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First off, beautiful work!

Secondly, 'Abrasive' isn't the word I'd use. I won't say what I use since Colo has already asked us to veer away from foul language. It's doubtful.

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I think David has done a good job here.

Drawing never-were's is never easy. You have to make a conscious decision whether to draw the original design or a hypothetical 'as commissioned' drawing. Its far easier and simpler to stick to the original, as the design looked on the drawing board. Sometimes source material makes that very difficult to achieve and interpretation is required to fill the gaps.

In this case there are fewer gaps but I would raise the following points.
One of the source drawings looks like an AU fanpic rather than a real B-65.
Tzoil's drawing on the wordpress site seems to indicate one of the design iterations but I am not sure which one.
The other drawings posted in this thread seem to be the classical B65 that is often seen in print (100mm secondaries all on one level, raised catapult and straight bow stem.
So it would be good to confirm which design iteration of B-65 is depicted here.

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Really nice executed drawing David! I cant tell anything about the specifications or if you did something wrong, i leave that to others.

However as told before, a purple block between the barrels of the secondairies on the top view are viewable on both sides PS/SB
Also some white pixel dots can be found around the seaplane. I guess this is ms paints fault (got it a lot to when i copy stuff from a different saved file in the other)

Cant wait to see more of your work!

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OOPS! they've been fixed.

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The drawing looks great. I'm not an expert on IJN ships, so I can't comment specifically on the quality of the source information. That said, BB1987's information is probably the stuff I would go with.

I would like to make one point on the nature of historical research, which Mike seemed to miss. Age of secondary sources is not linked to their quality. With primary sources, of course, you want the stuff closest to the event of interest. With secondary sources though, there is a lot to be said for the techniques and information available to the most recent researcher. I've had professors, old fashioned and conservative professors, scratch sources off my bibliographies because they are "too dated."

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Drawings signed both (Miklania) and (M.Morris)

Removed. See new posting of revised depiction.

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