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Liners look quite good, but the lifeboats seem way too small, and there seem to be not enough.
Also the portholes in the hull look haphazard in placement and there are too many doors so close to the water line.
Also please note that merchant ships carry the flag of their destination on the fore mast, and that only when they are close to their destination, so having your country's flag on the fore mast means they are coming home.

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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 think the hatches closest to the water line are for the coal bunkers(though I'm not sure on that) as for the portholes I aragened them in the same way as I did for my other ships. And I think I could add more life boats with out it looking too wonky but that will be for a later date and time.

Coaling ports are usually placed near the boilers and/or engine rooms, that means around the funnels, and not all along the water line.
Port-holes, IMHO, don't look right as they are now arranged, too many and staggered too regularly, it doesn't look right (at least to me).
The life boats, apart from being too few, are too small, and not to the same scale.

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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"

here is the Alexandra Redux, At this point I'm satisfied with the design and will not be making any further changes.

The ANS Merrimacks sister-ship the late ANS Minnesota

Very nice!!!!

I would add some more shadowing and a little more detail. You could add some cables running along the sides of the super structure, ladders, or some random boxes to give it some detail and possibly making the grey darker. Maybe you could convert it into a WW2 era ship like the USS Texas in the future.


Here is an example


(P.S. I like all the ships you have done)

The Minnesota had the unfortunate honor of being the first casualty of the Alliance-Iperian War when she was sunk by a Iperian Submarine while she was on Maneuvers near Hampton Roads, a couple hours later planes launched from te Iperian Carrier Delitor leveled the floating City of Blocksmouth Harbor in a failed attempt to catch the Alliance Fleet at Anchor.

One of the Alliance Nations early Dreadnoughts, the ANS Manassas.

Here is the Alliance Nations first Carrier the ANS Monitor

Is there a history we can read somewhere about this AU? All the ships are quite interesting, and I'd like to know the whole story.

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