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So, I discovered that I had a gap in my cruisers, and needed something to fill it. I thought that something analogous to the Active class light scout cruisers might do the trick.



A couple notes on this kitbash. It is essentially a Town class reduced in size. I wanted something similarly sized and armed to the Active class scouts. However, I made a flub. When looking at the particulars, I goofed. I read 385', which is correct..... for the P/P measurement. O/A they were 406'. Oops. But, by that time I had the 385' length done and didn't really want to redraw the whole damn thing. In my defence, done at 5:30 AM. So, what I did instead was reduce the armament from 10 x 4" to 8 x 4". Speaking of which, I replaced the 6" of Portsmouth Bill's Adelaide with 4" guns, giving this thing an armament of 8 x 4" and 2 x 2 pdr. Its 1908, AA was unheard of at the time. I tried to keep the funnel arrangement of the Active's, 4 funnels, and from looking at the few pics I have of that class they seemed to go in a thin, large, thin, thin arrangement fore to aft. I went with that. I suppose I could try and come up with some BS on why my Adventure class has that arrangement, but that would require actual thought, and I'm not feeling so hot today. (Boss sent me home early, said I looked like hell. I had to agree with him considering I had just tossed my cookies out behind our building) I also lowered the hull by about 1 deck to give it a more sleek look, and not like a Town class somebody had took a bite out of. Short and sleek is good ... short and squat, not so good.

The concept of these light cruisers is that they are a class of 6 designed as destroyer leaders, flagships for destroyer flotillas, but sized and armed as a light cruiser. Armor protection is very light, not much to speak of and about the same as an average destroyer might have. They aren't designed to go toe-to-toe with the big boys, thats fer sure.

Comments and suggestions, as always, are welcomed. Guffaws and raspberries will be either ignored or shot with a paintball gun. depends on my mood.

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Nice, but I sure hope it has more protection than the destroyers of its time since they essentially had none.

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Source Materiel is always welcome.

It looks very nice indeed.
Just two small details:
1) portholes and "stairs" (I don't know English term) below the Y turret;
2) stern rangefinder/searchlight platform seems to be located on VERY thin pillars - I'd suggest to make them 3 pixels thick.

I agree with Eswube. You're definitely going to need heavier supports for the aft range finder. You might also want to enlarge the platform a bit so the three crew can move about.
Also, I'd find a way to fit a searchlight up front. A night attack by torpedo boats were one of the biggest fears a commander of the time had, but right now you'll have a hard time shooting at anything attacking from the front quarter or passing in front of you. It would make night time navigation easier as well.

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“Close” only counts with horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error

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Source Materiel is always welcome.

Good points. I'll work on those.

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"Anybody remotely interesting is mad in some way." - The Seventh Doctor

How much wider should those supports be? I would think 12 pixels (6 feet) would be sufficient? Unless of course y'all think I'll have Gabriel Iglacias operating one of the searchlights.

besides, I figure since that platform is the original taken from the Adelaide (by Portsmouth Bill) I based this on, its probably quite workable. *shrug*

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"Anybody remotely interesting is mad in some way." - The Seventh Doctor

Besides you showing talent in ship drawing I notice you make excellent bagdes too. I'm looking forward to you also will draw badges for real life ships

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Work in progress:
DD County Class PNS Babur (1982)(PAK)
FF Type 21 Class D182 PNS Babur (2000)(PAK)
All relevant Coat of Arms

Thanks. Though honestly, I'm much better at adding and rearranging than I am at the actual drawing.

I may be a bit busy with badges for a while though. Working on updating all the badges I did for my ships back in 2006, cleaning them up and the like.

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"Anybody remotely interesting is mad in some way." - The Seventh Doctor

added searchlight to the forward tripod mast. two actually, but as they re side by side, you can only see one.

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"Anybody remotely interesting is mad in some way." - The Seventh Doctor

There still remains this to be done: