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With her asymmetric, widely spaced funnels and extreme tumblehome, Imperieuse was never going to be a handsome ship. When her brig-rig was replaced with a single mast amidships, her appearance took a turn for the worse. Nevertheless she was a powerful ship for her time, being one of the Royal Navy's first armoured cruisers. I have drawn her here with her wood and copper sheathed hull.

For once, I was able to source a picture of a half-block model of her hull which has allowed me to draw the propeller shafts with some accuracy but in the absence of a body plan, there is no hull shading.

I notice that she only just made it onto the template. Is there a taller one?

An excellent work here, and for me this is an unknown ship (I'm definitely not knowledgeable on 19th century RN ships).
A template can be raised, I believe there is one which is 475 pixels high for taller ships .

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Template L4 is 470 pixels high:
http://shipbucket.com/images.php?dir=Pa ... /Templates

Otherwise you might cut away a small part of the scale bar, that something I and other users did as well. Like here:
http://i.imgur.com/suR5kig.png

Anyway, very nice work!

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Indeed, excellent work and this looks perfect to me.

I have broken the bar at times to fit in really tall masts.

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I think there was some specially modified templates to host tall ships, falling that might be in order for some really tall ones to fit the growing number of ships with lofty masts.

Beautiful work and aside from the shading on the whaleback amidships, looks great!

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It is all there on shipbucket front-page:

Also remember that you can change the dimensions of the template if its nesserical to fit the drawing into it.

And good work. Also notice for you, don't miss the uploading thread, to get your work uploaded to the mainsite

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Imperieuse is well covered with photos and diagram in Friedman's book on Cruisers of the Victorian Era.
It would be good to see a drawing of her original 1886 layout 10 years earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Imperieuse_%281883%29

Great job! Always interesting to see the prototype for a whole group of
warships. I feel sorry for the sailors that had to carry ammo up to that
crows nest for the gun way up there.

Great work! Keep it up!