Airfix Snowberry aftermarket

John Lambert sells drawings of ships (many RN subjects) and weapons (again many RN subjects) from his website.   There are some free examples offered.

http://www.lambert-plans.com/

John's plans are evry good and accurate, taken from the originals.   John's drawings have appeared in several books.  

DJ Parkins/Great Little Ships offers a full set of aftermarket accessories for the 1:72 scale Matchbox, Revell, and now I guess Airfix Flower-class corvette

http://home.clara.net/djparkins/gls/glsmast.htm

You're right that the main gun needs something. The modeler who built this ship for me scratchbuilt turning wheels for the main gun cannon. He also built a dozen tiny copper rings for antenna wiring, as seen in 2nd image. Apart from that, it was built OOB with no AM product:

Thanks, guys, both posts are helpful.

I assume you mean Revell Snowberry--  the old Matchbox kit that has now been re-released by Revell.

Bob Pearson's Flower class site is an excellent resource for all things "Flower class".

http://www.cbrnp.com/RNP/Flower/

The kit is classic matchbox in its execution-- the basics are there,  but the details are either overdone or lacking.   The main gun is a particularly noticiable exampls, and the bridge wing 20MMs are even worse.

The other big "fault" of the kit is that MB did all the decks as planked--  but most of them were steel-- only the foc'sle should be planked.  (And maybe the bridge?  I forget.)

I sanded the molded planking off of my Snowberry and left the molded planking as you said.  It takes a little work but wasn't that bad. I then scribed steel section lines where they should go.

 Dear Don :   To continue your research on the Flower class corvette, you might look in the past issue of FineScale Modeler, April 2002, Page 22, "Super detailing Matchbox,s 1/72 scale into the U.S.S. SAUCY."

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The March 1992 issue of FineScale Model,s FSM's Showcase,Page 22, "Allen Brewster's U.S.S. SAUCY." 

                                       Hope this information helps you.

                 Montani semper liberi !  Happy modeling to asll and every one of you.

                                                          Crackers      

Don,

I'll be starting the 1/72 Snowberry kit myself in a couple months. Here's a link I'm using for research, as well as Bob Pearson's site:

http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/

Here are some gun build images from a thread of someone converting the kit to a short forecastle version:

While doing my own research for my corvette, I cam across this site for after market parts parts:

http://www.loyalhannadockyard.com

Specifically for the 1/72 Snowberry:

http://www.loyalhannadockyard.com/GLSFCC.htm