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Ported to OBJ and modified for lower poly count from the model created by Lesta Studios for World of Warships (WoW). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. To download, click on the Download icon.

This is the Tier X, top-of-the-line cruiser in the German tech tree in World of Warships. It's also completely fictional, although a likewise fictional backstory was created for it in that it was developed to be an escort for the larger (and never-built) H-series German battleships. By their own admission Lesta came up with this because they needed something considerably more powerful than Hipper for that game tier level, and in their game research they came across a wartime plan that was submitted for a triple 203mm main gun turret as part of the overall development of the real Admiral Hipper class German heavy cruisers of World War II. It was never approved because the German admiralty felt it was more than they needed with Hipper. Lesta took this unused triple main gun turret design and built their own fictional German "super" heavy cruiser around it, which is at its most basic Hipper enlarged and modififed so those 203mm triples can replace its 203mm duals. It was well received by the game's players and got good reviews overall, with it going on to become one of the game's most respected cruisers in its tier ranking. For my part and as a naval fan and armchair navai historian I have to give credit to Lesta for developing a very believable if completely fictional German warship on this particular occasion. Unlike their unbelievable Tier IX Roon (you can read my opinion on that elsewhere), Hindenburg looks and feels like a real World War II era German warship, if you know what I'm saying, and IMHO is probably one of their best contributions to the genre of alternate World War II naval history. Let's be absolutely clear, folks. Hindenburg never happened in reality and for that matter was never even conceived at the time, but we're talking fiction here. Perhaps you have a place for it in your personal alternate fictional World War II histories in your German fantasy fleets. You'd be hard put to find anybody who would turn it down, given how good it is. Here's some links for those of you who need hard data on how the fictional Hindenburg class heavy cruiser is supposed to perform:

wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Hin…

world-of-warships.fandom.com/w…

This image is a modified port by me created specifically for use with the XNALara XPS free 3D model posing program. What I did to lower the poly count was to strip it down to its base hull model and then rebuild it with comparable parts from the Ubisoft videogame Silent Hunter 5 (SH5), and then retinted my replacement SH5 parts to match the Hindenburg hull. The end result came out looking very good with a significant reduction in overall poly count. This is something you fellow XNALara XPS users might also want to consider doing if you having issues with the ultra high poly counts of typical WoW ship models.

While I am no longer making my custom version of the WoW Hindenburg available for public download, you could still download somebody else's straight rip of the actual WoW game model from the Pack 3D website as I wrote this (winter 2021), and then work your own magic on it with your preferred 3D modeling and posing software. Here's the link:

p3dm.ru/files/boat/9883-hinden…

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

TRIVIA - Lesta recycled the name Hindenburg from the last of the old Imperial German Navy battlecruisers to enter service during World War I. The name comes from General Paul von Hindenburg, one of the heroes of the Battle of Tannenburg and in his later years the last president of the Weimar Republic before Adolf Hitler and the Nazis rose to power in Germany. The real life Hindenburg was the somewhat bigger and slightly improved half-sister of Derfflinger, one of the most famous German battlecruisers of all time.

Description

Ported to OBJ and modified for lower poly count from the model created by Lesta Studios for World of Warships (WoW). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. To download, click on the Download icon.

This is the Tier X, top-of-the-line cruiser in the German tech tree in World of Warships. It's also completely fictional, although a likewise fictional backstory was created for it in that it was developed to be an escort for the larger (and never-built) H-series German battleships. By their own admission Lesta came up with this because they needed something considerably more powerful than Hipper for that game tier level, and in their game research they came across a wartime plan that was submitted for a triple 203mm main gun turret as part of the overall development of the real Admiral Hipper class German heavy cruisers of World War II. It was never approved because the German admiralty felt it was more than they needed with Hipper. Lesta took this unused triple main gun turret design and built their own fictional German "super" heavy cruiser around it, which is at its most basic Hipper enlarged and modififed so those 203mm triples can replace its 203mm duals. It was well received by the game's players and got good reviews overall, with it going on to become one of the game's most respected cruisers in its tier ranking. For my part and as a naval fan and armchair navai historian I have to give credit to Lesta for developing a very believable if completely fictional German warship on this particular occasion. Unlike their unbelievable Tier IX Roon (you can read my opinion on that elsewhere), Hindenburg looks and feels like a real World War II era German warship, if you know what I'm saying, and IMHO is probably one of their best contributions to the genre of alternate World War II naval history. Let's be absolutely clear, folks. Hindenburg never happened in reality and for that matter was never even conceived at the time, but we're talking fiction here. Perhaps you have a place for it in your personal alternate fictional World War II histories in your German fantasy fleets. You'd be hard put to find anybody who would turn it down, given how good it is. Here's some links for those of you who need hard data on how the fictional Hindenburg class heavy cruiser is supposed to perform:

wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Hin…

world-of-warships.fandom.com/w…

This image is a modified port by me created specifically for use with the XNALara XPS free 3D model posing program. What I did to lower the poly count was to strip it down to its base hull model and then rebuild it with comparable parts from the Ubisoft videogame Silent Hunter 5 (SH5), and then retinted my replacement SH5 parts to match the Hindenburg hull. The end result came out looking very good with a significant reduction in overall poly count. This is something you fellow XNALara XPS users might also want to consider doing if you having issues with the ultra high poly counts of typical WoW ship models.

While I am no longer making my custom version of the WoW Hindenburg available for public download, you could still download somebody else's straight rip of the actual WoW game model from the Pack 3D website as I wrote this (winter 2021), and then work your own magic on it with your preferred 3D modeling and posing software. Here's the link:

p3dm.ru/files/boat/9883-hinden…

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

TRIVIA - Lesta recycled the name Hindenburg from the last of the old Imperial German Navy battlecruisers to enter service during World War I. The name comes from General Paul von Hindenburg, one of the heroes of the Battle of Tannenburg and in his later years the last president of the Weimar Republic before Adolf Hitler and the Nazis rose to power in Germany. The real life Hindenburg was the somewhat bigger and slightly improved half-sister of Derfflinger, one of the most famous German battlecruisers of all time.