Shipbucket

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Nobody expects the Imperial Inquisition!

If you want to draw "Bari" during WWII, please contact me, I have some sources & refs

This is a very nice thread I love your excellent drawings and also noticed your fine badges (which I soon will present in the German CoA thread!)

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Work in progress:
DD County Class PNS Babur (1982)(PAK)
FF Type 21 Class D182 PNS Babur (2000)(PAK)
All relevant Coat of Arms

Fantastic work!
Beautiful drawings of some very good looking cruisers.

Hello again and thanks for the appreciation!

Next: The Königsberg-II-Class (thank god, their badges were either very simple or drawn already!!)

These four ships were Germany's last prewar cruiser design, ordered under the 1913 programme and completed late in 1916, all of them missing Jutland by a few months. They were slightly enlargened versions of the preceding Wiesbaden-class, having the same armament (8 150mm guns, 2 88mm guns, 4 500mm TT (2 single swiveling tubes on deck, two submerged), the same protection and the same speed (nominally; in service, the Königsbergs were good for 29 knots). They could be distinguished from the Wiesbadens by the more forward placement and the unequal height of their funnels. Amongst themselves, the main difference was the bridge shape; on Emden and Königsberg, upper and lower bridge level had approximately the same length, on Karlsruhe and Nürnberg, the upper bridge was shorter, the lower one longer. The latter pair also had larger ventilators between the first two funnels. Emden and Königsberg were virtually identical; Nürnberg further differed from Karlsruhe by the side-by-side arrangement of her 88mm flaks and her larger forward anchor, for which a hull recess was provided. None of the ships was modified, and they saw not much service (although one of them was hit by a 381mm shell in a skirmish in 1917, which did surprisingly little damage). All except Königsberg were interned and scuttled at Scapa Flow; Königsberg was ceded to France and renamed Metz in 1919, served till 1936 and then broken up.

SMS Königsberg II


SMS Emden II


SMS Karlsruhe II


SMS Nürnberg II


Greetings
GD

Comments are superfluous.

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-Koko Kyouwakoku (Republic of Koko)
-Koko's carrier-based aircrafts of WWII
-Koko Kaiun Yuso Kaisha - KoKaYu Line (Koko AU spinoff)
-Koko - Civil Aviation

(but we will make them anyway )

You have made an excellent job of these cruisers GD. I will be sorry when these real life German cruisers come to an end with the next class.

And then there are the destroyers/ torpedo boats.
Excellent thread GD.

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

Another excellent set of cruisers.

Just a little note, the second Emden did not carry the city's coat of arms, but only the iron cross as a bow crest, even during the war, as can be seen here. The tradition of using both the crest and the cross came with the third Emden.

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Excellent work. I think that British CL were more graceful,
but German CL were more menacing. These ships look great.