Shipbucket

*Changed credit to remove ALVAMA, extra shading reduced on some superstructure.

This is my first real-world ship I've made, but I have enough confidence that it looks correct that I'm posting it in the Real Designs board. I worked off of three or four separate sources, two pictures, a line drawing, and one model. I used bits like the color and minor details like the propellers from the Charlemagne by ALVAMA.
Also, the reason why the spacing on the credits looks a little wonky is because I had to use Photoshop as I can't figure out how to get antialized Arial type on Paint.

It's very very nice work, although I can't speak to the accuracy of it.

If all you used from ALVAMA's drawings are colors and screws, then crediting him is unnecessary. As for getting text to look good with Paint, I don't use it so I don't know for sure.

It's a nice drawing, GalacticWierdo; much better than your first This is funny because ALVAMA used propellers from my Latouche-Treville

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Very nice, and a truly grand show how you've managed to display the buff upperworks with its intricate shading issues!

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My Avatar:Петр Алексеевич Безобразов (Petr Alekseevich Bezobrazov), Вице-адмирал , царская ВМФ России(1845-1906) - I sign my drawings as Ari Saarinen

I have to question the accuracy though; those are some very long-calibre guns from an era known for low-velocity powder.

The length of the barrels looks good to me. I have a book that has several drawing of French pre-dreadnaughts and they have long barrels.

Yes, they are accurate. What makes them appear so overlong was the strange habit of French designers to make the gunhouses so very small, and thus cramped, compared to especially British-designed dittos.

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My Avatar:Петр Алексеевич Безобразов (Petr Alekseevich Bezobrazov), Вице-адмирал , царская ВМФ России(1845-1906) - I sign my drawings as Ari Saarinen

In fact, it's the low-velocity gunpowder that allowed manufacturing long thin barrels so everything is Ok there

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Worklist: Portuguese Navy and Barnegat class seaplane tenders

for unalias text in paint: Either turn of the feature completely of from your controll panel or do the trick with gif. file (that is you make a blank sheet, save it as gif. then type the text there, the file form should automatically turn the aliasating off. then just copy/paste it to your actuall drawing)

Of the drawing, shade with only one color only in the front of the pilothouse and bridge struckture.

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I use Ultimate Paint for the text work on mine, since you can turn aliasing on and off.

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