yamato turret4

well, this is embarrassing, the current image of the breach and chamber assembly is actually wrong, this concept was based on the nelsons 16" variants and the IJN's 18.9" 1920s experimental variants, apparently the English methods used by the Japanese in the 20s had been superseded by later configurations that are similar to german 14" guns, having 4 compressor tanks instead of 2 and building them not only to support internal pressure but to have them operate as the rails of the chamber assembly as well, this improved the reliability of the guns but made refilling the compressed tanks take longer and demand larger more powerful compressors, the assembly itself was allowed more counterbalancing weight to keep the neutral balance constant and give less strain on the angle motors, the drivetrain was ran with 2 large engines (unsure of make or model) instead of one which was clear already but it was originally believed that the crane inside assisting in loading the ammunition was mounted on the ceiling with a roller rail, we later found out that they actually had 3 small foldable cranes in each loading room, furthermore each loading room was connected to eachother and sealed with an airtight door but were completely isolated from the fire control room at the rear of the turret and had internal armor to isolate a possible explosion from the loading room, the floor also had 3x the armoring to prevent a catastrophic explosion of the magazine rooms, so in short we have to rebuild a good deal of the project T-T

sorry for the delay, between studies and this I don't have much free time to spare nowadays