[REL] The Little Ships of SH5 - Coaster Pack

[kapuhy]

Originally Posted by Mister_M

Did you plan variant skins for the merchant ships ? Red decks were probably not a good idea for sailing into WWII convoys.

Late war grey painting:

[Mister_M]

Originally Posted by kapuhy

Late war grey painting:

Originally Posted by kapuhy

I think that a black hull would not have been repainted in grey. Only superstructures and funnel... https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...4&postcount=37

[kapuhy]

Originally Posted by Mister_M

I think that a black hull would not have been repainted in grey. Only superstructures and funnel...

As in the case of tacos, why not have both? Adding a variant with black hull and grey superstructure will be easy, and then it's even more varied.

[Mister_M]

Yes, ok. Maybe your could add different shades of grey. I think a lighter grey would be more appropriate.

[Mister_M]

Waiting for your war skins to release the SH3 conversion of Armora tramp steamer.

The answer is probably obvious, but I guess that this class of ship was only sailing near the coast, and never into atlantic/arctic/med convoys...

[iambecomelife]

Really like how one of them is a Long Bridge Deck type merchant ... great eye for detail. They were pretty common for companies that needed to ship high volume/low density cargo like cotton or grain....until postwar designs made them obsolete.

Also like that they are low tonnage, unlike the big Liberty & C2 ships you always see in the Silent Hunter series - ships as small as 1,000 GRT were pressed into service in Atlantic convoys, bc every cargo ship was valuable in wartime. This is good to counteract "tonnage inflation".

[Mister_M]

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

Really like how one of them is a Long Bridge Deck type merchant ... great eye for detail. They were pretty common for companies that needed to ship high volume/low density cargo like cotton or grain....until postwar designs made them obsolete.

Also like that they are low tonnage, unlike the big Liberty & C2 ships you always see in the Silent Hunter series - ships as small as 1,000 GRT were pressed into service in Atlantic convoys, bc every cargo ship was valuable in wartime. This is good to counteract "tonnage inflation".

Yes, the most common merchant ships which were sailing into convoys are never modeled...

Kapuhy's merchants are around 2000 tons of displacement. But that's different than GRT !!!

[kapuhy]

Originally Posted by Mister_M

Waiting for your war skins to release the SH3 conversion of Armora tramp steamer.

Here - grey skin from screenshots above and AO map with some rust (unlike first version I sent you before which was too clean for such old ship).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bOc...ew?usp=sharing

Originally Posted by Mister_M

The answer is probably obvious, but I guess that this class of ship was only sailing near the coast, and never into atlantic/arctic/med convoys...

In arctic or atlantic, probably pretty rare but med and gibraltar convoys did include a lot of similar ships:

https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/687.html
https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/704.html
https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/1121.html
https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/1120.html

Originally Posted by Mister_M

Kapuhy's merchants are around 2000 tons of displacement. But that's different than GRT !!!

Small Freighter is modeled after SS Aslaug (1599 GRT, built in 1927) and Small Tramp Steamer after SS Armora (1903 GRT, built in 1911).

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

Also like that they are low tonnage, unlike the big Liberty & C2 ships you always see in the Silent Hunter series - ships as small as 1,000 GRT were pressed into service in Atlantic convoys, bc every cargo ship was valuable in wartime. This is good to counteract "tonnage inflation".

That's one of reasons I started this mod - ship roster in stock SH5 looks like trying to simulate road transport network by using only 18-wheelers.

[Mister_M]

Originally Posted by kapuhy

Here - grey skin from screenshots above and AO map with some rust (unlike first version I sent you before which was too clean for such old ship).

Thank you ! Unfortunately, SH3 uses the AO map only to apply "shadows" on surfaces, not anything else, like rust or dirt...