Thank you for the compliments, I'm glad it's to people's liking. I guess I would have Rocketry be the required tech. Although this class was not the first guided missile cruisers, they were around before the AEGIS ships.
"Dude.. you got the competition whipped."
I don't think I would go that far. There are many great artists on this forum. But, with that said, friendly competition, if it does exist here, benefits the community with us pushing to keep getting better.
I may do the Kirov, a Russian Battlecruiser, but that will be a ways away. I will be building the model for that myself. But first, I'm revisiting my modern Iowa, and reworking it a little.