Shipbucket

Nice drawing, but I still think you're using too many shades

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Beautiful work. Just keep them coming, and maybe the moderators will give you some slack about the shading, especially of the tumble-home hull shading.

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Really enjoyed your French Predreadnoughts. In fact, it made me decide to register rather than just lurking about.

This is an interesting subject and hard to find good info. Your technique for showing the tumble home looks fine and not showing the hull is a good choice. Pre-dreadnoughts are so short that a deep hull makes them look dumpy.

Looking forward to seeing your Massena.

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I had some time to go over my pre-dreadnoughts and work out a few individual differences and update the colouring - and, of course, finish the Massena. In historical order:

























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Garlicdesign

Beautiful collection!

The hulls look great. Not meaning to be critical but the bridge structures on Massena seem a little short. The Armored Conning tower is 6" and the wheel house above it is 6.5". I don't have the actual dimensions but I've been aboard a few old ships including USS Olympia. On Olympia the main deck was 6.5" to the botton of the joists (one foot thick ) and 7.5 feet to the botton of the next deck. Inside the armored conning tower was not quite 6.5" (the vision slits were about 5.5" high). The wooden wheel house was just under 7.5 feet. Nice & roomy so the captain didn't knock off his hat. Please take this as a suggestion. Otherwise your stuff is super and I am very impressed by the amount of work involved.

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I've checked the size of the bridge and CT with the builder's plans (which are admittedly rather blurry and contain lots of lines which are probably necessary to build the ship but more of a hindrance when trying to draw it) and it seems right. Maybe french officers were shorter than american ones

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Garlicdesign

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Another one I've wanted to do for some time: the Brennus, which looks so quintessentially French it almost hurts...





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Garlicdesign

Excellent!

Nice drawings! Interesting solution they came up with for getting the aft-most boat out of the way of the guns.

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