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Hi All this is my idea that I hopefully turn into a RC ship in 1:72 scale

Name: HMAS Platypus (Concept)
Type: Submarine Deep Rescue and Maintenance Ship
Class: Platypus Class (Ulstein X-Bow hull)
Commissioned: 23 June 2019
Homeport: Fleet Base East
Motto: "Nothing to Difficult"
General characteristics
Displacement: 14,500 tons
Length: 122 metres
Beam: 25 metres
Draft: 8 metres
Speed: 18 knots
Range: 6000 nautical miles
Machinery: 2 x General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engine
2 x MTU 10V 1163 diesel generators
2 x Electric Controllable Pitch Type Bow Thrusters
Crew: 125 (15 SRV Specialists, 10 Medical personal)
Armament: 2x 35mm Oerlikon Millennium Gun
2x Browning .50 Calibre Machine Guns
2x Twin MK53 NULKA
Radar: CEAFAR active electronically scanned array radar
Raytheon SPS-49(V)8 ANZ aerial search and long-range surveillance
Celsius Tech Ceros 200 Fire Control Director
Cossor AIMS Mk XII IFF
Sonar: Thomson Sintra Spherion Sonar
Thales UMS 5424 Petrel Mine and Obstacle Avoidance Sonar
Deck Cranes: 1 x Knuckle boom shipboard crane 1 x 250 Tonne
1 x 100 tonne A frame for SRV
Submersibles 1 x Submarine Rescue Vehicle (SRV)
1 x Remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV)
Attached Aircraft : NH90 or MH-60R Seahawk

How do you insert a picture????

you have to make an account at a file host like dropbox.com. and copy the image link from there in to here.

an tutorial for dropbox.com It have changed a little, but the principle is still the same.

Other members can help you a little more, since I have to get to my late work.



Greetings from Norway!

you use an external image host (dropbox, imgur, photobucket for example) and then get the public link to that image. when you put that within image tags (as shown in the example below) the image is visible on the forums.

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Thanks Guys I'll have a look at that.

I don't know about technical issues, but the drawing (file) "is not good" - apparently it has been saved in some wrong format which created lots of artifacts and generally "blurry" appearance.

Welcome aboard.
Uploading pictures to the site is as mentioned above. There are tutorials for Dropbox, and Photobucket. One thing you must pay attention to, is saving your drawings in .PNG format (this is best). Never save in .Jpg, .Jpeg or any of those formats, because they 'dirty' the white space of the drawing with a lot of stray (nearly white) pixels, or artefacts which make the picture seem blurry or 'out of focus'.

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

Aside from what the others have said, I do love user-concept RAN ships.

Topweight might be an issue seeing the size of the superstructure.

Not sure a 35mm Millenium Gun would be fitted, more likely a 25mm Typhoon up front and maybe 2-4 12.5mm mini-Typhoon guns or manual pintle mounted guns

Might be worth a try in the new RAN greenish colours. Also feel free, (with proper crediting of course as per SB rules) to use this COA for ships named HMAS Platypus

All in all great start!

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Here is a picture of the real ship that I have based the idea and modified for navy use
They do have a very high superstructure
I am in the process of updating the ship (and I'll save it in PNG format now ) and making the bridge a bit more naval....

And this one is of the Ulstein web site

I am aware of Ulsteins high superstructures but just be cautious with the added weight of naval radars and weapons but with your beam it shouldn't be much of an issue.

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Work list(Current)
Miscellaneous|Victorian Colonial Navy|Murray Riverboats|Colony of Victoria AU|Project Sail-fixing SB's sail shortage
How to mentally pronounce my usernameRow-(as in a boat)Don-(as in the short form of Donald)Dough-(bread)
"Loitering on the High Seas" (Named after the good ship Rodondo)
There's no such thing as "nothing left to draw" If you can down 10 pints and draw, you're doing alright by my standards