Ships of the British Flag GB.

Hello,

I just found this group build. I would like to enter a 1:144 Revell flower class corvette. I have started building it about 5 weeks ago. I have some aftermarket PE and some replacment arms from L'Arsenal on order.

This is my first ship build and I chose this because of my love of the book "The Cruel Sea" by Nicholas Mosarrat, which I highly reccomend to anyone interested in the Atlantic Campaign of WWII. There was also a excellent 1950's British movei of the same name which followed the book quite closely.

Welcome aboard mate! I got you down.

All the rest of you blokes need to start building...including myself.

Due to recent government regulations, the shipyard has been temporarily closed! 

Receiving my 1/350 Queen Elizabeth tomorrow. Still waiting on the paint and stuff to ship. Hopefully today or tomorrow. But I wil be starting some small things, like drilling out the windows and stuff like that. Stuff i can do without paint.

It sound as you may already have a nice tool setup with the other ventures you're into. Do you have a Drimel, pin drill or CnC finger drills? Drimel's work wonders but mine spines so fast, even on slow, that it melts the plastic when I use it for drilling portholes.

You've said in your other post that you watch a guy on YouTube. Who do you watch? I want to set up a channel but really don't have the equipment.

She has started!

Untitled by Matthew Brumage, on Flickr

Untitled by Matthew Brumage, on Flickr

BB,

Good to know. I was thining about you receiving it today. I'm following your other post and have to echo what others have said. Ships take time, that's why this and my other ship group builds are long lasting. Done right, a ship can take months or even years to complete. Now that's installing after market and PE but out of the box (OOB) they still should take a couple of months. I know I get excited when I open a new ship box and just want to see it on the shelf, but frankly I've found that researching and building is 99% of the fun. Once it's on the shelf, it just sits there and I frankly forgot about it. Now five of mine had gone to meseums where others can see but mostly they just sit on the shelf.

I'm looking forward to watching it come together. Dry fit everything before gluing. Fit twice, glue once. Clean the joins so you can have nice seemless joints. A good putty, Squadron white, Perfect Plastic Putty or any other acrylic putty is easy to clean up and have little shrinkage. There are others but those will do for now. Slow and easy wins the race. Practly everything in model building can be repaired so if something doesn't look right, it can usually be fixed.

Nice start Mattew.

Steve, your not wrong, i am find that out with my S-Boat. I thought maybe 6 weeks but 2 and a half months in and its still going. And thats a larger scale small ship without all the parts that a large capitol ship would have.

Thanks guys. Yeah I am redoing the decking this week and that will be my main focus. Maybe painting some other small parts while they are still in the sprue.

Other than that I ordered some tamiya white putty to fill those gaps and correct them. In my other post someone had mentioned something that I will take to heart for the rest of the duration of this build. And that is to treat each piece like it is a seperate model all on its own. Make sure every component is perfect, and once it is all together it will look perfect.

This is how i will be tackling the rest of the build. And once my King George V comes (ordered it today), it will sit on the shelf, in the box, until the QE is in tip top shape and ready to be shown on my bookcase.

Good on ya Mathew, That's the spirit mate! Yes, I treat all the sub assemblies as individual models that come together to make one build. Not all that diffrent from than actual ship construction.
although you may not be ready, an air brush is invaluable for painting. There are several from inexpensive nail sallon AB's to expensive professional types. All will work but you get what you pay for. Usually something in between works well for modelers.

Prince of Wales superstructure in progress and not attached to the deck. I treat will treat this part as one and paint, rig and complete it prior to installing it for good to the deck.

Startng the camo

North Carolina weekend work. I will black base then attach parts, black base again, then spray the camo and deck colors when all the parts except for railings, are in. The black base helps show shadows. I would rather have black some where I can't reach with an air brush than grey bare plastic.

The photo etch is something you migh want to get to someday. Right now I'd suggest sticking to OOB

The superstructure/tower. There is still a few things needed to install but painting first. You can see some sanded filler in most of the joins or pin marks (made during the manufacturing process)

Modern ships, I found, can be build all at once but again, that's me.

