Thank you, Joe and Bouncy70!
Small update: painted the rest of the anti-slip deck surfaces

Also made the tripod of the main mast. The photoetch part is extremely thin and fragile it doesn't seem that it could bear the tension force of the rigging. I ordered brass tubing earlier for scratchbuild the mast but I bought way too thick tubes so I have to wait until the finer ones arrive that I ordered today.

I found an interesting phenomenon. As one can hard to find more than a couple clear and high res. pictures of the ship on the internet I study other modelers builds. I found that some of the models has two 110 cm searchlights installed on small towers on both sides of the funnel but some of them had only one, in front of the funnel.
A picture made in 1942 clearly shows that the ship had two searchlights in that position, but on the '45 picture was made during her final battle I think the latter layout was setted. A blueprint - shows the ship after the first refit based on the the number of AA guns - of the ship also supports the one-searchlight modification.

'42 picture during sea trials.

A model from my Gakken book of IJN ships - unfortunately it's in Japanese, but the built is a '45 Yahagi. I think it shows the searchlight configuration wrong.

The blueprint after refit.

The '45 picture from an American airplane after the first torpedo hit Yahagi. The shiny thing looks a searchlight to me. The size of it is the same of the one on the rear mast.
The book of the japanese cruisers by Eric Lacroix said that Agano class cruisers had 3 110 cm searchlights, two located nex to the funnels and one on the rear mast, but it didn't mention the refit of them. I decided I'm going to build the ship with 1 searchlight in front of the funnel - the PE set also gives this arrangement.
Another thing I'm not sure and I need your help: what did the japanese do with accommodation ladders during battle? Did they pull them to the side of the ship or were they completely detachable? I'm sure someone know it!
