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Topic: NORWEGIAN SUN

Waynaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 3484

posted 12-02-2006 04:29 PM

I've been looking around for pictures of the NORWEGIAN SUN in her new hull artwork, but I can't seem to find any.

In one of NCL's fall 2006 press release, there is a picture of the N. SUN docking at New Orleans without any artwork.

Can anyone confirm if the artwork has been apply or not?

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dmwnc1
Cruise Director
Member # 3785

posted 12-02-2006 08:35 PM

Is this it...?

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cruiseshipluver
First Class Passenger
Member # 5104

posted 12-02-2006 10:10 PM

I know how you feel Wayne...I have never seen photos of her with the livery ...other than that one posted above...seems like people don't take pics of N. Sun...
cruiseshipluver

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Waynaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 3484

posted 12-02-2006 10:59 PM

dmwnc1, thanks for the picture.

Here is the picture from NCL's website of the N. SUN in New Orleans.

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Beezo
First Class Passenger
Member # 1505

posted 12-03-2006 01:08 AM

I think it may be done at her next drydock...does anyone know when it will be??

Brian

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phil_a
First Class Passenger
Member # 3679

posted 12-03-2006 06:05 AM

i was on norw. sun just over a year ago and it was then that NCL had just announced they were going to do the hull art... at the time I did a search to find out when it was due to be done and from memory it was going to be a dry dock in early 2006.

From recent pictures I have seen, I dont thinks its been done yet.

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Patsy
First Class Passenger
Member # 5611

posted 12-03-2006 09:28 AM

That is just horrible. What are they going to do for Wind, Spirit and Majesty seeing as they seem to have themed graffiti? Ugh. Pearl is bad enough but more understated and not as disgusting as I thought it would be after seeing the others. Don't they know less is more?

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dmwnc1
Cruise Director
Member # 3785

posted 12-03-2006 09:38 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Waynaro:
dmwnc1, thanks for the picture.
Here is the picture from NCL's website of the N. SUN in New Orleans.

I am wondering if they used a 'stock' photo of her in New Orleans?

The N. Sun's hull art is actually cute, and reminds me a bit of the hull art done on the Independence many years ago. Others, like the N.Gem and N.Pearl are hard to look at and, although they are quite colorful and make them unique too, to me they could have been done better?

Have you seen the hull art for the N.Spirit? Quite unique also. Very interesting.

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Patsy
First Class Passenger
Member # 5611

posted 12-03-2006 09:43 AM

They've already done Spirit? What is if of? Booze or ghosts?

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dmwnc1
Cruise Director
Member # 3785

posted 12-03-2006 09:47 AM

I found this picture of Norwegian Spirit...

http://www.illenestewart.com/images/galleries/Norwegian%20Spirit%20leavi ng%20NY%20for%20a%20cruise.jpg

[ 12-03-2006: Message edited by: dmwnc1 ]

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cruiseshipluver
First Class Passenger
Member # 5104

posted 12-03-2006 02:08 PM

NCL seems to be the Modern cruise line that is bold enough to paint almost all of their cruiseships in themed graffiti. If i remember correctly, one of the very modern cruiselines to do this to their ships first was AIDA...with their famous lips and crying eyes. This was on the AIDA CARA or AIDA as she was called then before NCL/A placed hull art on their 1st vessel which i believe was the Norwegian Dawn...But i am not saying that AIDA ws the only first and only one...because i remember seeing pics of the SSIndependnce in hull art as welll...and she goes back a long way!
cruiseshipluver

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Patsy
First Class Passenger
Member # 5611

posted 12-03-2006 05:42 PM

Oh well that's not too bad. Could be worse like so many. Dawn has the Joker's lips. Wouldn't want that looming up at you. Probably got the idea from Aida.

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Waynaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 3484

posted 12-04-2006 02:21 AM

Thanks everyone for your input.

I think SUN's hull art is pretty smart looking.

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phil_a
First Class Passenger
Member # 3679

posted 12-04-2006 04:54 AM

so have we confirmed whether the ship has hull-art yet?

the picture dmwnc1 posted looks as tho its a computer generated one... or is it an actual photo?

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 12-04-2006 06:52 AM

I don't think she has. There are photos about the web of her in Sept time without the hull art, and I don't think she has been into dry dock recently for anything?

All the pictures I can find showing it, are purely the NCL renderings.

Pam

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Waynaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 3484

posted 12-09-2006 07:29 PM

Here is another rendering(?) on NCL's website.

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Jonathan
First Class Passenger
Member # 5201

posted 12-10-2006 12:22 AM

IMO if sun is to revieve this artwork i actually like it. Its different and more clean looking? All the other ncl have too much going on its very bussy and confusing looking with all the multiple lines and such of color. But this one and its simple orange and yellow sun and orange lines with the white backing make it look clean. But like I said its just MO.

Jonathan

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Globaliser
First Class Passenger
Member # 4153

posted 12-11-2006 03:45 PM

quote:
Originally posted by phil_a:
so have we confirmed whether the ship has hull-art yet?

She doesn't. (I've just got home from a week on board her.)

Her schedule suggests that the forthcoming drydock will be from about 7 to 23 January, which is almost certainly when the hull art will be applied.

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 12-11-2006 04:23 PM

I am sure I asked this before but how is that artwork applied? Is it actual paint or a type of decal?

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phil_a
First Class Passenger
Member # 3679

posted 06-18-2007 09:05 AM

not sure when it was done... but from THIS PICTURE it appears that Norwegian Sun now has its hullart!

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Globaliser
First Class Passenger
Member # 4153

posted 06-18-2007 11:24 AM

quote:
Originally posted by phil_a:
not sure when it was done...

Exactly as thought - see above for the precise dates.

And see this page for a series of webcam grabs from her first arrival in New Orleans after the drydock, to pick up her first post-drydock passengers. Not the best pictures in the world, but they do show her hull art in real life.

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cruiseshipluver
First Class Passenger
Member # 5104

posted 06-19-2007 07:20 PM

Finally!
I wonder whether her art is really painted on or just a really big stencil?
cruiseshipluver

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dmwnc1
Cruise Director
Member # 3785

posted 06-19-2007 07:32 PM

One of the BEST hull arts to be applied to a ship that I can ever remember. She looks very nice indeed.

quote:
Originally posted by phil_a:
not sure when it was done... but from THIS PICTURE it appears that Norwegian Sun now has its hullart!

[ 06-19-2007: Message edited by: dmwnc1 ]

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6263866
First Class Passenger
Member # 5115

posted 06-20-2007 02:45 AM

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One of the better NCL hull work, the NCL Spirit, not so hot.

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