I really like this design, however it does have a few issues.
On the artistic front, the gangway is (hopefully) intended to carry people and as such is should be three pixels thick.
Hadn't thought of that. Thanks.
The bottom of the bow where it meets the keel could do with some smoothing over.
Yeah, that part always gives me fits.
On the technical side, your High Angle director is too close to the mast to turn properly. Right now it's only usable against targets coming from the front. I also wonder about the aft mast. It's much too heavy to be carried on the hangar roof, so it'll have to penetrate the hangar spaces below. It's not an impossible setup, but it's worth bearing in mind since it provides a potential bottleneck.
Hnh. I'll relocate it to someplace where it can actually be useful.
The majority of the hanger space is below decks aft with a lift centered between the 4 catapults.
(slightly raised area below the rear of the aft catapult and front of the fore catapult. That is a short sideguard to port and starboard of the lift, not part of the lift itself. Mostly there to show where the lift is.) The above decks hanger is more for maintenance and repair, and I had thought that the mast did extend down through the roof and provided the access to the deck above; the guns and wireless shack.
Also, I really doubt the RFA has the skills to operate a ship like this, unless they're trained to the same standard as the Navy, at which point you might as well merge the two. And that's ignoring the political implications for the navy. After all, if the RFA can operate half a cruiser, what's stopping them from operating a whole one?
This ship is assigned to the RFA because of its role, and has a "hybrid" crew ... RFA for ships operations, RN for the guns, FAA for the floatplanes and aircraft maintenance/repair crew. My RFA is a little different from the British RFA, at least up until about 1948-49. Then it starts looking more like what we would consider the British RFA we know about.
Also, you need to ad a ton of misc weight to the SpringSharp report since right now it's ignoring all the aviation facilities. The location of the guns on the drawing doesn't match the SS report while we're at it.
When I did the SS report, I did it before I actually placed the guns. And yeah, I forgot about adding weight for the aviation facilities. oops.
this is a somewhat rough estimation of allocation of belowdecks space to give an idea of where I was heading.
BTW, have my packet arrived at your place yet?
Not as yet, but mail from outside the US takes its own sweet time getting here anymore. Some stamps I bought on ebay took 5 weeks getting here from Canada, and a package from the Netherlands with some coins took nearly as long.