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Fantastic work!

Great stuff another cracker from the BB1987 shipyard.

Moving to the next drawing was a fairly easy work, so...

Fuso as of 1919:

All main gun turrets recieved canvas bags and training guns, five 80cm (3-inch) AA guns were added, two on th forward deckhouse, two in the platform abreast the funnel and the last on the port side, abaft the aft superstructure (and thus not visible). Searchlights on the fore superstructure were rearranged, including the relocation of two 110cm ones previously fitted on the funnel platforms.
The upper bridge platform was partially enclosed and given a glass greenhouse, four lookout post were added on the aft tripo legs and two signaling platforms abreast the lower bridge.
Finally, a new platform was added above the main searchlight platform to house two extra 60cm signalling searchlights....

...the first step towards the infamous massive pagoda tower.

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Awesome job! The pagoda tower looms (literally ) in the future!

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Awesome drawings! I love the level of detail and the speed you complete the drawings.

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Excellent drawing, and I can't wait to see her get progressively sillier.

I am somewhat surprised that the Japanese, so focused on night fighting, did not keep their searchlights all at one height above the waterline. This would seem to me to deny the enemy a very easy way to determine which direction a ship is moving.

Did navies make use of this, or was it considered that simple changes in bearing made direction of travel so obvious that there was no point? I've always wondered this, and my various BB sketches have always tried to address this fact.

Very nice.

Hi erik,

I'm not sure how much information you'd get about the height - if the ship's rolling and you've just got this beam coming from nowhere how easy is it going to be to accurately judge the height of it? If their fire discipline is anything like Germans in WWI you're not going to have very long at all in which to make a judgement, too...

Regards,
Adam

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Emblematic class battleships. Deserves the best and BB gives it categorically and I am convinced that this will be until the end of the series.


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The point would not be to compare the absolute height (since you have no base reference), but the difference in height. If the foremast has a searchlight platform 15' higher than the mainmast's, and the light on the right side of your view is lower, then the ship is obviously presenting her port side to you and is likely passing right-to-left.

Not a huge detail, but it seems like you might want to put all lights at the same level in order to deny the enemy this information.

A bigger, more dangerous step might be to concentrate all searchlights at a single point on the ship, and have backup lights elsewhere in case the primary position is lost. In this way, you deny all azimuth information.