Shipbucket

I think overall I would agree with Soode on hull panel lines.
For a long time it has been convention not to show all welding lines in superstructures and hulls, drawings just get too cluttered and the effect is too confusing on the eye.

Faint lines for major joins that could be seen with the naked eye are ok, but drawing every panel is too cluttered. Charguizard's Tekun and Armoured man's Räisänen being on the overkill end of the spectrum, even on my own drawing some of the lines could be dispensed with I think. Its a fine dividing line between what looks good artistically to represent the main construction blocks and obsessive rivet counting. Welds are meant to be smooth and unobstrusive so realistically most of them should not be visible, especially at the scales we are drawing at.

Overall, a very busy challenge, a lot of good designs, some duff ones but nobody went full out crazy (even Bvon's submersible corvette is based on a real world project so has some realism cachet to it). No stand-out winner for me, I like a few of them and I reckon the scoring will be pretty tight.

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Hood's Worklist
English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft

The add on structure on the hangar roof, is due to extra equipment, mainly NSM launcher.

I reduced loose and visible electronics as much as possible, on purpose, almost everything is integrated. The entire radar mast is of composite.
- Both wing on main radar, have a build in Satcom, there is also additional cameras on both wings.
- only 4 of the passed arrays are the main radar it self, rest is part of Navigation, antennas, electronic warfare etc.
- The top mast is basically similar to what the Japanese have done on their Mogami-class frigate, where you can find everything from EO/IR, cameras, navigation, coms, etc.

Results Now Available
The community poll for the Modern Stealth Corvette Challenge is now closed. Special thanks to the astounding 28 people who participated in the challenge and the 38 who submitted responses to the poll. Our winners this month are Hood, Superboy, and Charguizard. Hood achieved first place and the highest Drawing Quality score with their Type 31 Egret class trimaran. Superboy came second with the Worakarn class mutli-role stealth corvette and was also awarded the highest Design Quality score, one point behind Hood's. Charguizard was third with the Tekun class corvette. Congratulations to all!




For those interested, the Cold-War Self-Propelled Air Defence System Challenge is now available.
This option received 15 of the 47 votes in the next challenge poll.

Many congratulations to master Hood for taking this one, and to superboy for a well deserved 2nd too, I'll gladly take 3rd with such a steep competition. This is the highest number of participants we've had, which was the same for the attack helicopter and MBT challenges, so the challenge institution is working magnificently, a testament to the community as a whole. I won't be making comments for each entry this time even though I liked very many of them, my creative time is being drained very quickly by multiple projects within and out of SB.

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Hatsuyuki-class Escort Ships . . . <3