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Author:  eltf177 [ October 4th, 2012, 10:09 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946
BB1987 wrote:
I was just thinking about why raising all the guns one deck higher, i know it could be to make space for the 25mm machine guns but it could be better to do the opposite, mainly because of topside weight.
Looks nice overall tough. :)
Same here, it just gives the design a topheavy look. And IJN ships had enough topweight problems to begin with. It does get the guns out of sea spray FWIW though...
Author:  Thiel [ October 4th, 2012, 10:20 am ]
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They were also rather manic about it after the Tomozuru went tupsy-turvy.
Author:  eltf177 [ October 4th, 2012, 2:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946
Thiel wrote:
They were also rather manic about it after the Tomozuru went tupsy-turvy.
That was the incident, plus a numder of DD's were badly damaged during the same storm. A _lot_ of ships got rebuilt (and went over treaty limits when they were).
Author:  youboat [ October 5th, 2012, 5:35 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946
I thought it would be top heavy, but that is typical of IJN. I will to a rehash to drop the 100mm's.
Fred

ps
OK, think i know why they are a deck high. Crew quarters. If i drop the forward and aft pair to the weather deck it cuts a lot of crew space. It also wipes the space for 25mm mounts.
Author:  Thiel [ October 5th, 2012, 10:56 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946
youboat wrote:
I thought it would be top heavy, but that is typical of IJN. I will to a rehash to drop the 100mm's.
Fred

ps
OK, think i know why they are a deck high. Crew quarters. If i drop the forward and aft pair to the weather deck it cuts a lot of crew space. It also wipes the space for 25mm mounts.
Back then it was very rare to have crew accommodations in the superstructure.
Author:  youboat [ October 8th, 2012, 7:44 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946
WIP

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Fred
Author:  emperor_andreas [ October 8th, 2012, 12:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946
Very nice work! With your permission, I'd like to put a class and some ship names in the credits. I was planning a similar vessel, (with 22 x 5-inchers, but 24's even better! :) ), and I've got ship names already picked out.

-Matt
Author:  emperor_andreas [ October 8th, 2012, 7:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946
Edited the Kii-class drawing to give credit to the artist of the original concept.

-Matt
Author:  youboat [ October 9th, 2012, 2:52 am ]
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emperor_andreas wrote:
Very nice work! With your permission, I'd like to put a class and some ship names in the credits. I was planning a similar vessel, (with 22 x 5-inchers, but 24's even better! :) ), and I've got ship names already picked out.

-Matt
Yip, no problem.
Fred
Author:  emperor_andreas [ October 9th, 2012, 4:57 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Nihon Kaigun 1946
As promised, the ships are now named!

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