Originally modeled in cinema4D. Detailed enough for close-up renders. The zip-file contains bodypaint textures and standard materials.
The Douglas TBD Devastator 3D model was a torpedo aircraft of the United States Navy, ordered in 1934, which flew in 1935 and entered service in 1937. At that time, it was the most advanced aircraft in a flight of the US Navy and, possibly, of any army in the world. However, the rapid pace of development of the aircraft killed him, and at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the TBD was already obsolete. He performed well in some of his early battles, but at the Battle of Midway, the Devastatorlaunched against the Japanese fleet were almost exterminated. The model was immediately withdrawn from the first line service, being replaced by the Grumman TBF Avenger.
The TBD Devastator scored a large number of "first times" for the US Navy. 1 It was the first carrier-based monoplane widely used, as well as the first all-metal naval aircraft, the first with a fully enclosed cabin and the first with hydraulically folding wings (in these respects the TBD Devastator was revolutionary). 2 It was equipped with a semi-retractable landing gear, with the wheels protruding 250 mm below the wings to allow a landing with "wheels up" to limit the damage.
The three crew members were placed under a large cockpit that looked like a large "greenhouse" of almost half the length of the aircraft. The pilot sat in the forward position, a tail gunner/radio operator occupied the rearmost seat, while the bomber occupied the center seat. During a bombing, the bomber was placed face down, slid under the pilot, pointing, through a window in the lower part of the fuselage, with a Norden bombing sight.
Features:
- Inside scene: -model - 18 textures - 1 material- 1 alphamap
- All materials, bodypaint-textures and textures are included.
- No cleaning up necessary, just drop your models into the scene and start rendering.
- No special plugin needed to open scene.
- Phong shading interpolation / Smoothing - 35°
- In lwo,3ds,fbx, c4d and obj are parts for an seperate fly and a ground version.
- NOTE - In lwo,3ds and obj the 1 Alphamap (Pro_Run_A) must manually load in the Alphacanal or Transparencycanal.
- c4d Version
- Polygones - 380639 Vertices - 284458 - 35 Objects - 18 textures - 1 material- 1 alphamap
- obj File - lwo file - 3ds file - fbx file Version 2010
Douglas TBD Devastate - American triple deck torpedo bomber.
Created by Douglas Aircraft Company under the direction of Frank Fleming. The first flight of the prototype XTBD-1 took place on April 15, 1935. Mass production began in 1937. From October of the same year, it was used with aircraft carriers. A total of 130 aircraft were produced (except for the prototype, two batches of serial machines were produced: in 1937 the first batch of 114 aircraft was ordered; in 1938, to compensate for operational losses, the second batch of 14 machines was ordered).
By the time the United States entered the Second World War, it was morally obsolete, but it was used relatively successfully in the first battles. From the summer of 1942, he began to be replaced by the Eupenger torpedo bomber from the Grumman company. After heavy losses in the Battle of Midway, the remaining "devastaytory" were removed from the decks of aircraft carriers.
In 1934, the US Navy had three modern aircraft carriers - the heavy CV-2 Lexington and CV-3 Saratoga, and the experimental light CV-4 Ranger. The composition of their deck air groups was frankly weak. The only specialized torpedo bomber was the Great Lakes TG-2. This biplane had a maximum speed with a torpedo of 108 knots (200 km / h) and a range of only 330 sea. miles (610 km). The crew consisted of three people, located in an open cockpit. Also in service consisted of double biplane bombers BM-1 and BM-2, capable of carrying a torpedo.
In 1931, the development of a project for three new aircraft carriers of the Yorktown type, the CV-5 Yorktown, CV-6 Enterprise and CV-8 Hornet, began. Instead of the outdated aircraft carrier CV-1 "Langley" it was planned to commission the CV-7 "Wasp". New aircraft carriers needed something to arm. Therefore, on June 30, 1934, the US Naval Bureau of Aeronautics announced a competition for the creation of a torpedo bomber to replace the TG-2. According to the technical requirements of the competition (specification SD-119-3), the aircraft was supposed to be able to carry one Mark 13 13 airmanpedor, or three 227 kg bombs, or mixed weapons of 227 kg and 45 kg bombs.
The competition received proposals from three companies. The Great Lakes XTBG-1 prototype was a triple biplane. He had an all-metal fuselage of semi-monocoque type and the surface of the wings and tail, covered with cloth. Tests of the prototype revealed unsatisfactory flight performance, and this project was rejected. Hall has offered the all-metal twin-engine quadruple float monoplane XPBTH-2. Since he could not be based on aircraft carriers, the US Navy also showed no interest in him. The winner of the competition was the project of the company Douglas - XTBD-1
