Talk:Yamamoto Imperial Navy/@comment-25373667-20151025012948

FINALLY starting work on the Fuso and Ise classes...

Kobayashi's Dockyards, Japan

Work on the Fuso and Ise class refits has progressed at an absolutely grueling pace, due to lack of resources and attention, and the fact that Kobayashi's dockyards had effectively destroyed during the invasion of Japan. However, the slow work repairing and laying down the ships has been completed, and Fuso, along with her sister Yamashiro, are nearing 50% completion. The new refits will make the ships almost unrecognizable from their original forms, as well as make them much more capable.

Much work has also gone into making the ships aesthetically acceptable. They are receiving completely reworked bows, giving them an odd, yet majestic sweeping bow, which protrudes several meters from the main hull, and an underwater "ram", which in reality is a SONAR dome. Even more drastic aesthetic changes will happen, though these will be announced at there commissioning.

OOC: Trying to develop Kobayashi's character, and make him seem like a perfectionist, as well as extremely unorthodox with his ship designs, since the bows of his designs will often resemble Greek triremes from ancient Greece (look it up if you have no idea what I am talking about).