I was watching a show on TLC or Discovery about submarines and it reminded
me of the good ole days on the boat. This is my version (so far ) of a 637
class fast attack submarine. The boat I was on was the USS Lapon SSN 661
(now decom). Most of the modelling was done in Moray and sPatch for the
planes and rudder. I have alot of work to do on it but thought I would share
it anyway.

   Buke

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Looking very nice buke!

I look forward to seeing further WIPs!
"buke9" <buk### [at] igloucom> wrote in message news:3a872e71@news.povray.org...
> I was watching a show on TLC or Discovery about submarines and it reminded
> me of the good ole days on the boat. This is my version (so far ) of a 637
> class fast attack submarine. The boat I was on was the USS Lapon SSN 661
> (now decom). Most of the modelling was done in Moray and sPatch for the
> planes and rudder. I have alot of work to do on it but thought I would
share
> it anyway.
>
>    Buke
>
>
>

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buke9 wrote:

> I was watching a show on TLC or Discovery about submarines and it reminded
> me of the good ole days on the boat. This is my version (so far ) of a 637
> class fast attack submarine. The boat I was on was the USS Lapon SSN 661
> (now decom). Most of the modelling was done in Moray and sPatch for the
> planes and rudder. I have alot of work to do on it but thought I would share
> it anyway.

I prefer PBS <g>. Actually I don't have cable, but still I think PBS has the
best shows. I mean, come on, it's pretty hard to beat NOVA.

Anyway, IMO the sub would be cooler if it was on a bluer background. :)

--
David Fontaine  <dav### [at] faricynet>  ICQ 55354965
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buke9 wrote:

> I was watching a show on TLC or Discovery about submarines and it reminded
> me of the good ole days on the boat. This is my version (so far ) of a 637
> class fast attack submarine. The boat I was on was the USS Lapon SSN 661
> (now decom). Most of the modelling was done in Moray and sPatch for the
> planes and rudder. I have alot of work to do on it but thought I would share
> it anyway.
>
>    Buke
>
>  [Image]

Your sub is dangerously close to the bottom of the sea (shadow).  When you are
finished make a group of them attacking a whole fleet of warships.


--
Dan Johnson

http://www.geocities.com/zapob

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> Your sub is dangerously close to the bottom of the sea (shadow).  When you are
> finished make a group of them attacking a whole fleet of warships.

<bad taste>

Or a fleet of Japanese Trawlers.

</bad taste>

Sorry, but given the little incident off Hawaii, the first thing that 
sprang to mind when I saw the image was pretty much the above comment.

I'll be quiet now.

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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Very, very  nice . . . best looking boat I've seen.

   I was a Navy Nuke . . . Reactor operator . . . loved subs and sub school
but
then Uncle Sam, in his infinite wisdom, decided he needed me in the surface
fleet and stuck me on the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) in the Tonkin Gulf for
three years.  Oh well . . . at least we had liberty in foriegn ports on
occasion
while you guyz spent most of yer time way down there.
  I still love 'em and have many friends who had the privilege of serving in
the Silent Service and they would be jazzed to see some traces of yer boat.
  Any chance of sharing the code ?  If not . . . that's ok . . . but please
continue
to render some scenes.
  And . . . I'm not even gonna attempt to do a model of an aircraft carrier
. . . ;)

Thanks . . . I love it.
Yooper

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On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 19:30:45 -0500 buke9 wrote:

>I was watching a show on TLC or Discovery about submarines and it reminded
>me of the good ole days on the boat. This is my version (so far ) of a 637
>class fast attack submarine. The boat I was on was the USS Lapon SSN 661
>(now decom). Most of the modelling was done in Moray and sPatch for the
>planes and rudder. I have alot of work to do on it but thought I would share
>it anyway.

  Nice work, buke9. How'd you model the screw? That is the part that has
always given me the most trouble.

  A friend of mine served on the USS Drum SSN 677, now decommissioned
like most of the other 637's. If it's okay with you I'm going to send
him a copy of your image, letting him know it's WIP.

-- 
Alan - ako### [at] povrayorg - a k o n g <at> p o v r a y <dot> o r g
http://www.povray.org - Home of the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer

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Sorry to hear you had to be on a target ; )
Thanks for the nice words on the pic I'm posting another one.
L8r fellow squid.
yooper <Out### [at] huntelnet> wrote in message
news:3a8eb845@news.povray.org...
> Very, very  nice . . . best looking boat I've seen.
>
>    I was a Navy Nuke . . . Reactor operator . . . loved subs and sub
school
> but
> then Uncle Sam, in his infinite wisdom, decided he needed me in the
surface
> fleet and stuck me on the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) in the Tonkin Gulf for
> three years.  Oh well . . . at least we had liberty in foriegn ports on
> occasion
> while you guyz spent most of yer time way down there.
>   I still love 'em and have many friends who had the privilege of serving
in
> the Silent Service and they would be jazzed to see some traces of yer
boat.
>   Any chance of sharing the code ?  If not . . . that's ok . . . but
please
> continue
> to render some scenes.
>   And . . . I'm not even gonna attempt to do a model of an aircraft
carrier
> . . . ;)
>
> Thanks . . . I love it.
> Yooper
>
>

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Sorry to hear you had to be on a target ; )
 ***
hehe . . . well, I was a little disturbed to find that I didn't have a
lifeboat assignment . . . but hey, our life expectancy was 90 sec
in the event of an all out war so . . .

Hmmmm . . . *lifeboat*  has no meaning for you does it ;)

Looking forward to yer images . . .

ahooooogha . . .ahooooogha . . . dive, dive, dive !!! . . .
--
Y

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