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| Author: | Hood [ March 5th, 2011, 5:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | County Class Destroyer |
I'm sure this class needs no introduction, the first British warship armed with surface-to-air missiles and perhaps the best looking post-war ship the Royal Navy ever built. This has been a real treat to draw and I hope the result reflects the details I've searched out on photos and plans. Here is HMS Kent as built. ![[ img ]](http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c275/hangar/Shipbucket%20profiles/DDGD12Kent1963.png~original) Here is HMS Norfolk as refitted in the 1970s with Excocet and some structural modifications. ![[ img ]](http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c275/hangar/Shipbucket%20profiles/DDGD21Norfolk1974.png~original)
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| Author: | erik_t [ March 5th, 2011, 5:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: County Class Destroyer |
Excellent! I'd been waiting to see this redone. I don't really care for this screw color - it looks more like baby vomit than bronze, for some reason. I might try to jiggle a few pixels around on the Sea Slug launcher, to avoid the big black blob currently present. And (IMHO) Corvus is mis-shaded. Otherwise they're great drawings of very interesting ships. Much lower and leaner than I remembered. |
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| Author: | Bombhead [ March 5th, 2011, 6:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: County Class Destroyer |
One of the best looking RN ships of all time.Excellent drawing. |
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| Author: | Thiel [ March 5th, 2011, 6:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: County Class Destroyer |
I agree with Eric. You could try and use dark grey for the lancher frame rather than black. |
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| Author: | Portsmouth Bill [ March 5th, 2011, 6:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: County Class Destroyer |
I give you joy sir, and I'll drink a bumper in your honour  One of my favourite warships, lovingly rendered. And yes, the screw colour raises a querry? But re the launcher, it is shown with a loded Seaslug, and as such is accurate. The only way to show more of the 'girder' would be to remove the missile, but I would not advocate that.
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| Author: | Thiel [ March 5th, 2011, 6:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: County Class Destroyer |
Hence why I'd go for an appropriate shade of gray on the girders. |
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| Author: | Portsmouth Bill [ March 5th, 2011, 6:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: County Class Destroyer |
We do not use grey on free standing surfaces like missile launchers. Please consult the guidlines. |
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| Author: | erik_t [ March 5th, 2011, 7:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: County Class Destroyer |
Well, that's not true. Freestanding gray is common in life-nets, railings, radars... Rendering the inner set of black lines on Sea Slug as a dark gray would solve the problem without using a gray launcher frame. |
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| Author: | darthpanda [ March 5th, 2011, 7:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: County Class Destroyer |
oh great job!!! look like the entire Royal Navy section is redone. |
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| Author: | Gollevainen [ March 5th, 2011, 9:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: County Class Destroyer |
I would propably drawn the launcher without missiles inside. The missiles and the rest of the bucket hardly match each others, and good marriages are rare... otherwise outstanding work. 
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