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Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:50 pm**

quick question does anyone know how fast or how long it takes an iowa to move the length of the ship IE back of the ship moves to where the front of the ship was in say 30 seconds or so

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:55 pm**

Top speed was 33 knots. Multiply by 1.15 to get miles per hour. Multiply by 5280 to get feet per hour. Now that you have velocity, using the equation d=vt, you can insert 887 (length of Iowa in feet) for d, put 200376 for v, and solve for t. 887/200376= .00443 ish, which is the time it takes in hours for the stern to reach the spot where the bow was at 33 knots. Now to conver to seconds, that'll be .00443*60*60, which is 15.9 seconds. So, if I converted correctly, the time it takes for an object moving at 33 knots to travel 887 feet is 15.9 seconds.

Posted: **Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:32 pm**

thank you, that was way more math then I could handle

Posted: **Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:27 am**

It looks like you have a good start on the model. I bought the USS New Jersey from Digimation.com. I then found out that the majority of the superstructure and other items were not correct dimensions. So I got a hold of several Iowa Class blueprints from the Floating Drydock, and I picked up the Tamiya 1/350 New Jersey for referrence as well. I rebuilt most of the ship with the exception of the hull, bridge and some miscellanous items. I made it into the USS Missouri as she looked in the Gulf War. I didn't add the high details like you are doing, because I mainly made it for the CivIII video game. Although if I get time, I do want to make it high detailed later on.

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Posted: **Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:34 am**

Here is the WWII version I made for CivIII. Again, I didn't give it very high detail because it wouldn't be seen ingame.

Posted: **Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:43 am**

hehe aye two different uses for our projects. also I know about rebuilding it seems everytime I think I finish an area I get another pic/schematic whatever and I'm redoing a section /sigh.

Posted: **Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:55 pm**

Looks great, Chris! What size will it be ingame?

Posted: **Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:25 am**

TimmyC, the size of the frame in CivIII is 240x240. CivIII uses FLC files (animation files), not the model itself.

Posted: **Thu May 11, 2006 10:41 am**

small update but some work done (yea) will keep working on this it WILL get done hehe

http://img451.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... one8ei.jpg

Posted: **Thu May 11, 2006 6:58 pm**

Very nice!!

Posted: **Sat May 20, 2006 6:37 pm**

Hey Guys, he's also posting over at CGtalk. We need to get Tony in here

Posted: **Sat May 20, 2006 6:38 pm**

yes I am,

Posted: **Mon May 22, 2006 3:05 pm**

Saw this over at CG Talk, thought it looked great. Not an expert on this class, but from what I can see, its coming along very nicely and looks the part.

Keep us posted.

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