One of the few Japanese ship classes not yet specifically modeled for SH4, the cruisers Tone and Chikuma deserved to be in the game in one way or another. This set is not a perfect replica but a modified stock Mogami stretched a bit to resemble a Tone. I tried to make it as close to the original as possible with my skills, but it can definitely be improved.
This dowload also has a small library including the Japanese 203mm turrets reworked to remove the rangefinder on top, a slightly enlarged version of the stock 127mm AA twin mount, a triple 610mm torpedo tube mount (created from the stock double mount) and an animated Type22 radar taken from the SH4 stock subchaser.
Known bugs: hull shape in the bow and stern is not very nice, but changing it (it's like original Mogami was) would be an extremely tedious job, so I decided to leave it as it was. For the same reason, the myriad of single 25mm guns added in the late war are just decorative: I didn't bother to give them proper arcs of fire.
To use this ship in SH4 you will need the game updated to the 1.5 version. Just enable the mod in JSGME and the ship will be added to the Japanese roster as a heavy cruiser.
If you consider this to be good enough to use it in another mod, feel free to use it as long as it is freeware stuff and I get credited.
-Thanks to propbeanie in Subsim forums for the testing and suggestions.
-Created with S3D, Misfit Model 3D and Paint Shop Pro 7.
Send your comments and suggestions to
japlance@gmail.com or post in this thread.
JapLance
June 2019
LINK: Heavy Cruiser Tone for SH4 v1.0 (Release)
