Geoff.....you may well find alternate images with an apparent variation in visual draft or freeboard amidships, however based with the printed references to various load lines relative to bunkers, water, stores, ammunition and manning etc etc.....you just may choose to leave the boot topping where it is
Whilst I understand this certainly could be achieved, it would be a rather large and somewhat daunting task to alter this and still maintain the level of completeness [paint job below the deckline] as she now displays
Derek