Shipbucket

As always magnificent work, but if I may, maybe you'll consider doing one of the aircraft equipped Fletcher class (DD-447 Pringle for instance)?

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

Beautiful.

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Awesome job, as always, Colo!

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

The Official IJN Ships & Planes List

#FJB

Magnificent drawing! It is extremely and nicely detailed!

Excellent additions.

Fabulous drawings as ever Ian!

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Fryssian AU with Lt.Maverick 114
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Embarked on: HNLMS Karel Doorman A833
To do list:
-Zeven Provincien class cruiser
-Joint support ship all sides
-F124 Sachsen class frigate
-F125 Baden-Württemberg class frigate
-Clemencau class aircraft carrier
-Zeven provincien class frigate
-Poolster class AOR
-Amsterdam class AOR
-Minas Gerais aircraft carrier

Thanks all.



This is HEERMANN (DD-532) in October of 1944 at the Battle off Samar. She is camouflaged in Measure 31/24D, with Dull Black over Haze Grey.

HEERMANN was the only American destroyer to survive the Battle off Samar. Heavily damaged, the ship sailed to Kossol Passage for temporary repairs before retiring to the Mare Island Navy Yard for a refit and repair period. The ship later participated in the Battle of Iwo Jima and the actions off Okinawa. HEERMANN survived the war, serving in the post-war US Navy, before finally being sold to Argentina in 1961. Renamed ALMIRANTE BROWN (D-20), the ship served in the Argentine Navy until it was finally sold for scrap in 1982.

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USN components, camouflage colors, & reference links (World War II only)

I've said it before, but I appreciate that your modern offerings are just as much history lesson as pixel art.

(and they're excellent in both senses)

Thanks Erik -- for me a drawing isn't great without some historical context.

Also, updated the OP with all current drawings and fixed the broken filenames.



This is HALFORD (DD-480) in April of 1943 while undergoing an inclining test at Puget Sound Navy Yard. She is camouflaged in Measure 21.

HALFORD was one of the experimental "aircraft-handling" FLETCHER class destroyers. Six of the original 24 ships were ordered to be completed with a catapult and crane for launching and recovering a single OS2U Kingfisher scout plane. Ultimately only three of the six ever actually operated a plane at sea, and the concept was considered flawed by the Navy in light of the destroyers' normal operation alongside carrier task forces, but pressure from above pushed the project along. All six DDs were returned to standard configuration after the design proved ineffective.

The "aircraft-handling" group of modifications included the removal of mount 53 and the after torpedo tubes and their replacement with a compressed-air driven catapult. The catapult itself was a slightly modified version of the type used aboard the OMAHA class cruisers and was designated the Type A Mark 4 Mod.1. The original design for the aircraft-handling ships included a center line mounted boom-and-kingpost crane fitted just aft of the no.2 stack, but in trials this design was disappointing a new crane type was commissioned. HALFORD was fitted with the updated crane, itself a modified version of those used on cruisers. Unfortunately it could not fit on the centerline, so was mounted on the port side main deck abeam the no.2 stack. It was powered by winching gear mounted on the main deck, and the knuckle was hinged to allow it to be laid flat on the deck when not in use. The modifications also added repair shops for the aircraft and an aviation fuel tank in the stern. The after conning station normally sited on the deck house between mount 53 and 54 was relocated to the searchlight platform on the aft stack, a modification later performed on all the rebuilt "round bridge" FLETCHERs and standard on all the "square-bridge" types.

Otherwise, HALFORD has a fairly standard early-to-mid war configuration for a FLETCHER class destroyer. She has not yet received amidships 40mm Bofors, but one twin 40mm mount sits on the fantail between the depth charge tracks, controlled by a Mark 51 director. HALFORD also has 20mm Oerlikon guns atop the pilot house and in a small tub forward of the bridge; this was a design created by the Boston Navy Yard for the BENSON/GLEAVES class destroyers and later authorized for use on FLETCHERs as a stopgap measure to get more guns onto each ship. The ship's radar fit is the standard SC-2 air search and SG surface search, with a Mark 4 "FD" fire control/ranging radar on the Mark 37 director.

HALFORD would survive the war, being decommissioned shortly after the Japanese surrender, ultimately being scrapped in 1970.

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USN components, camouflage colors, & reference links (World War II only)

Not really Ian,
Post of 23 september 2017 still with...british drawings visible
Check this and fully correct/update your entire thread
and obviously add more newer drawings