Shin,
thanks for your input. There are a few things that spring to mind to me when looking at your proposed layout.
Her bow now is a bit too long and too flared, methinks. Not blaming you, it´s easy to understand you´ve troubles with my scale. To help I added a pic below where I not only added some of my template stuff (2cm and 4cm guns up right, rangefinders, lights etc. left and so on) but also two black lines below your proposed solution. Measured from the ships stern she original has a length of 190m (old SS file, so length over all). The rebuild variant now has a length at waterline of 194m and 198m overall. So the two lines are at 194m (where the bow should hit the designed waterline) and at 198m.
From her top view you can also see that simply extending her bow forward without removing the cut in section where the casemats where will not give a good result. She´ll be quite a wet girl when going at 27kn with such a cut in bow. Hence I really think her forward section needs to be plated to the outer shell of her hull. Your opinion?
You may also note that on your proposed solution her aft rangefinder cannot turn. it´s a stereoscopic device with a base length of about 12m.
I´m not sure if the gab between superstructure and X turret is suffice to handle planes. There might be enough room left and right only a top view could reveal.
What is this aft of her stack? A platform of some sort? For boats?
What does the board think about her secondary battery layout? Aren´t those turrets too close to each other? Can a single hit wipe out 50% of the ships secondaries?
Thanks,
Stephan