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Bombhead I bow down to your amazing fantabulousness I have to agree with eswube I don't think I can take it

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Thanks mates I'm pleased you like the drawing.

Wonderful, wonderful! Thank you.

The latest revision for old Vic:

Great work!!
Just delete the flying boat over the bridge in the '58 version

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Umm not sure about the big chrismas tree aeriel in front of the bridge either.This clip shows her in 1966 http://www.britishpathe.com/video/hms-victorious

yeesh. Everytime I look at this thread I realize just how much my own carriers look like the doodlings of a grade schooler. Well, it definately gives me a goal to work towards!

Very nice flattops!

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Even if we are not the 25 december , the aerial does exist and is visible on this video
example: (just left of the C of Copyright on "still photo" of 1min43)
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/stills/hms-victorious

and on the photo page 43 of this thread; just behind the SeaVixen tail


But I agree that this aerial is drawned a "little" too big

i was waiting confirmation also for the port embarcation bay, and the video confirm that it was plated over;
i shall modify these, that but it will be for the next week, i am on holiday until monday, i can just answer to my mails and to the forum, but not making drawings

Well, much more work than anticipated, i'm not yet fully satisfied , but here she is:

HMS Victorious: 1958, first commission after the lenghty refit:

The ship was extensively reconstructed and modernised at Portsmouth Dockyard between 1950 and 1957. This took over eight years because of frequent design changes to allow for new technologies. Her hull was widened, deepened, and lengthened; her machinery was replaced with Foster-Wheeler boilers; her hangar height was increased; new armament of 3 inch (76 mm) guns was installed; and an angled flight deck was added. Her radar equipment was extensively altered to include up to date equipment. While it was hoped she could operate a full airwing of 50 aircraft, the rapid increase in size of the jets coming into service limited her to more than 28 aircraft (including helicopters) being able to be operated. (...)
In 1961 she would sail to join the Far East Fleet, where she remained until early 1966 when she returned to the UK for a refit period from mid 1966 to late 1967, though she only remained in Fleet service until 1968. Victorious took part in Operation Vantage in support of Kuwait in 1961 and provided support in 1964 for the newly independent state of Malaysia against territorial expansion by its neighbour, Indonesia.
In 1968, shortly before re-commissioning after a refit, there was a relatively minor fire in the Chief Petty Officers' mess (resulting in one death and two hospitalisations), which was rapidly extinguished, and the ship was operating normally the next day[citation needed]. This coincided, however, with a reduction of the defence budget and, with the 1966 decision to phase out British fixed-wing naval aviation, it was decided, at very short notice, not to recommission Victorious.
She was paid off in 1968 and subsequently placed on the Disposal List in 1969. She was sold later that year to British Shipbreakers and towed to Faslane Naval Base on 13 July 1969, where she was broken up.

Very impressive Mossie