USA ship art

[kirk23_MatrixForum]

You can get photos like this one of the USS Iowa.[8D]

[Connfire]

ORIGINAL: hellfirejet

You can get photos like this one of the USS Iowa.[8D]

Oooh. I'll definately have to visit that site. Thanks! [:)]

[Hellfirejet]

I don't know if this class is in the game or not,but I came across it in a book and thought I would do the art for it,it's the 1890 Protected cruiser Columbia class!

[BillLottJr]

They could be added as "what if" ships. The Navy disposed of them just before the WPO time period. Given the USN's shortage of cruisers, it's plausible that they could be brought back into service.

[Hellfirejet]

I have just added them via the editor to uncle Graham's ( hellfirejet ) TORA TORA TORA scenario so they are now recommisioned and in the game!

[Hellfirejet]

All new Lexington class Battlecruiser. dedicated to Connfire [8D]

[Connfire]

Thank you - I'm honored [:)]

[Hellfirejet]

I'm sure I heard uncle Graham mention you asking him about the Lexington Battlecruiser way back when,anyway I thought I should dedicate this one to you hope you like it![;)]

[Connfire]

Yes, I was the Lexington BC guy, and that is sharp artwork. [:)]

Ever since I was a kid and started getting into naval history I had a facination with the big, beautiful, fast, flawed, ill-fated BCs. Maybe I got into the Lex's because they are the closest the USA ever came to actually having BCs. They're one of the interesing "what ifs" of the era - would CV development have been slowed if they were completed? Any that survived Pearl Harbor would probably have become CV escorts, but would the USA have been more aggressive in getting closer to the Japanese if they had fast, big gunned escorts in 1942? Or would they have tried to use them in hit-and-run raids, like the Japanese used Hiei and Kirishima in the Solomons? Would they have died quickly under air attack like Repulse? Lots of possibilities.

Even after they were converted, Lexington and Saratoga made attractive CVs too, in my opinion.

[Hellfirejet]

I thought the Alaska class world war 2 were classified as Battlecruiser ? or were they Large cruiser![&:]

[Hellfirejet]

USA Pennsylvania class Dreadnought.

[Hellfirejet]

Screen shot showing some more new art work![;)]

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: kirk23

I thought the Alaska class world war 2 were classified as Battlecruiser ? or were they Large cruiser![&:]

Warspite1

Kirk 23, they were large cruisers. Effectively they were where cruisers were heading had it not been for the Washington Naval Treaty.

[Hellfirejet]

Thanks Warspite1.

I'm not happy with the Pennsylvania class on the previous post,so I have reworked it and it looks more realistic in this version I think,plus not sure if the colour is right or not,is the grey to light ?

[Hellfirejet]

Colorado class Dreadnought.

[Hellfirejet]

Tennessee class Dreadnought.

[Hellfirejet]

New Mexico class Dreadnought.

[Connfire]

Its really been facinating to see how the artwork in WPO has evolved, thanks to artists like Graham and Kirk [8D]

[Hellfirejet]

Cheers Connfire, here is Nevada class just completed.

[Hellfirejet]

South Dakota class.