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First upload in a long time. Possibly one of the most important ships ever build, M/S Selandia was the very first diesel powered ship build ever.
Build in 1912 at Burmeister & Wain in Copenhagen for the Lauritzen Line. During her maiden voyage she crossed 22,000 miles of ocean without any major breakdowns. She sailed for the Lauritzen Line for 25 years before she was sold to a French company. She was sunk of Japan in 1943.

A nice little tug build for Skuld in the early sixties. At the time she represented the absolute top of the line.
It is also quite possibly the nicest ship I've drawn so far.
S/S Storebjørnen was build in the early thirthies for the Danish Icebreaker Service. It served until the sixties when it was replaced by the much larger M/S Danbjørn.

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Excellent Thiel Nice to see the continuing representation of unusual ships.

The ship, MS Selandia was built in 1912, as the FIRST ocean going motor vessel. She was built for the Danish East Asiatic (Ostasiatiske Kompagni) as part of a class of 5 ships, of which one Fionia was sold to Hamburg Amerika line (HAPAG), and in to honor her Danish origin was named Christian X, after the king of Danemark at that time.
Selandia herself was never a part of the Lauritzen Line. In 1936 she was sold out of the EAC fleet to Norway and later Finland (1940) and renamed Tornator. As Tornator she was chartered by a Japanese company she sunk after stranding off Omaisaki bay, between Nagoya and Yokohama.
The drawing itself is of excellent quality Thiel, but the hull colors are wrong, as East Asiatic Company ships, which carried passengers were grey with red boot-topping. Cargo ships were black with white line at shelter-deck level. I also believe that she naver carried sails.

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ok. few comments on the finmarken: the railing is nonstandard (should be all grey) and not all is outlined in black. also, the railing on the upper deck on the stern is very low: this is possible, but not of much use... why is it like that?

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Oh just a little mistake on my part

There are too many double pixel black lines; especially where you put two windows next to each other. I would try to avoid that.
Also there are few stray pixels of weird colors here and there.

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The railing on the upper deck aft is low.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... jorden.jpg

Having taken a better look at the photograph I realized that you've drawn transparent railings using windows color.
I don't know if it's the right approach but I personally don't like it

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