Well, on the
Combined Fleet, Nagara Class page, there are a couple of shots that are OK. The Abukuma page has a decent side-shot from when they still had the forward catapult, The Nagara has the 2/3 rear shot, but larger, clearer and colorized from 1936. The Natori has a nice 1/8 front shot with nice detail from 1935. The Kinu is a 3/8 rear shot from 1937. The Yura has a 1938 camouflage shot from 7/8 front, and the Isuzu is a similar angle from 1944. It is very interesting to notice the differences in detail on the just the bridges in some of those shots, especially the Isuzu, with its "deflector" panels above and below the bridge "window". The canvas tarp covers on the bridges in the early versions crack me up. Open-air bridge during a battle... My dad was telling me about his trip from Texas during WWII from Texas through the Panama Canal to Pearl and then the Philippines, and using tarps on their LST vessel, just to keep the sun off of them.