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Thanks mates.If you would like to use it for a re-fit Bill please feel free

Yes! One of my favourite ships; much maligned. Even E.H.H. Archibald denigrated her as 'Rearguard'....'a new battleship with her great-aunts teeth'. In fact she had a superb hull, the best of her generation. And re the 'teeth' they were one of the best all-round guns for reliability (more than we can say for more modern mounts) and they had been upgraded for greater reach. Of course she was too expensive for a bankrupt GB, so she earned her notoreity as the floating gin palace.

And I'm amazed! You can't have just dashed this off!!! I haven't had time yet to study her in detail, but you've got the hull right - good stuff

No I've been playing about with it for months and not really getting anywhere untill last week.

That is a beauty! A tremendous piece of work. You must have worked hard. I can't find many faults and you've used the correct turrets and 5.25in turrets and everything. You've come a long way since you joined and this just tops the bill as my fave drawing of late (pushing even the Kirov aside).

One nitpick. I thought the 40mm mount atop B turret was a twin mount rather than a sextuple mount. I'm pretty sure it should be a twin. During the Royal Tour of 1949 it was removed and a saluting plaform put in its place.

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You are right Hood. Based on the drawing Bill linked to, I believe it should be a STAAG, not a mk VI.
The grey lines at the front end of the main belt should be connected to a boat skeet and two ladders should lead down to it.
There should be a small structure that looks like a radio shack abeam of the sternmost 40mm single, and the 40mm near the aft gangway sould be a bit further forward.

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Hood is right. From the link by PB you can see a good plan provided by Paul_541 which has also a top view.
The 40mm mounting on-top of B turret is STAAG, the only one which HMS Vanguard had.

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Looks very nice.

Please remember to update the Mk.37-derived fire control radars to their newest edition. The turret bits of them on this drawing are of the old iteration which aren't very detailed.

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Thiel I didn't quite get the bit about the boat skeet and ladders.

This drawing seems to use the shading pattern with the light source somewhat forward of 'high noon' (to be clear, my preferred variation). However, this means that the rear-facing 5.25" turrets should be shaded differently from the forward-facing ones. Likewise the 15" turrets.

And I echo about Colo's better Mk 37.

Otherwise fantastic work.