petropawlowsk
I am interested in this build all the more as I design my Bouvet for two years now, and spend a huge time in the design of the hull itself, each bulkhead looking to a toboggan or a chute. I did some incredible diagramms and sketches to check my design. Moreover, the broadside turrets intersect with the outerskin...each one at a different level! This thread drives me to what I guessed, until now I felt alone:
1/ the usual number of bulkheads used for papership design is not enough with this particular French shape, it doesn't allows gentle curves. I use about 50. This reminds the problems we have to deal with underwater hull, apart from the cutting of the skin. Regarding this latter point, I study the way how armour plates and turrets are arranged to finalize the best combination.
And I use as many decks as there were. The more they are, the better it is.
2/ I design the different parts of the structure to allow a double skin to wrap over.
I pay a particular attention to the thickness of the paper, it could influence the result in a bad way.
Fortunately, my ship will be painted black, on the contrary of the D'Entrecasteaux (JSC design), all white.