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Mo’ Ships. This has been one long weekend. Below are three classes of WWII Japanese Destroyers (Shimakaze, Yugumo, and Kagero Classes).  They are all based on similar hull designs of varying length. The Shimakaze was much longer and had more fire power because of it (more torpedoes and bigger AA guns, etc.).  The Yugumo and Kagero were near identical (only minor differences), though the Yugumo was 10 or so feet longer.  Now you would think that building three similarly designed ships would be just about as fast as building one. Well, maybe it is for professionals, but I’m spending a lot of time on the differences so it’s still taking me forever. I guess I feel that if these are different classes of ship then the minor differences should be there and not take the easy route of stretching a Kagero 10 feet and calling it a Yugumo.  Overall it is taking less time than building 3 standalone ships as many features are identical between all three ships (just maybe not in the exact same location).  Anyway, enough of that, here are some renders:

Img1 = Kagero Class
Img2 = Shimakaze Class (IJN Shimakaze – only one of these was ever made)
Img3 = Yugumo Class