Have you thought about doing the Tillman Battleships instead of re-skinning the H-44? The Tillman 'Maximum Battleships' were never meant to be built, and were more like a joke that a Congressman played on the Navy. Tillman basically said "Look, since you guys keep asking for money to build bigger and bigger battleships, just show me the biggest battleship you think you will ever have to build."
The joke almost ended up being on Tillman, because some of the studies that the Navy came back with make the Yamato look like a bathtub toy... for a very small bathtub.
http://myplace.frontier.com/~wellsbr...TillmanBB.html