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Yeah agreed.

Also there is a precedent not to draw damaged ships.

Excellent work as has become your gold standard. I am looking forward to the 40 versions, of which these ships became so iconic

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Mutsu as of 1934:
between 1932 and 1933 various minor modifications where implemented, a catapult was fitted offset to port between the mainmast and turret 3, superstructure within the tripod mainmast was also enlarged, modifications where also done to the forward superstructure and the heptapodal mast; the older six 3-inch (76mm) guns where all removed and replaced with more modern 5-inch (127mm) in four twin mounts, also two 40-mm vickers machine gun mounts where added on the wheather deck roughly at midship, a platform and lattice structure for searchlights and rangefinders was also built between the fore and aft funnels, finally two massive 10-meters rangefinders wher fitted on top of turret 2 and 3 in place of the older and smaller 8-meter ones.
Tough, with japan withtdrawal from the league of nations and the Washinton naval treaty a more extensive modification awaited for the two Nagato class ships...

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Huh. You can really see the progression and evolution of what will become those top-heavy and ridiculous-looking "Pagoda" masts.

It took me four days (a testament of how massive where IJN major refits and recontructions) but here is finally Mutsu as of 1937:

Between september 5th 1934 and september 30th 1936 Mutsu was refitted at the Yokosuka Navy Yard, when the refit ended she was nearly a colpetely different ship, with maybe only the propeller shafts where left untouched...
The hull was lenghtened by 9 meters, a triple bottom fittend and massive torpedo bulges increased the beam from 29 to 33 meters, al the 20 original steam boilers where removed and replaced with ten oil-fired boilers, the fore funnel was removed while the aft one moved slighty forward; the mainmast was cut down heavily, both fore and aft superstructures where massively enlarged, especially the first where the heptapodal mast was incorporated into a massive pagoda mast towering 41 meters above the waterline, displacement rose by 6.533 tons to a standard of 39.050, maximum speed dropped from 26,5 to 25 knots.
The searchlight platform already positioned abreast the aft (and now only) funnel was enlarged to make space for an extra set of searchlights, new rangefinders where fitted, casemated guns modified in order to increase elevation to 35°, the four twin 5-inch (127mm) guns where left untouched, altough their platforms where slighty modified, the main guns where instead colpetely replaced, both Nagato and Mutsu recieved the turrets built during the 20's for the canceled Tosa Class battleships, wich had a maximum elevation of 43°; airwing was composed of three Nakajima E4N.

A little extra explanation: given photographic evidence it seems that Mutsu did not recieve 25mm machine guns untill at least late 1938/early 1939, but given the time the refit was implemented it's a little hard to believe that she was not fitted with light Anti-aricraft weapons at all, so i've put a 13mm Hotchkiss mount where the old 40mm Vickers machine guns where: on the shielded platform near the boat-handling area.

I am speechless...she's beautiful! BB1987 for Elite Membership!

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AWESOME!

That is truly impressive. I second emperor_andreas' nomination for elite member.

Wow. Sexy.
I third(

) the nomination!

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