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Published: 2015-09-19 19:51:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 4813; Favourites: 142; Downloads: 0
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"Imagine a ship so powerful, it could bring an entire nation to it's knees. For me the Bismarck was the Deathstar, it was a kind of mechanized warfare that hopefully will never exist again. It was this monstrous piece of steel that held together no matter what the British threw at it. And when if finally sank, it became a legend with the same sort of force and human imagination the Titanic had."James Cameron
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My friend this yest another awesome piece you did, I love how you make the images sooooooo real! Keep up the great work.
I LOVE how you do this with a mouse and you put soooooooo much time an effort into this. I want you to keep doing more art like this. you blow me away with how awesome the art looks. Also the Detail is breathtaking! I LOVE IT! you know me with details too! Again keep up the awesome work. Because I will say this YOU ARE WAY better then I wish I could be.
Keep being awesome
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Oh my dear.... Thank you so much! I am beyond appreciative of this wonderful critique. I have learned A LOT from you and others, especially in the realm of texturing. So in many ways I owe a great debt of thanks to you dear because from studying your technique and those of others I have been able to bring my art to a new level and I am extremely grateful.
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You are very welcome my friend. I am honored you took some ideas I threw at you.
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Thanks, even the British who faced her have stated in interviews that she was as beautiful and elegant a ship as she was utterly terrifying to face in combat. Especially where the string-back pilots were concerned.
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You're welcome and that's amazing. It's quite amazing how the human species can build such things that holds beauty yet fear. Epic work as always
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Thank you, my dear sister.
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She looks like a wonderful vessel. I just looked her up.
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The show's really good too.
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Amazing drawing of the Bismarck!
Sadly I heard the last surviving Bismarck crewmember died this year. His name was Bernhard Heuer.
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They were very elderly gentlemen and honestly in my opinion, despite that many of them were kids and grew up after 1933 when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. I believe they were genuinely good men who were simply raised during one of history's darkest times. And in many ways they were taken up in the hysteria that over took the German people with the rise of National Socialism. And they deserve to be honored and respected as sailors and as participants in one of the greatest sea battle sagas of history.
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Admiral Günther Lütjens was against the Nazi ideology.
He refused to give Hitler the Nazi salute.
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Indeed he was. Lindemann was very similar although he and Lutjens did not see eye to eye a lot of the time. Never the less Lindemann respected Lutjens as commander of Operation Rhine. Bismarck's first and only combat mission, yet in those nine days she rained down terror upon the British and their royal fleet. She destroyed the battlecruiser Hood in single combat, and badly damaged the Prince of Wales. Truly a dreadful weapon indeed for her time.
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It kind of sucks that Battleships aren't used anymore
I would love if the Americans had built the Montana-class battleships (if the Japanese did a better job at attacking Pearl Harbor).
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Whoa, boy! The Bismarck certainly looks intimidating here! I got the daylights scared out of myself. If that's what you were going for here, you got it.
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I thank you very kindly for your kindness.
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The war could of ended differently had she made into the atlantic.
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Despite that she was destroyed in the battle. The Hood and Prince of Wales were instrumental in staving off the monstrous effects that Bismarck would have had on merchant convoys and by default on Great Britain itself which in 1941 was the last enemy standing against the Third Reich. But because Bismarck incurred damage as well, that was the decisive blow that saw the beginning of the end for "him".
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This is Germany's most infamous WWII battleship.
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I thank you very kindly.
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Ah, the Bismarck. A symbol of German naval power in WW2. A symbol of fear to the British and French. Truely a powerful battleship.
The only ship that strikes me with more fear is the Yamato XD
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Imagine this. Had Bismarck made it to occupied France and been repaired and refueled. "He" survived to be joined by his brother the Tirpitz, and given that Germany and Japan were allies. Just think of the terror Allied mariners would feel if Bismarck, Tirpitz, Yamato, and her sister Musashi combined their might and formed a fleet of truly nightmarish proportions.
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If she had, the British would've simply sent their best battleships out to meet her. Besides that, they could've replicated the raid on Taranto in Italy, where one battleship was sunk, while two others were damaged by Swordfish bombers. Once Bismarck was known to be a threat, it's days were numbered. Tirpitz was forced to remain at anchor for the rest of the war. While Yamato and Musashi never sank an enemy ship, and were easily defeated by airpower. The day of the battleship had long since passed.
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Actually, the US would just send tonnes of naval aircraft and sink the ships, while British Lancasters just drop Tall Boy bombs and sink the massive BBs XD
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Yeah I suppose thats true, but what an earth shaking naval battle that would have been. I can even see German carriers deploying Messirschmitt ME262s to support Bismarck and Tirpitz. The Allies at sea would be doomed.
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Um, problem with that
1) ME262 is not a naval jet fighter, so it cant take off of an aircraft carrier. And even if it could...
2) Japan never had an aircraft carrier that can operate jets (maybe Taiho and Shinano, but I have my doubts) and Germany never had an operational carrier in the first place. And even if they did get it in service, it is really not going to be of much use, being quite light. I'd compare it to the Soryu and Hiryu
3) If even if for some reason, the Germans and Japanese could even get jets in the naval battle...yeah they would be so heavily outnumbered that the Bismarck, Tirpitz, Yamato and Musashi would still be sunk, abeit with a heavier loss for the allies.
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I really love how this came out my friend. Keep up the awesome work!
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Thank you my dear, ow are you holding up?
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Most welcome and I am alright just dealing with headaches now.
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Thank you I am just dealing with a person on Facebook who always lets me down, see: www.facebook.com/Elita0ne/post… {%22tn%22%3A%22R0%22}
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Simply Stunning! Glad I came across this on Veteran's Day of all things. Beautiful! I love the darkness with the light showing the way it is. Also I love the way you porportioned this and that angle!
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Thank you so much for your kind words.
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A beautiful warship worthy of the gods.
At least this pic of it anyway. XD
Awesome as always keep it up Eric eh if I may call you that that is. ^^"
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