Some studies of big ships. In Atlantic Fleet, differences within classes aren't replicated, one ship represents the whole class.
Scharnhorst, which also represents Gneisenau whose mainmast was stepped against the funnel. One can see why an RAF pilot out during the Channel Dash and not expecting to see such a ship in the English Channel, said when he saw Scharnhorst, 'I never knew the Navy had such a lovely boat':
Under attack from a Sunderland, in a campaign mission:
One of the sisters, dubbed Salmon and Gluckstein after a comedy duo, with 11 inch guns trained to starboard in poor conditions:
Renown in action against one of the German battlecruisers on campaign. Renown doubles for her less-modernised sister Repulse, famously sunk along with Price of Wales by Japanese aircraft early in the Pacific War:
The view from the other end of 'the two-way range', during the same engagement. The enemy is down by the stern and starting to make smoke:
Bismarck and Tirpitz out together in a campaign mission. The Atlantic Fleet model better represents the former IIRC, the visible differences being mainly down to detail amidships on the placement of the main cranes and the 105mm AA guns there.
Queen Elizabeth class battleships about to open fire. The AF model is based on the name-ship of the class I think - they all started in WW1 with two funnels and ended up as quite a varied class in WW2 after one or more reconstructions between the wars:
Bismarck again. This I think is how she looked during her Atlantic sortie after the dazzle markings were overpainted. Nice that they got the detail right of the optical rangefinder removed from turret Anton due to issues with spray, the gaps at the upper rear sides being plated over.
USS Washington or North Carolina, both having served in the Atlantic for a while, the former for a significant period:
And we finish this post with a return to Salmon and Gluckstein, operating together as they famously did in the real war:
33Lima . Nice pics. I checked out your very in depth review of AF at CombatAce- well done! I don't usually play surface naval sims. Last one I guess was old Destroyer Command. This looks like fun. Downloading AF from GOG. Any other advice? Thanks...Vox