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finally, an real design from me. perfectionism isn't an good thing if you want to do real designs, they take so damn long before they are perfect


the rotterdam class LPD was the first LPD of the Royal Netherlands Navy. commissioned in 1998, she had her 15 birthday this year, and in those 15 years she has been all over the world. to me, this is the most beautiful of all LPD class vessels, and the shipbucket drawing on the main site bugged me for ages. coming across an perfect reference (her official general arrangement plan) I decided to redraw her completely.

I have drawn 2 versions: version one is not how she actually has looked, but it is close. It is the paintjob she had while being build at the yard, but at the end of construction her colours were changed to the dark grey hull we know.

to conclude this post I include the 2 cranes on board (of which only one is clearly visible, the other one is behind it on the other side)



please take a good look at her, I am open to any comments to improve the drawings, or corrections for mistakes I made (I am sure there are 2 or 3 always, if you look at the same ship for months sometimes you miss something)
thanks for looking/reading!

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That's already 15 years?
Great work!

it's a good work.

I culd'n see something wrong at the first glanse

I'm impressed. My only quibble is the propeller, it looks suspiciously like a generic stand-in that draftmen use since the exact propeller design is of little use on a GA plan.

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thanks. and well spotted, I wasn't entirely certain on that either and I will do some research to find out what the prop looks like, but as of now I have no better references then the GA plan.

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Should this two lines be in a lighter color, since they have the same color on the other drawings. or are they just ropes?

those are ropes, yes. as far as I can see, they have something to do with the inflatable slide/liferaft in the large blocks forward of them.

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Looks very good to me. 15 years certainly flies by.

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Looking very nice there Ace! The up slant in the helicopter deck, is that so it's level when the dock is flooded?

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yep. in fact, when the ship is not too heavily loaded at front, the deck angles even a bit the other way when submerged. it did not prove to be an success to build it like this though, as the johan de witt has it level again.

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