Shipbucket :: Civil War monitors

A Work In Progress. Kalamazoo Class
Displacement: 5,600 long tons (5,700 t)
Tons burthen: 3,200 (bm)
Length: 345 ft 5 in (105.3 m)
Beam: 56 ft 8 in (17.3 m)
Draft: 17 ft 6 in (5.3 m)
Installed power: 2,000 ihp (1,500 kW) (estimated)
8 × Tubular boilers
Propulsion: 2 × Shafts
2 × Direct-acting steam engines
Speed: 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Armament: 2 × 2 - 15-inch (381 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns
Armor: Gun turret: 10 in (254 mm)
Hull: 6 in (152 mm)
Deck: 3 in (76 mm)

Ships in the Class:
Kalamazoo
Passaconaway
Quinsigamond
Shackamaxon

They were under construction when the Civil War ended and never completed. The lower hulls were constructed of unseasoned wood, dry-rot set in several years later, they were all condemned and broken up. A shame!

They were intended to be seagoing and might have been able to stand up to some of the best Europe had to offer. Despite the super slow rate of fire, those 15" guns packed a lot of throw weight. If the ball hit something, it broke.

CraigH

Author:	Hood [ October 1st, 2013, 12:18 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Civil War monitors
Nice work but I think it would look better with proper SB style shading rather than the graduations of colour you have here. Although you're attempting to represent the round turrets the shading makes them look more like hexagons.

Author:	CraigH [ October 1st, 2013, 1:20 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Civil War monitors
Thank you Hood. This was a drawing started some time ago in Corel Draw. The shading has been "dummed down" in an effort to approach Shipbucket style yet retain some semblance of the roundness that's a key feature of the shape. A tough compromise...Shipbucket style doesn't lend itself to representing curved surfaces. It does however succeed in creating a uniform style of presenting ships uniformly. Original shading at Shipbucket scale A: Current "Compromise" shading B: Shipbucket shading copied from another Monitor C: CraigH

Author:	WWII44 [ October 1st, 2013, 7:35 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Civil War monitors
The USS Chickasaw

Author:	Raxar [ October 1st, 2013, 9:57 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Civil War monitors
@Craig: Maybe extending the shading on C by a few pixels would help reduce the flatness of it.

Author:	CraigH [ October 1st, 2013, 11:26 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Civil War monitors
Raxar, Here's an additional 2 pixels of shading/highlight. Looks like a block with big chamfers to me, not round! WWII44, Those river monitors were wild looking things with that shallow draft! Looking good. CraigH

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Author:	WWII44 [ October 2nd, 2013, 12:26 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Civil War monitors
thanks, it wasn't easy hashing out her form as alot of the detale of the pic I traced were lost when I scaled it to SB scale. as for for your turret predicament, take a close look at how I shaded the turrets of the Chickasaw, also looking at the way at shading the stack and pilot house will also be a way of shadding. and if you want a little more referance of turret shadding tak a gander at my other monitors. My Passaic-class My Canonicus-class

Author:	Hood [ October 2nd, 2013, 12:56 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Civil War monitors
C is probably best. Shading is best done with minimal features at this scale, especially with darker paint schemes. Also, don't forget the ships should be outlined in black, as should the gunports. Of course its a WIP at this stage. It nice to see more of these monitors on SB.

Author:	CraigH [ October 8th, 2013, 11:51 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Civil War monitors
Kalamazoo Class Number of shades reduced. Hopefully approaching or at acceptability for SB standards. CraigH

Author:	WWII44 [ October 9th, 2013, 1:01 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Civil War monitors
I'd upload it to the archive.

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