I think i'll necropost one of my own threads to add one drawing: Here is Yamashiro as she looked in 1922: https://i.imgur.com/RqEsP5G.png In the early 20's she recieved an experimental flying off platorm above turret 2 to test take offs using Gloster Sparrowhawk biplanes built and provided by the Un...
I guess you have used Mr Ishibashi's Ultimate Japanese Navy BB book as the primary reference - so here is hope that you will do the 1928 variant of Kongo as well with the reverse conus style funnel cap on page 230 :). That might be a book I don't have instead. :? In the meantime, other than quietly...
Since we are still within the deadline I've took the chance to fix a few small incongruences and add some descriptive text to all of Kirishima's drawing on page 2.
After drawing Kirishima for the real life challenge, going on with the rest of the Kongo class seems quite the natural way to go. Drawings will be added with time accordingly. Descriptions will be filled as well, eventually. Kongo: 1913 - tba 1924 - tba 1928 - tba 1931 - tba 1934 - tba 1937 - tba 19...
Japanese fast-Battleship Kirishima As commissioned in 1915: https://i.imgur.com/q0ZHds2.png as of 1916: https://i.imgur.com/unm3LG9.png By 1916 Kirishima had recieved her full equipment of 90 and 110cm searchlights, sighting hoods on the turrets, a 4.5m rotating rangefinder for the n°2 main gun tur...