it's ok to stretch the rectangular plate a little to fit a longer ship name.
Thanks for the advice; certainly on the smaller badges this will help
And now back to the launch. My 'grey funnel line shipmates' might keel haul me for this, but those Hunts look a bit lonely and not much after all the hype? So I thought I'd flash forward to the first warship to carry early Seaslug: HMS Illustrious, named after the older carrier that was damaged beyond economic repair (in this AU). As you see, she's 'Interesting', and rest assured, this should be the one and only 'odd ball' in the fleet. A lot of us will already have seen various takes on the projected conversion of a carrier into a missile ship (see Hood's earlier version). The rational is that early Seaslug needed a large hull; and instead of the real life Girdle Ness, the decision was taken to convert one of the Majestic class. Understandably (
) I've had great problems getting this far - and you should see some of the designs that never made it! But I will rest on what I've arrived at here; a warship with good area defence and generous flag and command capacity; admittidly slow, but in its role as convoy escort, amhibious command, and with good asw the new Illustrious would serve - probably in the Med, until replaced by the new generation of missile ships.
A note about the secondary armanent. The guns are dual 40mm Bofors semi automatics, with a gunner in the turret and fed from below; similar in concept to the Breda Bofors. Seacat is also included. There is also 'Bidder' asw torpedo's for self defence, and of course the big bow sonar is included as part of the asw suite. I would imagine, that once Seaslug is defunct, some extra life may be got out of this hull by conversion to a fully amphibious warfare role, with extra helicopter capacity etc. I have six Wessex here as about right; and the Seaslug is using the early triple launcher that was replaced on the later ships with the twin. The blue Seaslug is actually Blueslug, the ssm version - another important assett
I'll now sit back and enjoy the comments - pass me that helmet sailor