In September 1939, the Nieuw Amsterdam received some aditional "Neutrality" signs all over her hull. It should show to any interfering war party that the Nieuw Amsterdam was an ship of the the Netherlands and therefore a war neutral vessel. When Germany started his attack at Poland the same year, the Holland-America-Line authorities didn´t want to risk their biggest and newest vessel by traveling through european waters.

Therefore the Nieuw Amsterdam was permanently moved for Caribbean and South America pleasure cruises to the office in New York.

Still in her neutrality paintings, she made then several well booked cruises for the next couple of months. No one of the crew onboard had ever expected that the ship wouldn´t return to the Netherlands for the next 6 years.
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In this 1940 Version of the Nieuw Amsterdam little has changed.
She sports now all her neutrality signs and running in cruise ship configuration.
That means she is now a one class ship with all Cabin- and Tourist-Class areas combined. She also sports the foldable deck pool on the 3rd Class sun deck at the stern.
Her 3rd Class areas are shut off and only the cabinswith private bathrooms are in use and every area which isn´t allowed to be used during her cruises is now without any active light.
Only the areas which are still used by some crew members are slightly lit.
All Luxe-Cabins which had the option of an additional living room now got one connected. So you can now get some alternatives with that.

I wanted to build this version of her, even it is just a slightly alteration to her usual configuration.
Hopefully you enjoy and like it anyways.
Please have fun!

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Special thanks goes to CronosDarth for the renders he provided!