Here's my Spruance built for the US build, built at one time before painting

The Misouri I built in 1989. I'd love to do it again.

My latest now.

The one I'm most proud of. The Prinz Eugen at Bikini island 1946. Completed in 2016

This is a VERY addecting hobby. You will want to build up your stash until there is now way of completing everything before you die.

The Admiralty

modelcrazy

Good on ya Mathew, That's the spirit mate! Yes, I treat all the sub assemblies as individual models that come together to make one build. Not all that diffrent from than actual ship construction.
although you may not be ready, an air brush is invaluable for painting. There are several from inexpensive nail sallon AB's to expensive professional types. All will work but you get what you pay for. Usually something in between works well for modelers.

Prince of Wales superstructure in progress and not attached to the deck. I treat will treat this part as one and paint, rig and complete it prior to installing it for good to the deck.

 

Startng the camo

North Carolina weekend work. I will black base then attach parts, black base again, then spray the camo and deck colors when all the parts except for railings, are in. The black base helps show shadows. I would rather have black some where I can't reach with an air brush than grey bare plastic.

The photo etch is something you migh want to get to someday. Right now I'd suggest sticking to OOB

The superstructure/tower. There is still a few things needed to install but painting first. You can see some sanded filler in most of the joins or pin marks (made during the manufacturing process)

Modern ships, I found, can be build all at once but again, that's me.

Here's my Spruance built for the US build, built at one time before painting

The Misouri I built in 1989. I'd love to do it again.

 

My latest now.

The one I'm most proud of. The Prinz Eugen at Bikini island 1946. Completed in 2016

This is a VERY addecting hobby. You will want to build up your stash until there is now way of completing everything before you die.

The Admiralty

 

Absolutely beautiful and stunning work man..... Goals...

Some preliminary work on the flower class corvette "Compass Rose"

I love the PE work Rob, just fantastic and I love those depth carges! The weathering on the hull...

BBorBust

Absolutely beautiful and stunning work man..... Goals...

You'll get there, like anyting else that you've done in life...practice.

Any questions about techniques or process just ask. If you havent already, take a look at the American Ships GB, there's a lot of discussion and excelent work (not mine) to inspire.

Wow everyone, just WOW!

The work in this GB is off the charts, great job everyone.

My Arizona has taken a back seat to outdoor activities this last week (different GB). 

Ben

Life does tend to get in the way Ben.

I would like to throw another build in on this GB. I know it seems optimistic to have 2, but i intend on starting on KGV soon after completing my QE.

On the shelf waiting is the Tamiya 1/350 King George V with the railings and cranes PE kit from Eduard.

You got it BB,

I have three on the roster and haven't finished one yet. I have it was well as two others in the shipyard.

my WIP on the Flower Class corvette "Compass Rose"

Here is some detailling of the dingys

And some continuing work on the superstructure

This is my first chip since I was a child (something my wife claims I still am) the most difficult part so far is determining the sequence of assembly. I want to keep the delicate PE until  last

Excelent job Rob. Yes, I try to hold off on the PE untill it is abosulity needed at the assembly point. Cuts down on my 10 fat thumbs making a mess of things.

My 1/350 Trumpeter QE is coming along nicely. Hoping to be done by the end of May, Early June. A lot more painting and small details to be touched up yet.

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Some nice work there rob, those dingy's do look very nice.

I like that BB, great job on the scheme.

Looking good BB. Like Bish said, good job on that camo.

dont mind the clutter of my work bench, but small update, got the front 2 turrets of the main battery done today. Minus paint, and still have to put the photo etch ladders on turret #2. They are just dry fit onto the ship now.

Untitled by Matthew Brumage, on Flickr

Well that's coming along right nicly  Exclent job Matt. What did you think of putting those Pom Pom's together?

modelcrazy

Well that's coming along right nicly  Exclent job Matt. What did you think of putting those Pom Pom's together?

 

You talking about the ones around the funnel? or the ones on top of the turret?

Any of them. Did you use the PE or streight out of the box?