Shipbucket

Holy smokes! Now I have to dig my jaw out of the basement.

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That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error

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Source Materiel is always welcome.

Actually, my dear odysseus, it should be a Byzantine dromon, but it's not. If you study the image more carefully, the Greek heraldic master (who ever he was/is?!) chose, instead, a depiction of a large Hellenistic polyrem i. e. multi-banked oared vessel, but substituted the square sails most commonly found on such vessels with a more 10th c. contemporaneous sail rig consisting of lateen sails. Hence the odd mixture. But I never said it was bad or anything, just that it was odd, but that's a comment on the choice of imagery.... Kim as usual did a most superb job!

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My Avatar:Петр Алексеевич Безобразов (Petr Alekseevich Bezobrazov), Вице-адмирал , царская ВМФ России(1845-1906) - I sign my drawings as Ari Saarinen

Thanks, it was most important that you accept it. I look forward to see it at your drawing of Nikiforos Fokas

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Work in progress:
DD County Class PNS Babur (1982)(PAK)
FF Type 21 Class D182 PNS Babur (2000)(PAK)
All relevant Coat of Arms

Ok,you seem to know more than me.Anyway, the badge is very superb.

Oh, Kim, once again I can hardly contain my flow of superlatives upon discovering the ever so magnificient shield of the HMS Black Prince! You leave us all trampelling the dust while you walk on the clouds with your infinitie skills of drawing!

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My Avatar:Петр Алексеевич Безобразов (Petr Alekseevich Bezobrazov), Вице-адмирал , царская ВМФ России(1845-1906) - I sign my drawings as Ari Saarinen

We are currently discussing in the Adm. section about renewing our templates to field proper space and size for the crests in the templates, as soon as we get something out, I'll post the offical dimension requirments here. We try our best to fit most of the existing smaller crest to the mould, but the bigger ones migth be in "danger"

You can also inturupt this as an open invitation of making your own suggestions of the crest's place and size in the template sheets.

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Shipbucket mainsite, aka "The Archive"
New AU project "Aravala"

May I suggest that for merchant ships, the place of the crest in warships drawings, will be used by the house flag of the company?

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

I'm not in favour of cluttering up drawings with house flags, funnel bands, or whatever detracts from the drawings; and no offence to Alvama, but his otherwise excellent Great Lakes ships look too clutterred with all the added stuff as above. maybe we need a new Forum, were folk can post and discuss ships crests, flags, etc. so as not to loose the way here?

I have to agree with Bill. Although a coat-of-arms or ship's badge could be a nice touch, overloading drawings with stuff related to the ships' owners seems kind of wrong

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whahaa wtf, that is just stupid, I see no difrence on a CoA or a house flag, the whole idea on this whole forum is getting quite sillly.

This example sould not be that bad