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Long time coming, I'm surprised it's taken us this long to get General Belgrano drawn for Shipbucket. This was a surprisingly difficult drawing, since I've become an insane perfectionist and there was fairly little info on the radar fit, gun layout, etc. The thing that caused the most trouble was the bridge and forward superstructure... I couldn't find any decent photos taken from the side, so had to work from a few scale model photos and whatnot. I hope the result is satisfying.



This is Belgrano as lost in 1982.

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Thats a pretty good drawing for eyeballing parts of it. Great work!

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Puerto Oeste - AU - WWI-WWII

Well I wouldn't say 'eyeballing' as I had some plans to work from, but all of them were frustratingly wrong in different places. This is why I'm always skeptical of ship plans unless it's from Friedman's or similar. It was the details that I had to do a lot of legwork to figure out!

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I had no idea that Belgrano had Seacat. Interesting to know.

Nice. I thought General Belgrano is a gun cruiser until it sank.

Yep, SeaCat was fitted in 1967.

When it was sunk, the British thought it had been further upgraded with Exocet missiles.

I plan to draw the Belgrano's sister ship ARA Nueve de Julio (ex USS Boise) later, but for now I'm taking a break from the Brooklyns to focus on other ships.

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Ahh Exocet... It'll sink anyways with or without Exocet.

I'm kind of curious why everyone likes to poke fun at the Belgrano...

From what I've read the Argentinians were more than competent. The ship got sunk by a British nuclear submarine designed 30 years after Belgrano was laid down. I think in fairness these ships did pretty well.

It's also a bit disrespectful towards the men who gave their lives while doing their duty aboard Belgrano.

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Agree with you, but what do you expect from someone (Clonecommander6454 ) which lives in a childish Alternate Universe ?

BTW : Smart work on the Brooklyn class, thank you.

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Worklist, FD scale submarines and ships :
- Project 971 "Akula" (80%)
- Project 705 "Alpha" (10%)
- Project 371 (70%)
- Project 1459 (30%)
- Projekt 151 Sassnitz (To be redone)

Rather apt timing if I say so myself.

According to one article I read, they put on fake Exocet launchers to make the ship look like it was armed with it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/oc ... .falklands
Although HMS Conqueror was designed long after the Belgrano was, the ship itself was sunk with torpedoes dating from the 1920s (instead of the more modern Tigerfish ones). A vindication of tried and tested technology above something new?