本の表紙に依頼を受けて描いた戦艦アイオワです。この絵は、半分はトレースです。なんで半分かというと、元の絵が近代化改修を受けた1984年の戦艦ニュージャージーですからです。しかし、本が第二次世界大戦の戦艦に関する本なので、資料を探していちいち1943年のアイオワ級戦艦で直して描きました。12.7cm砲塔だけでも4つが増えて膨大な数の40mmと20mm対空砲を新たに描きでした。それこそ逆近代化改修...大変だったけど、確かに完成したらやりがいがあります。

This is the battleship Iowa I drew for a commission of a book cover. This picture was half-traced. As for why it is 'half' traced, that is because the original picture actually depicted the 1984 modernized version of Battleship New Jersey. However, the book is about WWII battleship, so I had to research the 1943 version of Iowa-class battleship and fix all the details one-by-one. Not only were there 4 more 5-inch turret, there were also enormous amount of 20mm and 40mm AA turret that had to be added. Even though this kind of back-dating was hard, it was certainly worth the effort.
(TL note: Forgive my poor translation, as neither English nor Japanese are my first language)