>>8640344A 1/200 scale Iowa-class battleship would be 1.352 meters long. As for a 1/144 scale Town-class light cruiser, it would be 1.29854166667 meters long.
If someone were to make a 1/144 scale Town-class, I suggest taking insperation from pic related (a cutaway of the HMS Belfast), where you stack layers on top of each other, like Jenga blocks. Moreover, you could include 1/144 crew members, since Bandai's Real Grade Gunpla has proven that 1/144 bois are technologically possible. But then again, not only are 1/200 scale crew members are also possible, the Iowa-class is a more popular ship than the HMS Belfast.
Would be cool to allow modelers to stack assemblies together, or show off the internal detail by displaying the layers seperately.