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Nice work. except the shading that dosn't fit the shading rules that many people have been working on. I am talking about the hull. Now we either do an simple shading of the hull or we shade how the hull looks in the real world. your's well... it's a ship not a bathtub. a shading represent 45 degrees in the hull.. and we never use to type of shading for shading a hull. all those Shipbucket rule is about making it simple but good at the same time so other people that want to modifie it can do it easy.


Oh remember boys it's Niagara not Viagra

Heuhen,

Actually, I used the buttock lines from the hull plans to guide the shading. I found using the "45 degree rule" was giving me some weird shapes, particularly at the bow end...so that's when I tried the technique I used.
Note: the original plans may no longer exist, the drawings I used were taken off a surviving half model of the Niagara.

Plan "B" was to take the original hull plans and completely re-draft them to create very accurate line-work for guiding SB's simplified shading style. Overkill for a 2D drawing and not good time utilization.

Plan "C" I can render the plans in 3D with accurate lighting, then convert the image to 2D. That's beyond the scope of SB and a waste of time in a small scale.

Plan "D" would be to build a half model, photograph it with SB compliant lighting sources. Digitally trace over it for a SB drawing. Not going to happen.

CraigH

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Wow! Fantastic work!

well, the bow end is basically all that is wrong with it, I think. I am not that familiar with sailing ship shapes.
if you could PM me the lineplan, maybe? I will try to help you out then by using the technique I use when I have an lineplan available.

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Revised the USS Niagara drawings on the previous page (page 15).

Here is one of the "90 Day Gun-Boats" from the American Civil War:

USA, USS Ticonderoga (1862)

USA, USS Ticonderoga (1864)

USA, USS Ticonderoga (1865-1869)

I suspect there was an additional rebuild around 1869-70. Also armament did change over time.

Launched 1862
Sold: 1887

Type: Screw sloop-of-war
Displacement: 2,526 long tons (2,567 t)
Length: 237 ft (72 m)
Beam: 38 ft 2 in (11.63 m)
Draft: 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m)
Speed: 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Armament: 1 × 150-pounder Parrott rifle
1 × 50-pounder Dahlgren rifle
6 × 9 in (230 mm) Dahlgren smoothbores
2 × 24-pounder howitzers
2 × 12-pounder rifles
2 × heavy 12-pounder smoothbores

It's sister ship was the USS Lackawanna.

CraigH

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Damn nice Craig!

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Great work!

Very nice work, indeed. It's like a spot-the-difference game.

Loving it!

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Nice work.