Posts:2936 Joined: July 26th, 2010, 11:38 pm
Location: Midwest US
It's a beautiful drawing!
It also harkens back to another age, obviously. It's remarkable to look at this little turtle-tank of a ship and think of it as a seagoing warship, crammed to the gills with nearly 300 men. Clearly it is of an era when human labor was cheap compared to industrial products. Consider how much of an incredible pain in the ass it would be to maintain anything in a hull so cramped... but yet, everything is so simple anyway because manpower is such a fundamentally important tool.
Posts:442 Joined: January 12th, 2016, 8:57 pm
Location: Wilmington, North Carolina
As one of charguizard's aforementioned "boys doing period AU ships" I can confirm that this will be a very influential design for details. It's a very fine drawing!
Posts:457 Joined: June 8th, 2013, 3:05 pm
Location: Marin County, California
Contact:Website
I don't think DP ever sleeps, he just draws, and draws, and draws....
CraigH
_________________ In active progress More Ships with Sails
Early Torpedo Boats in SB and FD Scales
Some railroad stuff
More random stuff that strikes me!