Shipbucket

Magnificent!

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

The Official IJN Ships & Planes List

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@novice: that's the Nakajima E2N (altough it sported a sdlighty different paintjob than the one i've drawn, it may be good for another version.)

@heuhen: thanks for the Mutsu pic, but i already have it , about the bridge upper windows, that's actually my first choice to show open windows with no fixed roof above (that's why the ones on the spotting top are outlined in black and filled with gray)

i might be able to post Mutsu as of 1931 this evening (european time) if i have enough time.

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Sources and documentations are the most welcome.

-Koko Kyouwakoku (Republic of Koko)
-Koko's carrier-based aircrafts of WWII
-Koko Kaiun Yuso Kaisha - KoKaYu Line (Koko AU spinoff)
-Koko - Civil Aviation

Excellent Nagato One of the better looking Japanese warships, apart from that modified funnel.

here is mutsu as of 1931:



she was fitted between 1927 and 1931 with a clipper bow (while Nagato retained the old straight stem), furter modifications where made to the spotting platforms on the massive heptapodal mast on both ships, also a Nakajima E2N was embarked, there was no catapult and the floatplane need to be lowered in the water for take off, so a boom was fitted on the mainmast in order to operate the plane.

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My Worklist
Sources and documentations are the most welcome.

-Koko Kyouwakoku (Republic of Koko)
-Koko's carrier-based aircrafts of WWII
-Koko Kaiun Yuso Kaisha - KoKaYu Line (Koko AU spinoff)
-Koko - Civil Aviation

Beautiful!

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

The Official IJN Ships & Planes List

#FJB

This is the Nakajima E2N

This is the Yokosuka E1Y2

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

They look quite similar, my bad.

i've fixed some points on the 1931 Mutsu, and while i'm at it i can try drawing the Yokosuka E1Y2

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My Worklist
Sources and documentations are the most welcome.

-Koko Kyouwakoku (Republic of Koko)
-Koko's carrier-based aircrafts of WWII
-Koko Kaiun Yuso Kaisha - KoKaYu Line (Koko AU spinoff)
-Koko - Civil Aviation

do you intend to draw the Nagato as she looked during Operation Crossroads?

as she looked in 1945 before Japan surrender, with increased anti-aicraft armament and cut down funnel and mainmast to improve weapons firing arcs, yes; in the decaying and tattered state, with heavy unrepaired battle damage, as she was sent to Bikini atoll to be sunk by nuclear bombs, no.
Also if i'm not wrong drawing heavily damaged ships it's not part of Shipbucket policies, and even if it was the case i still would not; she is my favourite battleship, i might be exaggerated but i already regret the fact she was sunk as target instead beign preserved, she was the only IJN battleship left, i have not the will to draw her in that state.

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My Worklist
Sources and documentations are the most welcome.

-Koko Kyouwakoku (Republic of Koko)
-Koko's carrier-based aircrafts of WWII
-Koko Kaiun Yuso Kaisha - KoKaYu Line (Koko AU spinoff)
-Koko - Civil Aviation