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Ported to OBJ from the excellent retail quality model included with the fan created Russian language Soviet Waterway (SW) add-on for Silent Hunter 4 Gold Edition (SH4G or SH4 1.5) by Ubilsoft. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

The Italian MAS-500 series ranks right up there with the British 73-foot Vosper and Fairmille-D, the German schnellboots, and the American Elco 80-foot PT boat as one of the best motor torpedo boat (MTB) designs of World War II. It usually ranks at number four or number five on almost everybody's Top Five list, depending on how you rank the 73-foot Vosper and the other three battling it out for the top three slots depending on who's doing the ranking. Back to the MAS-500. It was the oldest in this select club of top tier MTBs of World War II and was based on a MTB design that first entered service with the Royal Italian Navy or Regia Marina Italia (RNI) in 1932 as the MAS-431 series (remember, Italy was still a monarchy in this era). The MAS-500 series was a further refinement of the MAS-431. being about 2 1/2 feet longer (at 55 feet) so they could be fitted with more powerful 2000hp Isotta-Fraschini diesel engines that could push it at a rated top speed of 45 knots and a short duration burst speed of 47-48 knots. The RNI started the war with 40 of these and built more as the war went on. The Allies quickly gained a healthy respect for them, as they proved their effectiveness time and again from 1939 to 1943 against Allied naval forces in the Mediterranean, Baltic, and Black Seas. Examples in the possession of both sides continued to be used in the war during 1944-45, although Italy's bailing out via its armistice with the Allies in 1943 took the majority of the surviving ones out of the war. They racked up quite an impressive combat record as a whole during the war even they were the oldest top tier MTB in the war, but by the time Italy bailed in 1943 it was clear that they were rapidly becoming obsolete, given the introduction of bigger and more powerful MTBs such as the German schnellboot S-100 series and the British Fairmille-D. While all of the wooden-hulled Italian MAS-500 series originals were either destroyed during the war or have long since rotted away, one of their steel-hulled close design cousins, the Swedish T-26 MTB, has survived the passage of time and is preserved today in Sweden as a privately owned fully operational museum ship. To find out more about the Italian MAS-500 series torpedo boat of World War II, follow the links below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAS_(mot…

laststandonzombieisland.com/ta…

www.s-boot.net/englisch/sboats…

comandosupremo.com/black-sea/

This is a straight port with no changes by me.

While I am no longer making my OBJ ports of Silent Hunter series models available for public download, you can get this yourself in one of two ways. You can extract it piecemeal from the game data using the free SKWAS/s3ditor model utility and rebuild it in your preferred 3D modeling software, or you can rip it directly from the game after installing any necessary mods or mod packs noted above using any good 3D model ripper (3D Ripper DX or NinjaRipper recommended).

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

TRIVIA - MAS stands for Motoscafo Armanto Silurante.

ASIDE - It is legitimate to also use this with the Reichkriegsmarine (RKM), since German forces captured a number of them during their seizure of northern Italy in 1943 and used them for their own purposes for the rest of the war. At least 19 remained operational per surviving records, although the rest in German hands were scrapped or scavenged for anything usable. You will have to retexture and rearm this model accordingly for a MAS-500 series in RKM service. You can also repaint it with your own custom textures for MAS type boats used by other navies during this era. I already have a C21VN entry for the Swedish T-11 class, as it was included with the Soviet Waterway mega-mod along with their MAS-500 model.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the excellent retail quality model included with the fan created Russian language Soviet Waterway (SW) add-on for Silent Hunter 4 Gold Edition (SH4G or SH4 1.5) by Ubilsoft. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

The Italian MAS-500 series ranks right up there with the British 73-foot Vosper and Fairmille-D, the German schnellboots, and the American Elco 80-foot PT boat as one of the best motor torpedo boat (MTB) designs of World War II. It usually ranks at number four or number five on almost everybody's Top Five list, depending on how you rank the 73-foot Vosper and the other three battling it out for the top three slots depending on who's doing the ranking. Back to the MAS-500. It was the oldest in this select club of top tier MTBs of World War II and was based on a MTB design that first entered service with the Royal Italian Navy or Regia Marina Italia (RNI) in 1932 as the MAS-431 series (remember, Italy was still a monarchy in this era). The MAS-500 series was a further refinement of the MAS-431. being about 2 1/2 feet longer (at 55 feet) so they could be fitted with more powerful 2000hp Isotta-Fraschini diesel engines that could push it at a rated top speed of 45 knots and a short duration burst speed of 47-48 knots. The RNI started the war with 40 of these and built more as the war went on. The Allies quickly gained a healthy respect for them, as they proved their effectiveness time and again from 1939 to 1943 against Allied naval forces in the Mediterranean, Baltic, and Black Seas. Examples in the possession of both sides continued to be used in the war during 1944-45, although Italy's bailing out via its armistice with the Allies in 1943 took the majority of the surviving ones out of the war. They racked up quite an impressive combat record as a whole during the war even they were the oldest top tier MTB in the war, but by the time Italy bailed in 1943 it was clear that they were rapidly becoming obsolete, given the introduction of bigger and more powerful MTBs such as the German schnellboot S-100 series and the British Fairmille-D. While all of the wooden-hulled Italian MAS-500 series originals were either destroyed during the war or have long since rotted away, one of their steel-hulled close design cousins, the Swedish T-26 MTB, has survived the passage of time and is preserved today in Sweden as a privately owned fully operational museum ship. To find out more about the Italian MAS-500 series torpedo boat of World War II, follow the links below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAS_(mot…

laststandonzombieisland.com/ta…

www.s-boot.net/englisch/sboats…

comandosupremo.com/black-sea/

This is a straight port with no changes by me.

While I am no longer making my OBJ ports of Silent Hunter series models available for public download, you can get this yourself in one of two ways. You can extract it piecemeal from the game data using the free SKWAS/s3ditor model utility and rebuild it in your preferred 3D modeling software, or you can rip it directly from the game after installing any necessary mods or mod packs noted above using any good 3D model ripper (3D Ripper DX or NinjaRipper recommended).

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

TRIVIA - MAS stands for Motoscafo Armanto Silurante.

ASIDE - It is legitimate to also use this with the Reichkriegsmarine (RKM), since German forces captured a number of them during their seizure of northern Italy in 1943 and used them for their own purposes for the rest of the war. At least 19 remained operational per surviving records, although the rest in German hands were scrapped or scavenged for anything usable. You will have to retexture and rearm this model accordingly for a MAS-500 series in RKM service. You can also repaint it with your own custom textures for MAS type boats used by other navies during this era. I already have a C21VN entry for the Swedish T-11 class, as it was included with the Soviet Waterway mega-mod along with their MAS-500 model.