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Author:  heuhen [ February 28th, 2016, 11:09 am ]
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nice drawing, but you need to count the numbers of guns. on the top view, compared to the side view.
Author:  Krakatoa [ February 28th, 2016, 11:14 am ]
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Good drawing David, but as Heuhen says, 57mm starboard aft, missing.
Author:  erik_t [ February 28th, 2016, 5:53 pm ]
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The ultimate Atlanta.

I've always been very fond of these CLAAs. Nice to see them completed at such a high level.
Author:  Charybdis [ February 29th, 2016, 3:33 am ]
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Very nice, although I'm a little confused by the grey lines across the hull. What do they depict?

EDIT: After a brief glance at some photos, it appears you have mixed a few later features with the 'as commissioned' version. In the image below we see De Grasse with full armament as commissioned. In your drawing you have a boxed structure inboard of the 57mm turret just forward of the funnel. This box replaced the turret when it was removed in the 60's. Also there is no cut-away in the hull in front of the bridge but there is a cut away for a small boat just forward of the boat crane.

Those lines on the hull seem to be rubbing strakes but they don't go the full length of the hull and theres only two. The bridge deck also seems a little out with regards to overhanging platforms. Hope this helps :)

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In this later picture we see the 57mm turret removed and the small cut-away.
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Author:  David Latuch [ March 10th, 2016, 9:00 pm ]
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Thanks everyone.

I believe I have fixed the errors noted.
Author:  Magus [ September 6th, 2017, 4:46 am ]
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Do you have any plans to draw De Grasse's near-sister Colbert?
Author:  David Latuch [ September 6th, 2017, 10:17 am ]
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I had though I had :roll:

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Author:  AlexitoBB [ July 19th, 2022, 3:43 am ]
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France, De Grasse-Class

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FN. Colbert (C-611)

With the onset of the cold war, France still possessed a number of cruisers and a modernized battleship (Jean Bart), which provided cover for its aircraft carriers. In 1946 his last unfinished pre-war cruiser, De Grasse, was launched, completely redesigned and converted into a modern anti-aircraft cruiser with command facilities. Soon the design was considered successful, the Admiralty ordered in 1953 a sister ship at the Brest Arsenal, to be named Colbert.

The new cruiser was finally completed in 1959, three years after de Grasse, with a very similar layout and gunnery. The two cruisers operated for years as fleet escorts until their paths parted with the advent of the missile age. The De Grasse became a command ship for nuclear experiments in the Pacific, while the Colbert was taken over from 1968 to 1970 to be completely rebuilt as a missile cruiser, the only one in the French Navy. She served through the rest of the cold war, a well-known French Navy ambassador around the world with the other cruiser in the fleet, the Jeanne d'Arc helicopter cruiser until the end of the cold war. She was later decommissioned and anchored at Bordeaux for her second life as a museum ship.
Author:  Hood [ July 23rd, 2022, 8:22 am ]
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That is a very nice updated drawing of Colbert.
Author:  eswube [ July 23rd, 2022, 9:49 am ]
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Nice, but it would be nicer if You haven't altered certain elements making them non-SB-acceptable (like gun barrels of main artillery - being 3-pixel thick, they MUST have black outline; or these tan-colored radar domes on artillery directors - rafts also should have outline - not black, perhaps, but some outline - in very dark shade of their actual color - they should have).
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