Japan - Aoba Class Heavy Cruiser

[Master Chief Brown]

Quite an astounding design. Did she last out the war? (And do the Japanese even refer to their ships as "she's"? The Russians call their ships he's.)

[Raxar]

Nice.

[WhyMe]

I Tried something by using a lighter shade for the boat keel in order to get some more contrast near the mooring post

It's not exactly what I meant; I was talking about 3px wide black line. How about lowering the mooring post by 1px? This should eliminate the problem.

[BB1987]

Quite an astounding design. Did she last out the war? (And do the Japanese even refer to their ships as "she's"? The Russians call their ships he's.)

Neither of them, Kinugasa was sunk on 14 november 1942 by torpe and dive bombers from USS Enterprise (CV-6), Aoba was sunk at her moorings on july 28 1945 durng a US raid on Kure harbour.

About Japanese referring to ships as she's, i do not know actually, but i grew up with all my english teachers telling me that english speaking people usually refer to ships in female forms, so i always do that.

It's not exactly what I meant; I was talking about 3px wide black line. How about lowering the mooring post by 1px? This should eliminate the problem.

Oh, got it, i will do it. (expect all drawings modified tomorrow, now in Italy it's 2.00AM and i need some sleep )

[KHT]

Japanese refer to their ships as "he". Look at a lot of non-military ship, they often has a "Maru" hung on the end of the name. "Maru" is a name-ending commonly used on male names.

[gral]

Japanese refer to their ships as "he". Look at a lot of non-military ship, they often has a "Maru" hung on the end of the name. "Maru" is a name-ending commonly used on male names.

It is, but there is no gender in Japanese nouns. Hell, Japanese rarely uses "he" or "she" anyway, using instead the name of the person being spoken of.

[BB1987]

Corrected the pixels issue, the updated drawings are all in the first page

[KHT]

Japanese refer to their ships as "he". Look at a lot of non-military ship, they often has a "Maru" hung on the end of the name. "Maru" is a name-ending commonly used on male names.

It is, but there is no gender in Japanese nouns. Hell, Japanese rarely uses "he" or "she" anyway, using instead the name of the person being spoken of.

I'm well aware, but the "Maru" ending still suggest that if anything, ships are considered to be "he" from a Japanese view point. So it's still more correct to say that they are "he" and not "she".

[BB1987]

So from now on i should address all the IJN ships i will draw as he instead of she?

Aoba in 1937 after her reconstruction, a more extensive one was initially envised and would have lasted until 1938, but plans does not materialize and a minor one was implemented; two quad torpedo launchers where fitted, four twin 25mm machine guns where placed abreast the funnels and the 13mm machine guns previously placed near the bridge where moved forward of it, the 120mm guns where enclosed and upgraded but not replaced, also the hull was bulged to improve stability issues.

[emperor_andreas]

Nice work!