I know I have a lot going on at the moment, but we have a competition in September "Flora and Fauna" and I have nothing built for it.

I picked HMS Violet for two reasons, firstly her camouflage, and secondly her powerful (well by corvette standards) AA armament, 6 x 20mm.



I am using the Mirage HMS Pennywort as the basis.



The kit parts with the WEM fret.



The parts look a little crude on the fret, but the kit does build up quite well.

One bit od poor detail is the watertight doors under the break of the fo'c'c'le. Having rummaged though all my spare frets I could find no etched doors to fit, so I will live with them.



A slot cut in the stern for the paravane and the hull and main deck together



A small start, but a start.

More soon.

Si.

Well, Si, I'm on board here as well

Always had an interest in adding one of these to the stash, so will be interesting to see how it builds up!

OMG I envy your bench time allowance! SWMBO'd has very stern opinions on the amount of time I spend at the bench

Si, you're amazing!
Five build blogs on the front page, four of them are yours! Multi-tasking taken to a new level
I will be following to see how this one goes.

cheers

Michael

Yet another ball thrown into the juggling act Si, I'm watching this one as well!

Cheers, D

Ahoy Si

Wow!

Another build you are the man.

Cheers


Sean

I can only second everything that was said above - wow...

I'm in here, too - of course! Looking forward to a nice little flower

Cheers,
Jan

The Mirrage kit is actually quite good, and with the WEM PE you're good to go. The WEM set actually holds enough parts for (almost) completing two ships, if you choose the different bridge confirgurations.
I really look forward to see your build.
Jacob

Thanks Guys

Mrs Duster is very generous about workshop time, as long as I have done my chores. and of course it tends to be concentrated into weekends, and Bank Holidays. This means I don't like twiddling my thumbs whilst paint or glue dries, there four things on the go is optimum.

Very glad to have all of you along for the ride.

This is quite a conversion, not only the gun tubs, (Have some spares on the Repulse Sprues), the bridge looks like an open version of the early extended platform, and has a hedgehog on a raised mounting in front of it.

As Jacob says it is quite a nice kit, and plenty of etch from WEM

Cheers

Si

A little more progress today.

There are some areas of wood cladding on the Corvette's deck, and no off the shelf add on, so the left overs from HMs Tiger's deck are being pit into service.



A section cut out.



unwanted deck detail removed, and a hole cut for the base of the windlass.



The other foredeck detail will be added over the top. (I did have a slight issue on the port side, but that can be fixed when the deck is fixed down.

Halfords red primer, a base coat and the anti fouling.



Somewhat later in the day, the anti fouling masked.



The 507C sprayed on and masking removed, next job, the camo.



Si

Plans for major re-construction of this small kit - wow!! Very nice progress!!

Cheers,
Jan

Thanks Jan,

Seem to be in that sort of mood at the moment, pushing my limits a bit.

Appreciate your support and comments.

Cheers

Si

A bit more progress today,

The camo.

The white.



and the blue, it is described as a non standard medium blue, so Tamiya XF18 intermediate blue seems like a plan.



gloss coat and pennant numbers next.

Cheers

Si

Look at you go! LOL...you have camo flying all over the place! Fine work there as usual Si! Bring on the decs!!

Thanks Todd,

This one mas much easier, apart from the false bow, all freehand.

Cheers

Si

Main deck painted, and some detail added to the superstructure.



Rest of the foredeck fitted, and it is a very good fit.



More soon.

Cheers

Si

Nice work on the camouflage pattern, Si!
And the XF 18 looks pretty good - actually, XF 18 is pretty close to RN B5. I found that out a little late - I had already mixed a good jar of paint by constantly adding a litte here and there to get it closer to the paint chips' color, when I needed it for my HMS Prince of Wales some years ago. At the end I found out how close to XF 18 I had ended up... So I decided to use that one jar, and for the next major project that will need B5 I will go straight with XF 18.

Cheers,
Jan

Thanks Jan,

Was pleased with the colour, it did look right to me. I only had the picture in the book to go by and that unusually for the captions did not name the colour, so you have solved that one for me,

Cheers

Si

A bit more progress today

The fo'c's'le deck level painted.



The etched bridge going together. (brass origami)









That is major structure together, quite a bit more to add before spraying and detailing.

cheers

Si

Today's progress.

More work on the brass bridge.

wind deflectors and base of radar lantern on.



Lower bridge and funnel casing put together.



Removing the 20mm bases from the kit bridge.



fitted into the etched bridge along with the radar lantern.



funnel cap drilled out and etched grill fitted along with the railings around the lower casing, the WEM railings are for the earlier kits in this series, so the lower set needed a little adaption, the upper I=ones will need replacement.



The bridge supports fitted and the whole thing test fitted in place.



Cheers

Si

Si,

that's really some brass origami there, no doubt! But it looks really good! Very nice work on they little one!!

Cheers,
Jan

Thanks Jan,

Usual high class, easy to work with and accurate WEM stuff.

Cheers

Si

Si,
The little corvette is looking very sharp especially with that brass bridge from WEM. Nice work on the PE.

cheers
Michael

Thanks Michael,

It is White Ensign at their best, The base kit is good in itself, but the WEM set not only adds fine detail butgives a number of conversion options.

(Trust me to find one that is not fully catered for )

Cheers Si

Hi class work on the bridge PE, Si!

Thanks Russ,

It is almost a shame it is going to have to have paint going on it.

Cheers

Si