Shipbucket

MavGaz,

I've no complaints about your desire to draw real-ships and seek perfection.
However, you are still a newbie and unless you've scoured the Parts Sheets and other drawings for up to date parts your going to miss them and re-invent the wheel. The Harpoon lanchers I'm sure have already been redrawn at least once. We can't keep on redrawing the same parts, the whole idea is to have a set that everyone can use and that is good enough at our scale to represent the real thing. I leave the radar issue for you and Ace to sort amongst yourselves.

Here is the Lynx, already redrawn (by I think Darthpanda) and further modified by me to better represent the British version and which is miles better than the old one you've stumbled across. You should be able to re-colour this into a Mk95 with few problems.

found your problem! you put the radar too high! it is on top of the railing on the platform instead of partially behind it.
also, there seems to be an different stabilisation foot.
antenna size is taken as everything above the stabilisation foot, as that part, as shown here, can vary between different ships, even within the same navy (the dutch ship rotterdam carries an DA-08 with an different stabilisation foot then the one carried by the heemskerck class, which is shown in my drawing)
then, looking at the measurement you gave, my version is actually correct.

for the IFF bar. I think you are right that the IFF bar could be one pixel lower. BUT not 2 pixels, as you have done. placing it one pixel lower though, creates an double black pixel line, which is frowned on in shipbucket. it is allowed in cases like that to overstate parts sizes, and that is exactly what I have done here.
the bar should be a bit lengthened for the vasco da gama drawing though, as you have done.
also, http://www.areamilitar.net/directorio/IM_sys/da08_1.jpg this picture shows an different version of the radar then what is depicted here. that version can be found on the dutch parts sheet as well, and as you can see I have there shown the IFF bar as you have shown (although that bar is an smaller type, as again these can vary between ships )

EDIT: also, an measurement based on the official plans of the dutch L-frigates, which used the same radar, gave me 33 pixels, effectively making my drawing 2 pixels too small!
so, case closed, the main radar, apart from the IFF, stays as it is.

EDIT 2:
here, doesn't this look better?

also, please lower the STIR's one pixel, as right now they form black blobs, which, as told above, are considered ugly in here. same for the phalanx.

Head over parapet Is this another case of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Meaning: Shipbucket was established by the God's of Yore to create a data base for actual ships, so folk could use our drawings for recognition and reference. The problem here -seems to be a new member taking an already drawn ship and wanting to re-design not just the ship but a lot of the actual parts that went into it, such as the Lynx. While I'm tolerant of the former I'm concerned about the latter; simply because if we go down this road then we'll be accepting any member using the same criteria to introduce new parts when we already have ones fit for purpose?

Bottom line. Why don't you new guys draw something new?