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K63 HMS Picotee 1941 1/48 scale early short forecastle Flower Class Corvette

dockattner said:
Amazing work. The scale is perfect, JJ!

Maybe I missed it somewhere - how do you make the stanchions with the integrated rings (balls) for the rails to pass through?
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Good morning Paul, the small stanchions I bought, the large ones I can turn from 3mm brass rod. (my chuck wont hold smaller than 3mm accurately enough and it is cheaper to buy the small ones compared to the number I would misshape and ruin. A lot still to do but things are shaping up well.

Thanks Paul
 
Hi folks.
I was hopeing that I would have been well down the line in adding the boat decks by now but I am still waiting for some 'H' profile styrene from Evergreen. Normaly gets here in two or three days. At first I thought that the whole European market had been cornered by a Master Model Maker from the Netherlands, but it turns out to be just more government bureaucracy! I live in Northern Ireland a long time part of the United Kingdom but seperate from Ireland for a hundred years or so. Ireland is part of the EU but the UK left the Union during Johnson's Conservative reign so now they have decided that any one on the main land selling into NI must fill in custom declarations, not unexpectantly modelshops and ebayers are not too keen to go to the trouble for a small order worth only a few bob. Thanks Boris, internal passports like the old Soviet Union next no doubt.
No matter I have made some progress, adding yet more railings to the forecastle but before the could be placed I had to make some small derricks/davits that sit up there They are based on a box like tappering strcture and sit on the stern corners of the forecastle and a third inbetween them, it is used to lift ready use ammunition while the othe rtwo are for stores. I have never seen a photograph of a flower with a davit erected on both sides at the same time, so one less to make.
I have also finished detailing the front of the wheel house block and started to add the galley sky light and stove pipe a bit scrappy yet but will be good in the end.
Hopefuly boat decks next.

Some pics.


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P.S. The funny pic of me soldering the rail is to demostrate my attempt at model making suicide, soldering super conducting brass that is attached to a styrene deck is not advisable but fortunataly the pure copper strip conducted the heat away,phew!

Cheers JJ..​
 
GrantTyler said:
ROTF ROTF.
Quality modelling as always Jack. The Irish luck failed you guys with France getting the 6 nations in the last match of the competition. I guess Gilbert is happy with that. Cheers Grant
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Yea even though they lost to England you could see that the French team were monsters and would be hard to stop. Trouble is I think they will be better still!
Thanks for looking in Grant.

Cheers JJ..
 
Jack Jäger said:
Hi folks.
I was hopeing that I would have been well down the line in adding the boat decks by now but I am still waiting for some 'H' profile styrene from Evergreen. Normaly gets here in two or three days. At first I thought that the whole European market had been cornered by a Master Model Maker from the Netherlands, but it turns out to be just more government bureaucracy! I live in Northern Ireland a long time part of the United Kingdom but seperate from Ireland for a hundred years or so. Ireland is part of the EU but the UK left the Union during Johnson's Conservative reign so now they have decided that any one on the main land selling into NI must fill in custom declarations, not unexpectantly modelshops and ebayers are not too keen to go to the trouble for a small order worth only a few bob. Thanks Boris, internal passports like the old Soviet Union next no doubt.
No matter I have made some progress, adding yet more railings to the forecastle but before the could be placed I had to make some small derricks/davits that sit up there They are based on a box like tappering strcture and sit on the stern corners of the forecastle and a third inbetween them, it is used to lift ready use ammunition while the othe rtwo are for stores. I have never seen a photograph of a flower with a davit erected on both sides at the same time, so one less to make.
I have also finished detailing the front of the wheel house block and started to add the galley sky light and stove pipe a bit scrappy yet but will be good in the end.
Hopefuly boat decks next.

Some pics.


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P.S. The funny pic of me soldering the rail is to demostrate my attempt at model making suicide, soldering super conducting brass that is attached to a styrene deck is not advisable but fortunataly the pure copper strip conducted the heat away,phew!

Cheers JJ..​
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Luckily I have a nice model shop within cycling distance that has most of Evergreen in stock. With good contacts at the importer ......;)
I don't expect to be the MMM you mentioned, as I've only used +/- 75 grams of Evergreen. :)

Customs here also takes 'plenty' of time for clearing. I have been waiting for Paul Koo's update set for my Pocher Ducati for quite some time. Hopefully not for 25% extra import duties from that new 'Boris-look-alike' in the US that apparently flattens his same messy hair with a lot of varnish.

