This is the same tool that the Silent Hunter modders use for putting custom stuff into the game. And while the games themselves have been years out of production, they were top-of-the-line for their time in the graphics department, their original models still hold up well today, and so do the many, many, many, MANY fan-created models for them. That's the online Silent Hunter series community, based on the Ubisoft video games Silent Hunter 3 (SH3), Silent Hunter 4 (SH4), Silent Hunter 4 Gold Edition (SH4G or SH4 1.5), and Silent Hunter 5 (SH5). It's not going to be as good as the ultra-detailed and high-poly-out-the-wazoo stuff where you can see every bolt on a watertight door like what World of Warships has, but it's still very good within its game engine constraints and it's been both embraced by its many fans and blessed by many a talented fan CG artist over the decades. It's also almost all retail quality by the standards of its time (mid-to-late 2000s). That will probably change with time, but for now it's the best place to go. In truth there's a better place to look, one that's been around almost long as Garry's Mod (GMOD) for Source Engine video gamers, and to this day has a depth and variety in both military and civilian vessels that has yet to be matched. These days you would think that the obvious answer is with World of Warships, Navy Field, War Thunder, and other such online multiplayer gaming sims. I say all that to set things up for the inevitable question that crosses the lips of almost everyone in this particular situation. A lot of you are like me in that you like to collect models of those vessels, and those of us with a more, uhmm, "modern" bent naturally go for CG models. Not surprisingly, there's a lot of naval video games set during the World War II era and there are lots of CG models made both free by fans and for those video games of World War II era vessels. It's quite understandable, given how much has been written and produced about World War II as a whole and the naval side in particular, with such great media productions as In Harm's Way, the original Midway (1976), Run Silent Run Deep, Up Periscope, The Enemy Below, Das Boot (any version, I personally prefer the 3-hour director's cut), Sink the Bismarck, PT-109, They Were Expendable, The Winds of War/War and Remembrance, Submarine X-1, Yamato, Tora! Tora! Tora! - the list goes on and on and on. For most of you you're probably thinking of the interwar and World War II eras (1919-1945), and that quarter-century or so represents the epitome or apex of classic warship design for many. Let's narrow the range still further, because that's a pretty wide range and while some of us have likes as wide as that range might be, most of you have something more narrow in mind.
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