Columbia III Mission BoatThe model reproduces one of the last versions of this historic small ship operating in British Columbia, the western region of Canada.

The original vessel, 68feet long, was built in 1956 in Vancouver, having been designed in 1955 by Robert Allen, one of the leading marine architect of the province.

Her wooden hull is fully covered, at water level, so as in the model, by a steel plate for protection against floating trunks and ice, not uncommon in those north waters.

The boat and her similar ancestors, seventeen in all, have been built as coastal mission ships for communications, and to bring assistance, social and medical, to people operating in the remote and lonely bays of British Columbia, within the Sunshine Coast and Northern Vancouver, intended to assist farmers in tiny settlements, logging camps, hunters and isolated lumberjacks.

Some of the boats carried a chapel and was equipped with doctor/dentist and a nurse.

The reproduced version, retired from active mission service, is actually used as pleasure boat for sport cruises in the area.

All parts of the model are named in english and partially grouped for easy of use and positioning

The compressed model is less than 17 Mb of which 4.3 for textures. Some of the textures have been taken from the website cgtextures, offering free use of them.The full list of used textures is: British Columbia tissue.jpg 30.1kbbidon021.jpg 368kbButtons0001_S.jpg 172kbCanada_flag.jpg 5.19kbcompass brit fb small.jpg 128kbfb_rada.jpg 26.6kbfb_rpt rope hemp.jpg 20kbfb_rpt rope white.jpg 24.7kbfb-forno.jpf 37.7kbfb-mohagany-rep-S.jpg 179kbfb-til_chester leather green.jpg 193kbfb-til_clinker white.jpg 84.1kbfb-WoP10046_1_S.jpg 360KBLakerem2x.jpg 137kbMachineryHeavy0003_S.jpg 288kbMetalBare0102_S.jpg 281kbMetalBare0144_1_S.jpg 256kbpitch pine vecchio.jpg 38.1kbPlanksOld0155_15_S.jpg 421kbRust0095_5_S.jpg 321kbtil-WoodFine0007_M.jpg 330kbVarious0490_S.jpg 317kbWoodPlanksBeamed0012_1_S.jpg 361kb

The model uses about 196.000 verts and 206.000 faces in 3dSmax and 190.000 verts and 208.000 faces in Blender.Both model versions 3dSmax and Blender have been worked manually, while vrml and obj versions are automatic conversions: in particular obj+mtl and x3d from blender and wrl from 3dSmax.