Here is my start on Batillus, scale is TBD (1/200 is winning at the moment!! :o ) but no matter what this kit will be a monster!
The real Batillus was built in 1976 in France for Shell oil. She was one of a fleet of Ultra-Large Crude Carriers built in the 70s. When Crude prices fell dramatically, she and most of the dozens of other ULCCs built around the same time ended up in the breakers yards because they were simply uneconomical to operate. The few that survived were mostly broken up between 1999 and 2004. A few remain, mostly as Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) barges. Batillus served for just nine years, before being broken up in 1985.
LOA: 1359' (414.2 m)
Beam: 206' 8" (63 m)
Draught: 94' (28.5 m)
GRT: 275,276
Design work has just begun on Batillus (possibly the other members of the class too) and she is at this point just a bare hull. Her stern needs to be reworked a bit, my plans are pretty basic but fortunately there is a large supply of hi-res images of her and her sisters online. Comments and questions welcome!