Very nice and rare one, good job!!! If you allow a comment I don't think this was an icebreaker-bow per se (nor was it on the german BBs). It was a so-called cut down bow profile used to reduce cross sectional area and coefficient at the bow plus quite probably it was also better suited for shallow ...
May I ask what comes next? May I suggest the GK10 maybe? :) http://oi57.tinypic.com/287ht7t.jpg I've put together the drawings in one master picture so we can have a feel about the progress of the designs. Very interesting. http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i179/Battleshipboy/biggermanwwicred_zpssec...
"I have never seen a warship with offset turrets like this, but perhaps she works." - think about the K class german cruisers (Köln, Königsberg etc.). They have exactly this layout though with cruiser level turrets and much less protrusion into the hull.
The upper deck mounts were HA capable but lacked protection while the casemates gun had good armor and had sufficient angle of elevation to deal with surface targets.
Allow me some comments here. I have the linked book and in defense of it Mr Perkins did his drawings real time, meaning he had a pen/pencil and a paper to sketch the ships as he saw them passing. Certainly GD's drawings are top notch and I would love to see them in print (many of the drawings here) ...
Great news Garlic, I'll wait of course!!! Jackie: I'd be happy to have the capital ships ready to go. Actually other than the KGVs and Iron Dukes only the New Zealand and the Hercules are missing.
Sounds good. Are you a subscriber of Warship International? There is an awesome series of articles in it abot the German Capital ship designs with serioulsy informative commentary. The sequence is only at the Ostfriesland class but there are a whole lot of new (well previously not published) prelimi...
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