Nevertheless you have added nice details again. A hot soldering iron near styrene: you must be ki(ll)(dd)ing ......:oops:ROTF
Regards, Peter
 
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Jack Jäger said:
Hi folks,
Well the good news is that the hull paint seems to have managed to adhere to GRP well enough to let me mask the water line. At least the places I have tried so I will get back to working on the hull next chance I get.
As in the past I have been filling the time building bits and pieces of the deck furniture and fittings. This weekend I concentrated on the steam winch. I had looked at buying one in but most I seen where a bit 'clunky' or over simplified. So I googled a few photographs and set out to build one from scratch. Something not to be confused with easy. For the gear cogs I salvaged most from a broken scanner. The rest was made up from styrene and brass, with one or two parts from a 3d printed winch that didn't make the cut but these parts where not too bad. I sprayed the winch over all with Tamiya dark iron then added some coloured highlights. A bit lacking in detail but turned out ok. I haven't 'weathered it as I am not sure how I am going to finish the wee boat overall, that's for the future. Next I will have a go at the cowl vents, the largest ones are huge and I noticed they have doors on the side of them. For cleaning I suppose.

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My word, it looks incredible! Warm congrats!
 
Peter Voogt said:
Luckily I have a nice model shop within cycling distance that has most of Evergreen in stock. With good contacts at the importer ......;)
I don't expect to be the MMM you mentioned, as I've only used +/- 75 grams of Evergreen. :)

Customs here also takes 'plenty' of time for clearing. I have been waiting for Paul Koo's update set for my Pocher Ducati for quite some time. Hopefully not for 25% extra import duties from that new 'Boris-look-alike' in the US that apparently flattens his same messy hair with a lot of varnish.

Nevertheless you have added nice details again. A hot soldering iron near styrene: you must be ki(ll)(dd)ing ......:oops:ROTF
Regards, Peter
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If there is another MMM in the Netherlands he would still be second best.
Peter Voogt said:
A hot soldering iron near styrene: you must be ki(ll)(dd)ing ......:oops:
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Like big noses, madness and genius run in my family!
Most of the structural work is finished now,just a lot of detail to figure out then add or not.

Regards JJ..
 
I ordered a drawing from England, which was printed in Germany and I still had to pay UK taxes ... go figure. Oh well.

About styrene from Evergreen. For bigger sheets I go to different suppliers. Sell by the square meter. For the strips I haven't found a better one yet.

About soldering near any "plastic": that must have been a funny moment. But the result is again spectacular.

Good progress!
 
Marquinius said:
I ordered a drawing from England, which was printed in Germany and I still had to pay UK taxes ... go figure. Oh well.

About styrene from Evergreen. For bigger sheets I go to different suppliers. Sell by the square meter. For the strips I haven't found a better one yet.

About soldering near any "plastic": that must have been a funny moment. But the result is again spectacular.

Good progress!
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This internal border is a load of B.S. and I doubt it will work. I talked to a guy on ebay who supplied me in the past and he is happy just to go on as normal and see what happens, so I ordered some on the 30th and it turned up, an hour or so ago, no problem, hope it stays like that.

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Just finished reading this wee book about your ship, well impressed. The old girl had a great life seeing bits of action all around the world and keeping going 'till 1961. Agood read with some great photos, I really enjoyed it.


Cheers JJ..
 
Oktay Yaylacıkoral said:
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çivi efecktlerini nasıl yapıyorsun??
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Hello Oktay.
The large ones are 3D printed and the small ones are made with a neurologist's wheel pushed into the reverse side of the styrene.
Büyük olanlar 3D yazıcı ile üretilirken, küçük olanlar nörolog test tekerleği ile üretiliyor.

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Cheers JJ
 
Hi all.
I now have all the material gathered up to build the tricky boat decks that connect the main superstructure to the gunwales, but the more I thought about it the more I realized it would be easier to add some more of the detailing that runs either side of the engine casing beforehand. I started with the supports for the rafts. I already had a carley raft painted up, but I had to build the six barrel raft. This was easy enough as it is very similar to the ones we built as wee wanes to have raft races in Carrickfergus harbour, six oil drums and a few busted pallets. Back then ours where held together with string and nails and would fall apart with the swell from the Liverpool boat. Hopefully the real thing held together better.
The depth charges davits over the DC throwers where made and attached but ave sill to be rigged. The DC.s where all painted up the same but different if you know what I mean, as where the carriers. The DC's wooden deck supports where all fitted but I still have to tie everything down. It doesn't look like much but it took me over a week to get this far. At this rate H&W will have built the real thing quicker than I have this.

Some Pics..

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Cheers JJ..​

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Jack Jäger said:
This internal border is a load of B.S. and I doubt it will work. I talked to a guy on ebay who supplied me in the past and he is happy just to go on as normal and see what happens, so I ordered some on the 30th and it turned up, an hour or so ago, no problem, hope it stays like that.

Just finished reading this wee book about your ship, well impressed. The old girl had a great life seeing bits of action all around the world and keeping going 'till 1961. Agood read with some great photos, I really enjoyed it.


Cheers JJ..
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Yep, that book is on my workbench as well. Plus some others ...
 
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