Shipbucket

I see what you are trying to say. Hull shading has always been my biggest problem. I can never seem to get advanced shading to look right, and I didn't like how the standard made the stern look. So I'm left with something in between.

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Canadian Pacific Steamships Empress of Britain (post war)
Cunard Line Ascania (final 1950s configuration)
Cunard Line RMS Aquitania

Good work Cunardfan!

Lovely piece of work Cunardfan. I hope to see more Cunarders in the near future.

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

Nice work Cunardfan.
Don't worry about the hull shading, like you I was unsure of hull shading techniques and stuck to the old methods until very recently. Experiment with things at your own pace.

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English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft

Here's a vessel that tops the SS Bessemer in weirdness. This little oddity is the SS Ernest Bazin, an experimental ship built in 1896 to test inventor Ernest Bazin's roller ship concept. The vessel floats on and is partially propelled by six disc shaped hulls/wheels, each of which are independently driven by a 50 horsepower engine, with an additional source of propulsion through a small screw lowered from the main deck.

The idea behind this design was to create a faster vessel by reducing hull contact with the water and by increasing the number of propulsion sources, this being achieved by having multiple independent hulls that also act like paddle wheels when rotated. Bazin himself predicted that the test vessel would be capable of 18 knots, however in theory it could achieve speeds up to 32 knots.

However when she was tested in the English Channel, water adhered to the rollers, causing a braking effect, thus preventing the ship from reaching its predicted top speed and causing it to consume more fuel. While the test roller ship proved to be a failure, Bazin continued to work on the design and in 1898, several weeks before his death on January 21st, Bazin announced that he had found a solution to the fault on the rollers and that he planned to build a transatlantic liner with four pairs of rollers capable of 47 knots, but the roller ship concept ultimately died with him.

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Nice work, and an interesting story. It would be nice to have another angle to give perspective to the shape of the paddles.

Well done

Well I think that tops the list of weirdest ships ever!
Nice work on the drawing though.

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Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft

Great work!

Indeed a very nice drawing, and quite a lesson in history. Well done!

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"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

Intersting information about the roller ship, something I had no idea before.