Pardon the tease (no spilling the beans if you are on the big gun list btw). I've slowly started a new ship kit. I figured I'd have a bit of fun and see how long it took for someone to guess the name from just the partially completed cad geometry. I will upload more pictures as the hull takes shape. So without further delay, the first clue....
RE: ________ Ship build (cad -> kit) Sooo im on the big gun list (if that is the yahoo group) and I didn't get to know But then again that leaves me eligible to guess so thats a plus! haha WW1 or WW2?
RE: ________ Ship build (cad -> kit) Couple extra frames added. as a hint... this is waterline and down..... nothing above the waterline is modeled yet the second hint is that it complies with my general modeling requirements. I.E. that acceptable to good plans exist from reputable sources in electronic format.
RE: ________ Ship build (cad -> kit) Looks like one drive prop. Bismarck has a skeg under the single drive prop that looks like that.
RE: ________ Ship build (cad -> kit) Not a B. I've owned one in the past and there are plentiful good hulls out there, which knocks it off the list (so you can add any ship I have owned a kit to to the NOT IT list).
RE: ________ Ship build (cad -> kit) Yep. I think that nick actually bet on you guessing correctly. Technically the Provence drawings from the french archives plans
RE: ________ Ship build (cad -> kit) That stern is very, very french. I'm surprised nobody else got it first.
Well, I didn't show above the waterline so I think the casemates would have given it away better than that section
On the way to work, it occured to me that Edgar Quinet had the same shape to her skeg. Then I was like, 'craaappp....'.
and I have to figure out how to best implement the penetrable casemates for MWC/IRC while enabling solid for everyone else. I am half tempted to try to set the plans up for easy scaling to 1/96 as well
That is the hull below the waterline. there is one frame left before the transition to the bow. I still have to figure out how to to properly model the bow/stern sections. but it is progress
Well, that portion of the bow was freakishly simple... now to the stern then above the waterline... displaced mass is correct so far so that is a great sign.
