Columbia Mission Boat 3D model

Columbia III Mission Boat The 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 30.1kb bidon021.jpg 368kb Buttons0001_S.jpg 172kb Canada_flag.jpg 5.19kb compass brit fb small.jpg 128kb fb_rada.jpg 26.6kb fb_rpt rope hemp.jpg 20kb fb_rpt rope white.jpg 24.7kb fb-forno.jpf 37.7kb fb-mohagany-rep-S.jpg 179kb fb-til_chester leather green.jpg 193kb fb-til_clinker white.jpg 84.1kb fb-WoP10046_1_S.jpg 360KB Lakerem2x.jpg 137kb MachineryHeavy0003_S.jpg 288kb MetalBare0102_S.jpg 281kb MetalBare0144_1_S.jpg 256kb pitch pine vecchio.jpg 38.1kb PlanksOld0155_15_S.jpg 421kb Rust0095_5_S.jpg 321kb til-WoodFine0007_M.jpg 330kb Various0490_S.jpg 317kb WoodPlanksBeamed0012_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.