Ship Silhouettes questions

[DanielCoffey]

When creating a useful silhouette for a ship in the Recognition Manual, I would appreciate some help with the following questions...

1. When switching to the Ahead+Angled view, what is the preferred AoB for the image on the right that shows the ship at a slant?

2. What is the convention for deciding whether to use the funnel or mast for the Stadimeter range estimate? I see some Merchants with red marks on the funnel and others with none.

3. What is the preferred brightness for the pictures in the Recognition Manual? I see some that are brightly lit models form the game. Others are almost dark silhouettes. Some have the textures simplified to almost show the model without the texture applied.

4. Are all the objects that can appear on Merchantmen (such as castle deck guns, cargo and life rafts) always visible or are they selected from a pool for variety? The reason I ask is that the in-game model for the Akita Maru shows fore and aft guns but the silhouette does not.

Many thanks!