Yamato is a nice ship (although I personally hate Hotel), and came about from a long process of designing.
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As you can see, we have 25 versions in this chart (consolidated from various plans), out of more than 50 or so concepts. Just like how any battleship is a laborious process, so too was Yamato.
However, one thing I have noticed here was that most representations tend to be a mixture of several plans instead of being a specific plan. For example, ALVAMA's A-140 drawings (J1, J2, "Fujimoto") do not correspond to the chart, by either using the wrong guns (J series called for Nagato's gun with a superheavy shell) placing the main turrets in the wrong way (both Js, and Fujimoto was the designer of the F series, not A/G/K), or using different numbers of secondaries.
If I had the skill, I would personally try reconstructing most of these ships, but as you can see from my works, I'm a pretty simple person who doesn't have as much dedication to details as required for drawing IJN ships. So, I'm posting this here in hope that there might be a kind soul to help me redo the A-140 drawings, so that not only do we get things accurately, but we advance knowledge for all.
Thank you.