Hi Richard,
I looked closely at the 'bulkheads' you prepared for the Kent class, based on the PM drawings. It seems the numbering is not quite right. The result might be that you create a hull that will look wrong, especially around the bow.
In the first place, PM numbered the 'bulkheads' (officially these are called 'ordinates' as these are theoretical sections, not real bulkheads and not even frames in the real ship) from rear to front, which is against the custom in the Royal Navy. I refer therefore to the Norfolk class: ordinate 1 is near the bow, ordinate 22.5 is near the stern. Ordinate 1 is on the Forward Perpendicular, ordinate 21 is on the Aft Perpendicular, so there are twenty intervals between FP and AP. these are evenly spaced. As the Length between Perpendiculars is given as 590 ft, the intervals should be 29.5 ft in real, so 93.66mm (3,6875 inches) in your 1/96 hull.
I guess PM copied the hull lines from Raven/Roberts Man o'War nr 1 on the County class. In that diagram there are no numbers, and most curiously, ordinate 1 is missing too! It seems this key ordinate is also missing in the PM plans.
As this ordinate is also missing on your bow part, the exact location of the next ordinate, officially nr 2, but number 21 in PM and your numbering, has no secure location. I guess you just copied it from the PM side view. So in fact there should be at least one more 'bulkhead (ordinate) very close to the bow, numbered 22. I can see that it can be omitted for modelling reasons though.
But as the Aft Perpendicular in the PM numbering is 'bulkhead 3', something goes wrong, since there are then 22-3= 19 intervals between the bulkheads, and not 20! So please check that you use the right number of intervals, and that all the 'bulkheads' are at the the right locations, before you proceed!
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