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That is a very nice drawing, well done

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A superb first drawing!

An excellent entrance into the world of SB.

I don't totally agree with the underwater hull shading, looks a bit vibrant but to my eyes its a fine peice of work.

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I rather like that.A very fine 1st attempt drawing and an interesting subject.I always thought of Thunderchild as probably a Canopus class.

What is such an awesome drawing doing in beginner drawings?

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Everyone starts in beginner forum, someones never get out from it. But this is indeed a nice job.

Little advice: don't use attachments, use standard SB template and I think fonts are wrong.

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Nobody expects the Imperial Inquisition!

Just so, and this gentleman had the good taste to post accordingly. That said, a very impressive first submission, and no doubt we'll be seeing more in future. With the hull shading, it isn't shipbucket standard, so you may need to change it.

Thank you very much everybody for the kind words regarding the drawing. It isn't quite my first effort - some of you may recall the rather overambitious containerised merchant aircraft carrier design I posted here nearly a year ago now, and which I'm still not entirely pleased with. Still, as I'm sort of starting afresh here after a long time away, I thought the beginner's forum was the place for this (only my second-ever Shipbucket attempt).

Raxar - my deepest apologies. Had I been courteous enough to check worklists before embarking upon this, I would have done my utmost to avoid treading on your toes. Thank you for being so magnanimous about my efforts. I'll be honest with you - the bow section took me many, many man-hours of fiddling and alteration and I'm still not really happy with it, although I can see from the photo that my bow-rudders are a bit off in shape. In any future versions of this, I will do my best to alter them (and indeed the below-the-line shading scheme, which as quite a few of you have pointed out is probably a little too...artistic. ;D)

I thought I'd used the standard template for small vessels and the correct fonts etc - I think it might look a bit strange because Polyphemus has so much of her mass below the waterline - she is very low in the water due to the ballast tanks etc. But I will doublecheck this in any future versions of the drawing.

Regarding the fictitious HMS Thunder Child - just about all of the artwork I've ever seen does indeed portray her as a Canopus-style standard British Predreadnought, but the actual description from the book (which I've now taken the time to find) makes her sound quite a different sort of vessel: “About a couple of miles out lay an ironclad, very low in the water, almost, to my brother's perception, like a water-logged ship. This was the ram Thunder Child...It was the torpedo ram, Thunder Child, steaming headlong, coming to the rescue of the threatened shipping." And I was mistaken - she doesn't shoot the leg off a fighting machine, she rams both of the machines she destroys, but she does indeed open up with her guns and one of her near-misses sinks a hapless fishing smack. This again suggests to me a much heavier gun battery than carried by the real life Polyphemus, which only had 6 x 1-inch Nordenfelt guns.

Maybe the HMS Thunder Child is Canopus sized then she could have a 12'' battery.

Something like this then?

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