BATTLESHIP MUSASHI Configuration: year 1944

Two Mitsubishi F1-M2 seaplanes included

GENERAL INFO The model was created based on blueprints, photos and historical documentation. It was created with precision in detail and in real units of measurement to be a faithful digital reproduction of the original. Modeling, texturing and setup are all made with Lightwave 2015. Scene and model are compatible starting from Lightwave 11.x.

LIGHTWAVE FORMAT AVAILABLE ONLY Inside the Lightwave scene there is a basic setup with controls that allows you to animate each element of the ship. You can animate: 1) the rotation, the elevation and the recoil of each gun and armored turret; 2) the rotation of each gun and light tower control; 3) the rotation of each rangefinder; 4) the rotation of each search light; 5) the rotation of propellers and rudders.

Only flags and grids have UV maps. Other materials have planar or cubic texture maps.

Some basic textures are included. No UV texturing (except flags and grids)

HISTORICAL SUMMARY Battleship Musashi was the second ship of the Yamato class of Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. She and her sister, Yamato, were the heaviest and most powerful battleships ever constructed, displacing 72800 tons at full load and armed with nine 46 cm Type 94 main guns. Musashi was commissioned on August 1942 and assigned to the 1st Battleship Division. In early 1943 the ship was transferred to Truk, that was the Empire of Japan's main base in the South Pacific. During this year she sortied several times with the fleet searching for American forces, without success. In 1944 she was used to transfer forces and equipment between Japan and various occupied islands. In early 1944 she was damaged by an American submarine attack and was forced to return to Japan for repairs. In this occasion she was strongly enhanced with anti-aircraft armament. She was present during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June, but she didn't engage in combat with the American forces. On 24 October 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, after several hours of fighting, Musashi was sunk by a large number of torpedos and bombs hit from the American carrier-based aircraft. The wreck was located in March 2015 by the team of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, to a depth of about 1350 meters (4430 feet).

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