Another beautiful drawing Redhorse, your AU is very intrestng to follow; i can't wait to see the cruiser you are working on posted in the other thread (it's a a CA or a CL?)
in order to avoid open a million threads for every single never-where IJN ship i' gonna draw from now on i will collect them in this thread. here you will find (i will update the thread each time i will complete one of them): DONE - the 1941 Type A Heavy Cruiser DONE - the Tone class Heavy Cruiser a...
They look very nice, on a serious note it higlited how the massive Takao superstructure fits well even on much bigger hulls.
as a small nitpicking, you have some glitches around the catapults in the 1941 (ends the same way on both sides) and 1944 version (there is an end floating near turret 4).
And here is Maya as of 1944 after conversion into an anti-aircraft cruiser http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/9317/camaya1944templatexl2.png Bulges where added, type 13 air search radars and a type 22 surface search radar where fitted, turret 3 was removed, heavy AA armament increased to 12 5-inch (12...
Take a peek into my worklist, (link in my signature) you will find there all i have done and planning to do.
The next CVE coming here will be the Shinyo (ex-Scharnhorst) i cannot tell you guys when it will tough..