A long time ago in a Galaxy far far away. Op sorry wrong start.
A while ago, almost two years ago infact, I brought Revell's HMCS Snowberry A corvette
in 1/72 scale. Once I found that there was a Bluebell version that was no longer portrayed in the kit I just had to do one.
After a bit of google and general web surfing I found myself the owner of a Book on corvettes and a large pile of PE and white metal detailing sets from Great Little Ships- David Parkins Maritime division, Many know him for his aircraft and vehicle stuff.
To cut to the chase, after a year of building and waiting, fishing and building a bit more, I went cold on it and put it to one side. Some of the parts are crazy small and that's after they have been built up of three or four other parts! This in turn lead me down the path of plastic scale models of military bits and aircraft.
Being between kits, I started to look at Bluebell yesterday and slowly started to pick up the interest again. Most of the photos are of coarse on my dead hard drive, but I have some somewhere.
Here is one of the many sheets of PE One of those for the main deck. You can also see the white metal Anchor winch in the top left corner of the photo.
Here is a closer look at it:
Some of the hatches
Here is a shot of the new type C bridge under constuction.
A bit more done:
and a bit more:
and almost done!
In the last picture, every thing you can see is made in PE and white metal!!! Took rather a while I might add!
A pair of 20mm AA guns yet to be painted and added to the bridge:
The Funnel house is pretty much from the revelle kit but all the detail, ladders, pipes and whistle tube are either PE or White metal and the funnel its self has a PE wrap:
The main mess building received a new roof and walls in PE and can be seen here with a bit of post shadeing work.
More later. Please feel free to comment.
Ian M
A while ago, almost two years ago infact, I brought Revell's HMCS Snowberry A corvette
in 1/72 scale. Once I found that there was a Bluebell version that was no longer portrayed in the kit I just had to do one.
After a bit of google and general web surfing I found myself the owner of a Book on corvettes and a large pile of PE and white metal detailing sets from Great Little Ships- David Parkins Maritime division, Many know him for his aircraft and vehicle stuff.
To cut to the chase, after a year of building and waiting, fishing and building a bit more, I went cold on it and put it to one side. Some of the parts are crazy small and that's after they have been built up of three or four other parts! This in turn lead me down the path of plastic scale models of military bits and aircraft.
Being between kits, I started to look at Bluebell yesterday and slowly started to pick up the interest again. Most of the photos are of coarse on my dead hard drive, but I have some somewhere.
Here is one of the many sheets of PE One of those for the main deck. You can also see the white metal Anchor winch in the top left corner of the photo.
Here is a closer look at it:
Some of the hatches
Here is a shot of the new type C bridge under constuction.
A bit more done:
and a bit more:
and almost done!
In the last picture, every thing you can see is made in PE and white metal!!! Took rather a while I might add!
A pair of 20mm AA guns yet to be painted and added to the bridge:
The Funnel house is pretty much from the revelle kit but all the detail, ladders, pipes and whistle tube are either PE or White metal and the funnel its self has a PE wrap:
The main mess building received a new roof and walls in PE and can be seen here with a bit of post shadeing work.
More later. Please feel free to comment.
Ian M
