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Hello again

During the 1920s, the French studied several carrier designs between 10.000 and 28.000 tons, none of which was eventually selected, much less ordered. I chose the 19.000 ton design, which looks a lot like HMS Glorious, because it seems the most feasible and - together with Bearn - would complete France's allotment of carrier tonnage from the Washington Fleet Treaty. I had only a rather blurry plan without much details to work with, so most of the finer details are conjectural. So is the name, actually - the last Neptune was scrapped in 1908, so I figured it a a reasonable choice.



The same in a hypothetical 1940s fit with more flak and newer planes (Martlet fighters, LN-401 divebombers and PL.108 torpedo bombers)



By the way, ImageShack started to assign random filenames to uploaded pics a few days ago, I have no clue why. I also have no clue how I can rename the files to something useful for uploading purposes. Can anyone help me there??

Greetings
GD

A Lexington-esque island...I like it! The only correction I might make is that the 1940 version (or a later version if you're planning on a wartime one as well) might have extended the flight deck all the way to the bow like other carriers, so as to give the updated airwing more takeoff space.

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Amazing work Garlicdesign, I like it very much indeeed.
I also think that, the idea of extending the flight deck in the later version is very logical, though I doubt it would have been done.
I also like your PL.108 planes.
I think that, had the ship been built the 1940 version might have carried the twin 37mm ACAD Mle 1936 mounting.

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Wow!
That's an amazing work (and a certainly interesting ship)!

Btw. I think it would be great if You post it for upload too.

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Thats one good looking carrier!!

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Excellent work, I've never seen this design before. A very good looking ship combing several interesting design styles.

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Very interesting looking ship for sure. One thing that's always puzzled me about the French carrier designs are the grills on the island sponsoon. Are they intakes or what? I don't recall other carriers of the period featuring such prominent grills which appear unique to French designs. Any elaboration is welcome.

Once again excellent drawing.

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Le Grille? What the hell is that? Sorry 'bout that.

In all seriousness though, beautiful drawing! There is something about French superstructures of the time period that I just love.

OK, now trying it with MajHost





looking good

By the way, I also dont't know the exact reason for all these holes. Might be a weight-saving measure because this carrier - just like Bearn which has the same holes - has the bridge sponsoned out very far to starboard.

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