Cheers for the feedback
My reasoning with the shading is that my source material displays the flare of the bow as being fairly sharp, hence a lot of shadow around below the front superstructure (see
here). I'll see how I can change that to make it a bit less overwhelming on the bow area.
I had a go at the decoy launcher, but it's just a quick attempt, I'm no good at that sort of detail! If anyone has any sources regarding the rest of that upper deck area where the launcher is before the rear masts it would help a lot - most of what's put there at the moment is basically a guess from some pretty poor resolution pictures
Ace, I've changed the shading at the forward sloping bit under the bridge wing but whenever I do it a lighter colour it just looks wrong to me ... not sure what you guys think.