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Here is the really ugly and unfun to play Izumo from World of Warships. She is the IJN tier 9 and represents a sad excuse for a Yamato preliminary. Her three hull upgrades don't look too different aside from AA upgrades and the adding/replacing of 155mm triples and 127mm twins.







I WILL be posting a fourth version with my own improvements at some point.

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Outstanding work, herr Tristan. Yay for you!

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Indeed, very well executed, did you use one of Desk's flat renders?
Also how do you figure the ship carries Zuiuns?
If I had to complain about anything it would be about the shading at the very end of the stern, I would think that the shading there would converge up to a very thin shadow line.

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Very nice Shigure almost makes up for how bad the ship is in the game.

How we use to say: "great drawing of an ugly ship!" , also, clever choice in choosing the bigger aircraft catapult, the space allows for it.

My only remark, if you allow me, is that the propellers look a bit on the small side. Since the ship is a fast one (30 knots in-game or I do remember it wrong?), I'd look for something bigger, like the Yamato herself (or even my AU Yashima) as reference for the propellers size.

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Thx for the compliments all.
on gamemodels3d.com her spotter aircraft consumable lists her as using an Aichi 16A And yeah I used Desk's render.
Izumo goes 28 knots ingame I think. The propellers are correctly scaled to the 3d model I traced.

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It's a very good drawing, dude!

As I said in the Dallas thread, WoW tends to wash over me.
This is an odd design, very well drawn in SB format, but as you say, it is a "sad excuse" for what might pass as an IJN battleship. At best you could say that its quirky.

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I think it is world of warships idea of how the A-140 J1 battleship might look like:

It feels a bit 'retconned', as if it were designed with mystical foreknowledge that it might later be appropriate to cover the entire back half of the ship with a forest of light AA, relatively unencumbered by the main battery

I am quite confident the IJN wasn't thinking in those terms at the time.

A nicely executed drawing, although the wing shafts feel curiously near the waterline. Yamato's unique boat hangar shielding arrangement on the stern quarters seems unjustified here, a feature carried over to a different design without a full understanding of what it was. I don't totally understand the curious curve to the front of the superstructure, and definitely I don't understand air inlets there. I would expect a very Nelrod-y arrangement to the bridge, lightly armored against her own blast.