Errr.....ok. When Yamato have spent nearly a year in development, have the CAD designs finished and already have a completed physical sculpt, plus have probably started to cut the steel molds, I'm sure they will be influenced by a photo of a model from an old hobby magazine .
Graham
Ok not Yamato, cuz as you said it would be too impossible. But some other chinese toy companies could try (like the makers of MP Trailer)
Sleek, sexy, right proportions, highly mobile, & realistically more intimidating... the Hasegawa version.