A trip to a local car boot sale last Wednesday saw me the owner of a 49" wooden 1/24th scale Perkasa in need of tlc (first picture) for the vast sum of £10 !! This will make a change and give me a break from building lifeboats for a little while.
The hull was dropped into my test tank in the garden and found to be watertight so the outside was sanded down and cleaned up followed by a couple of coats of primer (second picture), new coamings were also fitted around the big hole in the deck.
New motor mounts were made and fitted for a couple of spare 850's I had lying about (third picture).
The old superstructure was thrown into the bits bin and work commenced on a new, much lighter, version (fourth picture). As many people know I like to build obscure version of boats so instead of a "bog standard Perkasa" I have decided to model this one on the prototype built by Vosper Thornycroft and called 'Ferocity' as the upper part of the superstructure was different to the rest of the class as well as only having two, not three, engines. She was later sold to the German Navy and then on to the Greek Navy then.....??
This is to be a quick and dirty refit so forget the rivet counting !!