HMS Elephant

tigercat · June 17, 2012, 02:36:41 AM

Soon to be joining HMS Isis will be HMS Elephant which will be a battleship now due to space requirements she'll have to be around Espana class size and also have a Transom stern to save space

The plan is to give her an HMS Eagle style bow.

The plan started as a shorter HMS Neptune Type but has evolved.

Now She will have turrets in A Q and Y positions

The Q turret similar to HMS Tiger

In order to explain he design idiosyncracies she will have been an export order taken over during WW1building for a country with limited dock space and in order for her to still be around in WW2 she will be armed with 3x triple 15 inch turrets and have a good turn of speed not sure how fast yet but probably in mid to high 20's Q Turret will have a good arc of fire so while she will only be able to fire 3 guns straight head she'll be able to fire at least 6 guns on most other bearings

The triple turrets actually work well with her name as you can probably imagine an unofficial ships badge of a triple 15 inch transmorgified into an elephants head.

tigercat · June 19, 2012, 03:41:50 AM

Have worked some on the Bridgeover the weekend. It will be mostly inspired by HMS Warspite mainly due to the fact that I like the look and I have the anatomy of a Warship HMS Warspite from the library. However there will be elements of HMS Queen Elizabeth especially when I get round to building the funnel superstructure.

Pictures to follow.

pyro-manic · June 19, 2012, 08:22:14 AM

Nine 15" on a 450' hull?? Good grief!

The hull form will be rather fat with such a heavy armament (triple-15" would require a wide barbette and heavy turret - similar to that seen on Nelson and Rodney - and a wide beam would be needed for stability), and not suited to high speed at all. Perhaps a coastal battleship, used as a monitor, guardship for a colony (maybe Singapore or Ceylon?) or a training ship in the Caribbean?

tigercat · June 19, 2012, 09:05:58 AM

I may have to bend the laws of nature and physics in the pursuit of whiffery and practical storage here to fit it all on. Especially trying to fit Q turret I may have to go with 2 15 inch for Q turret just for the smaller turret and barbette and to free up some space.

Training ship sounds like a good niche for "ole Nellie"

tigercat · June 20, 2012, 12:10:31 PM

tigercat · June 20, 2012, 12:12:46 PM

Gondor · June 20, 2012, 03:05:57 PM

What scale is this?

Gondor

scooter · June 20, 2012, 03:51:04 PM

Quote from: Gondor on June 20, 2012, 03:05:57 PM
What scale is this?

Gondor

Huge?

I look forward to watching this build myself.

Old Wombat · June 20, 2012, 05:19:21 PM

It's looking 1/72nd to me. Although, they are paperbacks, so, maybe, 1/144th. $:-\$

Bloody big for a ship model, anyway!

tigercat · June 20, 2012, 11:15:32 PM

They are Hardbacks bwahahhahaahaha "ole Nellie" will be 1/72 ish

NARSES2 · June 21, 2012, 12:37:17 AM

Quote from: tigercat on June 20, 2012, 11:15:32 PM
They are Hardbacks bwahahhahaahaha "ole Nellie" will be 1/72 ish

tigercat · June 24, 2012, 11:00:08 PM

tigercat · June 24, 2012, 11:01:25 PM

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tigercat · June 25, 2012, 12:04:59 AM

So next up the After superstructure which will be more problematic .

Do I go with one mast like HMS Tiger or something like the Kongo class with 2 closer together.

Also I was looking at some diagrams of the Queen Elizabeth Class and some of them carry boats on top of the aft superstructure nut they seem to be out of range of the bot cranes. How would they be launched?