for trawling.
She is 56k polys at the moment,but i plan a fully detailed bridge and interior (everything from the keel up )
Ill get some Renders with the Sketchup screenshots to match as soon as she is done, no extra work done on her this weekend hehe got away from the box!
Hi guys, Its been a wile since my last thread but hey,thats doesnt meen I havent been modeling 
She is completely modeled in Sketchup 6,max and KT for renders
Here is my latest Update on her,I started this project on the 18th Oct 2010 :
Boom ends Completed
Her lines added,still some to add but majority of them are there,I tried leaving the boom swivels at the foot of the mast at a 90deg angle...Im guessing it should be between 30-45 as some lines tell a story that this position should not be happening 
All 6 Bollards added, Poop has been fixed,that little by the rail was missing, not that easy to fix as all the rails had to be remodeled.
And some unbaked shots in VSF :
And for those interested in the previouse pics :
Wow that is a nice model Elf grats! are you going to be looking at texturing it?
Started the USS Essex on tuesday and been doing about 9 - 10 hours a day on her.
There is plenty of history about the ship online but heres a quick ref : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Essex_(1799)
My plans indicate her to have 42 guns,a ship rigged American Frigate ,40 pound carronades on her gundeck and the rest are 12 pounders.
Oh and she has a astonishing 134 belaying pins 
Shes not going to be low poly but I am trying to keep her down,shes 60k at the moment.
Glad to see you here!
Not too much time modeling,get some time off while rendering textures to head to the beach,maybe eat aswell
Not to long Eco,Plans really do help 
Well have I learned alot since the last post,
I recently started using max 09 for the render to texture feature,well....
Here is a shot of my boat I started yesterday,no textures here in this shot,just showing the shading that Max gives,this is a in game render.
Here are some shots after the textures were added in SU,exported and baked in Max (also in Game renders)
Here is where she is now,the sails were made in Max as adding wind to cloth is a realism I cant manually model,same for the flag above.
The textures in the last 4 shots are straight from SU to KT,Ill bake them tommorow and do some more renders to show the differance,but overall I think this is a killer combo for speedy modeling.
Very nice model tomislavm and nice renders,I especially like the secound to last one,except her rear aelerons* , they dont suggest lift in such a tight situation.Otherwise well done!
Progress,but grrr those masts took ages.The guns stowed and ports closed in this render,the guns alone are +- 25k polys,and they are really as low as I can get them.
Thank you Joppermann,
Glad you like them,and as for which ships I build..I have hundreds of different ship plans of this Era,which ever appeals to me I attempt,I have built Belonna twice before and failed.
I am on Julian Stockwins series ATM and have some of Obrians books,no time to read 2 series so hes next.
Updates :
Much still needs to be done in modeling but I had to see what se looked like in the water
Update Time :
Railings took much time and fitting all the seperate things to the decks and hull is another time consumer.Capstan;6pounder and bits are taken off Leopard as they are the same,just adjusted size on certain parts as this 74 is abit bigger than Leopard 50.
Ahhh I C Rodger,
I assure you that my models are accurate to plans,Ive had this Question before as the bowspirit on a ship rig usually contributes 1/3 of the overall length of the ship.For comparison HMS Leopard being a 50gun is in build a bit smaller than the 1st rate HMS Victory and the Victory has 5,468.4 m2 of sails,more than todays 5 masted Royal clipper which has 42 seperate sails.
Rodger I am not sure what you mean by "extreme" sail plan?many sails?Sail area? Sail to hull ratio?
Ither or I do love these ships and Hope to get Employment on one some day,but for now modeling them is great!
Ive started HMS Bellona 74 two days ago and thought you guys would like to see how it is done in a WIP thread,maybe Ill just hack this one
There are still many flaws and tweaking takes loads of time,and this being the biggest ship ive done to date,it should take even longer.
The water is a addon on the Kerky site,loads of settings but that is my fav.
I think the dent Idea should work,without to much hassels as far as specular goes in game,Ill give it a try 
Glad you guys like her,
tomislavm , I did not make these textures,they are downloaded
modelhead ,The dents and scratches sounds like a great Idea,However the currently used texture is a seamless (or appears seamless) texture is repetitivley.To add a scratch in it would mean a side render of the ship as she is now to use as a projected texture which would drop the closeup quality and the overall look.The dents would be easy to model but as said the texture is a nightmare to modify.
Ja Broer van PE 
Thx guys,
Renderer of choice is Kerkytea
Crazy nope im off as Ive change city and pc,Cape town has many examples of old workboats,really helps
Ive been working on this Tug for over 2 months now and the modeling stage is finnaly complete,I am however still contemplating adding a small kitchen etc,
I made this Harbour scene to render her in :
And here are shots of her Bridge :
In game she has all her parts working down to the instrument needles
