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WWII44
Post subject: Re: Civil War monitorsPosted: October 1st, 2013, 1:19 am
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CraigH wrote:
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A Work In Progress. Kalamazoo Class
Displacement: 5,600 long tons (5,700 t)
Tons burthen: 3,200 (bm)
Length: 345 ft 5 in (105.3 m)
Beam: 56 ft 8 in (17.3 m)
Draft: 17 ft 6 in (5.3 m)
Installed power: 2,000 ihp (1,500 kW) (estimated)
8 × Tubular boilers
Propulsion: 2 × Shafts
2 × Direct-acting steam engines
Speed: 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Armament: 2 × 2 - 15-inch (381 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns
Armor: Gun turret: 10 in (254 mm)
Hull: 6 in (152 mm)
Deck: 3 in (76 mm)

Ships in the Class:
Kalamazoo
Passaconaway
Quinsigamond
Shackamaxon


They were under construction when the Civil War ended and never completed. The lower hulls were constructed of unseasoned wood, dry-rot set in several years later, they were all condemned and broken up. A shame!

They were intended to be seagoing and might have been able to stand up to some of the best Europe had to offer. Despite the super slow rate of fire, those 15" guns packed a lot of throw weight. If the ball hit something, it broke.

CraigH
pretty cool, I might see about doing the USS Chickasaw when I finnish the CSS Virginia.


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Post subject: Re: Civil War monitorsPosted: October 1st, 2013, 12:18 pm
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Nice work but I think it would look better with proper SB style shading rather than the graduations of colour you have here. Although you're attempting to represent the round turrets the shading makes them look more like hexagons.

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Post subject: Re: Civil War monitorsPosted: October 1st, 2013, 1:20 pm
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Thank you Hood.

This was a drawing started some time ago in Corel Draw. The shading has been "dummed down" in an effort to approach Shipbucket style yet retain some semblance of the roundness that's a key feature of the shape.

A tough compromise...Shipbucket style doesn't lend itself to representing curved surfaces. It does however succeed in creating a uniform style of presenting ships uniformly.

Original shading at Shipbucket scale A:
Current "Compromise" shading B:
Shipbucket shading copied from another Monitor C:
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Post subject: Re: Civil War monitorsPosted: October 1st, 2013, 7:35 pm
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The USS Chickasaw

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Post subject: Re: Civil War monitorsPosted: October 1st, 2013, 9:57 pm
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@Craig: Maybe extending the shading on C by a few pixels would help reduce the flatness of it.

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Post subject: Re: Civil War monitorsPosted: October 1st, 2013, 11:26 pm
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Raxar,
Here's an additional 2 pixels of shading/highlight. Looks like a block with big chamfers to me, not round!

WWII44,
Those river monitors were wild looking things with that shallow draft! Looking good.

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Post subject: Re: Civil War monitorsPosted: October 2nd, 2013, 12:26 am
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thanks, it wasn't easy hashing out her form as alot of the detale of the pic I traced were lost when I scaled it to SB scale. as for for your turret predicament, take a close look at how I shaded the turrets of the Chickasaw, also looking at the way at shading the stack and pilot house will also be a way of shadding. and if you want a little more referance of turret shadding tak a gander at my other monitors.

My Passaic-class
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My Canonicus-class
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Post subject: Re: Civil War monitorsPosted: October 2nd, 2013, 12:56 pm
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C is probably best. Shading is best done with minimal features at this scale, especially with darker paint schemes.
Also, don't forget the ships should be outlined in black, as should the gunports. Of course its a WIP at this stage.

It nice to see more of these monitors on SB.

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Post subject: Re: Civil War monitorsPosted: October 8th, 2013, 11:51 pm
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Kalamazoo Class
Number of shades reduced. Hopefully approaching or at acceptability for SB standards.

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Post subject: Re: Civil War monitorsPosted: October 9th, 2013, 1:01 am
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I'd upload it to the archive.


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