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Those are some fine looking cruisers, nicely done.

So, a different interpretation of the original plans. Different color scheme aside, a few notes on the differences: Although shown differently, I made the turret base thicker, matching the original design for the triple 203mm-turret. The crane booms are thinner, matching the plans, although it is ...

Nice drawing, interesting interpretation of the original plans.

I was working on a drawing of the designs myself for the past few weeks, so it looks like I wasn't fast enough. If you allow it, I may post my drawings here.

As promised, here is SMS Ariadne:

As announced somewhere else, here is SMS Ariadne , one of the Gazelle -class light cruisers. From Wikipedia : Ariadne was ordered under the contract name "D" and was laid down at the AG Weser shipyard in Bremen on 14 December 1899. She was launched on 10 August 1900 and the director of the ...

Did these for my personal archive, might as well post them here: Brummer-class minelaying cruiser When World War I started, the German Navy needed fast ships, capable of quickly lying mine fields. At the same time, AG Vulcan had a set of turbines under construction for the Russian battlecruiser ...

Apologies for the late reply.

I did SMS Frauenlob a while ago, I might have a go at Ariadne, if there is still interest?

Thanks everyone. It looks like the turrets have just had dismountable structures built around them to provide the flight decks fore and aft? The aft deck with that strange kink is also weird, surely the Germans would have used a little logic that a landing deck would need to be flat to be of any use ...

Well... List, June 10th, 1918 Report about reconnaissance activity of Naval Air Station List on 10. June 1918 … 5.30 airplanes start with course to 061 alpha… … 7.25 … smoke ahead port, a strikingly large ship within, later recognized as airplane mothership and four English destroyers. Position 051 a ...

Those are some amazing small ships, well done!