The Union Fleet in Color

[The Rock Doctor]

Well, the small portion that I've sketched, at any rate.

Top row:  500t submarine, 20t MTB
Second row:  Borys the Boatmover, monitor Szczyt
Third row:  MTB carrier Orzel, light cruiser Magdala
Fourth row:  battleship Anders Angstrom
Fifth row:  Battlecruiser Szermierz

[The Rock Doctor]

Select armored cruisers and cruisers of the line:

Dragon ("Dragoon")
Grenadjar ("Grenadier")
Lucznik ("Archer")
Szermierz ("Swordsman")
Czarownik ("Warlock")

[Kaiser Kirk]

Nice work Rocky :)

I tried my hand at such things long ago and found it wasn't my talent.

[The Rock Doctor]

Thanks.  I know it's not for everybody but I do enjoy it at times and I like seeing what Foxy's produced.

I'm poking away on a sketch of the Wrogi-class battleships and realizing what a mess they've got to be for deck space. 

[The Rock Doctor]

Nice work Rocky :)

I tried my hand at such things long ago and found it wasn't my talent.

Is there a particular Parthian unit you'd like to see drawn, and a mental picture of what it would look like?

[Kaiser Kirk]

I shall think on that, thanks :)

[The Rock Doctor]

The Wrogi class battleships are, in retrospect, probably pretty problematic.  Those triple 30cm turrets suck up a lot of deckspace, and having two of them en-echelon admiships, with cross-firing capability, really limits what else can be on deck.  The superstructure, for instance, is likely tall but oddly skinny.

And I have no idea where I was going to put the tertiary battery other than on the main guns (you can see two perched on the superstructure as well).  I have never liked that look or arrangement.

But regardless, there's a common look with the Lucznik armored cruisers, which are from the same period, but have a much less ambitious armament taking up much less deckspace and thus probably work better.

[The Rock Doctor]

Decided to go back and sketch the Grenadjar class armored cruisers.

The type is obviously based on the historical Scharnhorst/Gneisenau pair, the main differences being that the single 20cm guns are in turrets rather than casemates, and there are more, though smaller, secondaries.

[The Rock Doctor]

The World Tour Fleet, other than the depot ships, which I haven't sketched.

[Kaiser Kirk]

Interesting to envision the force :)

[The Rock Doctor]

The Union Navy's aircraft carrier component - past, current and building as of January 1923.  Six ships sounds pretty impressive, and probably would be if they could carry more than twenty-three aircraft between them. 

It's an interesting reminder of how chunky the old armored cruisers were, compared to the much longer, yet much lighter, torpedo-boat carrier hull that Labedz is being built on.

[The Rock Doctor]

Yahtzee!

[Kaiser Kirk]

Nice little diagrams, as usual :)

[The Rock Doctor]

Belated sketch of the Goscinny class depot ship.

[Kaiser Kirk]

Nicely done as usual.
I wasn't aware she had no foredeck weapons, now I do :)