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Sketch - SMS Richthofen blueprint

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One thing I haven't did in YEARS: a technical drawing.

Before I learned how to draw people, the most common subject of my childhood drawings were ships, mostly due to watching Titanic time after time. I liked ships so very much and liked to know the histories of the great battleships and battles. With the building of my AU, this came to light again. I wanted to do my own design for the vessels I envisioned for the new Brazilian, German, Japanese and Russian navies. And as it is now with heraldry, I thought it would help if I drew my project on paper before I went for a vector version.

So, here's the first draft of the supercarrier SMS Richthofen, the new flagship of the Imperial German Navy.

Quite frankly, I almost gave up many times on this drawing, but who knows at least the ship's crest will be done, since I'm doing a lot of heraldic drawings (I just didn't published them yet).
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MP250 series
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Up to WW I Germany had not had any naval commanders of major status so I am thinking that the ships named for military men made sense then. Even in WW II only Tirpitz, Admiral Scheer and Admiral Graf Spee were named for naval people among 'capital ships' and Admiral Hipper went to the big heavy Cruiser.
Even the UK which DID have a whole lot of famed Admirals named battleships for Wellington [Iron Duke] and John Churchill [Marlborough] and for land battles [Ramillies and Agincourt] so naming a capital ship for Von Richthofen seems  reasonable to me!
As for following British type design... again that fits with what the Imperial navy did before WW I and why not take what was [then] the best and try to exceed it?