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Gollevainen
Post subject: Project 66 Heavy cruiserPosted: October 19th, 2016, 4:50 pm
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As I managed to buy a copy of a Midel-shpangout series about the project 66 back in summer after visiting St. Petersburg, I decided to draw it after excelent linedrawing reference.

So here it is, one of the well-documented but yet lesser known Soviet never where from the post war years, Project 66 heavy cruiser.

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Post subject: Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiserPosted: October 19th, 2016, 4:58 pm
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Very cool.

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Post subject: Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiserPosted: October 19th, 2016, 6:01 pm
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Very Interesting


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Post subject: Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiserPosted: October 19th, 2016, 6:03 pm
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Hmmm,
The entire forward-bridge look somewhat similar that the French "Jean-Bart" after 1948


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Post subject: Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiserPosted: October 19th, 2016, 6:23 pm
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Very nice work.
That forward superstructure is very distinctive, I wonder if there would have been any structural problems with that layout?

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Krakatoa
Post subject: Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiserPosted: October 19th, 2016, 7:12 pm
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That is one huge cruiser, 817 feet. I would like to know the rest of the stats to that beast. Are those 8" guns or bigger?

You have done a great job bringing that monster cruiser to life.


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Post subject: Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiserPosted: October 19th, 2016, 7:48 pm
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http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNRussian_Main.php

According to above link, the Pr.66 would have 220 mm main guns (220/65 SM-40).

Wonderful job, boss, cannot wait to see more Never Built Soviet ships.


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Post subject: Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiserPosted: October 19th, 2016, 8:13 pm
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Stupendous drawing. Very clean and stylish.


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Post subject: Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiserPosted: October 19th, 2016, 9:03 pm
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Great looking ship. Looks like a fairly modern AA set on it too. That weird-looking half-suspended bridge might come from a compromise between usable volume, LOS height and amount of steel required to armor all of that. Can't draw conclusions just from the drawing though.
Still, very well executed from a customarily cluttered original and what I assume are patchy sources (I wouldn't have pulled that off with Sokolov only, I can tell you that).

Any chance of a Projekt 24 in the future? :mrgreen:

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Post subject: Re: Project 66 Heavy cruiserPosted: October 20th, 2016, 4:55 am
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Yeh it is quite large desing. It orginates from same studies that led to Project 82 Stalingrad class. The later outgrew from the 9 220mm gun design into 9 305mm and Soviets still believed that a 220mm gun cruiser was needed to counter the US heavy cruisers. This project and the Project 82 was cancelled after Stalin's death.

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