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Ported to OBJ from the low poly model created by stuart277 for Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 2 (CFS2). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

Ah, the "Splendid Cats!" Or so they were named at the time. These were a big improvement over Invincible and Indefagitable in terms of speed, armament, and armor protection, although they still shared some of the same basic design flaws that hampered most of the World War I era British battlecruisers. They were also overhyped in the British press as being far more powerful than they actually were, and the British Admiralty did nothing to stop this. Their performance during the war was a mixed one at best. Both ships in the class, HMS Lion and HMS Princess Royal, scored telling hits on Geman vessels in separate actions that resulted in their loss (Lion skining the light cruiser Coin and Heligoland Bight and Princess Royal crippling the old armored cruiser Blucher at Dogger Bank, thus reducing her speed so she could be finished off by other British warships). On the other hand, Lion wound up being so badly shot up at Dogger Bank that she had to be towed back to port, and she was almost lost again at Jutland when a major hit from the German battlecruiser Lutzow destroyed her Q turret and ignited a cordite fire in its main magazine. It was only extinguished by flooding it with seawater. Princess Royal was moderately damaged while attempting to protect her crippled sister, and did so until British battleships arrived on the scene to save both them and the rest of their surviving battlecruiser cousins from the Germans. Both ships made it back to port under their own power, were subsequently repaired, and spent the rest of the war on uneventful patrols. Both were scrapped in the early 1920s to comply with postwar treaty tonnage limits. To find out more about the Lions, follow the link below.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-cla…

This is a straight port with no changes by me. It replaces the game-ripped Jutland version I had up before in my online C21VN collection, so you can have a version of this without any potential rights issues attached.

This is not my model. All I did was port it for you. Please credit stuart277 as the original creator if you use this in any of your own 3D projects. You do not have to credit me for my part.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the low poly model created by stuart277 for Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 2 (CFS2). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

Ah, the "Splendid Cats!" Or so they were named at the time. These were a big improvement over Invincible and Indefagitable in terms of speed, armament, and armor protection, although they still shared some of the same basic design flaws that hampered most of the World War I era British battlecruisers. They were also overhyped in the British press as being far more powerful than they actually were, and the British Admiralty did nothing to stop this. Their performance during the war was a mixed one at best. Both ships in the class, HMS Lion and HMS Princess Royal, scored telling hits on Geman vessels in separate actions that resulted in their loss (Lion skining the light cruiser Coin and Heligoland Bight and Princess Royal crippling the old armored cruiser Blucher at Dogger Bank, thus reducing her speed so she could be finished off by other British warships). On the other hand, Lion wound up being so badly shot up at Dogger Bank that she had to be towed back to port, and she was almost lost again at Jutland when a major hit from the German battlecruiser Lutzow destroyed her Q turret and ignited a cordite fire in its main magazine. It was only extinguished by flooding it with seawater. Princess Royal was moderately damaged while attempting to protect her crippled sister, and did so until British battleships arrived on the scene to save both them and the rest of their surviving battlecruiser cousins from the Germans. Both ships made it back to port under their own power, were subsequently repaired, and spent the rest of the war on uneventful patrols. Both were scrapped in the early 1920s to comply with postwar treaty tonnage limits. To find out more about the Lions, follow the link below.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-cla…

This is a straight port with no changes by me. It replaces the game-ripped Jutland version I had up before in my online C21VN collection, so you can have a version of this without any potential rights issues attached.

This is not my model. All I did was port it for you. Please credit stuart277 as the original creator if you use this in any of your own 3D projects. You do not have to credit me for my part.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.