revel 1/144 flower class corvette HMCS snowberry

  Steve, I rally gave you a beatcha picture so i could show my plastic rails. They are the best to make. They glue easy with any liquid glue & look to scale on 1/144. Also on lights , there is a flexable big black ( or white) light on Amazon that takes regular LED bulbs. I use either 60 or 75 watts . They are cool & give better light than a flourescent. 

  They are by Globe Electric & many others & are $16 US. I have used them for over 50 years & the LED bulb now is great & cool.. I hate florescents. Make sure you get the one that takes bulbs as I got one for reading, unknown to me, that had some little bulb in it . It does work, but I would rather have a bulb. It would be no good for modeling. The right one clamps on your table & I use 2 of them over my models. 

You really do super work ,,,,, Gene 

Nice progress Steve, and it is looking great!

your a marvel gene , hope mine turns out as well , this is as far as I got still waiting to get my light fixed , can't see *&^# without it .

don't suppose you took any photos of you build in process ?

Beatcha Steve, I just started this yesterday. I did use .020 plastic rod for the posts & .015 for the rails. Plastic rod s easy to work with & easy to glue.

       I really started it a week ago. ho ho ho    Gene

sent revell an e-mail , they replied in german , that they are replacing the decals for free , great service

thankyou pawel

don't know what happened , but it is working now rob . your right it is a superb build .

got a bit of paint work done .

rob44

One of the best novels of WWII that I know of is "The Cruel Sea" by Nicholas Monsarrat. "this is the story of the British ships Compass Rose and Saltash and of their desparate cat-and-mouse game with Nazi U-boats. First published to great acclaim in 1951, The Cruel Sea remains a classic novel of endurance and daring."

The Compass Rose is a flower class corvette. There was also a British film by the same name made in the 50's. If you can find it watch it!

Besides the Edwards PE sets there are also other 3-D printed parts made by Shapeway and L'arsenal

http://www.larsenal.com/1-144-detail-set-corvette-flower-1941-43-c2x24169438

The Britmodeller forum has a superb build

 

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235005424-revell-flower-class-corvette-1144/

 

Rob

 

The movie used a flower class that was in the Hellenic Navy, I forget which one.

Rose is my build, as “launched“. The book never uses her number as she was a fictitious ship and a clever play on Flower as a name. I settled on K49 which is on her in the film.

Theres also one up in Novia Scotia that has excellent walk around on line.

and there’s the escort leader, marvelous name, the destroyer “Viperous”.

Works for me too. I'm a member there but was not logged in when I used the link and it still opened up OK.

EJ

It works for me when I try. You may have to become a member of the Britmodeller form, which is free. It is  under the "work in progress -maritime" section and is called "Revell Flower Class Corvette 1/144" done in 2016.

would love to have a look rob . but all I get is sorry there is a problem .

One of the best novels of WWII that I know of is "The Cruel Sea" by Nicholas Monsarrat. "this is the story of the British ships Compass Rose and Saltash and of their desparate cat-and-mouse game with Nazi U-boats. First published to great acclaim in 1951, The Cruel Sea remains a classic novel of endurance and daring."

The Compass Rose is a flower class corvette. There was also a British film by the same name made in the 50's. If you can find it watch it!

Besides the Edwards PE sets there are also other 3-D printed parts made by Shapeway and L'arsenal

http://www.larsenal.com/1-144-detail-set-corvette-flower-1941-43-c2x24169438

The Britmodeller forum has a superb build

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235005424-revell-flower-class-corvette-1144/

Rob

That’s good to know. Looking at my model I did use the draft markings. The ones at the bow are pretty prominent too. 

They did Silver a little so be prepared. Also I suggest you test fit them as they follow the bow curve and are fiddly. But that’s a ways downstream.

Hello!

Revell tells you on their web page to post spare parts requests here:

ersatzteile@revell-shop.de

I have tried it about a year ago and it worked just fine. I hope they will also replace your decals. Good luck with your build and have a nice day

Paweł

finally got around to starting this kit , a bit of primer on and started sanding back ,

sorry about the clour , but my mag lamp blew , and I'm having trouble replacing the bulb

thank's bill mate , I appreciate the offer , might have to have a go at painting them myself 

I saw that book on amazon for $15 au , got it through kindle , thank's again

steve5 .

Hi Steve,

Well, I thought hey I can send a set to my mate. I made my own/ handpainted numbers as my ship is gark gray.

Clod that I am I cannot find them. I did manage to find a scribing tool that had gone missing, just in time for another project.

I'll look around some more.

I also bought two of the three Eduard photo etched sets. Really nice but they are slowing things down considerably.

I'd reccomend this book too if you want really good reference info.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/flower-class-corvettes-les-brown/1119585812?

ean=9781783469604

It's very model oriented.

Bill