Shipbucket

VERY nice work!

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That is a lovely drawing of IMO the best of the 'small' navy battleships. Well done GD.

Truly fantastic drawing...

Really nice work, really nice.
Actually, I woulndt mind if you take a bash of some of these never-where armoured ships. I've drawn them all myself, many years ago, mainly for the purposes of my AU projetcs, and thus they've reminded somewhat hidden from great publick since I've not gotten into publish my Finnish AU stuff as much as I've drawn them.
And sometimes, when you roll over the same ship, drawing it numerious times, over these years, and never getting fully pleased of the result, it wouldn't harm at all, if someone else, with completely different ideas takes his turn, and perhaps it could just do good for my own work. I've spotted similar effect on the Old Russian ships you and weisman and Bezo has drawn, and whoknows, perhaps it could work for finnish ones as well.

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That is the most beautiful rendition of Salamis I've ever seen. She actually looks fairly non-Germanic in appearance.

I've often wondered why the Germans never made an attempt to complete her during the Great War. I know the main guns ended up in British hands, but I would have thought the Germans could have modified an existing German turret design to fit her barbettes.

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Wow, you are fast! Excellent work!

@Hood:
It seems that the ship was still missing many vital parts, like most of the armor (80%) and the B and C barbettes (?).
This made the completion under wartime conditions unfeasible and they just launched the hull to clear the slipway.

Great work, she looks beautiful!

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Hello again!

From what I've read, Salamis would have used not only imported guns and turrets, but also imported armour from the USA; the latter could however have been substituted by German material (in WWI, the German problem usually was not lack of steel, but rather lack of workforce). Apart from the manpower issue, I think the main problem would have been the necessity of a major reconstruction to fit German 350mm twins, because they were larger and had larger barbettes than their US equivalents. They might have used 305mm twins, but in 1914, 8 305mm guns seem to have been considered too weak for a newly built ship, so this option was not contemplated.

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GD

Fantastic work! Keep it up!