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It's a shame they never kept it, those colors look super-spiffy.

Hello again

Last additions in time for the upload, I'm afraid.



Before you ask: Jauréguiberry looked like this all right (gun barrel right to the stem, and not because of the stem's weird shape!). I don't know if the word can apply to weapons of war, but I always thought she looks cute, like a toy. Probably about as dangerous as a toy too.



This one was dangerous, although mostly to her own crew. Blew up for no good reason in 1907 after only 5 years in commission.

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Garlicdesign

Very special to look at, but very beautiful too. Eminent drawings

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Thank you for doing the old Stalwart Jaureguiberry! I do agree with you that she does look a little like a toyboat. And the hapless Iéna is a gem too!

I fell in love with these French "one-offs" reading the Swedish naval historian and graphic artist Björn Landström's epic work "Skeppet", about a decade or so after its first publication. It was published in 1960, and I was around 10 when I discovered it at my local library. In it he had drawn and painted a marvelous, oddly shaped steel monster, with pitch black hull and bizarre fighting towers crowning its bridge structure. It was the Charles Martel. I still have the book, and treasure it highly!

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The size of that barrels are just insane ...

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Nobody expects the Imperial Inquisition!

Incredibly beautiful drawings. These French ships look so much better now than the old black & white drawings in the usual reference books.
Bravo my friend.

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

Well that's unfortunate, a spiffy-looking ship too.

Will you draw the Henry IV and her impossibly low aft freeboard?

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Hi,
Sorry for critics, but there is a plenty of information about those ships - I mean the builder's plans. There are my reconstructions - you may easily find the mistakes. The most evident - Suffren has a hull of 124 m WL and no searchlights on bridges...

Hello Dima11

I used plans from a site of the french MoD and scaled them, maybe I misinterpreted the thing upon Iena's bridge as a searchlight (if it's not, then what is it??)

By the way, have you access to a site where I can find similarly accurate plans of Carnot and Charles Martel?

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