Just took a good look at that diagram at Wiki and I must say that you are correct - the deck shields are indeed there, the only issue is whether they were mounted on metal plates as shown in the diagram or onto the wood deck itself, as the diagram I linked to - and the 2005 film - appear to show.
I give the artist kudos for removing the crane tower which we can say with 100% certainty was removed prior to Ten-ichigo, as proved by the USN close-up photos of the initial bombing runs on the ship (as seen on my web archive).
So we're just down to the number and placement of the AA batteries. The 6 up front are stretched out instead of being bunched near the superstructure - the latter location makes more sense, I am sure you would agree. The 4 single .25 cals up front are missing (that is where you see 2 triple mounts that ought to be farther back).
Finally, the 2 additional rear flight deck AAA mounts are missing. Blow up this photo to its full size, move back, squint a bit - and you will see them (actually their shadows) on this photo: http://ultimatebattleshipyamatosite.tri ... 5?i=79&s=1
Compare with the diagram I linked earlier - you can see the AAA mounts on top of turret #3, you can see the AAA mounts astride the white flight deck lines to the outside, and then, if you look towards the square structure under the guns of turret #3, you can make out shadows on both sides where the diagram I linked shows the added pair of AAA mounts to be.
Unfortunately, we don't get the same resolution on the front half of the ship - probably because of the water spray from the ear misses and the fact that this photo was taken from - what? 5 miles up? I am amazed that this closeup of a tiny section of the original photo is as clear as it is!
As far as the 4 single mounted AA machine guns up near the rear of main turret #1, the following photo clearly shows the sandbagging around them, and - if you look at the starboard side location I SWEAR that you can SEE the two individual AA single mounts. But it took my obtaining a pretty large resolution of that photo for that detail to suddenly leap out at me: http://ultimatebattleshipyamatosite.tri ... _Tengo.JPG
As far as that famous photo goes, the part of the deck nearest the superstructure is unfortunately covered with haze from the machine guns firing plus the smoke from the bombs (one of which has just impacted the lower port side of the superstructure front and taken out the AA mounts there).
Here is the page I would love for your wife to look at and see what research is cited for the changing diagrams of Musashi and Yamato:
http://homepage1.nifty.com/watakan/yama ... to_aa.html
It would have been good, too, considering he posted a pretty nice model in the RN G3 Battlecruiser thread.
Now THAT'S friggin' awesome!!! Have anymore photos Able? I'm sure more that a few of us are interested in how you constructed her.
