This is a 3D model I made of the Edmund Fitzgerald great lakes ship

[ElliotSmith]

These are images of a 3D model I made of the legendary Edmund Fitzgerald, a great lakes bulk carrier ship, which famously sank in lake superior in 1975.

 

[jedishrfu]

And to go along with your model

 

[Klystron]

"Well, she was the pride of the American side..."

"The gales of November remember..."

Those 29 doomed mariners could never imagine their memory would live so long.

I found a 1988 rendition of his song by Gordon Lightfoot.
(search YouTube for "Gord's Gold Vol II" to acquire)

And an ethereal live folk version covered by Anna Coogan in this video.

 

[phinds]

@ElliotSmith I have a question. I've seen several renditions of things using what I believe is the same tool that you use and invariably they have lighting that always looks like the image is in a picture that was taken on an exceptionally overcast day. Is there something about the tool that prohibits realistic daytime lighting?

 

[ElliotSmith]

@ElliotSmith I have a question. I've seen several renditions of things using what I believe is the same tool that you use and invariably they have lighting that always looks like the image is in a picture that was taken on an exceptionally overcast day. Is there something about the tool that prohibits realistic daytime lighting?

Lake Superior is known to have very dreary weather with thick overcast or cloud cover.

I can change some of the settings to make it look like a sunny day.

 

[phinds]

Lake Superior is known to have very dreary weather with thick overcast or cloud cover.

I can change some of the settings to make it look like a sunny day.

OK, that's reasonable. I just find it odd that all of the images I've seen have the same heavy overcast look. I thought perhaps it was an artifact of the particular tool.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Lake Superior is known to have very dreary weather with thick overcast or cloud cover.

I can change some of the settings to make it look like a sunny day.

That is a sunny day on Lake Superior!

 

[jtbell]

Actually, a sunny day on Lake Superior can be rather nice.

This is at Whitefish Point, Michigan, where a lighthouse has been active since 1848. The steel tower and lightkeeper's house date to 1861.

The light has been automated since 1971. The site how houses the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum.

The Edmund Fitzgerald wreck happened during my first semester in graduate school at the U of Michigan. It was a major story in the Detroit newspapers and TV stations, right up there with Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance.

(These pictures are from a trip through "da U.P." nearly 30 years later, in summer 2005.)

 

[DaveC426913]

And long enough to be inducted into the "Ever Green Club" - by 17 metres.

(Suez canal: 205m; Edmund Fitzgerald: 222m)