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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 12:56 pm 
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This is a Regia Marina kit I bought at a model convention a decade or so ago. It is a resin kit, "Iridio Mantovani", long out of production. It allows one to build any of the four sister ships in this class, I chose "Sergio Laghi" because of the camouflage pattern. It was the only one of the four to survive the war.

The quality of the kit was decent, not great, some pinholes and mould defects were present. That said the build was a relatively problem-free one. I had to repair some broken-off detail. The circular AA platforms, masts and booms and life-raft fixtures all had to be scratch built, I used the photoetch supplied with the kit and nabbed a pair of anchors off a Tom's Liberty ship sheet I have lying around. Caenis thread was used for the rigging.

The model was airbrushed and brush-painted with Vallejo and AK acrylics and weathered with tube acrylics, AK weathering enamels and Vallejo pastels. It's the first ship model I have completed in fifteen years or so and my first resin model ever so it has been a guinea-pig for various techniques. It is also the first time I have made a diorama base, it is 3mm plastic card (too thin, it bends ever so slightly so I must mount it to something more substantial), covered with thick watercolour paper, painted with Mediterranean-looking shades of Acrylic tube paint, then "watered up" with Vallejo products. I am satisified with the effect for a first effort.
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Broadside view, with the mandatory lighter for size

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Quartering view, this and the following two photos were taken with a 35mm tilt-shift lens, tilted at f/11 to get all the interesting bits in focus

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View off the bows

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Overhead view, somewhat overtilted I am afraid. The sea is in focus at the stern, rather than the ship.

Edited September 9, 2017: Images now reside on Imgur, not Photobucket.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 9:18 am 
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Nice work.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 3:42 pm 
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good build of an interesting ship

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 7:53 am 
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Very nice work.


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:06 am 
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Nice work - and a nice change of pace. Good to see something different.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 9:04 pm 
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That's basically what attracted me to her in the first place. An Italian WWII tanker is about as oddball a subject as one can find in kit form. It's a bit of a shame that Regia Marina did not make more kits in this vein.


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