revel 1/144 flower class corvette HMCS snowberry

This particular ship operated most of the war in the Western Atlantic. Newfoundland-Iceland, New York- Carribean and so forth. The radar and that camouflage would be mid-career, after at least the first refit.

YOu have done some really nice work on her Steve. Model her how you want to. A little weathering means she has only just started her Career. Very nicely done Mate.....Cheers Mark

steve5

not sure how far to go with the weathering , any suggestions ?

Your model, so, sky's the limit.

Turn around, home port to home port was like 6-9 months, depending upon the destination port, and whatever layover there was there.

IIRC, Murmansk and Archangel could be longer layovers, due to ice, so there probably would not have been a lot refti/repaint.  British ports were ghet in and get out again, so as to not get bombed in port.  Paint and gear for refit was more available, though.

So the hulls probably looked a lot beat up.  With damage to paint from ice on the hull (and sea ice around Russia).

Important items would be kept up--weapons, commo gear, boats & liferafts, etc.--during the pace of readiness drills and actual Action Stations manning (which cuts into time available to keep up paintwork).

If the ship got up into conditions were there was icing, there will be significant wear, where the ice was pounded off with hammer and mallets, or melted with steam wands.

By all reports the Flowers were "wet" ships, so you could use salt spray weatehring to the 01 level nearly over the whole ship, and probably the entire bridge front.

You would be entierly accurate to have rectangular swaths around 4'x8' in perfectly fresh paint, over the weathering, to show where the crew repainted.

Your canvas, you get to pick how hapy the trees are.

cheers bill that would be great mate , I think I saw the movie way back when , with stanley baker ?

thank's hooyah deep sea , your right to ,  it wouldn't have been a fun experience .

Awesome job. You know, you got to respect the guys that went to sea on a small ship of that type. With a hull shape like that, it probably rolled like a son-of-a-gun. And, in the north Atlantic .  .  . No thank you!!

But as for your work, well done.

When I get to the pc I have some good diagrams of the antenna wiring. It’s important of course.

If you haven’t, do read The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Montserrat.

model's just about done , still waiting on some stretchy line for the rigging .

not sure how far to go with the weathering , any suggestions ?

thank's nino , as I said above , going to do some rust effect's , the box art look's kinda cool , don't know if I'm up to that type of weathering , but I'm going to give it a go  .

This is turning into One Beautiful "Flower" of a model.

 Steve B is right. That subtle weathering is Nice!

     Nino

that's great pat , thank's mate .

some more update's , love this mascot .

Hi,

Thanks.  I've posted all my pictures at the links below, if they are of any interest to you.

Pat

http://www.mnvdet.com/Other/HMCS%20Sackville/Exterior%20Images/

http://www.mnvdet.com/Other/HMCS%20Sackville/Interior%20Images/

(Sorry that some are kind of fuzzy and/or have my thumb in them )

Cheers Pat , appreciate the comments .lucky you to get to see one for real .

Thanks Steve , trying to not over do the weathering , I'm just using weakened Tamiya panel liner at the moment . When I am finished glueing ,I might have a go at some rust effects , see what happens .

Hi,

Your build looks great.  I just took a tour of HMCS Sackville yesterday and can pick out many of the things I saw yesterday in your build.

Pat

Hey Steve, very nice work. I contimue to enjoy seeing the weathering effects that you are doing. That takes a model from looking nice to making it excellent.

got some extra work done . looking at the close-up's , I see I have to start learning how to clean up my piece's , my sanding is not up to scratch .

thank's mark , really like what you are doing too . bit more done .

Always wanted to get this Kit but this is the next best thing. Very nice start too boot also.....Cheers Mark

cheer's steve , don't know how far i'll go with the weathering , never done a modern war ship .

how the #$#@ you did this in a week is beyond me gene , you are a machine mate .

Looking good  

Hey Steve, glad you received the decals. Also--I like how the ship is looking. I see some weathering going on and I like it.

my decals arrived , thankyou revel .

finally started back on my ship . hopefully have some more soon . after I fix up some paint issue's I just noticed .

Everyone developes their own systems that fit their needs and they are comfortable with.

I use a machine tool light fixture, fitted with a 17 Watt, 1600 lumens, 5000K LED bulb. Nice cool bulb with plenty of light. I don't need the magnifyer, as I'm comfortable using an Optivisor.

EJ

I have a similar lamp as my main workbench light.  Love it, especially for painting.  I can swing it over the front edge of the bench when painting, so I can see the specular reflection of the light in the painted surface.  Also, nice to be able to get the light close to model when doing really fine, close work (brighter light causes your pupils to stop down, increasing dept of field).

Only problem is the brand I have has a lousy switch, and I am on my second one.  The switch is going bad again.  I think the mfg is not well versed on switches for fluorescent lights with their high voltage starters.  Thinking of buying a large magnifier lens and some LEDs to make my own light head, and mount it on the nice adjustable arm of the existing lamp.

got here today , 8x magnification too .

appreciate that gene mate thank's ,

haven't got much done as I'm still waiting for my mag light to come , very frustrating .

I lie all the time too, it was really 8 days. the railing's are either Plastistruc?? or the other Green something that makes plastic sheet & rods. I know that Plasticstruc makes .015 & both make .020. Forgetting everything is part of old age.

    I quit trying to use brass because it is too hard to glue. I dril a proper sized hole & cut the .o20 plastic posts random length & glue them in , let dry good & then make a pattern & cut each post to length. I use a piece of plastic strip cut to the right heigth& hold it against each post & clip them off.

  I don't try to set the posts at the right heigth because they end up too low & you can't drill the hole the right depth. Plastic rod is great for the curves.

gene you say smart , I say your a wizard 

I have nearly the same light , except their is a magnifying lens in the middle of it , I have ordered a complete new light . $42au , the same price as a bulb from amazon , it would have been about $30 postage from america , and hope it arrives in tack .

 these rails you used gene , did you make them yourself ? , or did you buy AM stuff . they look real nice , as does your whole model , cheeky whipper-snapper doing it in a week 

cheers steve , thank's for the encouragement .

Steve, I will try to send a light picture. I have never done this so here goes.

I did it , boy am I smart. These are really great & I have designed a thousand homes with them & also built a million models