98m Basic design

[Portsmouth Bill]

PB!
Seeing your post here made me wonder if you have seen my take (end of page 1 of this thread)

I had seen it, and I like the fit you've chosen; but I'm not so sure about that hull: it just seems a bit large for the role. Also, looking at Thiels original source it does seem to indicate a vds on the stern, but I don't see any versions with it.

[Rowdy36]

Hi all, my first post in this new site - I posted the Leeuwin Class Hydrographic Vessel and Incat Light Helicopter Transport in the old forum.
Anyway, I thought the idea behind this topic was a good one so I gave it a try and this is what I came up with (the nation is a fictional one - an AU I've had in my head for a while)

[acelanceloet]

the ship looks good IMHO, but the camo isn't much help in these times..... you can use it because it looks cool though

[Rowdy36]

Thanks

The idea behind the camo is the ship is used mostly in the littorals so I figured it may help against shore batteries (a bit like the fake cockpit the Canadians use on their CF-18s - it may never be used but there's no harm in having it)

Plus I really like how it looks

[Colosseum]

Ship camo is just cool.

I'd be totally OK if the USN brought back the old camo schemes just for the lulz. At taxpayer expense of course, but with all the other stupid bullshit we spend our taxpayer money on... who really cares.

[Gollevainen]

good camoflage (expecially one that Sweden and Finland uses) can be effective in littorial enverioment as if done in radar and illuminating absording paints, becouse they ease up the hinding of the ship inside the coastline for visual observations.
In open seas it doesen't that much offer any advantage becouse mere eyesigth isen't that important in searching and finding ships. (thus all the bigger units in Finnish and Swedish navies are plain hazegray)

In shipbucket, if we make camoflages, we have to give the colors similar change of shading as we do on the normal grey colors, and not to draw darker grey lines that belongs to the grey-palette atop the other colors.

[rifleman]

My idea of 98M OPV/Corvette

[Wikipedia & Universe]

Interestingly enough Hyperstealth made concept of modern ships with camo schemes. Below is a concept of a Burke in a littoral environment.

[Canadai]

[klagldsf]

That's just begging for a VLS bay forward, even a very small one using Mk 48/56