A new drawing of the Ideal Battleship for the British Navy
This is a new version of my drawing of Colonel Cunibert's 'Ideal Battleship for the British Navy" that he discussed in an article in Jane's 'All the World's Fighting Ships' in the 1903 Edition.
Monday, May 30, 2005
A New Sort of Drawing: very large GIFs
I had seen some really good GIF ship drawings (signed by "Delta Alpha" and dated 2003). They are linked to by "the Italian couple" (Stefano and Lidia) on their Battleships & Knights site). The top level page is a compendium of folders from the Warship Projects forum. The folder that has the good drawings is The Never Were Catalog.
This links to the very large GIF drawing which is higher resolution than anything that I
have previously drawn. I am also observing the example with having the bow to the right,
unlike my other drawings. I need to do more research about topic like deck fittings and boats,
so that I can produce more accurate drawings. Those sort of issues are pretty much
below the level of detail to which I have gone.
Another thread is the "very large" warships from about 1937-1943 in the US Navy. The 1,250ft battlecruiser is the ship that really captured my imagination.
The very large battlecruiser (US/CB/1941)
New developments
In addition to my classic naval building program game from 1971, I have developed several new threads. One is a set of pictures of design studies or concept ships from 1903 to 1914 from "real life". One example is the "Super Lion" that Admiral Fisher wrote about to Winston Churchill in 1912. The ship would have had 10-15in guns, 30 knot speed, and limited armor. Others are the "Super Swift" from 1912, the "Unapproachable" armored cruiser from 1904-1905, and the "Untakeable" battlship with 16-10in guns.
Super Lion (the version with the "Tiger look")
Another thread is the "very large" warships from about 1937-1943 in the US Navy. The 1,250ft battlecruiser is the ship that really captured my imagination.
The very large battlecruiser (US/CB/1941)
Monday, May 16, 2005
The British Building Program from the 1971 Naval Race Game
Describing the British building program is a work in progress, but I wanted to get what I have available, immediately. I have been posting Springsharp reports and drawings. A great deal of the details and the rationale for the game are available at: Dreadnought Cruisers Blog. The most significant development has been the photoart pictures of ships from the two competing building programs. You can look directly at the photoart directory at: Images/ShipArt.You can look directly at the high-res drawing directory at:Images/ColorGifs.
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Summary sheet of ship drawings (from my 1971 wargame)
This is the composite sheet that shows the relative sizes of ships. The ships shown are the
Ger/CS/1905, Ger/DD/1905, Ger/BB/1907, Ger/BB/1905, Ger/CB/1905, and the Ger/CB/1906.
These are all my designs for the warship building program game that my friend Cliff
and I played in 1971. Somehow, I managed to preserve most of the records, including
the original pencil sketches. I've been interested to see how the designs work
in the Springsharp program, as well as my own warship design program. I will be
doing more of these drawings and posting them here.
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Launch of Graphic Artist 2 (well, it was the only name available with the the right words)
I will be posting my digital drawing here, as I need a static web site
where I can push them to the Internet. I will be occasionally linking to pictures
from here on Panzer Abwehr and
Dreadnought Cruisers.
Let's try my Ger/CB/1906 drawing and see how it looks:
This is the thumbnail view, unfortunately, but I have a link to the larger drawing, when you click
the picture. The large pictures do not fit on a page. I will have to be content to link to them.