RN Pola (1941)

Sprue shot, It looks like a fairly simple kit to build. 

Drilled out holes and s 

Trying out the layered steel effect by masking some lines. 

 

Painted off the hull after priming up. It looks not too bad although I understand it is not accurate, better than looking bland. Assembled the turret as well with some little modifications on the rangefinder. 

Added some missing superstructure details, just to hide the gaping hole on that area. 

Added some details that resembles Pola's hangar, not perfect but at least it mirrors the quality of the kit. 

test fitting the superstructures. 

added some mast, relying solely on guesswork without reliable measuring with rough paint scheme from the kit and the PE instruction. 

Same, but I made it simple (and not very accurate). I just want that there is 'something' there for additional mast. 

closed the window holes. 

test fitting.
Disclaimer: The mast is not accurate as I fear I do not have the necessary skills and tools yet for replicating it. I have to take consideration for PE railing in that area later. 

Painted the deck with 50/50 Navy Blue and Flat white. Also applied the wooden deck. It does give so much better details and impression. 

Painting the forward deck with flat white and masking it for the unique Italian identification ship, or literally the whole point of building Italian WW2 ships (Which are beautiful on its own). 

Base hull structure is fully painted and cleaned up. 

 

Primed the sub-assemblies and small stuff, along with the 3D printed Italian 37mm AA. I have to say you really need a good eye, good tools, and be very careful about detaching it as the details are very-very small and almost resembles the cutting point. 

Primed the sub-assemblies and small stuff, along with the 3D printed Italian 37mm AA. I have to say you really need a good eye, good tools, and be very careful about detaching it as the details are very-very small and almost resembles the cutting point. 

Made some modifications to the anchor, I plan to try to use chains for it. 

superstructure assembly, along with PE railing details 

superstructure assembly, along with PE railing details 

superstructure assembly, along with PE railing details and also fixed the 37mm AA position with CA glue.