Reworking the Cannon-class destroyer escorts

Well after a total of a month and a half absence from doing any SB stuff (two weeks power outage from the typhoon last July plus a comp-free August after a long wait for the cash to buy a replacement for my bogged down HD) I finally managed to work on, at a snail's pace, 90-95% of it at least, my first serious attempt on a real warship: redrawing the Cannon-class destroyer escort...so here it is, the USS Osterhaus (the one currently representing the class in the archive), the second ship of the class built by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, in her apt Measure 22 camo scheme in 1943:

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Uses the Rudderow hull by WhyMe (as all of the Evarts DE's successors shared the same 306-foot long hull) that I tweaked a bit. I used the Floating Drydock drawings from the USS Slater website as the drawing's base, then referred to the pics at NavSource to get the relevant details as correct as possible.

You may consider this one a "beta" as there probably still a couple of flaws here and there, but that's pretty much the result of hair-pulling, migraine-inducing moments after sifting through NavSource et al, examining and comparing intelligible details I can find on whatever good shots available...

- I tweaked the spoons/tips of the torp tubes into their "folded up" position;
- SL surface search radar is scratchbuilt;
- The amidship gun rails look a bit odd, but I think that'll make do for now;
- For now I largely preserved the hull's original shading...

I'll tackle the Osterhaus first, then once the kinks have been ironed out I'll proceed with a few other USN examples representing armament/sensor/paintjob variations of the class, and then with the foreign operators, starting with the Philippines, and then France, Japan, Thailand, etc., depending on the best photographic evidence available that I can find...I might even draw the Buckleys and Edsalls as well in the future.

Cheers - wb21

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A promising start for sure.
I hope it will be complemented by other destroyer escorts as well.
Well done wb21!

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ask me when you get to the dutch ones, I will look up all references I can find for them then

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Thanks gents for the warm response.

Osterhaus updated with minor fixes. Next up will be a couple of late-war Cannons (Cates, Gandy, and Slater are in my shortlist).

acelanceloet wrote:

ask me when you get to the dutch ones, I will look up all references I can find for them then

No problem...you can post them in the sources forum if you wish

Nice!

Especially I like that comparison between old and new one. How far Shipbucket standards go thru time.

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Osterhaus updated once again...replaced the SC radar with an SA (slightly tweaked from WhyMe's version) plus a few fixes...

Finally, the "release candidate" for USS Cates, representing one of the late war fits of the class, as it appeared in November 1944. She is equipped with an HF/DF antenna amidship, that proved to be a crucial asset in hunting down surfaced enemy subs, a Mark 52 fire control system (my take at it still looks bit iffy though) and to augment its AA capability, the torpedo tubes (which weren't really put to good use anyway) were replaced with 4 solo 40mm's, plus 2 20mm's in the aft position...:

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Hopefully by tomorrow I'll do her 1945 iteration with two twin 40mm's replacing the four solo 40s and a Measure 21 paintjob.

Cheers -- wb21

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