I'd just BP-clone
Mogami and rename it
Tone, it would look better, IMO. That or really clone it, and move the turret nodes forward. Once S3D does 3d, i'd export the 3 forward gun bases and do it that way. Wonder why he didn't just delete the rear stack. Deleting nodes is easy, even I can do that

It's adding 3d that's hard for noobs like me.
Doesn't do it for me, the heavy
Takao bridge is just too distinctive. Certain ships are too unique to be used as a base for a change like this. Kinda like trying to use Fuso for something else, the pagoda is too distinctive.
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