Shipbucket style drawings

[hmssophia]

Jun 9, 2019 14:01:41 GMT -6 charybdis said:

That is one heck of a cruiser, BB layout, and displacement. Kinda like an AC version of Olympia

I think she's 10,000 tons all told? Big girl

[hmssophia]

tortugapower has done his first carrier refit in his RTW2 campaign, so of course I had to draw her

[charybdis]

New favorite, totally awesome mate, that looks really cool.

[hmssophia]

Another new one, a 1920's era battle cruiser for tortugapower

[tortugapower]

The beautiful Feuerdrache, who is just now seeing her first action.

Many thanks, hmssophia !

[hmssophia]

It's been a little while, so here's a new one - the Rhineland from tortugapower as designed bt not as built

[garrisonchisholm]

That's pretty darn cool that your planes are good enough that I can identify both models above. Bravo.

[williammiller]

May 25, 2019 8:25:03 GMT -6 hmssophia said:

I've seen it mentioned a couple of times, but I do shipbucket style work and I thought i'd create a thread for some of the RTW inspired ones!
First up is a 1905 japanese pre-dread with 4 x 13", 10 x 8" and 20 x 3" guns.

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I am sorry, but the Shipbucket folks have informed me that their work is not allowed in commercial or 'for pay' releases, so I am going to ask you to remove all references requesting commissions or for-pay work related to their graphics. Thanks for understanding why we cannot allow this, it places us at liability if we allow it.

Thanks.

[tortugapower]

williammiller is it permissible for hmssophia to continue posting her other content here? I don't know about these laws/rights whatsoever, but I naively hope that the amazing works she's done for me can be posted here (should she wish to share it).

[rdfox]

For the record, Shipbucket's bosses don't mind if you post your stuff here, so long as it has proper crediting (and that's mainly because us Shipbucketers have seen a lot of cases where some jerk on deviantArt or NationStates goes and takes an uncredited ship, slaps a horrible paint job/parts bin kitbash on it, and proclaims it to be their own original work). Accepting money for Shipbucket stuff is the only no-no here; I actually ran into that once myself and, to avoid getting a spanking by the admins, had to find a way to refund the money (though they didn't complain about the guy trading me a free 3D model of one of my RPG characters for the drawing instead).

Also, the problem with the Shipbucket forums is a known bug that... well, every time they've fixed it, the forums have gotten invaded by spambots (and then it breaks again on its own). Best workaround for that is to join the official Shipbucket Discord (listed on the main site) and talk to one of the mods there; they should be able to set you up.

And for anyone who wants to get into Shipbucket-style drawing, let me give you one very, very important word of advice (from someone who completely didn't follow this advice when he started out!): As tempting as it may be to start with a battleship or a carrier, for the love of David Taylor, don't! Start with something small; it's a lot easier to get it done and fully detailed, and a lot less discouraging. For that matter, if you value your sanity, don't try a carrier unless you're a masochist (says the guy whose first three ships were carriers). I actually have a standard description of what drawing a carrier is like...

Doing a carrier is kind of like this: You spend a month on researching it, then a month drawing it, then you get halfway through detailing it and discover that half the detail parts you need don't exist yet, so you spend another month researching them and drawing the parts from scratch, then you find out that half the detail parts you've put on are anachronistic for the date you're set at because encapsulated life rafts didn't exist then, so you spend a week trying to find references for what they DID use then, so you can draw those from scratch, and by the time you're done detailing it, you've developed carpal-tunnel syndrome and it's been another month.

And then you post it, and wait for the accolades to pour in, and they're quick in coming: "What's up with that shading?" "Are you sure the end view matches the side view?" "A sad day for the Empire." "Call that a carrier? My six-year-old could do better." "Your six-year-old?! My dog could do better--and does, on the carpet every morning!" And then green steam starts shooting out your ears as your head rotates 360 degrees on your neck, and, possessed by the spirit of Jackie Fisher, you start screaming "SPEED IS ARMOR! SPEED IS ARMOR!" until Charguizard sadly comes by and takes you away to someplace far from the sea and computers for several months, until you've recovered.

And then, once you come back, no worse for wear (except for thinking that you're a potato and Colosseum wants to bake you), you think, "...y'know, that was kinda fun. I think I'll do another!" And thus the cycle begins again...

(With apologies to Stuart Slade for lifting from his essay on how real ships are designed over at NavWeaps!)

[hmssophia]

Edited to remove reference to commissions or commission work.

[williammiller]

Jun 27, 2019 21:24:37 GMT -6 tortugapower said:

williammiller is it permissible for hmssophia to continue posting her other content here? I don't know about these laws/rights whatsoever, but I naively hope that the amazing works she's done for me can be posted here (should she wish to share it).

Certainly, anyone can post creations here they make using any parts of ship-bucket parts, share them with others, even create them for others (minus any pay request),etc. That's perfectly fine.

[williammiller]

Jun 28, 2019 2:47:03 GMT -6 hmssophia said:

Edited to remove reference to commissions or commission work.

Thank you!

[cv10]

Jun 6, 2019 8:31:02 GMT -6 garychildress said:

Ship bucket used to be one of my faves when I was trying to mod War in the Pacific.

    Lots of good ideas for new ship designs!