Shipbucket

Yessirreee, that is NICE!!! I must admit I never liked Fuso until now.

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This is exceptionally great work, with all these great battleship drawings lately its hard to choose a favourite drawing, but the Fusos with that turret farm and embryo pagoda layout are close contenders as coolest looking.
The detail on the drawings is, as ever, great to see.

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Superlative work! Can`t wait for the "Pagoda-madness"

High class work, BB! I'm surprised that there are any IJN monsters left to be drawn.

As you can see a lot of the platforms were towards optimization of fire control for night fighting, which the IJN placed more emphasis on than any other navy (they thought it would be the "trump card" that would defeat the USN in line-of-battle engagements, along with the Long Lance torpedo which was also envisioned mostly for night engagements). Most of the "Pagoda mast" look was just a result of enclosing many of these originally open platforms. But yeah, boy did it create some interesting topweight issues.

And of course, ironically, Fuso would be sunk in the very last line-of-battle night engagement virtually handicapped from actually being able to fire a shot with any effectiveness.

9 days after.....


Fuso as of 1933:

Between April 1930 and august 1933 Fuso was placed in reserve for her main modernization which took place at the Yokosuka Naval Yard before continuing at Kure from september 1932. The appearance of the ship was completely changed, with the stern being (for now) the only area of the ship which was left untouched.
The works consisted in:
-Additions of anti-torpedo bulges.
-Replacement of the main engine turbines and boilers with the removal of the forward funnel.
-Removal of the capstan for the second starboard anchor (the anchor itself was retained as an auxiliary one).
-Increasing the elevation of the main guns to 43°
-Switching the rest position of main gun turret n°3, now pointing forward.
-Increasing the elevation of the casemate guns to 30°
-Fitting of four twin 5-inch (127mm) AA guns.
-Fitting of four quadruple 13mm machine guns.
-Addition of the searchlights platform abreast the main funnel, which was heightened.
-Complete rebuild of the fore and aft superstructures.
-Fitting of a Type2 model4 catapult on top of turret N°3
-Embarking three Nakajima E4N reconnaissance floatplanes.
-Change to the boat complement and stowage fit.

Fuso was left in this configuration untill september 1934, when she entered the drydocks again to underwent the second phase of her main modernization...

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First off, I think we need to create a separate category for BB1987 and several other artists in the forum: that of Shipbucket Grand Master. This drawing more than qualifies for that title.

Second, incredible work!

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Hello BB1987!

SPECTACULAR! The most beautiful way for a ship to look perfectly ugly!

Greetings
GD

"Raison d'être" of Shipbucket

Absolutely fantastic! Those pagodas are intimidating!

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