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HMS Thunderchild
🕑 Added 2020-04-01 13:54:12 +0000 UTCThis is not an April Fools Day joke, but it is a bit of concept design I did for one of the most famous fictional warship. The HMS Thunderchild from H. G. Wells classic War of the Worlds.
The art was done as commission for the YouTube channel Drachinifel who I'm subscribed to and support on Patreon myself. I believe it was during one of his Q&A videos, they're called the Drydock, someone asked if he'd ever do a video on ship.
At the time he mentioned that he'd love to but had not been able to locate any artwork that he felt was accurate enough to depict how the ship would've looked in his mind. So I contacted him and after some back and forth discussion he hired me for the job.
Now I am not a naval expert or even a serious hobbyist, but through a series of emails I was able to form an image of what Drach was imagining. This was the final result.
Now Drach focuses primarily on WII and before on his channel. However if you're interested in learning about not just the ships but how technology, politics, economics, and even geography effects design this channel is for you.
If you're interested in watching the actual video this artwork was used in here's the Link.
Comments
Baron Engel
Roughly. Drach based it roughly on the HMS Victoria. This ship has an actual Cole/Ericsson style turret. Not the hooded armored barbette which have assumed the name of turret in the late 19th and 20th century.
Baron Engel
Drach has in his most recent Drydock discussed torpedo rams and how it was a flawed concept. In theory Thunderchild is suppose to address some of those shortcomings. However it most likely would've been a concept that would've been overtaken by the march of technology.
katarjin
Fav song of the CD UUUUUUULLLLLAAAAAHHHHH!
ANTIcarrot
Looks like HMS Nelson's great grandfather. Definitely not something a destroyer captain (or some cruiser captains) would want to encounter
McClaw
Definitely a pre-WWII ship, although she'd also be pre-WWI and pre-Dreadnought. (Wells wrote the name as two words, "Thunder Child".) I remember the discussion in-stream/chat about torpedoes being the new naval "wonder weapon". Ramming, however, was a miscalculation based on incidents in two naval battles and the assumption that naval guns couldn't breach iron and steel hulls. (Submarines were more vulnerable to ramming.)
McClaw
The song was a nice interpretation of the scene.
Cult of Dust
Well, I hadn't expected this collaboration between two very different focused people I already follow.
WILLIAM C JOHNSON
A great job. Definitely catches the design ethos of the late 19th century RN age of Iron Steel and steam. I am a little surprised that the RN didn't actually build something like this. They sure did built some other "interesting" designs. Well Done! 'Axe
Ferrous
Just finished watching the video. Excellent work, as always!
J. McDermott
Moving swiftly through the waters, Cannons blazing as she came, Brought a mighty metal warlord Crashing down in sheets of flame!
