I have started to redraw my old ships into Shipbucket style and scale (just multiply the old drawings by 1,59 then you get them into Shipbucket scale (1' = 2 pixels)
The first ship I have remade is these two late 1950s/ early 1960s antiaircraft and picket destroyers.
Jägerhorn-class in service between 1955 and 1982, last all gun
AA destroyer of the Swedish navy.
Modified Jägerhorn class or Klingspor class in service between
1962 and 1988. The B mount is replaced with a single Tartar launcher and torpedoes with RBS 08 SSM in boxlauncher.
Here is their replacement in the fleet AAW escort role.
The Mannerheim class built between 1980 and 1984 and in
Service until 2015.
This is theSnapphanen Class, a swedish Leander/ Rothesey type ASW
escort.
The ships went through an MLU beteen 1984-86 and the heavy VDS where replaced by a more modern type and a TAS. the Twin 57mm gun where replaced by a single 57mm Bofors Mk 2 and Seacat with Seawolf. Helicopter facilites where also updated to hand´le the new Lynx. Sensors an FC where also upgraded.
The Spica Class GP frigate laid down in 1989, similar to the RN Duke and RCN Halifax class.
length 125m
beam 18m
ca 4000tons
1x 120mm L60 TAK
2x 57mm Mk2
8x RBS 15
2x 20mm Orlerikon
4z2 400mm ASW torpedoes
4x 375mm AURAK ASW rockets
16x2 GWS 26 SeaWolf VLS
hangar for one heavy or two medium helicopters.
HSwMS Kung Carl LPD, orignially intented as replacement for
the big carriers but the late cold war and increased need for colonial patroling saved the carriers. This LPD tries to incorporated both the trooptransport
capability of LPD with NGS power of a cruiser.
