Couple of nice Carrier images dropped by Jason on Discord

[Mysticpuma]

Cheers, Mysticpuma 

[Boo]

Guns on Deck!

[Docjonel]

Lovely texture work. The realism level of the visuals in UE5 is going to be off the charts!

[Major Lee]

That is looking so good! The weathering on the 2nd pic is very well done. The water is looking pretty good as well.

[Trooper117]

I say it every time we get new images... it just gets better and better!

[BlitzPig_EL]

Could Akagi's elevator really go above deck height?  What purpose could that serve?

[Sea Serpent]

6 minutes ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

Could Akagi's elevator really go above deck height?  What purpose could that serve?

Akagi had 2 hangar decks and so the elevators had to accommodate them both.

[BlitzPig_EL]

But why raise it above the flight deck?

[Boo]

1 minute ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

But why raise it above the flight deck?

Its for when Beyonce shows up at halftime. 

[CPT Crunch]

Japan's operating mainly in sub-tropical waters and needed the ventilation, you want air flow through those hanger bays.  Pretty sure the air conditioning was rather limited back in the day for such a huge working bay, and you get shade too boot. 

[Sea Serpent]

1 hour ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

But why raise it above the flight deck?

I’m assuming it’s a double decked elevator, so to raise the lower bay up to the flight deck, you obviously need to raise the top above it.  It looks only partially raised in that screenshot.

[A.E.Hartmann]

Gorgeous 😉 , excellent work.

[javelina]

Fantastic!

[Boo]

This is Akagi (I think) in her triple flight deck configuration, prior to her big refit but it shows the aft elevator fully up. Consensus appears to be that the elevators were woefully slow so the double decked arrangments at least allowed for 2 aircraft to be brought up (albeit unloaded one at a time). 

I've also seen one alternative proposal that suggests the upper section was not, in fact, an elevator at all, but a cap that would connect with the elevator at the upper hangar level and seemingly hang from the flight deck when the elevator went to the lower hangars to seal the hangars from the elements. This sketch below however fails to consider that there was a, third, lower hangar and not an elevator well as far as I know. 

[Major Lee]

This reminds me of the elevator that King Ludwig had installed at his palace at Herrenchiemsee. The table would be set up in the kitchen below the dining room, and then cranked up so the King could dine alone. The Iron works below were stationery, while the table crawled up the rails. (Rack and pinion, chain and windlass??? I don't recall.) Reminds me of the giant mechanical spider in "The Wild Wild West" movie with Will Smith. 

[Boom]

That looks soooo cool.

[wheelsup_cavu]

That is some nice work.

 

Wheels

[Boo]

22 hours ago, Major Lee said:

This reminds me of the elevator that King Ludwig had installed at his palace at Herrenchiemsee. 

 

Im liking that he invented the lozenge camo pattern as well

[Boo]

Been doing a fair bit of reading up on the Akagi and her triple decks.  I might use it as an example for my management to demonstrate just because you think something looks like its  a good idea doesnt mean it is a good idea....moreover, when you have further "good" ideas to rectify your original "good" idea....its almost certainly not a good idea at all.