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Thanks I don't know if it's only my MS Paint or everyone by my text does not come out black rastered but multi colored as it attempts to smooth the curves even in the Ariel Font.

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French Vice-admiral Louis-René-Madeleine Le Vassor de La Touche, comte de Tréville
The original spelling of my last name is: LaTouche.

Good. I've been waiting for your further imput. I'm going to delve back into it. Stay tuned.

Dave

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if you use paint, simplest gimic is to make a gif. file, then open it with paint and type your text there and then copy-paste it as an image to you actuall drawing file.

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I understand that the image bellow is from a model rather than a photo but it's the quickestlink I could find explaining why I depicted the charthouse inside the cage mast.

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery ... index.html


The Bridge Wing is shown here colored. Purhaps I should emphise it more?
I'm still going back to investigate and improve the drawings

Thanks a lot Bezo.

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WOW! I never though of that . . . sooo simple.

Thanks

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Bezo,

Check out NAVSOURCE link here. Toward the bottom of the page is a photo of Virginia too. I also appears to have her charthouse within the cage mast. All the photos are grainy for sure but they seem clear enough for me . . . but I've been wrong before and most likelly will be again.http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/18c.htm

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I see, but, my friend, that bridge extension is at the wrong level, I'm afraid...
And, also, I never said anything about the charthouse. That one is correct. I was referring to the canvas tarps covering the railings. They are very clearly outside of the cage mast base, since the superstructure is obviously wider than that base. I will send you a very lucid photo of the Virginia to support my explanation.

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Better?

Keep firing away Bezo.

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Hahaha...you're funny!
But, seriously, now we're cooking!
I can clearly see the extension wings, so that's really good. However, I'm not so convinced (still) about the canvas at the base of the cage mast. I still think that it should be covering the entire length, without the cage mast legs showing. Also, you may have noticed (and it did strike me as a "duuh"-moment!) that the top of the CT is covered with a canvas, i e it has railings. You can find this odd feature on many US BB-pictures from the 1910s and 1920s, both pre- and dreadnoughts. That was, in fact the primary conning station with a detachable pelorus and chart tables.
The original idea was that the ships should be conned from the CT (according to, I may add, faulty lessons learnt from the Russo-Japanese War.) However, it was quickly found that any US CT was too cramped to really be suitable, in addition of making sideways and aft vision almost impossible. That's why they very soon after the modernisations were complete hurried to add both the bridge wing extensions and the PriNav station atop the CT.

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Check it out now we must have crosssed paths as I was editing the link. I agree about the canvas.

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