USS America CV-66

[Gator_Country]

Here she is, guys. My Magnum Opus:

Converted from JFK, but I had to fix all of the mistakes, especially shading. Enjoy!

p.s. I'm going to be uploading alot of stuff for awhile, cause I'm on winter break, work's dried up, and the gf broke up, so I've got a helluva lot of spare time now

[Kamikazi]

Beautiful work, Gator. Are there any plans to do the USS America, LHA-6?

[Gator_Country]

I believe she's already been claimed, but that's not out of the question if I can get permission. I do hate the well deck-less aspect of her, though. I'll see about drawing her, probably from Makin Island.

[Portsmouth Bill]

I do declare, that is one fine drawing, congratulations alligator

[eswube]

Good work!

[emperor_andreas]

Nice work!

[Bombhead]

A fine looking carrier Gator_Country.Nice one mate. Could you make the grey in the masts a bit lighter to stand out from the black outline and the guard rails on the masts too ?

[erik_t]

Awww man.... I wish you'd posted a WIP

Crazyhorse's carriers are very pretty, but in every case I've checked they've been pretty inaccurate, maybe even eyeballed. Here's an overlay of AD Baker III's line drawing from Friedman, scaled to the correct waterline length of 990 feet, overlayed.



Different era of drawing (here she still ships Terrier, even!) but the simple things like length, elevator location and size, island location... all wrong by varying degrees.

[Colosseum]

Yeah that's pretty unacceptable. How did this get past us again?

Oh yeah, we assume people do their research. LOL!

[erik_t]

These drawings are also from a number of years back.

And, y'know, they look about right. This is why sourcing is important! If the best an artist can do is eyeball from photos (and sometimes that's literally all there is), the artist at least needs to say so! That way, if we later find something better, we can know to address it.

Further, it's my fault for realizing they're inaccurate without saying something. So that's on me, and I'm sorry to the community that I never brought it up. I'd found a few inaccuracies on IIRC CVAN-65, and never bothered to confirm to what degree the drawing really needed to be redone from scratch. If anyone in the community ever finds glaring faults, you don't have to redraw something yourself but you should at least know everyone else that someone needs to!