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Or just give it an NX or NXP registry, assuming it's a one of a kind. As for the forward turrets, for purely aesthetic reasons I'd try removing the outer two on the top row and the inner pair on the bottom row.
Dragon-Class sounds a bit odd to me. Perhaps Draco-Class would be a little less on the nose? Or even Dragoon-Class if you want to evoke lizards and the military with a single word?
Concerning the Olympus Mons, yeah it's out of date. But the rest of the ships are IMO valid. Besides, so what if the numbers are slightly out of order? It just means that the Wasp was planned for a longer time than Dragon. (Maybe Dragon can be NCC-243, set right after the Wasp block.)
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I blame Minutiae Man for any confusion about numbers.
For my recent ships, the class name is not the name of a ship, but a descriptor of the kind of names that ships have. This is something the RN did. There was the "Weapon" class and the "Tribal" class. I think I already used "Draco" for one of my transport ships. And one of my Al-Burak ships is called USS Dragon.
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Despite much googling and wiki'ing I can't seem to find what a bustle is in the context of a ship's superstructure. Enlightenment por favor?
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The aft most bit of the ship. It comes from a 19th-century bit of women's clothing, a pad or frame that extended a skirt behind the woman.
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quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: Despite much googling and wiki'ing I can't seem to find what a bustle is in the context of a ship's superstructure. Enlightenment por favor?
I think I originally got the term from armored vehicles. Sometimes, tanks have a counterweight on the back of the turret when a large gun is mounted. This is referred to as a bustle, after the padding at the back of skirts to increase the apparent lordosis (bend of the back).
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I can't find an instance of it being used in this way, but I seem to recollect "bustle" being an archaic term for the armor belt at the waterline on early iron warships.
quote:Originally posted by aridas: I can't find an instance of it being used in this way, but I seem to recollect "bustle" being an archaic term for the armor belt at the waterline on early iron warships.
Google for turret bustle and you'll find some references. Mostly about Shermans.
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