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Author:  Novice [ October 17th, 2019, 10:15 am ]
Post subject:  Former cargo ships
In 1940 during the German occupation of Norway the Kriegsmarine took over two merchant ship building at the Moss shipyard. The two ships Rio X and Rio Y were completed as motherships for small 11m mine disposal boats, and were used to clear mines for U-Boats and other warships from the Norwegian coastal waters as well as the Baltic.
MRS-25 was mines and sunk while MRS-26 was completed only in 1944 and was used in 1945 as transport to evacuate troops and civilians fleeing the Russian advance. As such, the ship was attacked by Russian bombers, and on the first attack the ship managed to shoot down two bombers with no damage, but a second attack resulted in the sinking of the ship.
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Author:  emperor_andreas [ October 17th, 2019, 1:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Former cargo ships
Nice work!
Author:  Colombamike [ October 17th, 2019, 8:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Former cargo ships
Novice,
Few errors/missing still remain
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look MRS-25 as well
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Author:  Novice [ October 17th, 2019, 8:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Former cargo ships
Thank you Colombamike for your input. Some of the things you marked are indeed missing. As you know (probably) my main interest are merchant ships, and this one was the first warship (of a sort) I did for nearly 10 years. I will update my drawing of course.
Author:  Novice [ October 17th, 2019, 10:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Former cargo ships
Image has been updated
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Mast wires I left alone as my source images showed it to be like that.
Author:  Krakatoa [ October 17th, 2019, 11:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Former cargo ships
You have not lost your touch Novice. I'm still happy to use your ten year old drawings as the basis for many others, including real life ships.
Author:  Hood [ October 18th, 2019, 7:45 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Former cargo ships
Very nice work Novice.
My only nitpick would be that the support structure beneath the gun tubs could do with some overhang shading.
Author:  Novice [ October 18th, 2019, 7:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Former cargo ships
Hood wrote: *October 18th, 2019, 7:45 am
Very nice work Novice.
My only nitpick would be that the support structure beneath the gun tubs could do with some overhang shading.
:oops: You are entirely correct. It should have been done, and I did thought these supports looked too bright :?
Author:  Novice [ October 18th, 2019, 7:58 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Former cargo ships
BTW you all should check the following link to see how the ship would have looked like if the war didn't interfere.
Author:  Hood [ October 19th, 2019, 8:39 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Former cargo ships
Looks spot on now.
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