Shipbucket

nice joke...... not funny

The Austrians haven't had a navy since 1918...

lol, I admit that joke was pretty bad.

The Barbel Class of Submarines;

USS Barbel SS-580


USS Blueback SS-581


USS Bonefish SS-582

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"Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing. Don't push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction." -Hyman Rickover

Very nice work on the Barbels.
Just one question - is there any difference (drawing-wise) between these three, other than number on the sail (and emblem on template)?

Because if rhere isn't, then I think that two of them won't get uploaded to the Archive. It has been discussed before and Administration was not particularly keen.
(the screenshot is from the part of Forum accessible to only some members)

Other than the E on Bluebacks sail, there is sadly no major difference between the vessels. I was considering drawing Barbel in her late 50’s setup where her dive planes were on the hull rather than the sail but I haven’t gotten to that point yet. But yeah there is no major difference between the three vessels.

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"Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing. Don't push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction." -Hyman Rickover

What I would do, is just post the lead ship in the class, and have the name of all ship in the class under the country, class name line, where the lead ship is in black and sister ships in grey:

Country, Class name
ship name
ship name
ship name
ship name
(artist name

And is there at least any minor difference (other than numbers and that E)? The emblems on the right are nice, but just them are bit weak reason to upload SS-581 and SS-582 if there's nothing worth mentioning on boats themselves (even 5 pixels, anything! )

(at worst we could count that "E" on SS-581 as "difference" but that still leaves SS-582...)

Trust me I tried to find as many differences as possible between the three ships, I can check again but finding even the most minute difference probably won’t change the appearance enough to warrant adding them to the bucket.

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"Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing. Don't push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction." -Hyman Rickover

Excellent !
The SSN Suffren has the pennant number S635 (Q284 was a hull count of the builder DCNS then Naval Group).
In the French codification Q stands for "coque", hull, which means that the ship is not yet officially accepted for trials and service, or it's a decommissioned asset.

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Worklist, FD scale submarines and ships :
- Project 971 "Akula" (80%)
- Project 705 "Alpha" (10%)
- Project 371 (70%)
- Project 1459 (30%)
- Projekt 151 Sassnitz (To be redone)