HMS Havelock
by Anthony Polychroniadis

1/350 HMS Havelock (White Ensign)

This is my interpretation of HMS Havelock as she would have looked during the summer of 1940. At that time she was still in her early fit, with a tripod mainmast and two sets of quadruple torpedo tubes. She was still wearing her early camouflage (as depicted in Alan Raven's Warship Perspectives), but, after Dunkirk, she had finally received her pennant number, H88.

The WEM kit received a lot of additional work, including:

• hull plating simulated with Mr Surfacer 500
• portholes drilled and "eyebrows" added
• scratchbuilt brass masts
• BMK main armament barrels
• scratchbuilt 0.5 quadruple machine gun barrels
• BMK/WEM depth charges and scratchbuilt throwers
• detailed bridge
• detailed boats
• detailed torpedo tubes
• detailed auxiliary steering position
• PE bits and pieces from L'Arsenal also proved very useful in dressing up the ship.
• Decals are by Hawk Graphics in Canada

  WEM must be congratulated for producing the A to I's, which are their finest destroyer models to date.

  I am very obliged to Laurence Batchelor and RNFanDan for their assistance in helping me reach an acceptable level of accuracy. My thanks also go to Christian Bruer, whose wonderful build of HMS Glowworm provided a lot of inspiration for additional details!

  Anthony Polychroniadis
  

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