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How to make plausable ships..
1. Have a tactical idea - how should the ship operate, and with what kind og supporting units such as destroyers, torpedoboats, gunsloops or cruisers.
2. Sketch the ship
3. Do a springsharp model of the ship (
www.zpringsharp.com)
4. Redo the sketch and try fit the guns, smokepipes etc
5. Adjust your springsharp model
6. Do the Shipbucket drawing
7. Post here and on a springsharp forum like Warship projects. Lots of diffrent kind of comment
I often get inspired by one or two ships and try to fit them into a tactical plan.
I think your a could be interesting...maybe do something with the oldest daugther of queen Victoria, Kaiser Wilhem IIs mother and wife of kaiser Freidrich III. I do not think a uinon would work but maybe a joint operation navy with diffrent kinds of mission and responsibilites of each nation. What and who is the main threat?