Shipbucket

Exelent stuff... who on their rigth mind would design low-speed post-WWII cruisers with autocannons for AU's brilliant...

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The hull size prevent large engine, thus high top speed. But if you think there is space for big engine in here.

I think you need cruiser size hull for cruiser size speeds... but perhaps you got me wrong, I didn't meant that this is by default bad idea, just something the usuall AU kitbasher wouldn't come up with.
As a sloop or some sort of rewamped colonial gunboat this desing migth find its place, depending the naval situation of your universum offcourse.

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how Caledonia universe looks like: well I just form it as I am moving along. but what I might think is an not so very big country, 50'ish millions people. with several "colonies" or independent stats within Caledonia.


Then I am thinking the ship can fit in as an sheep solution to bring big gun weapon out to some of the colonies.
I am also thinking about giving her two more 40mm. and modifies the main guns a bit, so she can go in as a AAW-ship with some artillery support (originally I was thinking artillery ship, with limited AAW capability)

top speed shall be increased to 30'ish knots

next up for redraw project is:

my favorite AU ship (for some weird reason!):

The Q5 class Battlecruiser/battleship

This is how she looked like before:


now the work start:


- colors and railings removed.
- new bow and stern added.
- new armor belt added. (more modification to the armor belt will come when secondary are coming in place.

some points of what I am going to do:

- new turrets: main and second turrets.
- new superstructure layout.
- different mast solution.
- own designed range finder and gun director.

The drawing above have been updated.

things done:

- new bow.
- new stern.
- new main turret.
- replacing secondary turrets.
- Changed the Armor layout.
- new props and ruder.
- detail adjustment. (less details!)
- New ship color scheme (Haram Navy Scheme 5NA "North Atlantic")
- new mast solution. (single mast solution)

To do:
- adjust some of the railing colors.
- add AAW
- add lifeboat aft of funnel
- rafts
- add crane
- add directors and rangefinders (superstructure and main turret)
- add small search lights
- add canvas

class change from slow battlecruiser to 25 knots, 16" battleship

It looks like you halved the number of shafts, is there a new engine setup too?

everey thing have been changed, and I felt it was time period correct at when she was build!

Impressive drawings.

looks good, thougth the orginal looked really good as well, so you sorta obligated to match it when you finish this:lol:

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