Old IJN 1/3000 friends, time for Basing and Painting

My old IJN 1/3000 friends .. the battlewagons of the Pacific War, mostly (that is all apart from teh Yamato class) reconstructions and modernisations of their WWI battlefleet (see below, a bit fuzzy but they are all there in various stages of "production"): 

This is what I am aiming for (see below, IJNS Nagato [1936]):  

I think the sea effect and final whiter highlight on the decking and light grey on the superstructure works well.