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Post subject: Re: Japan - Fuso Class Battleship.Posted: May 7th, 2014, 7:19 pm
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erik_t wrote:
A bigger, more dangerous step might be to concentrate all searchlights at a single point on the ship, and have backup lights elsewhere in case the primary position is lost. In this way, you deny all azimuth information.
That is something most IJN Battleships accomplished after the mid 30's refits (and in case of Yamato, since commissioned).
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Searchlight are clustered around the funnel and set in a symmetrical way, with the middle ones being slighty higher or lower in order to maximize their training arcs and to appear in a triangular setup regardless of the course set by the ship (Ise and Nagato had an extra searchlight on the pagoda tower that might have worked as the backupyou mentioned).

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Post subject: Re: Japan - Fuso Class Battleship.Posted: May 7th, 2014, 7:30 pm
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Ah, excellent! That makes everything make more sense.
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Post subject: Re: Japan - Fuso Class Battleship.Posted: May 7th, 2014, 8:49 pm
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Nicely done master!
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Post subject: Re: Japan - Fuso Class Battleship.Posted: May 7th, 2014, 10:52 pm
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Third step, Fuso as of 1925:
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Between 1923 and 1925 IJN Fuso underwent her first major modernization. The turrets had their 4,5m rangefinders replaced with 8m ones, the forward funnel was capped and the 100cm searchlights replaced with a newer model.
Both the fore and aft superstructure underwent large scale modification, the most striking ones occuring to the forward tripod mast which was filled with new platforms, drastically changing the appearance of the ship....

...and yet, it was nothing when compared to what loomed in the future. ( :shock: )




Well, that was the last "easy" drawing. Turning the 1925 Fuso into the 1933 one will be the closest thing to "artistic suicide" I will ever face, so I cannot say how long it wil take to draw her. :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Japan - Fuso Class Battleship.Posted: May 7th, 2014, 10:58 pm
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...and yet, it was nothing when compared to what loomed in the future. ( :shock: )
"Loomed" is right! :lol: Incredible work!

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Post subject: Re: Japan - Fuso Class Battleship.Posted: May 8th, 2014, 12:31 am
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that thing on the top of the forward funnel is downright ugly.
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Post subject: Re: Japan - Fuso Class Battleship.Posted: May 8th, 2014, 12:38 am
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Fantastic stuff. That strange forward funnel cap is interesting (I had never seen it before).

What would be really cool at some point might be a deck by deck description of what each platform on the pagoda mast was responsible for. I've seen something similar in one of Friedmans' works via Google Books, but admittedly it was one of his few titles I don't personally own!

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Post subject: Re: Japan - Fuso Class Battleship.Posted: May 8th, 2014, 7:14 am
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Fantastic work!
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Post subject: Re: Japan - Fuso Class Battleship.Posted: May 8th, 2014, 10:37 am
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What would be really cool at some point might be a deck by deck description of what each platform on the pagoda mast was responsible for.
Ask and you shall recieve.
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Ooh, me likey! :)

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