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Okay, so here it is again. I believe all the stupid stuff is fixed. Now for the critique.



Fine so something's wrong. I placed this between the image brackets

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nudxd3b01v14m ... Latuch.png

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I am unsure about that mess of black lines around the bridge. should some of them not be grey? are all of those 90 degrees angles or edges?

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What are the precise criteria for the use of gray verses black lines, i.e. do you use a different shade of gray for an angled vs rounded corner. I'm a rather good draftsman and understand why we use gray lines. I just need to know the rules.

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It's really coming along now, The windows on the second level of the aft control tower should be covered by the gun tub and there shouldn't be any railing between the 1st and 2nd 5" gun because one of the boats is sitting right on the edge. I still don't like those masts and you can add kingfisher float planes if you want.

Can we get another opinion on the width of the 14" guns? I don't think they're right but I'm not familiar enough to be sure.

This is almost done though, its almost there.

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Black line:

- 90 degrees corner.

Gray line:

- an angled corner. (I like to use darker gray thus sharper angle the corner has)

rounded corner:

- no black or gray line.
- just some light or dark gray showing where the light hit's and where not.

Since I am also fooling with the 14/50s you can only make them so small. And barrels are already said to be more stylistic than actual in the rules.

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Looking better but I'm unsure about the catapults. You should ask around at the shipmodels.info forum about what type of catapult these ships used - will probably give you some great source material to work from.

Here is the floatplane catapult I drew for Alaska:



I was never able to find any good, concrete information on its mark or mod or any of that stuff unfortunately. Hope you have better luck than I did.

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Here`s a few pics of the catapult:
http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/014325.jpg
http://paintedsoldier.weebly.com/upload ... 2_orig.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/939 ... 14301d.jpg

Yep... looks almost nothing like the Alaska catapult, sorry to say...

Generally with things like catapults and aircraft handling cranes it's best to treat them as a unique piece of equipment until proven otherwise. I know some of the IJN catapults seem to be standardized, and I'm sure the USN ones were too, but I haven't been able to find any solid information on it.

Good luck with the drawing.

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Here are the pics I used:


http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news- ... to/2666555
http://www.modelwarships.com/features/a ... b43/10.jpg

They are larger and much closer.

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