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Published: 2017-04-11 06:34:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 601; Favourites: 13; Downloads: 0
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A rendition of the Imperial Japanese Navy battlecruiser Ishizuchi from World of Warships on a vivid background. Painted with watercolours on an A4 size paper.Related content
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Nice painting! Love the look of the Ishizuchi. Kinda reminds me of the Kongo and how she was in WW1 combine with a gun layout similar to the Amagi class.
(If you don't get the reference, you haven't done enough research)
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Thanks! The Ishizuchi as seen in World of Warships is one of the drafts for the Kongo battlecruisers, a prototype designed by Vickers influenced by the Royal Navy Lion class battlecruisers. The Amagi does indeed have a very similar layout!
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Yep. The Ishizuchi (as well as the Myogi also in WoWS) is a proto design that led to the Kongo class. My thoughts on how the Japanese designers went to designing the ships goes something like this:
Okay, we need big battlecruisers. Let's give them 10 12inch guns! That is great firepower! (Ishizuchi)
Sir, the British have build the Lion class with 8 13.5 inch guns!
Okay, we need bigger guns than the Brits! Let's make it 6 14inch guns! Much more firepower! (Myogi)
Sir, the ship looks kinda weird.
True, and not enough firepower. Okay, how about 8 14inch guns...yes, that is great! (Kongo as built)
Indeed sir! Time to build her!
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Hehe, that's probably pretty accurate. Too bad the Amagi was cancelled, it would have the heaviest broadside ever, apart from the Yamato.
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Lol
I wouldv'e loved to see the AMagi as a Battlecruiser. Shame she was damaged in the earthquake so that we couldv'e seen her as a carrier at the very least. Shame Amagi was never a carrier.
...oh wait XD
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