Tzoli

Future Projects so far:
Nagato and Amagi preliminaries
Kaga Carrier preliminary designs
Minotaur and Neptune class RN late / post WW2 cruiser designs
All IJN Carrier Projects

Help required in these fields:
Royal Navy archives in Brass Foundry about the GW designs and NIGS ship proposals
Skoda / KUK gun projects
Specified document from the Vienna Archive (KUK Battleship design for Japan! )
Bofors Guns and mounts data, especially the 40mm ones
Official Data from official source about the IJN's Heavy Cruiser design (The "so called" "Zao" (bleeh...) from World of Warships)


Goal to reach in a 1000 years:
Make drawings of all never-were warship designs of all navies (Submarines I'm not sure)



People who helped me so far:

Gergely Ákos / Csatahajós - Hungarian naval enthusiast with great knowledge on USN especially on Iowa and Montana classes:
warshipprojects.com/
Krámli Mihály and Balogh Tamás - Hungarian naval enthusiasts with primary focus on Austro-Hungarian Navy
John French - Naval enthusiast, helped me getting the official 1938-1945 Lion documents
David Murfin / Smurf - British naval enthusiast with extreme knowledge on British cruisers
Stefano Sappino - Late ( ) Italain naval enthusiast with great knowledge on Italian warships
stefsap.wordpress.com/
xoomer.virgilio.it/bk/

Feel free to contact me if I missed someone (I know I do) because of the many comments and notes I have it's difficult to find the persons name who helped me so far(Persons who helped me with the Austro-Hungarian Chinese Cruisers)

Dear my Czech followers (or in the past called Czechoslovakian or even further in the past, Bohemian)!

I wish to ask if you could help me find information on two topics:

1. Information on Theodor Novotny, a Czech born Naval Architect of the Austro-Hungarian Navy

2. Information and History regarding the development of the Skoda Naval Guns:
30,5cm Naval Gun, primary the 50 calibre one intended for the Viribus Unitis class Battleships but due to development issues the older 45 calibre used instead.
34.5cm and later 35cm Naval Guns (in 40,45 and 50 calibre types) intended for the Ersatz Monarch / Improved Tagetthoff class battleships.
If possible any other larger calibre Naval guns which was existing only on paper (38cm and 42cm both 40,45 and 50 calibres) by the end of WW1 and intended for the post war Navy.

Regarding the last three (the 35,38 and 42cm) Norman Friedman's Naval Weapons of World War I provides some brief information on them regarding limited development information and general data.

I thought finding articles in original Czech language or on Czech forums might result in more history and development data, also some insight of the Skoda heavy weapons arms which might could help me. And possible translations in english.

Care to help me?

You guys might noticed that I sporadically post new drawings in the couple of previous months.
The cause of this because I not just have a regular job though I draw mostly at my work time
But mostly because I have a side job at Topside minis:
topsideminis.com
Maybe some of you guys know this company?

I draw top view warship drawings for their tabletop naval game and I prioritize these drawings over my ideas and between two sets I draw what I like hence there are weeks when I post drawings almost daily and there are weeks when I post nothing.
You can see some of my works in the WW1 section (newer ships and Jutland set):
topsideminis.com/wwi-new-jutla…
or the entirety of the Tsushima section:
topsideminis.com/tsushima-unit…

So I'm not disappearing in the depths of the Carpathian basin but rather quite busy working with Topsideminis.

Anybody among the people who follow me can speak Polish and/or Italian?
And willing to translate a 3 page strong article for me?