Shipbucket

Hi all,
I was given this drawing as a request and asked to urn out a design of it as an actual, tangible ocean liner.

Therefore, I got to work on a Shipbucket-scale drawing and, using the Queen Mary by Rowdy36 as an initial base (As the customer asked for the liner to be a 21-st century throw-back to the 1930s liners of old, especially the Cunard "Queens".), I came up with rather a large ship; in fact, the longest passenger liner in the world, at around 165 meters. Bare in mind, this project is still young and rough, but I am happy with the way she looks so far; that sleek look, which is lost on so many ocean liners and cruisers today. I dare say I'd rather fancy a cruise on Imperia myself!

This is my first shipbucket-styled drawing and on the planning board are two sisters: M.S Bohemia and M.S Sardinia.
Comments appreciated.
Regards,
Mike.

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Well its pretty excellent for a first time shipbucket drawing in my opinion
I'm not sure if you used Rowdy's work just for reference or actually used parts of it but if you used parts of it be sure to credit if they are significant chunks
Great start though! Keep it up!

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References and feedback is always welcome!

I used a few windows and the anchor, but I intend on changing most of it in the end. I'll make sure to credit Rowdy when it's finished.
Regards,
Mike.

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Very interesting blend of classic and modern.

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The New Wolf's Shipyard
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Looks even weirder when you can see the bottom half, Canis. Azipods and bow-thrusters... almost unnatural!
Regards,
Mike.

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That would make sense for a modern design.

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I'm not that familiar with modern commercial liner propulsion systems, but ... why azipods? Why not standard props and rudder? From my uninformed laymans viewpoint that would seem just as efficient and much less costly, and commercial vessels do need to be concerned with cost I would imagine.

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I'm still tossing up different propulsion methods, and that's why I only included the waterline image above. Azipods have become renown for their unreliability (even on ships like QM2), however since Imperia is quite long (365 meters) , I believed a more dynamic form of control offering 360 degrees of movement to be necessary, and Azipods seem to give that degree of 360 control.
Regards,
Mike.

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Now that is a proper liner/cruise ship.
Compared to the tower blocks that we use IRL.

Find a modern cruiseliner whitout them!!!!