Two models are show, with Max Yang's being featured as it is textured and more complete in general, although Tone's remains more complete in a few details. There is a lot of stuff there that I will use. There was a build thread of rescaled HMS Dreadnought on this forum: Bill Jones : Digital Navy 1:250 Dreadnought (1906)-Build. The only difference is that I will resize it to 1:400 scale (the digitalnavy is 1:700). Essentially, all navies felt that their future ships would have to adhere to her principles of all-big-gun armament, and a cycle of ever spiralling costs and displacements followed. I decided to build the HMS Dreadnought available as a free download from DigitalNavy. The result was a clean design with 10 12-inch guns disposed such that 8 could fire over either broadside.ĭreadnought was built in a little over a year - a very fast construction cycle which reflected the strenuous imperatives Jackie Fisher placed upon her delivery. Additionally, she heralded the first use of turbines to powering major warships, and this gave her a 3 knot speed advantage over her predecessors. She broke the evolutionary pattern of battleship design by eliminating a diverse collection of weaponry in favor of an outfit of guns that combined as many of the largest guns as possible with an anti-torpedoboat battery composed of the lightest guns deemed sufficient to ward off these small attackers. Dreadnought was the influential conception of the mercurial Jackie Fisher.
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