Seems i made the mistake of deleting the word WIP from the first drawing  .
Well, the reference itself it's full of error/not completely reliable, so i had to adjust some things, the catapult shown is clearly too short when compared to the one used by the Ise class, as the flight deck, both in poposed hybrid and actually built version, is too short to permit conventional takeoff, so the planes where launched from the cats wich had to be that long to launch a fully armed aircraft; this means that the beginning of the flight deck must be moved a bit aft, because the catapults are so long that they would obstruct the 127mm gun placed just aft of the pagoda-mast if placed like the reference shows.
Also, the flashlight you circled in the middle of the funnel was removed in the real conversions in 1944 and replaced with a rangefinder for the aft 127mm guns, so the mounts on the sponson need that directors, thus in that case also the reference must be wrong (i can delete the forwardmost 127mm gun still, you have a point here).
The proportions for the side of the ship can be addressed, but i was trying to mantain the ones already present on the real hybrid, as the aft 25mm battery features the same layout (25mm-25mm-a pair of binoculars-25mm-25mm) even on the reference altough the latter cramps everything while leaving a large and unused space between the 127mm on the sponsons and the funnel.
For the Zeros, it's my error there, what i should need is the Yokosuka D4Y2, but it's seems to be nowhere to be found, so i used as a placeholder the first thing that comes to my hand.
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