the problem with these new drawings shows 3 different ships. look at the details.... the top one has another gun, the second one shows an structure without the gap in the center..... but you are right on some points. the fact is: we can't get it entirely right, just because the design changed a lot during those times. you are right on the ecm plats, will add them (but smaller then on yours, they aren't like that(well, in fact they are, but only a bit more angled with the surface)) and the satcoms will be placed acenter. the harpoons are placed rightly now, and the center structure and the end of the hangar will be fixed..... my drawing shows those too, but not that clear. ok? btw, I suggest that both drawings are added to the bucket, as they both represent the ship right.... only on different times. I don't want to start an fight over this, so if there is no agreement about this, I will stop working on this ship.
True enough. The first one you linked to shows the very first iteration of the LCF. However, some deatils are all the same: The different ECM gear and mounting, the lower ECM mounting at the rear, the APAR tower, the lower railing around the Harpoon mounting. Also, the overhang I marked in the superstructure aft of the stacks is clearly present in severla of those pics, including the one you linekd to. You can debate about putting that radar opposite the forward ECM.
Heck, if we look carefully, in several of those pictures the midshis deckhouse has straight down walls, without the overhang the modern one has.
btw... what do you think of my take on the early APAR?
Try this one? The rest of the tower I didn't change, because frankly I'm starving, and am logging off for a while...
Edit: Changed APAR tower and some of the surrounding superstructure. Also, to explain the rather large change in APAR, in all pictures with the old tower, the proportions for APAR section are much closer to 50/50 bottom/top, with the APAR faces covering most of the upper segments. The APAR radar facings have allways been a certain size, it's just the structure around em changed.