Here is another interesting bit of information I found on http://www.ussflierproject.com/tags/musashi/.
It shows the hits the ship took after 6 waves of Avengers, Hellcats and Helldivers. Each "mark" is numbered in correspondence to the attack wave and the key denotes a bomb, torpedo or a miss. Looking at the bow section of the initial "live feed" video, I didn't see any damage to the deck, although the ROV didn't fly directly over that area, I would have thought I would see something. There is however, a nasty dent just behind the bulbous bow were a near miss bomb hit was. It just tells you the power of a shockwave in the water.
The Bow apparently broke off just aft of the #1 main turret, so there will be quite a bit of damage on the port side forward to the dent. 5 or 6 torpedo strikes on the port and 3 on the starboard. after wave 6 however, there was probably nothing left of the port side mid section, although oddly enough, when survivors came up from the aft bowels of the ship for the first time to abandon ship, they had thought the torpedo hits were their own main guns firing. WOW, just to be in those massive ships while the main guns were firing must have been incredible.
The aft section will be much easier as it is burred upside down and broke off just fore of the flight deck. All that will be needed there will be to scratch the interior decks. There is some damage to some of the props, probably from the initial near miss's form the third wave, or from the impact of hitting the bottom, but that will be easy.
It is very difficult to distinguish the actual photos of the Musashi with either Tamiya's Yamato build (labeled as the Musashi), or artists conception or pictures of other ships, again labeled as the M.
The debris, field, as far as I can tell from the side scan sonar, is a fair distance from the bow/stern resting places, but i'm confident there are some twisted pieces near the bow/stern. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any main, secondary or tertiary guns anywhere near my target area.
So, the first thing I will need to do is some drastic surgery on my Yamato, which was packed and has moved with me at least 5 times in the last 20 years. Maybe this is a fitting tribute to that old model as well. Better in a wreck dio than in landfill.
Thank you for the interest guys. Just like my Indy project, it's all of you watching that makes me want to do my best and keeps me motivated.
Steve