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 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: HMS Orion: First Super-Dreadnought

Steampower1
 Post subject: Re: HMS Orion: First Super-Dreadnought Posted: July 5th, 2021, 4:57 pm 

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Excellent. You define the structure. Too many jus
t copy a mass of lines and hope something turns out. Your stuff id right on.

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: HMS Hood: Fast Battleship, or Battlecruiser?

Steampower1
 Post subject: Re: HMS Hood: Fast Battleship, or Battlecruiser? Posted: July 5th, 2021, 4:53 pm 

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Excellent! Great style and you pay of attention to scale. SUPER. And to weigh in on the Fast BB or BC matter. Hood was equal in armament to eh QE BBs and not much reduced in armor. With its HP and length it might appear to be a BC but it sacrificed two knots and rode low in the water. If Hood could ...

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: HMS Orion: First Super-Dreadnought

Steampower1
 Post subject: Re: HMS Orion: First Super-Dreadnought Posted: April 15th, 2021, 11:51 pm 

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Excellent rendition! On some earlier dreadnaughts the artist would make the barbettes to long. Some were as long as the turret allowing no overhang at all! The shape of your 13.5" turrets is also very good. I like the shadowing - alot. Some are too busy or too faint to give a sense of dimension but ...

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: Japan - Kongo Class Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship

Steampower1
 Post subject: Re: Japan - Kongo Class Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Posted: April 15th, 2021, 11:41 pm 

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Great Work. Tremendous detail! May be the wrong place for a what-if, but in Freidman's book US Battleships, he mentions that with the RN going to the 15" gun the US Navy expect the IJN to do the same ! Maybe the last Kongo redesigned with six 15" guns and the Ise Class with ten 15". More room for en...

 Forum: Never-Built Designs  Topic: USS Washington BB-47: Victim of the Washington Naval Treaty

Steampower1
 Post subject: Re: USS Washington BB-47: Victim of the Washington Naval Treaty Posted: December 5th, 2020, 7:39 pm 

Replies: 8
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Very nice. We should have finished Washington and scrapped Arkansas.
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