Grays Harbor Designs

[Zephyr]

I've been thinking lately about perhaps doing some "adversary" ships as well as Grays Harbor ones, and was wondering if anybody might like to collaborate on that? Just a thought I had.

[Thiel]

I might be interested.

[Zephyr]

I might be interested.

I was hoping you would be.

I'll be putting together a brief background synopsis and overview tonight when I get home from work and I'll shoot you a copy to see what you think, or if you have any suggestions/ideas.

[Thiel]

Fire away. I've just started working 12 hour night shifts though, so drawing is probably going to be slow.

[Zephyr]

Meh. Speed is not an issue.

[Zephyr]

The Quinn Bay in her experimental paint scheme worn in 1943-44

[Zephyr]

My first foray into submarines.....

Great White Class (1919-23)

Zephyr,

Your Great White class looks like a good beginning but looks incomplete to me.
Shading maybe?
And the small bits every ship has outside of the prelimary design.

Thought I might revisit this one from a while back. My first try at a submarine, so I'm not at all familiar with the ins-n-outs of them. I haven't made any changes as yet to the initial drawing, thought I'd get a couple more opinions on how to proceed to make it look less like a, well. glorified cigar tube?

[travestytrav25]

Your camo pattern on the Quinn Bay Class CVE looks awesome.

And your submarine doesn't look too bad to me. LOL, a lot of early submarines from that period did look like "glorified cigar tubes", so you're design is not too far off the mark. The only thing I might say is most subs had smaller conning towers back then, and 6 bow torpedo tubes might be a little bit too optimistic. Most subs back then had no more than 4 bow tubes, but 6 is not impossible. Other than that, the hull shape and features looks pretty spot on for the period to me.

[Bombhead]

That cammo pattern should dazzle any sub captain,it sure dazzled me.

[Zephyr]

Your camo pattern on the Quinn Bay Class CVE looks awesome.

And your submarine doesn't look too bad to me. LOL, a lot of early submarines from that period did look like "glorified cigar tubes", so you're design is not too far off the mark. The only thing I might say is most subs had smaller conning towers back then, and 6 bow torpedo tubes might be a little bit too optimistic. Most subs back then had no more than 4 bow tubes, but 6 is not impossible. Other than that, the hull shape and features looks pretty spot on for the period to me.

Its actually based on the British L Class, Group 3, which had the large con and 6 x 21" bow tubes. Its just that mine looks, well, bare ... to me, and I'm not sure how to proceed. I don't want to over-shade it, that would look silly, but just having a single line doesn't quite cut it either. I probably ought add some sort of deck gun, I'm sure of that at least.