KRK4m Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 (edited) When trying to re-arrange my 1/700 waterline collection in new cabinet I have gathered the topside view silhouettes of the biggest 20th Century battleship/battlecruiser classes. Then the idea arose to use these silhouettes as the desktop pattern/screen wallpaper. Feel free to use it if you like it - the picture proportions are close to 2:1, so you can still leave some dozen icons in horizontal row above them (on a black stripe added for example) without disturbing the warship gallery. The picture covers 30 largest (exceeding 32000 ton displacement in one point of their history) battleship and battlecruiser classes - ranging from the 1913 HMS Queen Mary to the 1946 HMS Vanguard. The horizontal rows show the introduction period (oldest at the top, newest at the bottom) while the position within the row depends on nationality with America on the left, Asia on the right and Europe in the centre. Of course all the silhouettes are shown in the same scale which makes comparison easy. Cheers Michael Edited November 13, 2017 by KRK4m purely cosmetics 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdsvidioman Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Nice idea, must have taken ages to do that, well it would for me. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRK4m Posted November 16, 2017 Author Share Posted November 16, 2017 (edited) Being unable to choose my favourite one (battleships shown above vs. flattops featured in the Cold War section) I decided to make the composite desktop wallpaper. The proportions are still close to 2:1 and all the silhouettes are shown in the same scale for comparison purposes. The horizontal rows show the introduction period (pre-1921 at the top, post-1990 at the bottom) while the position within the row depends on nationality with America on the left, Asia on the right and Europe in the centre. Now the picture covers 40 largest (exceeding 35 000 ton displacement) warship classes - ranging from the 1914 HMS Queen Elizabeth to her 2017 namesake. It’s incredible how the US supercarriers have dwarfed such past giants as Bismarck or even Yamato… Cheers Michael Edited November 16, 2017 by KRK4m purely cosmetics 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdsvidioman Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 That's really nice. Many thanks for taking the trouble to do that. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now