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Posts: 3017 ( 8-Sep-2007 16:12:09) |
Wow,
I have a list!! As built QEs As built Tiger Derfflinger Hood Renown Vittorio Veneto I don't think the KGVs were dumpy, I think they were fine looking vessels. Mike |
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Desert Sailor |
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Posts: 1053 ( 8-Sep-2007 16:19:27) |
Well, you have to love Hood -
But being a loyal citizen of the high and dry I will go with New Mexico - that great clipper bow and all those guns! charley aka Desert Sailor |
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Posts: 1424 ( 8-Sep-2007 16:20:46) |
Since it hasn´t been mentioned before, I feel justified to nominate RICHELIEU. A very distinctive shape and modern looking lines, a beauty.
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Throd |
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Posts: 376 ( 8-Sep-2007 18:58:29) |
I like the KGVs. The tower bridges and large twin upright funnels give them a solid, dependable appearance. I also think that the vertical turret faces add
greatly to this. The French BBs and BCs also have an elegant, rakish look. The Iowas look lean and fast from many angles but from above their strange bow shape
looks rather odd. The Vanguard has too much superstructure for my taste, and looks a little like a modern liner.
Don't ignore the cruisers - the Des Moines are very attractive too! |
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Crusty |
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Posts: 65 ( 8-Sep-2007 20:24:15) |
First and foremost, it must have a single funnel. Just dont care for the twin funnel types.
Older: Pennsylvania/Arizona-mid 1930's vintage, Newer: South Dakota's The "Twins" Bismark/Tirpitz |
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bill sanderson |
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Posts: 2250 ( 8-Sep-2007 21:17:10) |
I think Tiger looks better than Hood, as does Renown. I don't like the big distance between Hood's after funnel and X turret. Also IMO the reconstructed QEs looked better than the originals, though not really things of beauty. In general, ships designed for 28 knots and above will be aesthetically more pleasing because of the hull form/ proportions. Yes to Vanguard, but the Lions would have been better.
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Simon Darkshade |
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Posts: 26 ( 9-Sep-2007 07:54:05) |
Vanguard by a whisker over Hood. West Virginia post reconstruction has a nice profile.
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BrianM1917 |
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Posts: 327 ( 9-Sep-2007 19:02:21) |
I'll probably get laughed at, but I think the Finnish coast-defense ships Vainamoinen and Ilmarinen were well-designed and sweet-looking little
"pocket battleships."
http://www.warship.get.net.pl/Finlandia/Cruisers/1932_Vainamoinen_class/_Vainamoinen_photos.html http://www.warship.get.net.pl/Finlandia/Cruisers/1932_Vainamoinen_class/Armament/_Vainamoinen_armament.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vFUXInJZpM (You find the darndest things on Youtube!) One point I really like about them is that the secondary armament superfires the primary, an intelligent design which only happened elsewhere in some later US cruisers and the Yamatos. Brian M |
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Desert Sailor |
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Posts: 1055 ( 9-Sep-2007 22:23:36) |
That is one heck of a mainmast!
charley aka Desert Sailor |
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bill sanderson |
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Posts: 2251 ( 9-Sep-2007 23:40:24) |
<"I think the Finnish coast-defense ships Vainamoinen and Ilmarinen were well-designed and sweet-looking little "pocket
battleships"">
Sweet looking, yes. They look like Airfix kits! ;-) (wonder if you can face-harden polystyrene...) |
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