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Re: First original drawing

Posted: December 29th, 2011, 4:36 pm
by Novice
It looks better and better.
This ship has a lot of potential as a destroyer leader, or a colonial gunboat.

Re: First original drawing

Posted: December 29th, 2011, 5:53 pm
by Portsmouth Bill
Why are you seperating the depth charges?

Re: First original drawing

Posted: December 29th, 2011, 6:23 pm
by Adam_L_M
whats wrong with them being separated like they are?

Re: First original drawing

Posted: December 29th, 2011, 7:06 pm
by Carthaginian
Adam_L_M wrote:whats wrong with them being separated like they are?
I think he means why are you separating the throwers and the racks by so much.

Re: First original drawing

Posted: December 29th, 2011, 7:30 pm
by Novice
Adam_L_M wrote:whats wrong with them being separated like they are?
It is a question of convinience. Placing the depth charges racks and throwers together makes it easier to re-load from the same magazine. Depth charges are heavy (around 500 pounds) and moving them around on the pitching deck of a small craft, is like an accident waiting to happen. I suggest you look at real ships (pictures and drawings) to see how they were placed

Re: First original drawing

Posted: December 29th, 2011, 8:31 pm
by Adam_L_M
ok so i've moved the d.c. throwers closer to the aft rack

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Re: First original drawing

Posted: December 30th, 2011, 2:26 am
by SrGopher
The shock from the 5" guns would still have effects on the depth charge launchers.

Re: First original drawing

Posted: December 30th, 2011, 5:42 am
by Carthaginian
SrGopher wrote:The shock from the 5" guns would still have effects on the depth charge launchers.
Yes, but will you be firing the 5" guns and firing the DC's at the same time in service?

The shock might knock things loose, but if you are engaging a submarine, you'd attempt to turn the ship so as to use the fore guns, and if you are engaging surface/air targets with the aft 5" mounts you would not likely be overly concerned about the DC mounts.

Re: First original drawing

Posted: January 1st, 2012, 7:29 am
by Adam_L_M
i was just toying around and decided to do something about the stern so i added some more 40mm AA instead of having extra depth charges,don't know if this would work seeing how close it is to the rear 5" gun, and btw Happy New years :)

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